Voices on Health Care NC Oct 14 2020 - 12th Annual Jack Crum Conference
Our Health Care Crisis and Its Impact on Diverse Populations
Dr. Karen Winkfield
Jason Gray
Adam SotakJoin us as our Speakers for this Evening’s Webinar will focus on the following discussion...
Karen M Winkfield, MD, PhD, Radiation Oncologist, Co-Chair NC Advisory Committee on Cancer Coordination & Control
Dr. Winkfield will discuss “Health Care Disparities for People of Color and Other Minority Groups.” What factors contribute to disparate health outcomes? An overview of the impact of social location (race, gender, education, employment, income, disability, age, and other variables) on access, quality, and affordability of healthcare and health outcomes.
Jason Gray, Senior Fellow for Research & Policy, NC Rural Center
Jason Gray will talk with us about “Rural Health in NC, a System in Crisis.” This talk will explore the closure of rural hospitals, the lack of healthcare providers, and the unique issues facing rural residents of our state, touching also on how NC’s refusal to expand Medicaid has exacerbated the problems.
Adam Sotak, Public Engagement Officer, NC Child
Adam Sotak shares with us “Health Challenges Facing Women and Children.” The unique challenges that women and vulnerable children face under our current healthcare system. The work of NC Child and other advocacy organizations and how they areas trying to make a difference.
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Voices on Health Care NC Oct 7 2020 - 12th Annual Jack Crum Conference
Health Care, the Bible, Christian Tradition, and Current Perspectives
Rev. Dr. Laceye Warner
Dr. G. Scott Morris
Rev. Dr. George McClainJoin us as our Speakers for this Evening’s Webinar will focus on the following discussion...
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Laceye Warner, Associate Dean for Wesleyan Engagement, Duke Divinity School
Talk: “Primitive Physick - Care of the Sick in Early Methodism”
Dr. Warner will discuss biblical and John Wesley’s Early Methodist Views on Acts of Mercy, Health, and Healing the Sick.
Speaker: Dr. G. Scott Morris, Founder & CEO, Church Health (Memphis, TN)
Talk: “How Our Current Healthcare System Developed, the Church’s Role, and How the Church Might Reengage”
Dr. Morris in this talk will touch on the 19th century pastor “healer,” growth of charitable hospitals, how employer-based health insurance & other changes in healthcare financing had an impact on church-based & public charitable hospitals and the ways Church Health, Memphis is trying to reclaim the church’s role in providing health care.
Speaker: Rev. Dr. George McClain, former national executive director, Methodist Federation for Social Action
Talk: “An Activist Theological Perspective on Systemic Change in Health Care Delivery”
During this session of our webinar, Rev. Dr. McClain will discuss how our health care institutions are part of the biblical “principalities and powers,” that need to be (continually) “unmasked,” “engaged,” and “redeemed” from the clutches of greed, profiteering, racism, etc. Now is a Kairos moment for God’s movement among us and through us.
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Journeying toward Justice Speaker Series, Dr. David Campt
How do we talk about difficult topics? The answer is WITH LOVE AND COMPASSION. In order to build BRIDGES with those with whom we DISAGREE, we need tools for CONSTRUCTIVE, RESPECTFUL, and COMPASSIONATE dialogue. In this workshop, DR. DAVID CAMPT will help us gain the SKILLS we need for COMMUNICATION instead of CONFRONTATION.
This event takes place on Friday evening, March 6 from 7:30-9:00 PM (Keynote Address); Saturday March 7 from 2:00-6:00 PM (Introductory Workshop); and Sunday, March 29 from 1:30 to 5:30 PM (Follow Up Practice/Debriefing).
MFSA NCC is a proud cosponsor of this event. Please consider attending and also mentioning to your church.
Jack Crum Conference on Prophetic Ministry 2019
The Jack Crum Conference
September 14, 2019 • Epworth UMC
Gospel Power vs Institutional Sin
exploring approaches to challenge corporate injustice and poverty
When corporate and civic institutions succumb to greed and societal discrimination, they rob society of its capacity to protect the poor and disadvantaged. They commit the sin of taking from the poor to enrich the rich. This conference will examine some of the strategies institutions use to do this and how they misinterpret the Biblical narrative to justify their practices.
This is less a conference and more of an experience in dealing with institutional sin. We will hear the history of civic and corporate indulgence in taking from the poor over all of history and how the challenges that Jesus made expose this institutional sin.
Using a real life case study and a series of current events in North Carolina that has reinforced segregation, poverty, and financial greed, we will participate in examining the root causes and practices of governance authorities, civic institutions, and even the church and examine ways to use the Power of the Gospel to challenge these institutions.
Childcare is available at no cost by emailing Amanda Wilson at awilson@epworth-umc.org by Thursday, 9/12/2019.
There is no cost for registration or food. Light breakfast and lunch provided. Please RSVP (Register) on by September 7th if possible.
The Jack Crum Conference on Prophetic Ministry is cosponsored by the North Carolina Council of Churches.
Our Facilitator and Speaker is Brian Heymans, Chair of the Board of Church and Society in the North Carolina Conference of the UMC.
Brian is a retired organizational change business consultant and former CEO of a multi-national consulting company in organizational change and has a deep concern for the role of the church in creating a just society.
Originally from South Africa and a lifelong Methodist, he was for over 18 years a member of two congregations served by Dr. Peter Storey in Johannesburg South Africa and worked with him on the Methodist Church of Southern Africa’s official newspaper, Dimension. He has served on several Connectional boards and committees in the South African church and in Texas. Brian has authored and run numerous training programs in advocacy methods and has published other work in organizational change, leadership development and church missional strategies. He created two JFON Immigration law clinics in Texas and is doing the same here in NC.
He has a degree in finance and commercial law and a master’s in business strategy and adult education. Married with five adult children, one of whom is Methodist clergy, his abiding passion is Australian beaches and Christian justice, of course.
Here are directions to get Epworth during street construction....
For those approaching Durham via I40: Take Exit 274 and turn north onto Hwy 751 (toward Durham). Stay on Hwy 751 (also named Hope Valley Road) until you reach the intersection at Martin Luther King Jr Drive. You will see a sign - “Road Closed, local traffic only.” Continue past the signs, staying on Hope Valley Road - Epworth traffic is local! The last driveway on the left before the road closure is Epworth’s. Volunteers will be on hand to direct you.
Coming from downtown Durham, via University Drive: Travel west on University Drive to the intersection at Cornwallis Road. Turn left on Cornwallis, then make the first right turn onto Stuart Drive. When you reach the end of Stuart Drive, you are at Hope Valley Road and Epworth’s driveway is directly across the street.
Coming from north Durham or Chapel Hill via 15-501: Follow signs for Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Stay on MLK Jr Dr until you reach the intersection with Hope Valley Road. Turn left onto Hope Valley Road, going past the Road Closed signs - Epworth traffic is local! Epworth’s driveway is the last on your left before you reach the road closure.
Driving via Chapel Hill Road or University Drive (old South Square area): At the intersection of University Drive and Chapel Hill Road, turn south (you will now be on Dixon Road). Follow Dixon to Martin Luther King Jr Dr and make a left turn. Follow MLK Jr Dr to Hope Valley Road. Turn left onto Hope Valley Road, going past the Road Closed signs - Epworth traffic is local! Epworth’s driveway is the last on your left before you reach the road closure.
Gayle Felton Love Thy Neighbor Lunch 2019
The North Carolina Annual Conference chapter of the Methodist Federation for Social Action and Reconciling United Methodists and Friends NC are proud to sponsor the fifth annual Gayle Felton Love Thy Neighbor Lunch on Friday, June 14th at 12 noon at the Holiday Inn in Greenville.
This year’s theme is “Stand Your Holy Ground.” Our speaker is Bishop Charlene Kammerer.
Cost is $15 in advance and $17 at the door. For students: $10.00 and $12.50 at the door. Membership special $70 - membership and ticket to event.
Please RSVP by June 7th, space is limited. You can register online at Eventbrite (tap below) or mail checks payable to MFSA NC, PO Box 18311, Raleigh NC 27619-8311.
Our Luncheon Speaker Bishop Charlene Kammerer
Charlene Payne Kammerer was elected to the episcopacy at the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference at Lake Junaluska, North Carolina in July 1996, the first woman to be elected from the Southeast. She was assigned to the Charlotte Area where she served the conference for eight years. At the SEJ meeting in July 2004, Bishop Kammerer was assigned to serve the Virginia Conference. She served there eight years and retired in September 2012.
Charlene was born in Orlando, Florida. She spent her growing up years in Winter Garden, where her home church was First United Methodist. She graduated from Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia with an A. B. degree in Religion and Philosophy in 1970. Wesleyan is the first college in the world chartered for the granting of degrees to women. She obtained Master of Christian Education and Master of Divinity degrees from Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. She was ordained Deacon in 1975 and Elder in 1977 in the Florida Annual Conference. She received a Doctor of Ministry degree in 1991 from United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. She is the recipient of three Honorary Doctorates from Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida, Pheiffer University in Meisenhimer, North Carolina, and Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia.
Bishop Kammerer’s service in the church has included equal years in parish ministries and connectional ministries, including service as a campus minister at Duke University and as a District Superintendent of the Tallahassee District, Florida Conference. Her longtime passions in ministry include higher education, mission involvement, the spirituality of administration, and justice and peace issues.
Bishop Kammerer served as Chairperson of UMCOR, the relief agency of The United Methodist Church, on the Commission on the Status and Role of Women as a board member, member of the Commission on Pan- Methodist Cooperation, the Vice President of the Commission on Religion and Race, the President of the General Board of Discipleship, a member of the Board of Governors of Wesley Theological Seminary, Secretary for the Bishops Initiative in Children and Poverty, and a member of God’s Renewing Creation Task Force. She was presented the Va. Council of Churches Faith and Action Award, the Lifetime Ecumenist Award, and also received recognition as a Social Justice Maker from the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy.
She is married to Leigh Kammerer, a native of Wisconsin, whose career was practiced in addiction counseling. They are the parents of one son, Christopher Hal, and four grandchildren - Christopher, Noelle, Elton, and Max.
In retirement, Bishop Kammerer has served as Co-Chair of the Lake Junaluska Peace Conference Design Team, and enjoys writing, reading, preaching, and practicing the art of being a grandparent.
The lunch is named in memory of late Reverend Dr. Gayle Carlton Felton who passed in 2014 at the age of 71. She was champion for the rights of women, African Americans, and the LGBTQ community. Here is more about her
Gayle was a native of Pinetops, NC. She graduated with a B.A. in History from North Carolina Wesleyan College where she was the first valedictorian of the newly opened college. Gayle taught high school history and civics in Edgecombe County before answering the call to ministry.
She received her Master of Divinity and Doctorate degrees from Duke University. After teaching religion at Meredith College for two years, she returned to Duke where she taught in the Divinity School for over a decade, guiding and influencing a generation of pastors and others serving the United Methodist Church. Gayle’s scholarship largely focused on the history of Methodism with special emphasis on the sacraments.
Among her published works are This Gift of Water, By Water and the Spirit, This Holy Mystery, United Methodists and the Sacraments, and The Coming of Jesus. She was also the editor of How United Methodists Study Scripture and the writer of numerous studies and other works used across the United Methodist Church. She was a frequent participant in United Methodist General Conferences and was appointed for many years to the General Board of Discipleship.
Gayle had a deep commitment to social justice, working to integrate the public schools in Edgecombe County and as a pioneer in building the Reconciling Movement, a group advocating for the full inclusion of LGBT persons in the United Methodist Church. She was honored to serve as the national board chair of the Reconciling Ministries Network. Gayle also was a role model for women seeking ordination in the United Methodist Church, working tirelessly to remove many of the obstacles she herself had to overcome in becoming an ordained elder.