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Problem/Opportunity Several members of Tabernacle African Methodist Episcopal Church were identified as veterans and served in various branches of the military. The members have served in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and The National Guard. The veterans have participated in military combat, the reserves, and performed tours of duty across the foreign and domestic soil. Jesus the Christ traveled to several communities, cities, and surrounding areas in teaching the disciples how to become…

defense system was forced to collapse. In the meantime, missionaries also came to China and built churches, hospitals and schools. My home church in Fuzhou was built in this time (1856) by Rev. Robert Samuel Maclay and other missionaries from the Methodist Episcopal Church. Not only our church, almost all the schools and hospitals in my district (similar to the town in the States) were all founded by the missionaries. After the Culture Revolution, government took over all these schools,…

Assessing and assessment reports within the church are a crucial and essential part of creating organization and order within the church administration and staff. You have got to know where you are before you can make a plan toward where you sense God is leading. Without assessments and reporting in the church; acquiring higher quality servant leaders would be difficult to attain. In this active culture of today it’s necessary to have just as much of an active church administration. Robert…

I know humanity to live in a state of brokenness. Article VII of the “Confession of Faith” in our Book of Discipline uses different language to echo this view: “We believe man is fallen from righteousness…” (Book of Discipline ¶104 72). Bishop Scott J. Jones states it this way: “[H]uman beings have a corrupted nature” (Jones 151). My experience in ministry exposes me to this brokenness quite often. Last year, our secretary called me at home to inform me of a young man sleeping on a covered…

of the first Methodist conference, but left after a short period of time. Whitefield preached to thousands, riding from New York to Charleston on horseback. Like Whitefield, Francis Asbury also rode many miles on horseback each year, and preached throughout the colonies. Asbury…

projecting the future of Christianity in the years 2050. For Jenkins writes, since the 1950’s theologians, Christian scholars have seen a large trend / vision of Christianity moving south (Jenkins, 4). Not south as Texas or Oklahoma, but to places of the southern hemisphere, such as Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This is one of the major things that Jenkins addresses in his book “The Next Christendom”. As one ventures into the…

Dr. Patricia Borstoff is an associate professor of Management at Jacksonville State University. She completed her graduate international business studies in Japan, the Czech Republic and Hungary and other various countries. She holds a B.A. summa cum lade from Stanford University, M.A. in history from the University of Albama, MBA from Jacksonville State University and a Ph.D. from Auburn University. Religion plays such a vital role in the principles that people embrace. Over the last few years…

not; so, I became an official member of NFT within a few months of the switch. St. James and NFT are two very separate, distinct churches in a multitude of ways, yet they also carry certain traits that make them very similar. Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church is one of many A.M.E. churches, which is a denomination that has derived from Methodism. This church is very structured, following certain practices and ceremonies such as having pastors rotate out of the church on a certain…

of dollars are made from TV and radio casts of these games, all of which go to the universities the players are representing. Many college students, especially athletes, struggle to get by with a skinny budget and have difficulty supporting themselves. This is particularly sickening when college athletes produce vast amounts of revenue from TV ratings, attendance, and jersey sales for the university. Universities have so much to gain from their athletes, while they leave their athletes to…

bribery, sabotage, professorial misconduct, and impersonation (Pariseau, 2013). Two examples of major college sports programs that were given heavy penalties by the NCAA due to academic fraud are Southern Methodist University and…