In the Meantime
To our dear friends who serve in the ministry of extending the hands and voice of Christ beyond the local church into the world: Grace and peace in the name of Jesus Christ.
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UMEA Visitors Begin Outreach Support
It’s official…the United Methodist Endorsing Agency’s (UMEA) new Volunteer Visitation Program has begun as its twenty-three trained visitors are reaching out to the endorsed community extending pastoral care and support, advocacy and gathering exciting stories of ministry.
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Disasters, Images and God’s Presence
The images of tornadoes, floods, radiation leaks, earthquakes and war are everywhere. We have been inundated with them throughout the past few weeks. When they will end, we do not know.
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Begin Again!
Those are words I often heard in The Coaches Training Institute’s Co-Active Leadership Program and they are also appropriate for us as we start off the new year. Begin again! These words are similar to Jesus’s call to Matthew to “follow me” and the effects of his healing the bleeding woman.
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Eleven Clergy Endorsed by UMEA for the Ministry of Life Coaching
In recognition that Life Coaching is an important new pastoral discipline, the United Methodist Endorsing Agency of the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church has begun to endorse clergy for the Ministry of Life Coaching.
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Coaching: A New Cousin in the Family of Helping Ministries
Pastoral counseling, spiritual direction, and chaplaincy have each played a critical role in helping countless people live healthier, more integrated, and more spiritually grounded lives over the past several decades. However, there is a new cousin in the family of caring ministry.
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UMEA Endorsements for 2008
The 88 people listed here were endorsed in 2008 by the United Methodist Endorsing Agency, Division of Ordained Ministry, General Board of Higher Education and Ministry.
You are encouraged to reach out to them, especially persons who are members of you annual conference. They are listed by the month in which they were endorsed. Each persons’ setting and annual conference are also listed.
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How Interim Ministry Works in The United Methodist Church
In the United Methodist process of appointing pastors, often the successor arrives the very day the departing pastor moves out. No interval of time; no interim pastor is needed.
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A Relentless Hope: Surviving the Storm of Teen Depression
 A Relentless Hope is the personal and professional story of how the pain of teen depression, anxiety and its many related illnesses can kill our teenagers and rob families of their relationships if not properly diagnosed and treated.
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The Military Chaplaincy of the 21st Century: Cui Bono?
The American military chaplaincy at the start of the 21st century is undergoing profound change. In the early 1960’s, “Protestant-Catholic-Jew” accurately described both the Chaplain Corps and the personnel they served. Aside from a small presence of faith groups cryptically labeled, “Other,” mainline Protestant churches shared with Catholic and Jewish counterparts the primary presence and leadership of the Chaplain Corps in proportions roughly comparable to the faith preference of active duty members.
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