Transition into Ministry Program
3/4/2015
Pastor Andrea Beyer served as a TIM Associate Pastor at West Heights United Methodist Church, Wichita, Kansas from 2013-2015. It is hard for me to believe, but I am nearing the end of my first stage of the Transition into Ministry program. It seems like it was just a couple of weeks ago that I started here at West Heights UMC as an associate pastor, and yet here I am, already making my preparations to leave in just a few short months. I have learned a great deal about ministry in my time here, ...
Transition into Ministry Program
2/10/2015
Pastor Aaron Duell is currently serving as a TIM associate pastor at First United Methodist Church, Columbus, Nebraska (2014-2016). We humans were designed to be in relationship. We are really a chip off the old (Trinitarian) block. Ultimately, human meaning and purpose come from our relationships. They come from our relationship with God, our relationships with one another, and our relationship with creation. To be a person is to be in relationship. Before the world began, our tri-personal ...
Transition into Ministry Program
1/7/2015
Pastor Brenda Kostner is currently serving as a TIM associate pastor at Stillwell United Methodist Church, Stillwell, Kansas (2014-2016). Whenever I consider the phrase pastoral authority, I flashback to my first year in seminary, to an early morning class called “Pastor and People”- a survey of pastoral roles and congregation dynamics. I had chosen that class as my practical class. Having just finished my undergraduate degree in history, I was ready to move out of history and theory and ...
Transition into Ministry Program
11/11/2014
Rev. Austin Rivera reflects on some of what he learned in serving two years as a Transition into Ministry (TiM) Associate Pastor at First United Methodist Church in Emporia, Kansas from 2012-2014. He is currently in his first year as a Ph.D. student in the Ancient Christianity program of Yale’s Religious Studies Department. When I applied for the Transition into Ministry program I had a very limited idea of what I would gain from serving for two years under a mentoring senior...
Transition into Ministry Program
11/4/2014
Rev. Andy Frazier is in his first year as Pastor at Frontenac (KS) United Methodist Church after serving for two years as Transition into Ministry (TiM) Associate Pastor at Trinity United Methodist Church in Lincoln, NE from 2012-2014. Andy writes about lessons that he has learned in the transition from being an associate pastor to being a solo pastor as a part of the TiM program of the Great Plains United Methodist Church. Last Monday morning, I arrived at church, and I was greeted with a ...
Transition into Ministry Program
10/23/2014
Rev. Wendy Mohler-Seib served as a TiM Associate Pastor from 2012-2014 at Chapel Hill United Methodist Church in Wichita, KS. We interviewed her to learn more about some of what she experienced in her two years as a part of the Transition into Ministry (TiM) program. What are some ways that your involvement in the TiM program shaped you in your first two years of full-time ministry as a pastor? The TiM)Program served as an incubator for developing me into a more committed disciple...
Transition into Ministry Program
8/24/2013
Pastor Wendy Mohler-Seib served as a TIM Associate Pastor at Chapel Hill Fellowship United Methodist Church, Wichita, Kansas from 2012-2014. I dislike fighting. I avoid hockey because of the bloody noses and flying fists. In high school, I ran away and hid from fights while others gathered around to cheer. People actually pay to watch WWF fights; that blows my mind! On Wii Sports, I’ll happily challenge you in tennis or bowling, just please no boxing. For a woman that hates fighting, I ...
Transition into Ministry Program
8/24/2013
Pastor Emily Cannon served as a TIM Associate Pastor at Saint Paul United Methodist Church, Lincoln, Nebraska from 2013-2015. Looking back, I think that I was being called to pastoral ministry long before I started consciously considering it. There are so many examples from my early years where I demonstrated a passion for Scripture, an eagerness to serve others, and a propensity for asking challenging questions—and in retrospect, I think that these aspects of my personality were “...
Transition into Ministry Program
8/24/2013
Pastor Andrea Beyer served as a TIM Associate Pastor at West Heights United Methodist Church, Wichita, Kansas from 2013-2015. As I embarked upon my journey into Seminary, I was somewhat conflicted about what I would do once I graduated with my master of divinity. My call to go to seminary was very clear – a direct audible message from God. Despite my years of praying about it, I was not so clear about where my seminary degree should lead me. Through many conversations with others and through ...
Transition into Ministry Program
5/13/2013
Pastor Wendy Mohler-Seib served as a TIM Associate Pastor at Chapel Hill Fellowship United Methodist Church; Wichita, KS from 2012-2014. Seminary prepared me to identify the four steps of practical theology, thoroughly exegete a passage for sermon preparation,use Lowry’s loop, ancient perspectives on theodicy, and much, much more. It wasn’t the classroom or field education that prepared me to face 13 funerals in the first nine months of my first appointment. Instead, my walk through the ...
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