March 1-3, 2012 1-3, March with Perkins faculty Perkins with A variety of workshops and seminars and workshops of variety A February 6-8, 2012 6-8, February Minsters Week Minsters for the Laity the for Perkins Theological School School Theological Perkins Ministry Vital Leading Nonprofi t Org. U.S. Postage PAID Southern Methodist University Southern Methodist University Perkins School of Theology Advanced Ministerial Studies PO Box 750133 Dallas, TX 75275-0133 Ministers Week 2012 Leading Vital Ministry • February 6-8, 2012 Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas Lectures and seminaries and led retreats for both pastors and laity in the area Christianity After Religion: Exploring the 3Bs of Faith: of leadership and spiritual formation. She has taught in the Mentor Belief, Behavior, and Belonging Program at Perkins School of Theology, where she received the Diana Butler Bass Distinguished Alumna Award in 2006. She serves on the Board of Trustees of The Methodist Hospital System, Southwestern University, Diana Butler Bass is an author, speaker and independent Wiley College and Lon Morris College as well as the Texas Methodist scholar specializing in American religion and culture. She Foundation. Bishop Huie served as president of the Council of Bishops holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from Duke University from May 2006 through May 2008. She was co-chair of the International and is the author of eight books including Christianity Clergywomen’s Consultation in 1995, has authored articles in preaching After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New and spirituality, and received the Bandy Distinguished Preacher Award Spiritual Awakening; A People’s History of Christianity: from Emory University in 1991. She completed her term as president of the Other Side of the Story; and the best-selling Christianity for the Rest of the United Methodist General Board of Higher Education and Ministry Us. Diana regularly consults with religious organizations, leads conferences in 2004. After graduating from The University of Texas in Austin, Bishop for religious leaders, and teaches and preaches in a variety of venues. Huie studied at Perkins, earning a Master of Theology and receiving She blogs at The Huffi ngton Post and Patheos and regularly comments both the Flinn Award as outstanding senior and the DeJernette Award in on religion, politics, and culture in the national media. From 1995-2000, homiletics. In 1989 she earned a Doctor of Ministry degree from Candler she wrote a weekly column on American religion for the New York Times School of Theology. Syndicate and is a contributing editor for Sojourners Magazine. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the General Theological Seminary in New York. Dr. Peyton Lecture Butler Bass also serves on the boards of the Beatitudes Society and Public On Preaching Religion Research. She has taught at Westmont College, the University William Bobby McClain of California at Santa Barbara, Macalester College, Rhodes College, and Joyce Professor of Preaching and Worship Virginia Theological Seminary. Wesley Theological Seminary Martin Lecture William Bobby McClain is called on frequently to Vital Congregations in the Age of Branding lecture and preach in major pulpits and universities throughout the globe. He is the Mary Elizabeth Joyce Thomas Edward Frank Professor of Preaching and Worship at Wesley University Professor Theological Seminary in Washington D.C., where he has taught for more Wake Forest University than 30 years. He earned his B.A. degree at Clark College, Atlanta. His Thomas Edward Frank is a scholar of American master’s and doctoral degrees were earned at Boston University School religious history with a focus on mainstream Protestant of Theology. He conceived of and chaired the committee that produced denominations, particularly Methodism. Dr. Frank is the hymnbook, Songs of Zion, which changed the composition of Christian University Professor at Wake Forest University in Winston- hymnals of many denominations. In 1978, Dr. McClain established and Salem, North Carolina, where he teaches leadership courses in the School served as the executive director of the Multi-Ethnic Center for Ministry at of Divinity and courses in the history of American religious institutions. He Drew University, Madison, New Jersey. There he wrote Travelling Light: has written extensively on the culture and place of American congregations. Christian Perspectives on Pluralism. He is also the author of Black People The Soul of the Congregation, his book exploring congregational narrative in the Methodist Church: Whither Thou Goest and co-authored, Heritage and sense of place, is widely used in clergy education. He is the author of the and Hope: African American Presence in Methodism. Dr. McClain worked standard textbook on the evolution and practice of United Methodist polity with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Alabama, serving as pastor of Haven and organization, Policy, Practice, and the Mission of The United Methodist Chapel Methodist Church in Anniston. From 1968 to 1978 he served as Church, as well as polity articles for the Encyclopedia of Religion in America, senior pastor of the historic Union United Methodist Church in Boston. the Oxford Handbook of Methodist Studies, and the T & T Clark Companion During that same period he taught at Boston College, Harvard University, to Methodism. He was the principal writer of the United Methodist Council of Northeastern University and Emerson College. Bishops’ 1990 Foundation Document, Vital Congregations-Faithful Disciples. A graduate of Harvard College (B.A.) and Emory University (M.Div. and Ph.D.), Fondren Lecture Dr. Frank completed a Masters in Heritage Preservation at Georgia State Aldersgate and Kingswood: A Wesleyan Missional University in 2006. He is currently serving as chair of the Board of Directors of Paradigm for the Local Church Partners for Sacred Places in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jeremy Basset Leading for a New Church Director of Oklahoma Volunteers In Mission Oklahoma United Methodist Ministry Center Made possible by The Women’s Lecture Endowment Janice Riggle Huie Jeremy Basset describes himself as “passionate Resident Bishop, United Methodist Church, about God’s mission in the world through the Houston Area church of Jesus Christ, and absolutely committed to the belief that each congregation is called to be, Janice Riggle Huie has served as bishop of the Texas and can effectively be, the expression of God’s love to the world.” He Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church currently serves as the director of Mission for the Oklahoma Annual since 2004. A noted speaker and experienced leader, Conference of The United Methodist Church. Rev. Basset completed she has preached at numerous Annual Conferences his undergraduate and post-graduate theological education at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, majoring in pastoral theology and ecclesiastical history. Inspired by the life and teaching of the late Dr. David Bosch, he has subsequently focused his ministry and on going education in the field of missiology. Rev. Basset served as a pastor in The Methodist Church of Southern Africa for almost 20 years before moving to the United States to further his studies. Now a clergy member of the Oklahoma Conference, he still maintains a vital link with his native home Schedule denomination through Volunteers In Mission teams, teaching, and mission Monday, February 6 partnerships. He is especially committed to helping African nations Monday programs meet in the Hughes-Trigg Student Center. respond to the devastation caused by HIV/AIDS. 1:00 p.m. Registration Opens Barton Lecture 1:30 Opening Worship A Framework for Developing Hispanic Ministry: 2:30 Martin Lecture A Conversation Vital Congregations in the Age of Branding Thomas Frank Ruben Saenz, Jr. Director, New Church Development 4:00 Afternoon Break Southwest Texas Conference (UMC) 4:15 Fondren Lecture Aldersgate and Kingswood: Ruben Saenz’ experiences of living, teaching, coaching, A Wesleyan Missional Paradigm for the Local Church doing business, and ministering to Hispanics in Texas Jeremy Basset has made him a leading expert on developing and growing healthy United Methodist churches with 6:00 Distinguished Alumnus Dinner later generation Hispanics. Currently serving as executive director of Rev. Dr. M. Mouzon Biggs Jr., Perkins Class of 1965 New Church Development and Church Transformation for the Southwest Senior Pastor, Boston Avenue UMC, Tulsa, OK Texas Conference of The United Methodist Church, he previously served Tuesday, February 7 churches in the Rio Grande Conference in Edinburg and El Paso, Texas, Tuesday morning programs meet in the Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Hall. as well as in the North Texas Conference in Dallas. He earned at Perkins 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast both an M.Div. and D.Min., for which he wrote Healing Prayer and Rite: 9:00 Morning Lecture A Necessary Evangelistic Activity for Hispanic Ministry. He is currently Christianity After Religion: Exploring the 3Bs of Faith: a member of the United Methodist General Conference on Finance Belief, Behavior, and Belonging, Part I and Administration and the Southwest Texas/Rio Grande Conference Diana Butler Bass Unification Team. While at Perkins he was awarded the Dr. and Mrs. Glenn Flinn Senior Award. His ministry interests include church renewal and 10:45 The Women’s Lectureship development, evangelism, leadership