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September 26, 2003
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Conference Table focuses on clergy culture
Who will pastor the pastors? It must be a combination of
pastors themselves, in addition to laity.
That was the consensus from the Sept. 12 Conference
Table meeting at Lake Gibson United Methodist Church in
Lakeland. The gathering focused on the clergy culture and its
impact on the Florida Conference, local churches and clergy
families.
The group of about 160 clergy and laity discussed how
ministry has changed throughout the past 40 years, stresses
pastors face in their ministry, and the changing role of
clergy and laity in today's culture.
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Cost of summer camp rises in 2004
The Conference Council on Ministries (CCOM)
summer camp ministry leaders voluntarily surrendered $100,000
from the ministry's budget when asked to help trim the 2004
CCOM budget at a CCOM meeting last March.
Although $50,000 was returned to the ministry as
scholarship money during the same meeting, leaders decided the
only way to recoup the remaining difference was to increase
the cost of summer camp to $330, about a $69 increase over
last year.
Leaders say the increase will allow summer camp to
operate at its current level, as well as increase wages of 90
summer camp team members for the first time in eight years and
purchase new equipment.
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Connectional Ministries director strives to align resources with
vision
Many responsibilities come with the title
director of Connectional Ministries, but the Rev. Dr. Anne
Burkholder is mainly focusing on two things.
"I have two key responsibilities: being the steward of
the vision for the conference and to be sure it is really and truly
being put out to the public," said Burkholder, who became the new
director at the Florida Annual Conference Event last May.
"I want to align conference resources-energy, money,
people, time-with the conference mission statement," she said. "I
want to get the pieces of the conference to work well together."
One way Burkholder is doing that is by examining new
ways of doing things the conference has done for years.
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Church partners with business to help community
The loss of unsold items at the Panera
Bread restaurant at Jacksonville's Roosevelt Square is the gain of
the community surrounding Avondale United Methodist Church.
Each Monday night church lay leader Bill Hammond picks
up bags of surplus bagels, breads, cookies, muffins and pastries
that did not sell at the close of business and delivers them to a
United Methodist-sponsored day care, another child-care facility and
a neighboring Habitat for Humanity community.
The partnership began after Panera opened April 15,
creating the church's bread ministry.
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Event
inspires youth to reach outside comfort zones
Amy Clampitt-Holsenbeck knew homeless people existed, but she never
really knew their concerns, desires or thoughts until she prayed
with and for them at Trinity United Methodist Church in Atlanta.
Clampitt-Holsenbeck, 17, was one of 30 youth from First
United Methodist Church, Oviedo, who stopped at the Atlanta church
to help with the church's soup kitchen on the way to Youth 2003 at
the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tenn., July 23-27. The
denomination-wide event, held every four years, gave youth the
chance to experience God's love and return to their communities
excited about doing ministry. That's exactly what happened to
Clampitt-Holsenbeck and many of the other youth in her group.
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