UPDATE on Partners:
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Board of Directors
The Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Frank, Chair
The Rev. Dr. Roy G. Almquist
The Rev. Dennis A. Andersen
The Very Rev. John F. Canary
Mary Werner DeNadai, FAIA
Paul W. Edmondson, Esq.
The Rev. Dr. W. Wilson Goode, Sr.
The Rev. Pierce W. Klemmt
Karl A. Komatsu
Corlis Moody
The Rev. Aidan R. Rooney, C.M.
The Rev. R. Scott Sheldon
Monica Taylor
Robert White
Gordon R. Woodrow
Staff
A. Robert Jaeger, Executive Director
Froswa Booker-Drew, Director, Texas Office
Tuomi Joshua Forrest, Associate Director
Working with Candler to
Serve Methodist Churches
PARTNERS CONTINUES ITS INNOVATIVE PROGRAM to integrate
New Dollars/New Partners training into seminary curricula, this
time at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. The
project links, for the first time, students and a denominational
office – the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist
Church; ten students in the Contextual Education II class will work
for a year with eight Atlanta-area United Methodist churches. This
New Dollars/New Partners program is supported by a grant from the
Carpenter Foundation.
During the two-semester course, taught by the Rev. Dr. Philip
Schroeder, Associate Director of Connectional Ministries for
the North Georgia Conference, New Dollars/New Partners training
and resource materials will be used to help seminarians think
theologically about congregational life and ministry. As described
in their course syllabus, students will “discern what God is doing
in, through, and in spite of a particular people in a particular place,
and develop ways to respond as ministers to what God has already
begun” as they coach their congregations through the New Dollars/
New Partners process.
Because seminarians and pastors were anxious to begin work
before the actual training began in November, Dr. Alice Rogers,
Candler’s Director of Contextual Education and staff mentor to
the program, convened an introductory session in September.
Partners’ staff provided an overview of the training and what
it will accomplish, and challenged them to find materials and
information that they will need to work with the Public Value
Tool, which helps a congregation calculate the dollar value of the
resources it provides to outreach programs housed in its building.
Gianfranco Grande, Director of
Development; Director, Chicago Office
Geoffrey Harden, Office Manager
Molly Lester, Grants and Program Director,
Philadelphia Regional Fund
Marie Malloy, Director of Operations
Rana Gidumal McNamara, Associate Director
of Development
Sarah F. Peveler, Senior Trainer
Shelley Sandow, Project Manager,
Chicago Office
Elizabeth Terry, Director of Training
Suzanne Yowell, Administrative Coordinator,
Texas Office
Sacred Places Production
Neeta McCulloch, Editor
Seminary students listen to Sarah Peveler, Partners’ Senior Trainer, describe
the New Dollars/New Partners program.
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