Training
helps churches bridge gaps, protect kids |
At the 1999 Annual
Conference event, the Florida Conference is being dared to share Jesus. On April 10,
approximately 40 people from across the conference attended the first Disciple Training
Day and learned how to do just that.
Participants in the half-day training, sponsored by the Conference Council on
Ministries’ Discipleship Ministry office at First United Methodist Church here, could
attend two of eight classes offered. Taught by conference ministers, the classes covered
beginning or improving ministries targeted at various age groups, as well as beginning and
funding after-school programs and reaching new groups in the community. Full Story |
| Florida
church creates safe place on internet for youth |
Camp invites kids to CY?
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The Rev. Phil Miller- Evans, youth
pastor at First United Methodist Church here, recently went into a computer chat room on
America Online (AOL) service. He says within 15 minutes, he received 12 e-mails
advertising pornographic web sites and three from people claiming to be AOL officials
asking for his password.
That experience is one reason Miller-Evans is now doing more than
just surfing the worldwide web. “We wanted to create a place on the ’net for
United Methodist youth groups to gather,” he said, “a safe place in the
internet.”
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“We want them
[youth] to come asking questions,” said Mike Standifer, the Conference Council on
Ministries’ director of Youth Ministry. With that goal in mind, rising fourth-
through 12th- graders will have the opportunity to discover the “whys” of the
Christian faith at the CY? (see why?) Summer Camp 99 program.
“We’ve spent a lot of time telling them what to do, now
we want to answer the question, ‘why bother?’ ” Standifer said.
The curriculum for this year’s summer camp focuses on
helping children and youth understand why the basic story of salvation makes a difference
to them and what their responsibility is within that story, said Carol Sue Hutchinson,
director of the CCOM’s Discipleship Ministry office. Full Story |
Clergy take next step in ministry
“It’s nice to feel
you’re in a whole new place after 19 years,” said Tom Drick, music minister at
Pine Castle United Methodist Church in Orlando.
For nearly two decades Drick has served his Orlando church as its
diaconal minister of music, but at the Dare to Share Jesus 1999 Annual Conference Event,
he will be among 42 people ordained, commissioned or licensed June 5 at the Lakeland
Center. For them, it marks a new beginning and the next step in their call to ministry.
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