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THE STORY MAGAZINE AND ANNUAL REPORT Volume XLVII C Winter 08/09
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FROM THE PRESIDENT STUDENTS On finances, accreditation and the dean ...... 1 Two students who model the beatitudes ...... 10
CAMPUS REPORT ALUMNI Meet Trustees Chair Maggie Jackson ...... 3 An award-winning book about a pastor’s dog . . . . .12 ank you A new emergency alert system ...... 4 Alumnews ...... 14
Board of Trustees roster ...... 4 FACULTY HAPPENINGS Rev. Patrick Clayborn on teaching preaching ...... 16 We at Methesco express our gratitude to all donors who have Mount Award recipients ...... 5 Dr. Yvonne Zimmerman on teaching ethics ...... 17 given so generously this year. Thanks to your consistent support, Fall events recap ...... 6 Faculty activities ...... 18 those in the next generation of Christian leaders are learning how
Upcoming campus events ...... 7 REPORT TO DONORS much they can matter. COMMUNITY Financial information ...... 23 We invite you to visit www.mtso.edu/development Sarah Lancaster’s hard road to celebrity ...... 8 DonorHonorRoll ...... 24 Explore our comprehensive planned-giving resources, learn about the latest tools for donors or make a gift online. THE STORY cate programs in MAGAZINE AND ANNUAL REPORT Basic Theological Ed- ucation, United Volume XLVII C Winter 08/09 Methodist Deacon Studies, and the Ad- A publication of Methodist vanced Course of Theological School in Ohio Study in the United 3081 Columbus Pike Methodist Church. Delaware, Ohio 43015 MTSO is accredited 740-363-1146 by the Association of www.mtso.edu Theological Schools in the United States and Canada and the A Methesco Church Administration class meets in 1961 Higher Learning Commission of the President: Rev. Jay Rundell North Central Asso- Founded in 1958, Methodist Theological ciation of Colleges and Schools. Its de- Academic Dean: Dr. John Kampen School in Ohio is one of 13 seminaries Editor: Danny Russell gree programs are authorized by the formally affiliated with and funded in Ohio Board of Regents and approved by Design: Jeffery Smith, DesignSmith part by the United Methodist Church. Lo- Printer: e Watkins Printing Company the University Senate of The United cated on a 72-acre campus in Central Methodist Church. Ohio, MTSO offers five graduate degree On the cover: Detail of stained glass in the programs: Master of Divinity, Master of We welcome your comments and sug- south window at the entrance to the Burgett Chapel Classroom in Gault Hall Arts in Christian Education, Master of gestions. Please send them to Arts in Counseling Ministries, Master of [email protected], or Danny Russell, Printed on paper manufactured from 100 Theological Studies and Doctor of Min- MTSO, 3081 Columbus Pike, Delaware, percent post-consumer waste fiber. istry. It also offers graduate-level certifi- Ohio 43015.
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A strong ship on a turbulent sea
By Rev. Jay Rundell President It is my privilege to greet you on behalf of the many members of the MTSO community and to invite you to page through this issue of e Story. You will find news of past happenings and fu- ture events, articles about stu- dents, alums, faculty and trustees, as well as our Annual Report for the 2007-2008 fiscal year. is publication comes to you amidst extraordinary times. Along with you and your fami- lies, churches and communities, we have been deeply affected by to all of you who are finding a way to sup- all-time high of $37 million in January 2008 the economic troubles of the past several port us through this difficult period. Follow- to about $26.5 million. months. Our campus is a place of keen ing are a few items I want to highlight for awareness of the myriad trials that our you. A 28.6 percent loss is hard to take, but world faces in the years to come. And like many institutions have fared much worse. the rest of the world, we have been moved Our financial position (And for what it’s worth, the Standard & by the significance of a historical election Poor’s 500 stock index has fallen by 38 per- season. MTSO has not escaped the effects of cent over this period.) We have experienced Like most educational institutions, we are struggling domestic and global economies. similar paper losses before, most recently in confronting acute financial strain and all the At a time when costs associated with higher 2002. Because these funds are the source of accompanying uncertainty and stress. And education are rising, several of our revenue revenue for such things as scholarships, fac- yet, there is a good spirit here. Our students streams are weakened. Understandably, gi ulty chairs and other general expenses, we remind us of the and tuition income are down slightly. will be challenged to find new sources of in- continuing come and additional ways to curb expenses. hunger for We will endeavor to be good stewards with learning and There is evidence of the kind of hope that the school’s resources, balancing prudent growth. Our comes from trusting that the Church has spending with the ever-important need to fund our vital mission. faculty has a something to say and do in a time like this, way of making theological edu- and from knowing that we’re preparing Self-study and cation relevant people who will lead that effort. reaccreditation even to times like these. Nearly two years of institutional self- Income from endowed funds is likely to study culminated in October with the cam- And there is evidence of the kind of hope be our greatest financial challenge in the pus visit of teams from the Association of that comes from trusting that the Church next few years. We are broadly diversified eological Schools in the United States and has something to say and do in a time like and have capable managers and superb Canada and the Higher Learning Commis- this, and from knowing that we’re preparing trustee oversight, but, like everyone else, sion of the North Central Association of people who will lead that effort. at makes we’ve lost considerable market value. As of Colleges and Schools. the turmoil worthwhile. I am deeply grateful Nov. 30, our endowment has fallen from an continues ¡
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from previous page fessor of New Testa- ment Studies in the e teams registered a very positive reac- Van Bogard Dunn tion to our campus and what they saw oc- Chair in Biblical In- curring here. terpretation. Official action on team reports will not I wish to express take place until the boards of the associa- my deep regard for tions meet in February. But while still on John, not only as a campus, visiting team members indicated scholar and academic that they were extremely impressed with the administrator but as a strength and vision of this institution and its friend and guide as I ability to carry out its mission. In particular, have grown into the they noted: presidency at MTSO. • e collaboration in teaching and learning His experience and between an excellent faculty and an en- wisdom have pro- gaged student body. foundly influenced the shaping of the Scholar and administrator, friend and guide C Kampen • An institutional environment of egalitari- foundation for my anism and relationality. work in this place. Over the past five years, Dean John Kam- • e commendable presence of diversity as An advisory search committee has begun pen has gathered and appropriated that his- seen in the student body, faculty and cur- the process of identifying and integrating tory and, with the very best of academic riculum, with a commitment to ecumeni- our next dean into academic leadership in integrity and principles, helped us forge a cal and inter-religious understanding, as the life of our fine school. When the way has sound future in theological education. I well as other practices of inclusivity. been paved with care, a community such as simply cannot overstate John’s influence ours can travel into its future with confi- upon the maturation of our academic pro- • Notable progress in the area of educational dence and anticipation. assessment. gram and ethos. He has done e team also encouraged us to give con- what he came tinued attention to a number of things, here to do, and Visiting accreditation team members indicated ranging from institutional advancement to the institution is that they were extremely impressed with the library development to deferred mainte- in his debt. strength and vision of this institution and its nance. Dean John Kampen, a seasoned vet- eran of accreditation visits for both ATS and In addition ability to carry out its mission. HLC, said of the review, “is is as good as to his work in it gets.” I believe we have reason to feel very academic ad- ministration, good about MTSO and the work we are In concluding, let me share my deep ap- Dr. Kampen has nurtured his calling as a doing. preciation for your support of Methesco and scholar and student of the Jewish context of for all you do in extending our mission and the New Testament, with a specific focus on The Office of the ministry to the world around us. Please hold what is commonly referred to as Second- us in your prayers as we move forward in Academic Dean Temple Judaism. As a researcher and author faith through these turbulent but hopeful of note within this field, several aspects of Methodist eological School in Ohio times. his work with the Dead Sea Scrolls have has been blessed over the years by the com- been seminal to the field. mitted work of a number of extraordinary academic deans. From the crucial formative It is out of this latter part of John’s rich role played by a legendary founding dean to vocational identity that he is choosing to the careful academic stewardship of several build the next phase of his professional life. I leaders who helped steer the school through will be recommending to the faculty and ul- its transformative years, we have been well- timately the board of trustees that beginning served. July 1, 2009, Dr. Kampen be appointed Pro-
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DR. MAGGIE JACKSON Trustees’leader wears many hats
Many things qualified Dr. opportunity to work with him.” Maggie Jackson to take the As she ponders the challenges of her reins of the MTSO Board of “I want people to look at us and say, term as chair, Jackson is well aware Trustees in 2008. An abundance ‘This is an institution I want to be a she’ll be leading the trustees in a chal- of idle time was not among part of—and therefore, I give.’” lenging economic climate. them. “If I have any goal at this moment, it Jackson is the chair, the di- is to ensure that we have the resources rector and a professor in the necessary to continue our growth and School of Social Work at Cleve- I stopped by to talk to you?’ You know the development,” she said. “ese are criti- land State University. But that’s just her day drill.” She laughed at the memory. “I got cal times.” job. hooked.” “I want people to look at us and say, ‘is A member of Werner UMC in Cleveland, She was appointed to the MTSO board in is an institution I want to be a part of—and Jackson serves other United Methodist or- 1999 and became chair July 1, 2008, replac- therefore, I give.’” C ganizations as chair of the North Central Ju- ing Columbus attorney John W. risdiction Episcopacy Committee and a Zeiger, a 14-year trustee who member of the General Board of Global served four years as chair and Ministries. She also was a delegate to the last remains on the board. three General Conferences. In addition to “I have had the opportunity chairing the Methesco board, she’s a trustee to serve on various boards in my at Northwestern College in Iowa, her under- professional life,” Jackson said, graduate alma mater. “and Methesco’s membership is a Jackson earned a Ph.D. from Case West- huge, dedicated group that I am ern Reserve University and a master’s from proud to be a part of. I see how the University of Denver, both in social people are willing to go beyond work. at background gives her a unique to make a difference because appreciation for those in MTSO’s Master of they believe in what we do.” Arts in Counseling Ministries program. “Methesco is a warm, invita- “In addition to having the skills to help tional institution,” she said. “It is people through these difficult times, they the epitome of what I would ex- bring that Christian overlay, which is an pect in a seminary.” added dimension to help people in a “We are an open institution, broader fashion,” she said. She’s proud of and we welcome people from all Cleveland State students, “but we are a state walks of life, all different reli- university, so many of them are not embed- gions and philosophies. I think it ded in a church or a belief base, and they makes for a more well-rounded miss that added dimension that I believe graduate when in the classroom helps us to meet the whole person.” you’re exposed to different Jackson became familiar with Methesco views. For us to grow as individ- as president of the East Ohio United uals, we need to be challenged Methodist Women in the 1990s, when she about our thoughts and ideas.” visited campus to attend polity classes Jackson, who served on the taught by then President Ned Dewire. Ap- search committee that brought parently he saw her potential to be more President Jay Rundell to MTSO A unique appreciation for counseling than an occasional student at MTSO. in 2006, said she’s “extremely well ministries C Jackson at commencement in May “He called one day and said, ‘Maggie, I’m pleased” with his leadership. “It’s 2008 going to be in Cleveland. Would you mind if a privilege for me to have this
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e winds of change Hurricane Ike triggers a new campus alert system When a hurricane warn- at their homes all week. ing went out to Gulf Coast But the loss of MTSO’s states during the second main computer server week of September, no one during the outage crip- figured Ohio needed to be pled efforts to update bracing for a once-in-a-life- students, faculty and time windstorm. But on staff. ough closing no- Sept. 14, Hurricane Ike’s powerful last gasp tices were carried by major media in the cut a wide swath of destruction through the Columbus area, some students who live Midwest, leaving much of Ohio without far from Central Ohio drove hours to power and putting Methesco out of com- campus only to learn it was closed. mission for the next two days. “e out-of-town students who were Buildings were spared, but not trees C Power at MTSO went out on that windy inconvenienced by this power outage were This pine outside Werner Hall was lost Sunday and wasn’t restored until late Tues- remarkably patient and understanding,” to the September windstorm day aernoon. A number of large trees on said MTSO President Jay Rundell, “but we campus were damaged, some irreparably. realized that we need a more reliable way staff and trustees have been invited to sign One of two tall to keep up for the service, which is provided at no pines that tow- everyone charge by MTSO. ered over the The MTSO Alert system has the informed entrance to capacity to send text messages, voice when un- e school has retained e2Campus, Werner Hall had expected messages and e-mail to every whose system is used by hundreds of cam- to be removed. events af- puses across the country, to host MTSO But remarkably, subscriber in the campus community fect our Alert. is ensures that the system will work no campus virtually instantaneously. campus.” reliably even if the school’s computer server buildings were is out of service. struck by flying e re- tree limbs or sult was “We can’t promise a winter without more otherwise damaged by the storm. the launch this fall of the MTSO Alert sys- campus closings,” Rundell said, “but if they tem, which has the capacity to send text come, we’re much more confident that we e school was fortunate to be back in messages, voice messages and e-mail to can spread the word.” C business relatively soon; some in the every subscriber in the campus community Methesco community were without power virtually instantaneously. Students, faculty, www.mtso.edu/alert/AlertFAQ.pdf
MTSO Board of Trustees 2008-2009
Mr. Ronald B. Alford Mrs. Jane Endres Rev. Susan A. Kyser Bishop Bruce R. Ough Dr. Derek Anderson Dr. Preston Forbes Rev. J. F. Lacaria Rev. Jay A. Rundell Mrs. Janet B. Baker Rev. Cyndy Garn Dr. Joan Leitzel Rev. Rae Lynn Schleif Dr. Patricia A. Bennett Mrs. Flo K. Gault Rev. Dr. Diane Lobody Mr. Earl Stalter Mrs. Janet Blocher Mr. William Grové Mr. Gerald P. Maloney Rev. Margaret Streiff Mr. James Chapman Bishop John L. Hopkins Mr. Michael McNeil Rev. R. Stanley Sutton Mr. John Chapman Mr. Andrew Hopp Mr. J. D. Milliken Mr. Robert J. Town Mr. William Brewer Rev. Dr. G. Forrest Hoppe Rev. Richard A. Morrison Rev. Paul R. White Mr. Paul A. Donald Dr. Maggie Jackson Dr. John T. Mount Rev. Dr. David E. Wilcox Rev. H. Daniel Drew Dr. Jeffrey Jaynes (Trustee Emeritus) Mr. John W. Zeiger Rev. Kathryn Dwyer Mr. Alex Keller Dr. Robert Oakley
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ree distinguished alumni are honored with Mount Awards
ence, Benton Heisler earned his Master of Divinity degree from Methesco in 1986. His ministry has included service to small rural parishes, two-point charges and urban areas. He has been a student intern, an associate pastor and a senior pastor. ose nominating Heisler described him as a passionate spiritual leader and conflict- resolution facilitator with a great sense of humor. He was no doubt developing some of those attributes during his pre-ministry career, when he was a sixth-grade teacher and a science department chair. Heisler has a vision, expectation and goal that every local congregation can be pas- sionately committed to a relationship with Jesus Christ and a desire to build, repair, and Serving in dramatically different ways C Mount Award recipients (from left) recycle people and places of community, for Heisler, Sells and Hays the sake of the kingdom of God and the transformation of the world.
An annual highlight of the Schooler In- In addition to his missionary work, Hays Rev. Dr. L. Raymond Sells stitute on Preaching is the presentation of has co-founded several organizations, Distinguished Service to MTSO the John and Ruth Mount Alumni Awards hosted weekly radio programs, and served for Distinguished Service. With the recogni- on the Alaska Council of Churches, among Ray Sells has harnessed his interest and tion of three new recipients at the Oct. 6 other achievements. expertise in community organizing to pro- awards dinner, there have been 60 honorees vide significant leadership to MTSO and the In 1986, Hays began a second career as a community beyond. A 1963 graduate and since the awards were established in 1990. development officer and a non-profit execu- former trustee of Methesco, he has trained tive. He had a vital role in raising more than Not only do the trio of 2008 honorees community organizers in the Cleveland, $16 million for a wide variety of worthy or- represent dramatically different parts of the Columbus and Cincinnati areas. country—from Michigan to Tennessee to ganizations, from churches to cultural, Alaska—but they have modeled dramati- health and children-services agencies. Sells now works in Nashville, training cally different ways to put a theological edu- Since retirement in 2000, his passion has and organizing communities around worker cation to use in service to the church and been the Personal Energy Transportation rights and environmental issues. He is effec- the world. Project, a faith-based organization that pro- tive in his community and in his discourse vides sturdy, hand-cranked wheelchairs for with government officials. Rev. Walter Hays Jr. those who lack mobility in the ird World. His interest in seminary students has Distinguished Service brought him to the classroom to discuss in Specialized Ministry Rev. Benton Heisler community organizing as one approach to Distinguished Service ministry, and his advocacy for those organi- A member of Methesco’s first graduating in Parish Ministry class, in 1963, Walter Hays holds the distinc- zations fighting against human trafficking tion of being the first graduate of MTSO to e district superintendent for the Lans- has led him to be a strong supporter of the be commissioned as a missionary. ing District of the West Michigan Confer- MTSO Liberation! Conference. C
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A busy fall on campus | Autumn 2008 events
Liberation! Conference Equipping Christian Leaders to Abolish Modern Slavery is was the second year for the Libera- tion! Conference, coordinated by MTSO students in the local chapter of the Beati- tudes Society. Sponsored by the Beatitudes Society, the Not for Sale campaign and the Columbus Coalition for the Homeless, the conference dealt with responses to slavery on both the global and local level. Among presenters at the Sept. 27 event was Dr. Claude d’Estrée, director of the At the nuclear forum C Rev. Barbara G. Green Center on Rights Development and a special rapporteur to the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking. Dr. Ajith Fernando, national director of significant ecclesial positions on nuclear Youth for Christ in Sri Lanka, was the weapons from the Cold War in the context keynote speaker. Leading seminars was Rev. of contemporary, post-Cold War dynamics. Jeff Marian, lead pastor at Prince of Peace e event focused on pastoral letters on the Lutheran Church, a congregation of 9,000 nuclear threat by Catholic and United members in Burnsville, Minn. Methodist bishops, as well as the emergence of a new evangelical consensus around nu- Schooler Institute on Preaching clear weapons elimination. Rethinking Your Advent Series Panelists included Dr. John F. Ahearne, a e 2008 Schooler Institute on Preaching veteran of the Carter White House and for- was redesigned with the goal of quickly giv- mer chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regula- ing busy clergy useful tools for constructing tory Commission; and Rev. Tyler a full Advent sermon series. Former Wigg-Stevenson, director of the Two Fu- Methesco faculty member Dr. Sharon Ringe, tures Project, an evangelical effort for a nu- who now teaches at Wesley eological clear weapons-free world. C Seminary in Washington, D.C., delivered four presentations, many enhanced with sa- cred art. Following each presentation, Rev. At the Mission and Evangelism Patrick Clayborn, MTSO instructor of Institute C Fernando homiletics, offered a response. In addition to the presentations and Mission and Evangelism Institute small-group discussions Oct. 6 and 7, atten- Offering Christ dees received a liturgical resource guide for in a Multi-religious World Advent 2008, prepared by Dr. Robin Knowles Wallace, MTSO professor of wor- Can a Christian’s burning conviction co- ship and music. exist with respect for other religions? And New Directions for a New what does it mean, as a Christian, to be sen- Nuclear Age: Church Influence sitive to people of other faiths? at’s a sam- and Public Policy pling of the challenging questions tackled at the Seventh Annual Mission and Evangelism Held shortly aer the presidential elec- C Institute on the MTSO campus Oct. 12-14. tion, this Nov. 20 forum reviewed the most At Schooler Ringe
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Mark your calendar | Upcoming events for 2009
January 26-27 March 21 April 21 Ohio Ministries Convocation Admissions Open House MACM Senior Celebration Dinner SemCon Luncheon Jan. 26, hosted by Campus tours, classroom visitation, faculty [email protected] MTSO, United eological Seminary, and and student panels, and worship opportuni- the East and West Ohio conferences. ties for prospective students, their families May 12 and sponsors [email protected] Closing Convocation www.mtso.edu/visit and Awards Ceremony [email protected] February 10 President Jay Rundell preaching Faculty Lecture and Installation March 24 May 13 Lisa Withrow will address the topic Premiere Scholarship Interviews “Change: Exploring Its Implications for Re- Closing Eucharist ligious Leadership (A Pedagogical Inquiry)” www.mtso.edu/prospective/ Academic Dean John Kampen preaching and will be installed in the Norman E. scholarship-p.htm Dewire Chair in Christian Leadership. [email protected] May 22-23 [email protected] April 15 Baccalaureate and Commencement February 16-17 Fifth Annual Lecture in World Religions Harding Scholarship Interviews and Inter-Religious Dialogue www.mtso.edu/harding “Catholic-Muslim Relations Today,” with [email protected] speakers Fr. Dennis McManus of the Catholic University of America and Imam March 15-17 Yahya Hendi of Georgetown University. Women in the Religious Held at the Pontifical College Josephinum’s and Intellectual Activity of the Joseph Jessing Center. Ancient Mediterranean World [email protected] Interdisciplinary and international confer- ence in honor of Adela Yarbro Collins. e annual Williams Institute will be based in this conference, supplemented by a special workshop on Monday morning by Dr. Lee Johnson for clergy and non-specialists on “Women in the New Testament World.” www.mtso.edu/collinsconference [email protected], [email protected]
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Riverside Methodist Professor,survivor, Hospital touts Sarah Lancaster’s remarkable spokesmodel recovery
It’s arguably one of the most prominent was taking a step over to be able to pick up e MERCI Retriever is no folk remedy. billboards in Central Ohio, looming over the phone and just went flat down.” A cutting-edge method of removing a the “hospital curve,” where a major freeway stroke’s clot from the brain using a catheter, snakes around Riverside Methodist Hospi- It wasn’t until later that she reconstructed it’s one of several techniques that were ap- tal. A year ago, Dr. Sarah Lancaster couldn’t the reason for that fall: “What I realize now plied in quick progression once Lancaster’s possibly have guessed her smiling face is I was dragging my le foot. My le side ambulance arrived at Riverside. would grace that enormous sign, or that she wasn’t working.” “e doctor told me, ‘I used everything I would also star in radio and TV commer- Lancaster’s husband, Kermit, heard her cials. had in my office on you,’” she said. “e re- fall and worried that it was more than a sim- sults were immediate and dramatic.” Lancaster, who holds the Werner Chair ple stumble. He began grilling her with of eology at MTSO, jokes easily about her questions to test her alertness, “and I could When she arrived at the hospital, Lan- 15 minutes of fame. Ironically, they’re the answer them just fine.” But, “I wasn’t mak- caster had lost function on the le side of result of about 15 minutes that saved her life ing any effort to get up.” her body, including vision. Her doctor no- on the morning of April 15. ticed improvement while she was still lying “He picked me up and basically carried on the table during the procedure. Within a “I tripped,” she said. “I had been on the me out to the car and said, ‘I think you’ve day, she had completely regained use of her telephone and I dropped the phone. And I had a stroke,’ and I said, ‘No I haven’t.’” le side and was walking. e Lancasters went to the nearest hospi- It wasn’t until later that she learned how tal, Mount Carmel St. Ann’s in Westerville, critical her situation had been: “Apparently where Sarah promptly lost an argument it was a very serious stroke that I was lucky about whether she needed a wheelchair. “I to survive.” was in complete denial.” Lancaster stayed in the hospital a week, Aer confirming that she had indeed but days aer being released, she was back suffered a stroke, the staff at St. Ann’s made on the Methesco campus, sitting in on the a vital decision: ey sent her to a competi- classes she’d been teaching. Before the end tor. of the spring semester, she was leading those “ey realized I was a good candidate for classes again. the MERCI procedure, so they transported “at’s pretty insane, I realize,” she said. me to Riverside.” “But there’s a part of me that thinks it’s be- Riverside is one of many Methodist hos- cause I was so persistent that I got better as pitals. ey’re a lasting testament to John quickly as I did.” Wesley’s interest in health care. Despite Lancaster’s quick return to ac- “Wesley had a concern for people’s well- tion, exhaustion was a lingering challenge. being, both spiritual and physical,” said Lan- “I graded 100 papers at the end of “I graded 100 papers at the end of the se- caster, who, as it happens, has written and the semester” C Eager to return, mester,” she said, “and I could do maybe five lectured on Wesley. “In fact, he collected Lancaster was back on campus days or six and then I had to take a nap.” folk remedies and made those available to after leaving the hospital people who couldn’t afford medical care.” She fought off fatigue during two big
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Sign of success C Lancaster was happy to help Riverside explain how her life was saved
trips in the two months following the stroke. anks to a malfunctioning camera, they Lancaster, who was in “really good In May, she went to Dallas to attend daugh- had no photos of Jocelyn’s SMU graduation, health” before the stroke, is now walking 2 ter Jocelyn’s graduation from Southern but there was a nice photo of the Lancasters’ miles a day for exercise, though she’s no Methodist University. In June, she flew to other daughter, Kendra, graduating from longer allowed to li weights as she once Egypt for a long-planned conference. Westerville South High School, so the com- did. Her memory didn’t return to pre-stroke mercial crew just shot that. levels as quickly as she might have liked, June was also when Lancaster launched “but I don’t feel like I have any of those her second career as a multi-media celebrity. For Lancaster’s billboard photo, she and problems now.” Shortly aer her hospital stay, she was ap- the family dog, 8-year-old Hunter, posed by proached by Riverside about participating a stream in Westerville’s Inniswood Gar- But the memory of the stroke itself has in an ad campaign touting the procedure dens. receded. that led to her re- covery. “I spent the first couple of months just occasionally being really hit with “I was cer- “I had a student who caught me in the hallway what the alternative could have been,” tainly surprised,” she said. “ere’s a lot of stuff about she said. “But I’ll and said, ‘Are you on a billboard Downtown?’ I salvation in theology, and I’d never re- tell you, I was so said, ‘Yeah,’ and he said, ‘I almost swerved off ally had my life saved before. And to grateful at that the road when I saw that.’” have that, I think you do realize what point for all the that thankfulness is about.” hospital had done, it was, ‘Yes, Among other things, she’s thankful I’ll be glad to that her recovery has le her with pre- help you.’” “You don’t ordinarily get to take pets in cious few reminders of all that tran- there,” she said, “but we got permission to spired on April 15. A television commercial was filmed in take Hunter. e crew loved my dog.” the Lancasters’ home. at was augmented “Most days, I have to remind myself that by radio and print advertising, including As for all the notoriety, Lancaster said, I’ve had a problem.” billboards all over town and even signs in- “It’s almost gotten to the point of being em- ose, presumably, are the days she does- side Riverside’s elevators. In the TV spot, barrassing. I had a student who caught me n’t drive past any billboards. C Lancaster mentions her trip to Dallas for Jo- in the hallway and said, ‘Are you on a bill- celyn’s graduation, and the camera focuses board Downtown?’ I said, ‘Yeah,’ and he on a snapshot of her daughter in a cap and said, ‘I almost swerved off the road when I gown—except it’s not Jocelyn. saw that.’”
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A new book features MTSO’s in beatitudes April Blaine and Jeremy Scott
“They really are students who show great leadership potential” C Scott and Blaine
In a forthcoming book by the leader of “I chose nine students that I’ve encoun- Both Blaine and Scott are Master of Di- the Beatitudes Society, nine seminary stu- tered in my work,” Howard said, “and they vinity students. Blaine will graduate this dents and alums will be featured for the stretch across the country from Boston to spring, Scott in 2010. ways each of them models a beatitude pre- Berkeley.” sented in the fih chapter of Matthew. Two Scott founded the MTSO chapter of the of those nine are MTSO students. MTSO student April Blaine appears in Be’Ats, as members call it, in January 2007. the chapter illustrating Verse 7: “Blessed are Claiming the Beatitudes: Nine Stories the merciful, for they will receive mercy.” e national organization describes its from a New Generation, by Beatitudes Soci- MTSO student Jeremy Scott’s ministry is mission this way: “e Beatitudes Society ety Executive Director Rev. Anne Suther- held up as an example of Verse 10: “Blessed develops and sustains emerging Christian land Howard, is due to be published this are those who are persecuted for justice’ leaders at seminaries and divinity schools as winter by the Alban Institute. sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” they build a progressive network for justice,
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compassion and peace as expressed in the talked about is there’s a leveling that hap- flection on the beatitude and guidelines for Beatitudes.” pens when we show mercy.” group discussion. It was Scott’s work in founding MTSO’s Blaine has pursued her MTSO education “I chose students who have a passion for Liberation! Conference to combat modern while working full-time at Riverside United something the beatitudes express,” Howard slavery that caught Howard’s attention. e Methodist Church in Upper Arlington. She said. “ey really are students who show conference evolved from Scott’s interest in joined the Riverside staff as youth pastor six great leadership potential.” C the writing of author David Batstone about years ago and now is associate pastor and a the slave trade. Batstone, he said, “was in- licensed local pastor. volved with the Be’Ats, so Anne kind of of- “I love Methesco very much. I’ve had a fered him up to our campus.” wonderful experience,” she said. But she’s e fall 2007 Liberation! Conference, ready to concentrate more on her ministry featuring Batstone, was followed this year by and less on writing papers. a conference featuring international human “is is my fih year. It’s time to leave.” trafficking expert Claude d’Estree. Each chapter of Claiming the Beatitudes “e Liberation! Conference caught a lot begins with the story of an individual such of people’s attention because it was the first as Blaine or Scott, followed by Howard’s re- time a student group had put on anything that big,” said Scott, who has handed the reins of the local Be’Ats chapter to MTSO students Jared Littleton and Cassie Smith. Scott, who co-pastors the urman Av- How they enue and Washington Avenue United Methodist churches in Columbus with fel- stake the claim low MTSO student Nathan Adams, has moved on to a new project. He’s producing a Two excerpts from Claiming the Beatitudes video featuring interviews with experts on modern slavery. Among those he hopes to talk with is a representative of Higher On Jeremy Scott: Grounds, a fair-trade coffee company whose He’s now taken on a new volunteer role, in addition to his seminary work, to products are served in Dunn Dining Hall on become State Director of the Ohio Not for Sale Campaign. There are many as- the MTSO campus. pects to this kind of work, from participating in the new “underground rail- Blaine said Howard approached her road” that coordinates the new abolitionists across the globe who are rescuing about being featured in Claiming the Beati- the victims of the global slave trade, to staging local educational events for tudes aer the two worked together on the schools, churches and community groups. But it’s the root cause of slavery that national Be’Ats’ Emerging Leaders Project, gets Jeremy. which brings together 15 progressive Chris- “Families in good economic condition don’t sell their daughters. If a family has tian leaders and 15 seminary students for a a decent source of income, they don’t sell their daughters. I’m interested in ad- fall retreat. Aer participating in 2007, dressing the poverty that produces slavery. That’s my passion.” Blaine worked on the planning team for the 2008 event. On April Blaine:
Howard asked Blaine which of the beati- “I am interested in re-imagining the church,” April said, “and I think mercy has tudes she related to, an exchange that still everything to do with re-imagining the church. This beatitude is about being, makes Blaine laugh: “I said, ‘Oddly enough, it’s not about doing. Being church, just being church, not doing church. I am if you want to talk about how I don’t seem learning that we aren’t very good at just being with people in their lives, in to have much mercy, we can talk about community.” that.’” “We want to do things, we want to disciple people, we want to change people, “It’s the hardest thing in the world to let we want people to come to this program or that program. Church is so often all go of things when people hurt you,” Blaine this stuff that people want to do. But people just want people to be with them, said, but, “One of the things Anne and I just be with them.”
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It wasn’t that there weren’t books about “I told her that since I was clergy, we ministry, and that involved another impor- blind people, even blind people in religious would really need to go to the United tant relationship. She would tell children settings. But Rev. Diane Winters Johnson, Methodist Publishing House first before we about her work and the sometimes hard-to- who earned a master’s in Christian educa- went outside: Go there, get their refusal and grasp trappings of a church with the help of tion from Methesco in 2002, was looking for then go somewhere else.” Walter, the Seeing Eye dog who was vital to something very specific, and she couldn’t her work in the church, not to mention her ere was no refusal. Abingdon Press, find it. education at MTSO. which is affiliated with the UM Publishing “I frequently was asked to go to elemen- House, wanted the book. In May of this “Walter traveled my road to ordination tary schools and talk with classes about is- year, e View from Under the Pew was pub- with me,” Johnson said. “Walter was a nec- sues of blindness and disability with groups lished. essary piece to my traveling from being a of children,” said Johnson, who is the associ- layperson in ministry to being an ordained Johnson knew from the start how she person in ministry. I used a white cane very ate pastor at Wooster United Methodist wanted to tell the story of a blind pastor’s Church and is blind. “And I never had any successfully for years, but I couldn’t have materials to use with kids.” gone to seminary without Walter.” “All the books that we could find showed Johnson has happy memories of a blind person that was the object of min- Methesco that began well before she en- istry rather than in ministry. So I thought rolled. about writing a book to use for my own.” “My first time on campus actually was as Johnson’s task of creating her own book a confirmand, and I’m not going to tell you was helped along by two relationships. e how long ago,” she said, laughing. “I think I first was with Margaret Freed, who attends was 13.” Wooster UMC and is a professional artist. Most weeks, she’d get a ride from Johnson approached her about providing il- Wooster to campus with a member of her lustrations. congregation, and a ride home with her husband, Wesley. (e Johnsons have four “I thought, well, as long as we’re going to grown children.) do this, why don’t we have it bound and make it a gi for the children here in our On the MTSO campus, Walter was John- church?” Johnson said. She and Freed dis- son’s constant companion, walking every cussed it over lunch, “and the more we step and attending every class with her. talked about it, we discovered that she had “I treasured those years,” she said. had this lifelong dream of doing a children’s book and being published.” You’ll recognize Wooster UMC e two even graduated together. “exactly” C Johnson’s book, The View Soon they were compiling a list of chil- “He has a diploma as well as I do,” John- from Under the Pew dren’s book publishers. son said, “only his says he has a degree in
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dogmatic theology. When I was ordained, the bishop laid hands on him as well.” Walter put his ordination to good use. “He learned the order of worship,” John- son said. “He would stand up when it was necessary to stand, he would lie down when it was time to lie down. He knew it was bread first and juice second.” But more than that, she said, “He had a way of touching people. And a lot of it came through with visitation. Sometimes in the hardest situations, just having him there would calm somebody. He just had a way of communicating with people. He was truly a Taking over for Walter C Amber is Johnson’s new Seeing Eye dog pastoral-care kind of dog.” Walter retired several years ago and went recreated, as are other buildings in the com- “I said, ‘I want you to make me younger and to live with members of Johnson’s church. munity. thinner and more handsome.’ When my wife “He is now actually 16 years old, and very saw the picture, she said, ‘Who is that wear- “You would recognize it exactly,” Johnson much a lump on a pillow,” she said. “He’s al- ing your sweater?’” said. “You would not only recognize the most all white now. He can’t hear anymore, When the church held a book signing for and he can barely e View from Under the Pew, Walter was on see. But he still hand for the event. wags his tail, and “All the books that we could find showed he still thinks it’s a blind person that was the object of “You could tell he knew he was a all about him.” celebrity,” said Wilcox, who had just arrived ministry rather than in ministry,” Johnson in Wooster when Walter retired. e church Johnson’s cur- said. “So I thought about writing a book held a special farewell ceremony. rent guide dog is to use for my own.” Amber, whom she “ere wasn’t a dry eye in the place,” said considers as indis- Wilcox, who—though he didn’t know Wal- pensable as Walter ter as well as others in the congregation— was. But it’s Walter got a very specific glimpse during the church, but you could probably pick out the who stars in e View from Under the Pew, ceremony of the magnanimous personality people. My daughter is in the book. Our appearing in every one of Freed’s illustra- that made Diane Johnson’s companion so senior pastor is in the book.” tions. e book has earned plaudits for both beloved. the words and pictures, recently winning the e senior pastor is Dr. David Wilcox, silver medal in the Moonbeam Children’s who also serves as vice chair of the MTSO “As I reached down to put my hand on Book Awards for non-fiction picture books. Board of Trustees. And he confirms that he his head to do the blessing, he looked up at appears in the book—sort of. me so sweetly,” Wilcox said. “And I didn’t re- Even before the award, the book was a alize until later that I had been standing on big hit in Wooster. e church is faithfully “I had a caveat for the artist,” Wilcox said. his fur.” C
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1997 Judy Johnson has published her first book of scripture-based meditations, A Week to Pray About It, containing 52 brief medita- tions arranged by seasons. She is a freelance Alum news writer of educational materials in Yellow If you’re an alum or former faculty or staff member of Methesco and have Springs and an active member of Christ news to share about personal achievements or milestones, please submit it Episcopal Church in Springfield. via the link at www.mtso.edu/alumni. If you don’t have an Internet [email protected] connection, you may mail your news to us at Alum News, MTSO, 3081 Columbus Pike, Delaware, Ohio 43015. 2002 1969 1995 Alton Plummer was ordained to the Sa- Robert S. Henderson and his wife, Janis, Amelia Walker is now pastor of the cred and Holy Order of Priests by the Rt. have coauthored a three-volume book, Liv- Christian Fellowship United Church of Rev. omas Breidenthal, Southern Ohio ing with Jung: “Enterviews” with Jungian An- Christ in San Diego. bishop of the Episcopal Church, in June. alysts, published by Spring Journal and Plummer is serving as assistant rector of Books. [email protected] Trinity Episcopal Church on Capitol Square in Columbus. 1996 [email protected] 1972 Karen Oehl shared the pulpit with her fa- Charles Neff has negotiated the merger of ther, MTSO Professor Emeritus Bill Mc- two United Methodist congregations in Ed Garten retired from the University of Cartney, at the 50th anniversary McAlester, Okla., where he serves as senior Dayton in 2007 aer 20 years of service as celebration of Trinity Tower UMC in Pitts- pastor of Grand Avenue UMC. e merger dean of libraries and information technolo- burgh, Pa., in September. Oehl, the pastor of will take effect Jan. 1, 2009. e new congre- gies and was named dean emeritus. Early Brecksville UMC, was baptized at Trinity gation, First UMC of McAlester, will em- this year he was named program director Tower when McCartney served that congre- bark on a $4 million construction project to and professor for the Ed.D. Specialization in gation as pastor. Despite the fact both father build a new facility on 10 acres of land. First Higher Education and Adult Learning with and daughter preached, McCartney insists, UMC McAlester will be the largest UM the Richard W. Riley College of Education “e whole sermon was no longer than a church in Southeast Oklahoma and the and Leadership, Walden University, Min- regular one.” "flagship church" of the McAlester District. neapolis. Ed retired from the Minnesota [email protected] Annual Conference of the UMC in 2005 aer 30 years of ministry in higher educa- tion. [email protected]
1992 John Gray and his wife, Patty, are in their 44th year of marriage, eighth year of retire- ment and seventh year as pastor at Jackson Chapel in Grove City. John stays active with the local food pantry and as chaplain of two veteran groups. “I will always cherish my time at seminary and my fond memories of the staff there,” he said. [email protected]
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2003 2006 Ronald Dodds has been appointed as lead Chuck Kaliszewski and his wife, Linda, pastor of Grace UMC in Washington Court celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. House, in the Shawnee Valley District of the Chuck is pastor of the South Euclid-Hill- West Ohio Conference. crest UMC in the East Ohio Conference. [email protected] [email protected]
2004 2007 Brian Oliver and his wife, Christine, wel- Linda McCowen was commissioned at comed their third child, Laura-Faith East Ohio Annual Conference and ap- Lilelilekekaiikeeokala Oliver on July 20, pointed to serve Westlake UMC and Broad- 2007. Brian serves as associate pastor at way UMC in the North Coast District as First UMC in Casper, Wyo. their parish nurse. She also is parish nurse at [email protected] Old Stone First Presbyterian Church on Public Square in Cleveland. She received the 2008 Bishop James S. omas Leadership award from the East Ohio chapter of the 2005 Methodist Federation for Social Action. Maureen Webber and her husband, Dale, [email protected] recently celebrated the first birthday of their first grandchild. Said Maureen: “Ani Eliza- beth is her name, and she is a delight to be- hold!” [email protected]
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NEW INSTRUCTOR OF HOMILETICS Well, so much for that career plan A budding engineer, Patrick Clayborn was pulled in a new direction
Young Patrick Clayborn was poised to whose Church for the Fellowship of All enter a profession many new college grads Peoples in San Francisco pioneered the in- would envy. It was 1998, and he knew his tegration of races and denominations in the dual degree in mathematics and electrical 1940s. engineering from Morehouse College and Georgia Tech would set him up with a “Rev. Clayborn is a marvelous preacher ready-made career. and an exceptional teacher,” said MTSO President Jay Rundell. “ose two things “is was 10 years ago,” Clayborn said aren’t always found in the same person. recently, “and the salaries were, like, 65-70 Patrick has quickly gained a reputation for thousand dollars. I thought I was going to helping students find their own voice in the be on easy street.” But as graduation neared, pulpit.” things got complicated. Clayborn said he has been impressed by While attending college, Clayborn had the students at Methesco. been an active member of Big Bethel AME Church in downtown Atlanta, singing in the “ese are the most prepared students I choir, getting to know leaders of the church “Preaching is really a moment of have encountered,” he said, adding that he and becoming intrigued. transparency if we take the task can envision at least half of the students in seriously” C Clayborn his classes doing doctoral work—not that he Meanwhile, he was surprised by his reac- would steer them toward academia at the tion to what should have been a dream in- expense of other ministry. ternship at NASA’s Stennis Space Center: “I Clayborn earned a Master of Philosophy found myself watching the clock.” degree from Drew eological School, along “I think they could serve both church with Master of Divinity and Master of e- and academy if they chose to do so,” he said. A NASA executive watched Clayborn ology degrees and a certificate in black “I hate when people say you’re either a grinding through his oen-solitary engi- church studies from the Candler School of scholar or a pastor.” neering work and told him, “You Clayborn, who has a flair for the dra- seem more like a matic in the pulpit, isn’t trying to mold people person.” In April of the spring he would graduate from preachers in his image as he teaches homiletics. “And that’s college, Clayborn decided that instead of rolling where the evolu- in dough, he should spend it to go to seminary. “I believe my task is one of discov- tion began,” Clay- ery—to try to discover the authentic born said. “I had a preacher within each student, not to strange sensation force anybody into becoming anyone that I wasn’t supposed to be an engineer.” eology at Emory University. other than authentically who God called them to be,” he said. Encouraged by leaders at Big Bethel, he He taught at Spelman College, New had discovered his gi for preaching. And Brunswick eological Seminary and St. “I tell the introductory class: If who you in April of the spring he would graduate, he James Preparatory School in Newark, N.J., are in the moment of the sermon is different decided that instead of rolling in dough, he before being appointed to Methesco’s faculty than who you are when you’re outside of the would be spending it to go to seminary. prior to the fall semester. pulpit, you may want to be very cautious.” “at’s when the bills began to be in- He’s currently pursuing his Ph.D. in litur- “Preaching is really a moment of trans- curred,” he said, chuckling. “No scholarships gical studies at Drew. His dissertation topic parency if we take the task seriously,” he said. for late arrivals to seminary.” is the preaching of Dr. Howard urman, “ere will be a glimpse into who we are.” C
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NEW ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS Pondering issues big and small Yvonne Zimmerman contends it’s not just ‘heroic’ questions that define us
Last year, Yvonne Zimmerman was Apparently. Following extensive working toward the completion of her Ph.D. interviews on campus, Zimmerman through the joint program in Religious and was chosen for the position and has eological Studies at the Iliff School of just completed her first semester as eology and the University of Denver. Her Methesco’s assistant professor of dissertation explored the ethical issues sur- Christian ethics. rounding human trafficking, and she planned to interview for positions teaching “Aer several years of having two ethics. But she wasn’t sure what kind of ethicists on our faculty, we were school would be the best fit for her work. faced last year with the challenge of finding one person to teach in this “My training is more interdisciplinary important area,” said Rundell. “In than that of a classically trained Christian Dr. Zimmerman, we found someone ethicist,” Zimmerman explained. “It’s a bit with the both the breadth of aca- broader than many ethics programs.” demic interests and the intellectual Bringing “a different perspective” to depth needed for this position. She Christian ethics C Zimmerman In the fall of 2007, she attended the has proven to be a great asset to stu- American Academy of Religion’s annual dents preparing to connect their spir- meeting, where she had several interviews itual lives and Christian vocation rather than the big dramatic moment.” lined up. At one of the many receptions that with the important moral and ethical issues week, she ran into Cathie Kelsey, dean of the of the tradition and of our day.” She finds that view jibes with what many chapel at Iliff. of her students are seeking. Rather than “the Zimmerman, who earned a Master of big ones like the morality of war,” she said, “Cathie sort of grabbed my arm as I was eological Studies degree from the Candler “they’re far more concerned with the practi- walking in and said, ‘ere’s someone I want School of eology at Emory University be- cal aspects, like: How do we do this in you to meet. is is Jay Rundell, the presi- fore studying in Denver, taught at the Uni- church? How do we get our congregations dent of Methodist eological School in versity of Denver and the University of thinking about ethics in new and interesting Ohio.’” Zimmerman and Rundell chatted Colorado at Colorado Springs before com- ways?” about an ethics opening at MTSO. He gave her his Zimmerman is pleased to see her broader card and invited her to give approach to Christian ethics accepted at him a curriculum vitae. “My training is more interdisciplinary MTSO. than that of a classically trained “My thought immedi- Christian ethicist,” Zimmerman said. “I do it not to make the world a more ately was that that was his Christian place but to make the world a kind way of saying, ‘We’re more just place,” she said. “And frankly, not really interested in whether or not that is a more Christian you,’” she recalled. “But an hour or so later, I ing to Methesco. She tries to bring “a bit of a place is more a second-order question for was gathering my things to leave, and he different perspective to what it means to do me.” came over to me and said, ‘Don’t forget your Christian ethics.” CV. I really want that from you.’” “I hold that view as a Christian because I “One of the things that I try to remind believe that making the world a just place Before she le the conference, Zimmer- students in the classroom is that they’re not makes more room for all religious practices, man had interviewed with Rundell and just doing Christian ethics when they’re including Christian practices.” MTSO’s small search committee. making great big giant decisions. ose are the heroic moments. But we do ethics all the “It’s not every institution and certainly “e interview apparently went well,” she time in the more mundane stuff of life—and not every seminary that would welcome a said. that’s actually the more important thing, voice like that.” C
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Faculty activities Beyond the classroom| 2007-2008
Stephen Judith Craig “Mary’s Risky Pregnancy: Betrothal Birth and Shame in First Century Galilee,” St. An- Visiting Professor of Ahearne-Kroll drew’s Presbyterian Church, Dec. 2, 2008. Church Leadership Assistant Professor of and Bishop in New Testament Residence John Kampen Academic Dean and Publications Church and popular lectures Professor of New e Psalms of Lament in Mark’s Passion: Lectures on the contemporary reality for Testament Jesus’ Davidic Suffering. Cambridge: Cam- Palestinians, given in Jerusalem in January bridge University Press, 2007. 2008, to persons from East and West Ohio taking the usual Holy Land Tour. Academic lectures and presentations Publications “Audience Exclusion as Rhetorical Tech- Methodist Federation for Social Action in “Hasidim.” e New Interpreter’s Dictionary nique in the Gospel of Mark,” International Detroit Annual Conference, May 15, 2008. of the Bible. Nashville: Abingdon, 2007. 2: Society of Biblical Literature, Vienna, Aus- 739-40. tria, July 24, 2007. Commencement address at MTSO, May 17, 2008. Academic lectures and presentations Panelist responding to Fernando Segovia, “Jesus, Wisdom and Matthew’s Place Within Williams Institute, Methodist eological Judaism,” Matthew Section, Society of Bibli- School in Ohio, April 3, 2008. Lee Johnson cal Literature Annual Meeting, Nov. 17, Reviews Associate Professor of 2007. New Testament in the Review of Stephen C. Barton, ed., e Cam- “e Sectarian Origins of an Authoritative Riley Chair of Biblical bridge Companion to the Gospels. Horizons Text: e Gospel of Matthew,” Believers Interpretation in Biblical eology 29 (2007): 248-249. Church Conference, Winnipeg, June 13, Church and popular lectures 2008. Reviews “Why Jesus Died, According to the Gospel “e Changing Face of the Study of the Review of omas A. Robinson, Mastering of Mark,” Worthington Presbyterian Qumran Texts,” Association of Jewish Li- New Testament Greek: Essential Tools for Church, Oct. 10, 2007. brarians, Cleveland, June 23, 2008. Students. Biblical eology Bulletin 38:1 “e Bible,” St. omas More Newman (2008): 47-48. Church and popular lectures Center, Ohio State University, Oct. 28, 2007. “Courting the Wrong Woman,” Sermon, Review of Craig S. Keener, 1-2 Corinthians. Cincinnati Mennonite Fellowship, Oct. 21, “Eschatology,” St. omas More Newman Religious Studies Review 33/2 (April 2007): 2008. Center, e Ohio State University, January 157. 2008. Review of Bruce J. Malina and John J. Pilch, Led discussion on e Reluctant Parting at Social-Science Commentary on the Letters of Paul Kim Beth Tikva, Worthington, OH, March 16. Paul. Biblical eology Bulletin 37:2 (2007): Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible in the “e Apocrypha,” St. John’s Evangelical 82-83. Williams Chair of Protestant Church, UCC, Columbus, OH, Church and popular lectures Biblical Studies April 13 and 20, 2008. “Introduction to the Gospel According to “What Didn’t Make the Cut: Apocrypha, Matthew,” Chicago Temple UMC Adult Publications Gnostic Gospels and More,” Covenant Pres- Class, Nov. 4, 2007. “Jonah Read Intertextually,” Journal of Bibli- byterian Church, Upper Arlington, OH, “Lenten and Easter Lectionary Study Work- cal Literature 126 (2007): 497-528. April 27, 2008. shop,” Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Jan. 25, 2008. “Tsunami, Hurricane, and Jeremiah 4:23-28,”
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Biblical eology Bulletin 37 (2007): 54-61. Academic lectures and presentations “e Great Divide: Preaching Justification,” Panelist, “e Future of Our Journey: Issues Schooler Institute on Preaching Workshop, “Acacia." e New Interpreter’s Dictionary of in Ecumenism: A Perspective from the MTSO, Oct. 15, 2007. the Bible. Ed. Katharine Doob Sakenfeld. World Council of Churches,” at 50th An- Nashville: Abingdon, 2007. 1: 28. MTSO liaison for “Will You Hear Me Now? niversary Conference, “On Being Christian A Day of Christian Conversation about Ho- Academic lectures and presentations Together: e Faith and Order Experience mosexuality and the Church,” Oct. 12, 2007. “Abraham the Insider and the Outsider,” In- in the United States,” held by the National ternational Society of Biblical Literature, Vi- Council of Churches, Oberlin, Ohio, July 22, New Members’ Class, Church of the Mes- enna, Austria, July 24, 2007. 2007. siah, Westerville, Oct. 25, 2007, Feb. 19 and April 12, 2008. Awards and appointments “Being Happy in God: Implications for the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst/ Nature and Mission of the Church,” System- “e Church: Global and Local,” North German Academic Exchange Service atic eology Working Group, 12th Oxford Broadway United Methodist Church, (DAAD) Faculty Research Visit Grant recip- Institute of Methodist eological Studies, Columbus, Jan. 20, 2008. ient (Sept. 1 – Nov. 30, 2007). Aug. 13, 2007. “John Wesley and the Kingdom of God,” Church and popular lectures Panelist for “Methodist, Lutheran, and Church of the Messiah, Westerville, March “A Community of Faith,” Goettingen Korean Catholic Agreement on Justification,” Wes- 16, 2008. Church, Goettingen, Germany, Feb. 24, leyan Studies Group of the American Acad- 2008. emy of Religion, Nov. 18, 2007. “Palm Sunday Message” Chung Woon “Being One in Christ,” presented in a con- Vergel Church, Seoul, Korea, March 16, 2008. ference “Albert Outler and the Wesleyan Lattimore Spirit,” held at Perkins School of eology, Professor of Pastoral Lectures on Isaiah and Exegetical Methods Southern Methodist University, Jan. 30, Care and Counseling at Presbyterian College & eological Semi- 2008. nary, Seoul, Korea, March 17-19, 2008. in the Beeghly Chair Panelist responding to Fernando Segovia, of Pastoral Care “Inner-biblical Exegesis on the Call Narra- Williams Institute, Methodist eological Church and popular lectures tives of Isaiah and Jeremiah” School of e- School in Ohio, April 3, 2008. ology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Keynote speech – “Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.: A Germany, July 4, 2008. Reviews Witness to God’s Reciprocity and the “Dramatic Enactment of Christian Faith,” Physics of Love,” Ohio Wesleyan University Asbury eological Journal, 62:1 (Spring Chapel Observance, Delaware, Jan. 23, 2008. 2007): 119-26. Review essay, includes re- Sarah “Challenges to Future African American In- views of e Drama of Scripture: Finding ventors,” Columbus Africentric Early Col- Lancaster Our Place in the Biblical Story, by Craig G. lege Elementary, Columbus, Feb. 4, 2008. Professor in the Bartholomew and Michael W. Goheen; e- Werner Chair of ology and the Drama of History, Cambridge “Signs and Symptoms of Addiction: Per- Theology Studies in Christian Doctrine series, by Ben sonal and Professional,” Invited presenta- Quash; e Drama of Doctrine: A Canoni- tion, Ohio Association for Justice Annual cal-Linguistic Approach to Christian eol- Convention, Columbus, May 9, 2008. Publications ogy, by Kevin J. Vanhoozer. “Authority and Narrative.” Pages 81-89 in “Human Darkness and God’s Light,” sermon Engaging Biblical Authority: Perspectives on Review of Man of One Book? John Wesley’s for First AME Zion Church, Columbus, Feb. the Bible As Scripture. Edited by William Interpretation and Use of the Bible, by Don- 17, 2008. Brown. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, ald A. Bullen. Methodist History 46:3 (April 2007. 2008): 189-90. “Amos 5:24, Let Justice Roll Down Like Wa- ters,” Bible Studies Presenter, Ministries in “Ecclesiology and Ministry in the Methodist Awards and appointments Christian Education, A.M.E. Church, Church (1939-1968),” Methodist History Elected North American Secretary for the Columbus, April 25, 2008. 46:3 (April 2008): 156-66. 13th Oxford Institute of Methodist eolog- ical Studies, Aug. 20, 2008. “Knowledge and Vital Piety,”“Prevenient Grace,”and “Stewardship,” A Year with John Church and popular lectures Wesley and Our Methodist Values, Disciple- “Membership in the Wesleyan Tradition,” ship Resources, 2008. Pp. 43-44, 47-48, 55-56. Church of the Messiah, June 24 and 30, 2007. continues ¡
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from previous page “Spiritual Memoir,” talk series, St. John’s Paul Numrich Church, Worthington, Ohio, March 2007. Associate Professor in “Writing Your Spiritual Memoir,” retreat, the Snowden Chair for Linda Light on the Hill Retreat Center, Van Ettan, the Study of Religion; Mercadante N.Y., April 2007. Associate Professor of World Religions and Professor of Theology “Bloomfield Avenue,” Covenant Presbyte- Inter-Religious in the Straker Chair of rian Church Adult Forum, April 2007. Relations for the Theological Historical Theology “Meet the Author,” Upper Arlington Public Consortium of Greater Columbus Library, May 2007. Publications Academic lectures and presentations With Fred Kniss. Sacred Assemblies and “Christology,” Workgroup on Constructive “Growing Up Jewish-Catholic,” Sons of Italy Columbus Chapter, June 2007. Civic Engagement: How Religion Matters for eology, Nashville, Tenn., April 2007. America’s Newest Immigrants. New “eology in Memoir Writing,” Center of “eological Aspects of Addiction and Re- Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007. eological Inquiry, October 2007. covery,” report to Bishops of the North Cen- tral Jurisdiction, September 2007. With Gurinder Singh Mann and Raymond “Kawaida Towers and Ethnic Tension in B. Williams. Buddhists, Hindus and Sikhs in Newark, NJ,” Rutgers University Center on “A Newark Girl Returns: Readings from America: A Short History. New York: Oxford Culture and Ethnicity, Conference on Bloomfield Avenue: A Jewish-Catholic Jersey University Press, 2007. Newark Riots Aermath, October 2007. Girl’s Spiritual Journey,” at the Newark Pub- lic Library, October 2007. “A Topical Overview of Selected English Re- “Victimization and Christology,” Pittsburgh sources on Islam,” Journal of Religious and eological Seminary, November 2007. “Finding the Grace on My Journey: Spiritual eological Information 7, 2 (2005): 11-28 Memoir,” Columbus Mennonite Church (actual publication date: July 2007) “SBNR Research Report,” University of Col- Winter Seminar, February 2008. orado at Boulder, Interview Research Meth- Academic lectures and presentations ods with Professor Stewart Hoover, March “Meet the Authors: Literature Responding Presentation to Loyola University Chicago 2008. to a Changing World—Linda Mercadante’s Sociology Department colloquy, Sept. 14, Bloomfield Avenue: A Jewish-Catholic Jersey 2007. “Christian eology—Buddhist eology,” Girl’s Spiritual Journey,” Erdman Center at Naropa University, Senior Seminar, March Princeton eological Seminary, April 2008. Co-authored proposal (with wife), entitled 2008. “Religious/Spiritual CAM in the Foreign- Sermon: “Death and Resurrection,” at First Born Population of the United States,” First Progress Report on “Women Matter” to United Methodist Church, Boulder, Colo., Annual Meeting of the Society for Spiritual- Princeton University Women Faculty and March 2008. ity, eology, and Health at Duke Univer- Staff, sponsored by dean of religious life, sity, June 25-27, 2008. April 2008. “Mixed Faith Backgrounds,” adult educa- tion, First United Methodist Church, Boul- Reviews Reviews der, Colo., February 2008. Review of Paul O. Ingram, Wrestling with Review of Reframing eology and Film: God. Trinity Seminary Review 28, 2 (Sum- “Learning from Others’ Spiritual Memoirs,” New Focus for an Emerging Discipline, in Re- mer/Fall 2007): 132-133. views in Religion & eology, Wiley-Black- adult education, First United Church, Boul- well, July 2008. der, Colo., March 2008. Church and popular lectures Keynote address, Committee on Interchurch “How to Map Your Spiritual Journey and Awards and appointments Relations luncheon, Church of the Brethren Find Grace,” retreat at First United Church, Association of eological Schools Research Annual Conference, July 3, 2007. Grant, 2007-2008. Boulder, Colo., April 2008. Presentation on Buddhism in America to “What Can We Learn from the Spiritual but eologian-in-Residence, First United Delaware Cosmopolitan Club, Sept. 10, not Religious?” evening forum, First United Church, Boulder, Colo., winter 2008. 2007. Methodist Church, Boulder, Colo., April Church and popular lectures 2008. Panelist at interfaith dinner, Brecksville, “Author Speaks: Writing Spiritual Memoir,” Ohio, Sept. 22, 2007. Barnes & Noble Easton, Easton Town Cen- Seminar on “Faith and Film,” First United ter, Columbus, February 2007. Church, Boulder, Colo., May 2008. Guest lecturer on eravada Buddhism in
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the US, Bright Dawn Institute, Chicago class to Multicultural Awareness in Pastoral Joon-Sik Park (via conference call), Oct. 21, 2007. Care.” Lectured presented at Ohio State Professor in the Jones University Medical Center in celebration of Chair of World Presentation on Abrahamic Faiths, Wor- Pastoral Care Week, Department of Pastoral Evangelism thington Presbyterian Church, Nov. 4, 2007. Care and Clinical Pastoral Education. Oct. Two-part series on religiously competent 22, 2007. health care for Riverside Methodist Hospi- Church and popular lectures Publications tal’s ethics committee, Nov. 8 and Dec. 13, Eucharist Celebrant (in Swahili), Multicul- Missional Ecclesiologies in Creative Tension: 2007. tural Worship Service, Capitol Area North H. Richard Niebuhr and John H. Yoder. New District , e United Methodist Church, Keynote speech at Scioto Educational Foun- York: Peter Lang, 2007. dation’s Annual Community Fellowship Columbus, Ohio. Oct. 7, 2007. “Minjung eology.” Dictionary of Mission Dinner, Columbus, Jan. 10, 2008. “To Pray Always and Work to Make ings eology. Edited by John Corrie, 229-31. Fair for Every Child.” Presentation for the Four Sunday series on Abrahamic Faiths, Nottingham, U.K.: InterVarsity Press, 2007. Covenant Presbyterian Church, Upper Ar- celebration of the National Observance of lington, Jan. 13 and 27, Feb. 3 and 24, 2008. Children’s Sabbath at Asbury North United Academic lectures and presentations Methodist Church. Oct. 21, 2007. “e Gospel and the Practice of Hospitality,” Keynote lecture for Religious Emphasis Lausanne eology Working Group, Chiang (With Randy Litchfield) “Staying Centered Week, Wilmington College, Feb. 21, 2008. Mai, ailand, Feb. 10-16. in Chaotic Times.” Workshop in the Spiri- Presented to United Church of Christ tuality and Leadership Workshop Series Church and popular lectures Equipping the Saints conference, March 1, sponsored by OhioHealth and Methodist “Small Group Ministry,” Workshop pre- 2008. eological School in Ohio, Riverside sented at Amen Korean Methodist Church, Presented twice to medical directors, River- Methodist Hospital, March 26, 2008. Seoul, South Korea, June 19, 2007. side Methodist Hospital, March 26 and 28, Lenten Bible Study, Asbury North United “Why Mission?” Workshop presented at 2008. Methodist Church, Lent 2008. First Presbyterian Church of Delaware, Delaware, OH, Sept. 9, 2007. Taught adult class and preached, Trinity “Nurturing Healthy Family Relationships: UCC, ornville, OH, March 30, 2008. e Importance of Renewing/Developing “From Maintenance to Mission,” Workshop Trust and Trustworthiness,” Revival Mis- presented at Trinity United Methodist sions International, Columbus, Ohio, May Church, Columbus, OH, May 25, 2008. 10, 2008. Fulgence “e Wilderness Experience,” Sermon, Re- Nyengele vival Missions International, Columbus, David Powell Professor of Pastoral Ohio, May 11, 2008. Assistant Librarian Care and Counseling “Rooted and Grounded in Love,” Sermon in the Chryst Chair in for the graduation celebration service of Pastoral Theology Rev. Dr. Gregory Herndon for achieving his Publications Doctor of Ministry degree, Asbury North “General Conference Must Prioritize Global United Methodist Church, May 25, 2008. Publications UMC,” e United Methodist Newscope, 36:5 (With Randy Litchfield) “Authentic Living “Hearing It Again for the First Time,” Amer- (April 18, 2008). and Leadership.” Workshop in the Spiritual- ican Libraries, December 2008. Academic lectures and presentations ity and Leadership Workshop Series spon- Reviews “Caring for Our Stories: Understanding Ad- sored by OhioHealth and Methodist Review of Dictionary of Major Biblical Inter- dictive Behaviors in Pastoral Ministry.” eological School in Ohio, Riverside preters in eological Librarianship, June Presentation at the meeting of the North Methodist Hospital, June 26, 2008. 2008. Central Jurisdiction College of Bishops of e United Methodist Church, Sept. 25, 2007.
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from previous page Contributing writer, Living Into the Mystery: Lisa Withrow A United Methodist Guide for Celebrating Associate Professor in Holy Communion. Nashville: Upper Room, Timothy Van the Dewire Chair of 2007. Meter Christian Leadership Academic lectures and presentations Assistant Professor in “Hymn Texts in Evangelical Lutheran Wor- the Alford Chair of ship: An Introduction,” North American Christian Education Academy of Liturgy, Jan. 4-5, 2007, Toronto. Publications and Youth Ministry “Church for the Future,” Circuit Rider (Sep- “’Jesus, united by thy grace’: Wesleyan Academic lectures and presentations tember/October 2007): 9. Hymn Singing as a Communal Spiritual “Youth Travel in an Age of Empire: Mission, Practice,” e Hymn Society of the United “Success and the Prosperity Gospel: From Service, Pilgrimage.” Paper presented at States and Canada, July 17 and 18, 2007, Ot- Commodification to Transformation—a IASYM in Cambridge UK, January 2007. tawa. Wesleyan Perspective,” Journal of eology Church and popular lectures (2007): 15-42. “e Church of Christ in Every Age,” Wor- “Choosing a new youth minister,” Asbury ship and Spirituality Seminar, 12th Oxford Academic lectures and presentations United Methodist Church, Delaware, OH, Institute of Methodist eological Studies, “Success and the Prosperity Gospel: From June 1, 2008. Aug. 12-21, 2007. Commodification to Transformation—a “e End of Youth Ministry,” District 4 Wesleyan Perspective,” Ethics, Globalization “’Jesus, united by thy grace’: Wesleyan Men’s day for Disciples (Christian Church),” and Economics working group, 12th Oxford Hymn Singing as a Communal Spiritual (Bolindale Christian Church), May 4, 2008. Institute of Methodist eological Studies, Practice,” Church Music Symposium, Mt. Aug. 12-21, 2007. Union College, Oct. 27, 2007 “Change: Implications for Curricular Peda- “Defining the Leitmotifs of Music of the gogy in Religious Leadership,” Academy of Robin Knowles Heart,” Liturgical Language Working Group, Religious Leadership, April 2008. Wallace North American Academy of Liturgy, An- nual Meeting, Savannah, Jan. 2-5, 2008. Church and popular lectures Professor in the Taylor “DIALOG: Civil Discourse about Contro- Chair of Church Contributing writer, “Living Into the Mys- versial Topics.” Sept/Oct 2007 (5-week ecu- Worship and Music tery: A United Methodist Guide for Cele- menical seminar led in northeastern Ohio). brating Holy Communion,” available “Change and the Church,” East Ohio Dis- Publications through the GBOD website, beginning No- vember 2007 trict UMW event, Oct. 27, 2007. With Terry R. Heck. Worship in Small Mem- bership Churches. Nashville: Discipleship Reviews “Conflict Transformation,” Greater New Jer- Resources, 2007. Review of Joyce D. Sohl, Sing the Wondrous sey Annual Conference, Cape Atlantic Dis- Love of Jesus: Women Hymn Writers and trict, March 2008 and Palisades District, “Hymns as a Resource for the Language of eir Songs. e Hymn 58:1 (Winter 2007): May 2008. C Worship,” e Hymn 58:3 (Summer 2007), 55. 33-37. Awards and appointments “Singing Charles Wesley 300 Years aer his Awarded Lilly eological Scholars Grant, birth,” a series in Worship Arts: “Picking a 2007, Music of the Heart: Congregational Tune for a Nativity Hymn,” 53:1 (Septem- Singing as a Means of Grace. ber-October 2007), 8-9; “All Saints and Ad- vent,” 52:6 (July-August 2007), 10; “His Church and popular lectures Communion Hymns in e United Keynoter, “Jubilate! 2007! Re-Imagining Methodist Hymnal & e Faith We Sing,” Worship,” Pacific-Northwest Fellowship 52:5 (May-June 2007), 10; “Hymns on Chapter of e Fellowship of United Christian Community,” 53:2 (November- Methodists in Music and Worship Arts, December 2007), 10-11. Spokane, July 23-28. “Hymn Singing in an Age of Violence & Spiri- Preached at Highwater United Church of tual Hunger,” Journal of eology (2007): 45-52. Christ, Newark, Ohio, April 13, 2008.
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REPORT TO DONORS Financial information Methodist Theological School in Ohio had $6,560,581 in revenues in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, with expendi- tures of $6,556,065. Below is a breakdown of those numbers. If you have questions about this information, please feel free to contact our business office at 740-363-1146.
Operating budget for Fiscal Year 2007-2008
Revenues Expenditures MTSO relied primarily on three sources of income: student tu- Compensation of faculty and staff accounted for 52.3 percent of ition and fees (34.1 percent of total revenues), endowment earnings the MTSO operating budget, followed by financial aid (17.0 per- (23.2 percent) and the Ministerial Education Fund of the United cent) and auxiliary enterprises, which consists of programs such as Methodist Church (17.4 percent). Combined gi revenue ac- the Course of Study School of Ohio and services such as the Dunn counted for 10.6 percent of total revenues. Dining Hall (11.7 percent).
Revenues Percent of total Expenditures Percent of total I Tuition and fees $2,238,081 34.1% I Compensation $3,427,443 52.3% I Federal work study $40,027 0.6% I Financial aid $1,113,367 17.0% I Auxiliary $920,923 14.0% I Auxiliary enterprises $765,672 11.7% I Ministerial Education Fund $1,144,695 17.4% I Plant maintenance $422,882 6.5% I Endowment $1,523,240 23.2% I General administration $234,314 3.6% I Restricted gis $362,955 5.5% I Business administration $79,178 1.2% I Methesco Fund gis $283,211 4.3% I Institutional advancement $75,924 1.2% I Student aid gis $47,449 0.7% I Information systems $150,790 2.3% I Instruction $86,216 1.3% Total revenues $6,560,581 100% I Academic support $162,070 2.5% I Enrollment $38,209 0.6%
Total expenditures $6,556,065 100%
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from previous page Duane and Muriel Slade Jeanette Tangeman Mary Lu and Rodney Warstler Joseph and Agatha Reiserer Tom and Lysbeth Smailes Linda Taylor Nelson Washington Dawn Lee and Timothy Remster Duane and Kay Smith Teen Start Program Evelyn Weaver Charles and Ruth Ann Richards Thomas Smoot Annette Terzieff-Murray David and June Weimer Judith Riczinger Joseph and Laura Sopher Richard and Diane Tettau June Westgate Lenevia and Richard Robinson Alan and Amy Spencer Terry and Linda Thompson Windell Wheeler Charles and Betty Rodgers Barbara Starling Lynn and Janice Thursby Josephine Whitely-Fields and Lawrence and Sherrie Rogers Harold and Jennifer Steindam Linda and Michael Todd Frederick Fields J. P. and Nancy Ross Charles and Patricia Stenner John and Arlyss Tombarge Thomas and Edwina Wilber William and Barbara Rueger Blair and Carol Stewart Carol and John Topping Walter and Cheryl Willey Peter and Debbie Ruehlman Doris Stewart Elizabeth Tracy Sharon and Donald Wilson Saundra and Smith Runyan James and Jeanette Stiles Angela Treiterer Robert and Denise Wilson Robert and Kathryn Russell Harold and Norma Stockman Therese Treiterer Don and Marge Wolford David and Rosemary Sageser Elizabeth and Russell Stone Frances Truitt and Robert Katherine Wright Larry Sarbaugh Karen and J. Steven Stoner Bonthius Janis Wright Meyers and Paul Carolyn and Harry Scott Brian and Kathleen Straub Jonathan Van Dop Meyers Norma Seaman Elaine and David Sturtz James and Bertha VanBrimmer Theodore and June Yewey Mary and John Seymour Richard and Shirley Suddendorf Edwin and Peggy Vance Dae-Sob and Moon Kyung Yoon Michael and Margaret Shade Walter and Pauline Sunden Miriam Vance Allan and Roberta Zagray Robert and Jane Shaffer Kristin Sundt Jan Vest Robert and Marjorie Zinsmeister C Louis and Marguerite Sharp Richard and Carol Sutton Michael Vitantonio Jack and Mabel Zinsmeister Fred and Nancy Shaw Larry Swaisgood Robert and Floredda Wagner Sherryl and Charles Sheets Johnnie and John Swann Kristopher Wahlers and Family Doris Shover Douglas Sweet Robin Knowles Wallace and Inez Sisley Kimberly and James Tallent John Wallace
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FROM THE PRESIDENT STUDENTS On finances, accreditation and the dean ...... 1 Two students who model the beatitudes ...... 10
CAMPUS REPORT ALUMNI Meet Trustees Chair Maggie Jackson ...... 3 An award-winning book about a pastor’s dog . . . . .12 ank you A new emergency alert system ...... 4 Alumnews ...... 14
Board of Trustees roster ...... 4 FACULTY HAPPENINGS Rev. Patrick Clayborn on teaching preaching ...... 16 We at Methesco express our gratitude to all donors who have Mount Award recipients ...... 5 Dr. Yvonne Zimmerman on teaching ethics ...... 17 given so generously this year. Thanks to your consistent support, Fall events recap ...... 6 Faculty activities ...... 18 those in the next generation of Christian leaders are learning how
Upcoming campus events ...... 7 REPORT TO DONORS much they can matter. COMMUNITY Financial information ...... 23 We invite you to visit www.mtso.edu/development Sarah Lancaster’s hard road to celebrity ...... 8 DonorHonorRoll ...... 24 Explore our comprehensive planned-giving resources, learn about the latest tools for donors or make a gift online. THE STORY cate programs in MAGAZINE AND ANNUAL REPORT Basic Theological Ed- ucation, United Volume XLVII C Winter 08/09 Methodist Deacon Studies, and the Ad- A publication of Methodist vanced Course of Theological School in Ohio Study in the United 3081 Columbus Pike Methodist Church. Delaware, Ohio 43015 MTSO is accredited 740-363-1146 by the Association of www.mtso.edu Theological Schools in the United States and Canada and the A Methesco Church Administration class meets in 1961 Higher Learning Commission of the President: Rev. Jay Rundell North Central Asso- Founded in 1958, Methodist Theological ciation of Colleges and Schools. Its de- Academic Dean: Dr. John Kampen School in Ohio is one of 13 seminaries Editor: Danny Russell gree programs are authorized by the formally affiliated with and funded in Ohio Board of Regents and approved by Design: Jeffery Smith, DesignSmith part by the United Methodist Church. Lo- Printer: e Watkins Printing Company the University Senate of The United cated on a 72-acre campus in Central Methodist Church. Ohio, MTSO offers five graduate degree On the cover: Detail of stained glass in the programs: Master of Divinity, Master of We welcome your comments and sug- south window at the entrance to the Burgett Chapel Classroom in Gault Hall Arts in Christian Education, Master of gestions. Please send them to Arts in Counseling Ministries, Master of [email protected], or Danny Russell, Printed on paper manufactured from 100 Theological Studies and Doctor of Min- MTSO, 3081 Columbus Pike, Delaware, percent post-consumer waste fiber. istry. It also offers graduate-level certifi- Ohio 43015.
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