Celebration of Life for
MR. RODNEY TERRELL
(Ms. Dallas T. Terrell's Son)
WILL BE HELD ON FRIDAY, JULY 30, 2010 AT 12:00 NOON
AT
CASCADE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
3144 CASCADE ROAD, SW
ATLANTA, GEORGI A 30311
CONDONLENCES MAY BE SENT TO:
MS. DALLAS T. TERRELL, 2888 DEMOONEY ROAD, COLLEGE PARK, GA 30349
AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
"THE STRONG BLACK WOMAN A GENTLE FORCE FOR GOD"
AUGUST 5 -7, 2010
LAKE JUNALUSKA CONFERENCE & RETREAT CENTER
THE GAMMON BOARD OF TRUSTEES ARE ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS AND RECOMMENDATION FOR THE POSITION OF PRESIDENT, GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY BEGINNING JUNE 15, 2010.
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PRESIDENT, GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
REGISTER FOR THE
SCHOOL OF CONGREGATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
THURSDAY, JULY 29, 2010 TO MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 2010
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
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BLACK CLERGYWOMEN'S CONFERENCE
'RESTORING JOY'
SEPTEMBER 6-8, 2010
SHERATON MUSIC CITY HOTEL, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
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REGISTRATION $200.00
GAMMON ALUMNUS
VICTOR CYRUS- FRANKLIN, JR.
New Staff Member at the General Commission on Religion And Race of the UMC
Victor Cyrus Franklin will be the new Advocacy Coordinator responsible for advocacy campaigns related to immigration, global health, poverty and inclusiveness at General and Jurisdictional conference. Victor received his Master of Divinity degree from Gammon Theological Seminary. He has worked for the Southeast Regional Office of The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and is a member of the Interfaith Children's Movement. Victor will began his tenure on May 3rd.
GAMMON ALUMNA
REV. SHARMA LEWIS, APPOINTED DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT IN THE NORTH GEORGIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE BY BISHOP MICHAEL WATSON!
Rev. Lewis, senior pastor of Wesley Chapel UMC in McDonough, GA was fullfilling a legacy of being in the ministry that her family has been blessed and served in over the years. 14 members of her family have answered the call into ministry.
Rev. Lewis will be serving the Atlanta-Decatur-Oxford District. She will begin her duties on July 1, 2010.
Lewis was ordained as a Deacon in 1999 and an Elder in 2002. Previous appointments include a cross-racial appointment as a senior pastor of Powers Ferry UMc fromm 2004-07, and associate pastor of Ben Hill UMC from 1999-2004. Rev. Lewis is a native of Statesboro, GA.
Rev. Lewis received her Master of Divinity degree from Gammon Theological Seminary.
THE JAMES K. DAVIS COMPUTER CENTER
DEDICATION
FOR GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY SEMINARIANS
WAS HELD ON MARCH 9, 2010 IN THE WILLIS J. KING APARTMENT COMPLEX, 80 WALNUT STREET, SW IN MEMORY OF FORMER BOARD OF TRUSTEE MEMBER MR. JAMES K. DAVIS, RETIRED SENIOR EXECUTIVE WITH THE GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
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Mr. James K. Davis
served on the Gammon Theological Seminary Board of Trustees for over 20 years and was retired from Georgia Power Company as Senior Vice-President of Employee and Corporate Relations. He was a committed servant to the church and community.
DIRECTOR/CAMPUS MINISTER
TUSKEGEE WESLEY FOUNDATION
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
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JOB OPENING
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BOYNE FALL, MICHIGAN 49713
OR CONTACT: VAUGHN D. MAATMAN,
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
POSITION: PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST
REV. CANDACE LEWIS, NEWEST MEMBER TO JOIN PATH I CONGREGATION DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM!
Rev. Candace Lewis, Gammon Alumna and a Florida Conference pastor has joined a nationwide effort to recruti and support 1,000 people who will launch 650 new United Methoidst congregations by the end of 2012.
The Rev. Candance Lewis, founding pastor of New Life Community United Methodist Church in Jacksonville, Florida has relocated to Nashville, TN to join the staff of Path 1 as a new church strategist. She will be developing strategies to launch new African-American churches and a national prayer network to encourage and recruit countless people to pray for new church starts.
Path 1 is a response to the denomination's new church development goal "New Places for New People" -- one of of the 2008 General Conference's four key areas of focus for the next quadrennium. The other three areas are developing principled Christian Leaders, engaging in ministry with the poor, and fighting diseases of poverty, such as malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.
The name of the new church emphasis grew out of the first of The United Methodist Council of Bishops's seven "Vision Pathways" for the future of the denomination and relates to the words of John the Baptist in the Gospels. It's goal is to support annual conferences in giving both clergy and laity the means to plant new congregations in strategically targeted regions of the country.
Lewis said building a prayer network will be a major focus of her work. "We really believe that prayer and evangelism are foundations of church planting." she said. "We want to help the denomination get back to its evangelistic roots, and prayer is undergirding the entire church-planting movement. Praying for new church starts is something everybody can do."
Rev. Lewis will also be creating a strategy for planting new African-American churches in annual conferences, building on her 12 years of experience at New Life Community United Methodist Church. She led the launch of the church as her first appointment after graduating from Gammon Theological Seminary.
Lewis and several of her members recently wrote a book about their experiences starting New LIfe Community United Methodist Church as a resource guide for planting African-American churches. Key subject areas of
A New Day, A New Way: Starting, Planting and Revitalizing African-American Churches", include worship, media, community development, administration and finance. The Book is due out in late fall or early spring; proceeds from the book will benefit New Life Community United Methodist Church.
More information is available on Path 1: http://www.path1.org
*Information for this article was taken from the Florida E-Review News Service.
REV. BRIDGETTE D. YOUNG
THE GENERAL BOARD OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND MINISTRY OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH ANNOUNCES REV. BRIDGETTE D. YOUNG, THE NEW ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY FOR CAMPUS MINISTRY!
Rev. Bridgette D. Young will join the staff of the GBHEM on July 6, 2009 in Nashville, Tennessee. This appointment affirms the GBHEM strong commitment to campus ministry and the chaplaincy as integral to the United Methodist Church's mission in higher education.
Rev. Young will have begun her twelfth year in campus ministry/university chaplaincy. She has been serving as Senior Associate Dean of the Chapel and Religious Life at Emory University since 2000 and was the Director and Campus Minister at the Wesley Foundation at Georgia Institute of Technology prior to joining the staff at Emory University. Rev. Young is an ordained elder in the North Georgia Annual Conference. She received her Master of Divinity degree at Gammon Theological Seminary in 1994. She also received the Masters of Business Administration in human resources management from the University of North Carolina, and a Bachelor of Science in business management and marketing from Illinois Institute of Technology. She brings additional leadership and experience through her previous work in pastoring local churches, serving twice as a delegate to General Conference, and holding leadership roles in the North Georgia Annual Conference.
The Assistant General Secretary for Campus Ministsry will oversee the promotion, interpretation, and resourcing of campus ministries and college chaplaincies for The United Methodist Church. Additionally, she will provide staff support to associations of United Methodist campus ministeres and chaplains, technical assistance and consultatie services to annual conference and campus ministry boards, and leadership in the eceumenical arena related to campus ministry. She will also provide leadership to The United Methodist Church in articulating the theological and practical role of campus ministry including interaction with bishops and annual conference leaders as well as others that can assist in promoting the role of campus ministry in The United Methodist Church.
Dr. Jerome King Del Pino is the the General Secretary.
REV. DR. PAMELA LIGHTSEY PROMOTED TO ASSOCIATE VICE-PRESIDENT OF STUDENT AFFAIRS, GARRETT EVANGELICAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey, PhD - Gammon class of 2001 was promoted March 2009 to Associate Vice-President of Student Affairs, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois. Rev. Dr. Lightsey was selected in April by the United Methodist General Board of Higher Education and Ministry to attend the Prospective President's Workshop. Dr. Lightsey has also agreed to serve as an expert witness at what is being called A Truth Commission on Conscience in War, being held in November at the historic Riverside Church in New York City.
REV. MARVIN MOSS
SENIOR PASTOR OF CASCADE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - ATLANTA, GA
Rev. Moss has been selected one of 10 Pastors to be honored during the Gospel Choice Awards Ceremony in September. Pastor Moss will also be a guest on TBN'S Praise The Lord program with host Dr. Zachery Tims on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 from 7:00 pm-9:00 pm. This program will air internationally the same evening at 10:00 pm EST.
DR. BERNICE KIRKLAND RECEIVED DOCTORATE DEGREE
Dr. Bernice Kirkland, Associate Pastor of Cascade United Methodist Church received her doctorate degree in July, 2009 from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. Congratulations to the Rev. Dr. Bernice Kirkland!
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THE GAMMON SINGERS
MS. JOSEFA BETHEA WALL, DAUGHTER OF THE LATE BISHOP JOSEPH AND SHIRLEY BETHEA, HAS PRODUCED IN COOPERATION WITH GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY A CD WITH SEVERAL OF THE MALE ALUMNI WHO SANG AS A GROUP WHEN THEY WERE IN SEMINARY MANY YEARS AGO. THE COMPLETION OF THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN IN THE WORKS FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND HAS FINALLY COME TO FRUITION.
REV. SYLVESTER GILLEPIE (LEAD SINGER) OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, DR. WALTER H. McKLEVEY, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, REV. GEORGE CALVIN, BATON ROUGE, LA, CHAPLAIN ELVERNICE DAVIS, MEMPHIS, TN, AND REV. JOHNSON OF HOLLY SPRINGS, MS COMPRISED THE GROUP THAT RECORDED THE CD. BISHOP ALFRED L. NORRIS OF lOUISIANA WAS INVITED TO SING WITH THE GROUP ON A NUMBER OF OCCASIONS; AND HIS BROTHER REV. LESLIE NORRIS WAS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF THE GROUP, WAS ILL WHEN THE CD WAS RECORDED.
THIS HAS BEEN A LABOR OF LOVE BY MRS. JOSEFA WALL IN CONJUNCTION WITH GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AND SHE EMBARKED ON THIS VENTURE IN ORDER TO RECORD THESE VOICES FOR HISTORY AS WELL AS TO HELP TO RAISE FUNDS FOR GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
THE GAMMON SINGERS HAVE BEEN HEARD IN THE PAST FEW YEARS DURING THE NATIONAL BMCR MEETINGS AT THE GAMMON BREAKFASTS. THEIR HARMONY AND ACCAPELLA STLYE OF SINGING WOULD BE BRING THE HOUSE DOWN WITH HEIR SOUL STIRRING RENDITIONS OF SONGS.
WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL SUPPORT THIS FUND-RAISING EFFORT AND PURCHASE A CD FOR $15.00 FOR YOUR MUSIC COLLECTION.
PLEASE SEND YOUR CHECK OR MONEY ORDER, MADE PAYABLE TO GAMMON SEMINARY TO: MS. MADELYN C. GREENE, ALUMNI AFFAIRS DIRECTOR, GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, P.O. BOX 92426, ATLANTA, GA 30314.
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ANNUAL CONFERENCE CAMPUS VISITS
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ALL CAMPUS VISITS WILL BE HELD IN THE BISHOP L. SCOTT ALLEN CONFERENCE ROOM IN GAMMON HALL, 653 BECKWITH STREET, SW: ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30314
INTERVIEW SIGN-UP SHEETS WILL BE POSTED IN GAMMON HALL. INTERESTED STUDENTS PLEASE SIGN-UP FOR INTERVIEWS!
