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North Indiana Charts Course for Another Year R> Conference Elects Lay, Clergy Delegates, Oks Camps Capital Funding tzmbi I HDOSIER UNITED METHODIST *"> Serving United Methodists in Indiana North Indiana charts course for another year r> Conference elects lay, clergy delegates, OKs camps capital funding By JAMES H.STEELE EDITOR ~~ Another North Indiana Conference has come and gone. It was nearly 11:30 Saturday night when the Bishop Leroy Hodapp gaveled the final business session to a close. Wea- riness and fatigue were evident on the faces of conference members as they made their way to their rooms and finally to bed. In spite of physical fatigue, United Methodist laity and clergy from through- out Indiana's 37 northernmost counties could reflect with pride on three-and-a- half days of solid accomplishment. Sev- eral new or revised programs had been put in place: a $7.7 million budget had been approved; 36 men and women (plus 12 reserves) had been elected for the quadrennial General and Jurisdictional Conferences; 39 persons had been or- dained to the United Methodist ministry; appointment changes announced for 102 ministers; 16 retiring ministers were honored with 518 years of service; and Sr approval was voted on a variety of reso- 7 lutions for consideration by the 1988 Gen- eral Conference. So again North Indiana UMs are off and running on another conference year — a year in which they hope to stem de- clining membership and bring renewed commitment under the banner of Catch the Spirit. On Sunday morning, the freshness of a new day was evident as hundreds of liott Hall of Music, the Annual Confer- for meals and lodging. Various special the process of voting separately to elect welcome visitors joined those already ence is occupied with both business and meals were held in the Memorial Union, eight lay delegates and eight clergy dele- present for a moving and impressive ceremonial matters in addition to times with Stewart Center utilized for registra- gates from North Indiana to the 1988 Gen- High Hour ordination service. Color, pa- for fellowship, worship and renewal. It is tion, displays, conference offices and the eral Conference, set for April-May 1988 in geantry and celebration blended with a the single most significant yearly event Cokesbury sales area. St. Louis. Each group also elected 10 ad- solemn aura of worship as the conference in the life of the church. And when the Shouts of greeting abounded as we ditional delegates to the North Central observed the historic cycle of ministerial final gavel fell, members had spoken and greeted old friends, many for the first Jurisdictional Conference. service. acted on a wide range of issues to deter- time in a year. As the conference's opening business * • • • mine program and priorities for the com- Conversation was particularly ani- session came to order Thursday morn- It was with one eye on the upcom- ing year. mated for another reason: It's an elec- ing, the bishop paused to light a large ing 1988 General Conference in St. Louis In addition to Elliott Hall of Music, tion year. Balloting began almost candle surrounded by barbed wire which and another on the immediate year Purdue's facilities are used extensively immediately as laity and clergy began burned for the duration of the event, ex- ahead that UMs converged on the cam- actly as it did a year ago. The Amnesty pus of Purdue University in West Lafay- Candle is designed to symbolize solidar- ette for their 1987 North Annual ity with those opposing South African Conference session. Old Bethel congregation is apartheid. Bright sunshine and warm late- MEMBERS were introduced to sev- spring breezes welcomed lay and clergy (Continued on page 21) members, the majority of whom arrived loving, supportive as pastor Wednesday evening May 27, and Thurs- I day morning May 28. The three-and-a- half day session concluded at noon Sun- tells them he has AIDS virus day, May 31. GATHERED UNDER the banner of Catch the Spirit and divided between Don Wade uses video to share message of hope clergy and laity, the 1,200 voting mem- bers represented more than 620 congre- gations in 10 districts with a total By JAMES H. STEELE made his statement in a 9-minute video- EDITOR taped message played at both Sunday membership of nearly 140,000 persons. worship services May 31. Speaking from Presiding for the third time: Bishop Telling them his ordeal had his room in Methodist Hospital, Wade's Leroy C. Hodapp, spiritual and adminis- strengthened his faith and allowed him a message was an upbeat and hopeful one. trative leader of Indiana's nearly 300,000 "closer and deeper walk with God," an The disease, he said, had been contracted United Methodists. He is leading a simi- associate pastor of the 1,600-member In- through a blood transfusion three years lar event for the South Indiana UM Con- dianapolis Old Bethel United Methodist ago. ference June 9-12 at Indiana University, Church has told the congregation he has The Rev. Gene P. Crawford, senior Bloomington. AIDS. pastor at Old Bethel, told HUM the con- Assembled in Purdue's massive El- The Rev. Donald C. Wade, 61, gregation's response has been "loving and supportive" and that the church offi- cials are standing behind the associate Inside This Issue pastor, Dr. Crawford said. WADE STILL IS on the staff and is Paige £~Norti» Conf ereuce Summary welcome to return to his duties after he is released from the hospital and recovers Page 8—Operation Classroom from a bout with pneumonia. LEADING the North delegation to Wade was expected to be released General Conference will be the Rev. Pages IMS*-North Conf ereuce soon. "The pneumonia that brought me to Photos Mark Blaising, right, executive assistant the hospital is getting better. For the first to the bishop, and Lay Leader John Shet- (All Conference pic- tle, acting commissioner of the State De- tures are Staff photos.) (Continued on page zt) partment of Corrections. CZHI71 PAGE 2 • HOOSIER UNITED METHODIST • June, 1987! Soundings from the episcopal study Teenagers: Tremendous opportunity, challenge 1 I read recently of an ecumenical why they left school to join the Patriotic ,: religious program called the Children of Front forces of Joshua Nkomo, in a War Tour, which has brought two groups Zimbabwean refugee camp near Lusaka, 1 wl of teenagers from war-torn nations to Zambia. •fl I ft A* -—:— visit with young people their own age in a As we increasingly live in a world variety of United States cities. The where no one is isolated from others purpose has been to permit this traveling anywhere on the globe, all of these young youth-to-youth forum to discuss what it people will have an impact upon the lives means to grow up amidst constant of our own children and grandchildren. warfare, violence and oppression - and This is not to suggest that all is well what youth can do to assist future today with our own American teenagers. generations in avoiding such conditions. Drugs, alcohol, suicide, illicit sex - the My thoughts immediately flashed list could go on, enumerating problems back to some experiences I had with which are more prevalent in the teen teenagers during the last decade: culture of the United States than COUNCIL DIRECTOR John Hopkins confers during a business session with • talking with Amerasian children anywhere else in the world. Bishop Hodapp (right) and executive assistant Mark Blaising. (offspring of American GI fathers and But experience is not always Vietnamese mothers) on the streets of discouraging. Our two conference youth HoChi Minh City, where 8,000-12,000 of rallies last fall (to be repeated again this them live in their own teenage culture. year) revealed that teenagers are active • visiting the primary prison in our church youth groups in numbers torture chamber of the Pol Pot regime in unequaled for many years. Major conference Phnom Penh, Kampuchea, where one The Church faces a tremendous wall is lined with the photographs of opportunity and challenge today. We teenage guards, and listening to stories of must recruit and train both lay and the victims (most of whom were clergy workers with youth to equip our actions at a glance teenagers). teenagers to cope with contemporary • passing a movie theatre in life. They are growing up in a complex Nuku'alofa, Tonga every evening for two and harsh world. The Christian gospel weeks and seeing literally hundreds of always has had a message for those in The Conference: South Pacific Island teenagers waiting to such circumstances. Every local parish attend X-rated United States produced is called to minister, in the name of Jesus •Completed the election process for General-Jurisdictional Conferences, ulti- and distributed films. Christ, to the youth of its community. mately casting 15 clergy and 15 lay ballots. • seeing teenage parents with (In a brief meeting following the Sunday High Hour service, General-Jurisdic- infant children living in what is tional delegates selected Area Executive Assistant Mark Blaising to head the North considered the "worst slum in Asia," Indiana delegation, with conference lay leader John Shettle as vice chairperson.) open platforms built above hog pens adjacent to a slaughterhouse outside •Approved a total 1988 conference budget for all benevolence, pension and admin- Bankok, Thailand. hhoji\ALu^e istrative causes totaling more than $7.7 million. •Approved a major capital funds drive for the conference's five camping and • listening to teenage soldiers tell retreat sites which may total $6 million over 5 years. r >}■ -•Applauded efforts in church growth and development. - •Elected Area Executive Assistant Mark Blaising to head the North Indiana Reader Response clergy delegation to the 1988 General Conference.
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