Winter-2014 Course of Study School EMORY UNIVERSITY: Florida Extension School COS 114 - Pastoral Leadership and Administration Instructor: Dr. Nora Ramirez

Date: January 24-25 & February 21-22, 2014 Note: Please staple your completed assignments to a “Florida Extension Course of Study Cover Sheet”. All written assignments must be typed and double-spaced. Required Texts: The Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church 2012 (Nashville: the United Methodist Publishing House, 2012). ISBN:978-1-726-71812-0 Weems, Lovett H., Jr. -Church Leadership: Vision, Team, Culture and Integrity (Abingdon Press, 1993: ISBN 9780687133413) Dudley, Carl S. -Effective Small Churches in the Twenty-First Century (Abingdon Press, 2003: ISBN 9780687090907) Everist, Norma Cook- Church Conflict: From Contention to Collaboration (Abingdon Press, 2004: ISBN: 9780687038015) Recommended Texts:* F. Belton Joyner - Pastoral Prayers in Public Places (Just in Time!) (Abingdon Press, 2006: ISBN 9780687495679) Sara Webb Phillips - Pastoral Prayers for the Hospital Visit (Just in Time!) (Abigdon Press, 2006: ISBN 9780687496587) *Note: These are small books and can be used for your lay people to help them with prayers & hospital visits, too. They are required unless you do enough public prayers and prayers for hospital visits to prepare your own case studies of those prayers. These books, or at least the use of prayers in public settings and in hospital visits, will be part of your in-class project in lieu of a Final exam on the last day of class in February session. Pre Course Work Assignment 1: Read the following texts and bring them to class with you for January session: Lovett Weems, Church Leadership:Vision, Team, Culture and Integrity Carl Dudley, Effective Churches in the Twenty-First Century Pre Course Work Assignment 2. 1. Bring the 2012 Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church with you and bring the following assignment with you: A. Study the general structure of the Book of Discipline by examining the table of contests and scanning a variety of topics. B. Read Chapter One, The Local Church, Paragraphs 201-271, pages 143-215 in the 2008 Book of Discipline. C. Written Assignment: Due at beginning of class in January. Using Weems’ book in particular, and Dudley’s book where it is helpful, write a 7-10 page pape in which you describe the church and community in which you serve, using the outline below: Include in this paper the current state of your church’s administration by explaining how your church seeks to carry out the tasks set forth in these sections of Chapter 1 of The Book of Discipline 1. Which aspects of administration outlined in Chapter One (Book of Discipline) are included in or are missing from your current church structure? 2. How does your church understand its mission?

3. How is the meaning of membership communicated? 4. What is the current state of the membership records? Include information about worship attendance and patterns of decision making. Also, for your community (or at least the neighborhood surrounding your church) provide data about population growth, industrial development, employment levels, recreational opportunities and future trends. Do not attach a separate report about these areas, rather integrate the information into your analysis of the opportunities for ministry in your immediate surrounding community. If you quote Weems, Dudley, or the Book of Discipline, provide the source of that quotation. Pre Course Assignment 3: (This is pertaining to 2nd Session of class, the February session); 1. Read and bring to class Norma Cook Everist’s book, Church Conflict: From Contention to Collaboration. 2. Written Assignment, due at first of class in February. Write a 4-5 page paper in which you describe a conflict situation in the current church where you serve. If you have not encountered a major conflict situation, discuss one from a previous church which you served or where you were a lay member and knew the details of the conflict. Analyze this conflict from the perspective of the seven types of conflict described by Everist. Then explain how you dealt with this conflict. You may use the 7 responses Everist identified as a guide. Upon reflection, was there another response that would have been more appropriate than the one you used? If so, which response do you feel seems most appropriate, as a minister. In-class project in small groups in lieu of a final exam (this is for the February session, too) 1. Read and bring to class the book by Joyner, Pastoral Prayers in Public Places 2. Read and bring to class the book by Phillips, Pastoral Prayers for the Hospital Visit 3. If you do not purchase these books, bring case studies of specific public pastor prayers and hospital visit prayers with you for the February session (ask me about this in January session) 4. Rest of in-class project details will be given during class in January. Grading Percentages for this course: 25% = Class Attendance and participation 25% = Pre Course Written Assignment # 1 25%= Pre Course Written Assignment #3 25%= In-Class Small Group Project, dealing with Joyner & Phillips books & other issues Any written pre course assignments not turned in on time will have the grade on that assignment lowered by one letter grade. See you in January. Blessings, Rev. Dr. Nora Ramirez, You may call me or e-mail me with questions. 863-868-5346 and [email protected] .

COVER SHEET – HOJA DE CUBIERTA This cover sheet must be attached to the precourse assignments for each course! ¡Esta hoja de cubierta debe ser fijada a cada tarea del curso! (Staple this sheet and all parts of the assignment together.)

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I have read the plagiarism definition below and verify by signing my name below, that this assignment represents my own work, except where credit is given. I have also made copies of this assignment and I will bring them with me to class in the event that any of my work is misplaced. He leido la definición del plagio y certifico con mi firma que esta tarea representa mi propio trabajo, salvo en los casos en que he reconocido el trabajo ajeno. He hecho copias de mis tareas y las traeré conmigo en caso de que algunas se hayan perdido en tránsito. _________________________________________________________ Student's Signature/Firma de estudiante ____________________________________ Date/Fecha

Plagiarism Defined “You plagiarize when, intentionally or not, you use someone’s words or ideas but fail to credit that person. You plagiarize even when you do credit the author but use his exact words without so indicating with quotation marks or block indentation. You also plagiarize when you use words so close to those in your source, that if your work were placed next to the source, it would be obvious that you could not have written what you did without the source at your elbow. When accused of plagiarism, some writers claim I must have somehow memorized the passage. When I wrote it, I certainly thought it was my own. That excuse convinces very few.” Definición del plagio “Se comete plagio, intencionalmente o no, cuando se usan palabras o ideas ajenas sin mencionar el nombre del autor. Aun cuando se mencione el nombre del autor, se comete plagio si se usan palabras exactas sin señalarlas por medio de una cita entre comillas, o la indentición del párrafo citado. También se comite plagio cuando usan palabras tan parecidas al texto original que, al comparar el trabajo escrito es el mismo, resultaría obvio que no podría haber escrito su propio texto sin la ayuda original de la primera fuente. Al ser acusado de plagio, algunas personas afirman lo siguiente: ‘Debí haberme memorizado el pasaje, al redactor el texto, ciertamente pensaba que era de mi propia autoría.’ Esta escusa resulta muy poco convincente.” From page 167 of The Craft of Research by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams, published in 1995 by The University of Chicago Press in Chicago.