"This paper is limited to a study of a sample of churches receiving support from the Commission on Minimum Salary of the North Texas Conference of the Methodist Church. It is further limited to the phases of membership, budgets, World Service, and minimum salary. The period to be covered is the four years from June, 1949, to June, 1953, during which time the Commission operated under the same principles and officers."-- leaf 1.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Columbia Biblical Seminary, Columbia, S.C., 2003. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 196-202).

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A research report submitted to the Faculty of Business Administration, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Management 1992 / This study investigated the managerial training needs of ordained ministers of the Methodist Church through the identification of managerial tasks that ministers perform and their current levels of proficiency in these areas. Managerial competencies were generated from the literature and from interviews with several bishops. The competencies were defined and used in the construction of questionnaires which were completed by ordained ministers and laity in two independent studies. The perceived importance and need. for training was determined for each competency. The training needs identified from the triangulated research design were found to be statistically similar. This study is important since it yielded several Significant findings which have practical applleadon, These include: * A logical framework for a. management course for probationer ministers was derived on the basis of a factor analysis of the importance rankings of the competercies, * Training needs which were identified were prioritised and form logical framework for a programme for in-service training. * Managerial competencies required of ministers were identified and prioritised which has provided a resource for a performance appraisal and needs analysis within the church. * It was established that ministers and laity perceive a very great. need for training in the managerial competencies.

林美恩. / "2010年6月". / "2010 nian 6 yue". / Thesis (M.Div.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-60). / Abstract in Chinese and English. / Lin Mei'en. / 論文摘要 --- p.i / Abstract --- p.i / 鳴謝 --- p.iii / 目錄 --- p.1 / 引言 --- p.3 / Chapter I. --- 研究課題的背景 --- p.3 / Chapter II. --- 研究問題及其重要性 --- p.4 / Chapter III. --- 研究方法及引用資料 --- p.4 / Chapter 第一章 --- 循道衛理會海外宣教事工的探索（1980-1988 ) --- p.6 / Chapter I. --- 80年代海外宣教事工之甶來 --- p.6 / Chapter II. --- 海外宣教事工的組織架構 --- p.7 / Chapter III. --- 海外宣教活動 --- p.9 / Chapter IV. --- 1980 一 1988年海外宣教事工評檢 --- p.14 / Chapter 第二章 --- 從開展澳門宣教事工至成立海外宣教委員會（1989-1997 ) --- p.16 / Chapter I. --- 海外宣教事工組織架構的轉變 --- p.16 / Chapter II. --- 澳門宣教(實踐）計劃之落實及發展 --- p.18 / 第一階段（1989-1992) --- p.18 / 第二階段（1992-1997) --- p.21 / Chapter III. --- 其他海外宣教項目 --- p.25 / Chapter IV. --- 1989 一 1997年海外宣教事工評檢 --- p.26 / Chapter 第三章 --- 海外宣教委員會成立後之發展(1998-2010 ) --- p.28 / Chapter I. --- 海外宣教委員會內之組織變化 --- p.28 / Chapter II. --- 海外宣教活動 --- p.29 / 澳門宣教事工 --- p.29 / 海外宣教教育 --- p.32 / 柬埔寨宣教事工 --- p.35 / Chapter III. --- "循道衛理佈道團（Methodist Evangelistic Ministry, MEM )" --- p.36 / Chapter IV. --- 1998 - 2010年海外宣教事工評檢 --- p.37 / 表一：循道衛理會澳門堂歷年主要同工的資料 --- p.38 / Chapter 第四章 --- 循道衛理會海外宣教發展面貌評檢 --- p.41 / Chapter I. --- 循道衛理會海外宣教理念與普遍香港教會有關概念之比較 --- p.41 / Chapter II. --- 從香港教會差傳/宣教事工整體發展看循道衛理會海外宣教發展 --- p.42 / 表二 ：循道衛理會及香港教會整體差傳/宣教事工發展情況之比較 --- p.43 / Chapter III. --- 海外宣教事工在循道衛理會的地位 --- p.44 / 表三：循道衛理會歷年參與海外宣教會友有關資料 --- p.46 / Chapter IV. --- 循道衛理會個別海外宣教事工之評檢 --- p.46 / 澳門及柬埔寨宣教事工 --- p.46 / 海外宣教教育 --- p.47 / 差派會友的評審及支援 --- p.49 / Chapter V. --- 總結 --- p.50 / 附錄 --- p.52 / Chapter I. --- 循道衛理會堂所及學校設立年份統計 --- p.52 / 表四：循道衛理會各堂所成立年份 --- p.52 / 表五：循道衛理會各學校設立年份 --- p.53 / 表六：循道衛理會各階段成立堂所數目 --- p.54 / 表七：循道衛理會各階段設立學校數目 --- p.55 / Chapter II. --- 循道衛理會堂所參與海外宣教調˘¬ --- p.55 / 表八：循道衛理會各堂所對海外宣教活動的參與 --- p.55 / 表九：回覆問卷堂所參與海外宣教活動的資料 --- p.55 / Chapter III. --- 循道衛理會歷年宣教學習團資料 --- p.56 / 表十：回覆問卷堂所參與海外宣教活動的資料 --- p.56 / 書目 --- p.58 / 會議記錄 --- p.58 / 書本 --- p.58 / 訪問 --- p.59 / 網頁 --- p.59 / 其他 --- p.60

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / The developing roles of the Methodist general superintendent (bishop) are studied from the year 1784 to the present. Major attention is given to the twentieth century. Contemporary role theory, leadership theory, and theories of authority and bureaucracy are used in the interpretation of historical data. The scope of the study includes the Methodist Episcopal Church; the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; relevant developments in the Methodist Protestant Church; and The Methodist Church (formed in 1939 with the union of the three Methodist groups). Attention is given to the bishops in the Washington, D. C., area in the twentieth century as a case study. Primary sources include General Conference minutes for the denominations mentioned and minutes of many Jurisdictional Conferences; fifty- two Episcopal Addresses delivered since 1840; the complete minutes of the Council of Bishops of The Methodist Church for the period 1940 to 1960; biographies, eulogies, letters, and the like, of selected bishops; Methodist apologetic literature and magazines; and Methodist Protestant polemical works. Secondary sources include the popular press and various historical and theological works [TRUNCATED] / 2031-01-01

Chan Ka Lai. / Thesis (M.Div.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 134-138). / Abstract also in Chinese; appendix A in Chinese. / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter A. --- Background for the study --- p.4 / Chapter B. --- Reasons for having this study --- p.4 / Chapter C. --- Aims of this study --- p.4 / Chapter II. --- STUDY ON CHURCH AND SOCIAL MINISTRY --- p.6 / Chapter A. --- Our understanding of the church --- p.6 / Chapter B. --- Church in mission --- p.9 / Chapter C. --- Social responsibility of the church --- p.10 / Chapter D. --- Definition of social ministry --- p.12 / Chapter E. --- Tasks of the church --- p.14 / Chapter F. --- Theoretical framework derived from Hessel & Morisy --- p.17 / Chapter III. --- STUDY DESIGN --- p.20 / Chapter A. --- Hypotheses and research questions --- p.22 / Chapter B. --- Data collection --- p.23 / Chapter 1. --- Methodology --- p.23 / Chapter 2. --- Study population and the survey --- p.26 / Chapter IV. --- STUDY FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION --- p.29 / Chapter A. --- Reasons for having these five churches selected --- p.30 / Chapter B. --- Social ministry as found in these local churches --- p.32 / Chapter 1. --- Kwun Tong Methodist Church --- p.33 / Chapter 2. --- "Chinese Methodist Church, Wan Chai, Hong Kong" --- p.35 / Chapter 3. --- Asbury Methodist Church --- p.38 / Chapter 4. --- Sha Tin Methodist Church --- p.41 / Chapter 5. --- Jubilant Grace Methodist Church --- p.44 / Chapter C. --- Comparison of the theoretical framework of social ministry and its practice in the five selected churches --- p.46 / Chapter 1. --- Kwun Tong Methodist Church --- p.46 / Chapter 2. --- "Chinese Methodist Church, Wan Chai, Hong Kong" --- p.49 / Chapter 3. --- Asbury Methodist Church --- p.53 / Chapter 4. --- Sha Tin Methodist Church --- p.55 / Chapter 5. --- Jubilant Grace Methodist Church --- p.59 / Chapter D. --- Discussion on social ministry as administered in Methodist Churches in Hong Kong --- p.60 / Chapter 1. --- New understanding of social ministry after the study --- p.60 / Chapter 2. --- Each church is unique --- p.63 / Chapter V. --- CONCLUSION --- p.68 / Chapter A. --- Factors applicable to all of the churches --- p.68 / Chapter B. --- Factors applicable to some of the churches --- p.70 / Chapter C. --- Concluding remarks --- p.71 / Appendices / Appendix A: Verbatim record of the interviews --- p.73 / "Appendix B: Integration of church, school & service centre as exemplified by the 24 local Methodist churches" --- p.133 / Bibliography --- p.134

This dissertation is an historical anthropology investigating the late 19th century liturgical landscapes of the National Camp‐Meeting Association for the Promotion of Holiness, an organization of Methodist clergy who sought ecclesiastical and social reform primarily through camp‐meeting revivals promoting the experience of entire sanctification. National camp meetings drew from the liturgical and architectural traditions of early 19th century frontier revivalism, yet, as this dissertation argues, these meetings were not simply an appropriation of the structure of Second Great Awakening revivals for the purpose of promoting holiness theology in decidedly more urban areas of the Northeast and Mid‐Atlantic. Rather, these meetings were a (re)imagining of the cultural practice of the camp‐meeting through a Victorian system of symbolic meanings, a middle‐class, (ex)urban geographic context, and a distinctive set of liturgical performances, social interactions, and cognitive‐environmental and architectural cues designed to elicit a changed subjectivity among attendees. Each of these transformations shaped the social space, architectural configuration, and site selection of the liturgical landscapes of the National Camp‐Meeting Association, and it is these spatial and material traces that offer a substantial body of data for the interpretation of past religious and ritual landscapes in North America. Such interpretation of revival landscapes is possible through a process of cross‐mending archival sources (diaries, autobiographies, biographies, historic correspondence, newspaper reports, sermon texts, organizational documents, maps, photographs), material culture, archaeological reports, geo‐spatial and environmental data to reconstruct and thickly interpret the ritual landscapes of three early meetings of the National Camp‐Meeting Association for the Promotion of Holiness – Vineland, New Jersey, Manheim, Pennsylvania, and Round Lake, New York. In its results, this dissertation argues for a significant connection between Methodism, geographic regions, and 19th century holiness practices, and an interpretation of holiness revivalism as a means of renegotiating moral orders amidst industrialization, urbanization, vacationing, and changing social fault lines in the church including race and gender.