July 2021

In the summer of 1972 I received my license to preach in the United Methodist Church. I am currently in my 50^th year of active ministry. During those years I have experienced vital mission movements that Jesus followers have participated in, with committed leaders marching and fighting for civil rights and working together to alleviate poverty. Great evangelical leaders were full participants in the movement. Civil rights leader John Perkins from Jackson, Mississippi, author of Let Justice Roll Down; Tony Campolo, Wake Up America!; Ronald Sider, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger; Phyllis Tickle; Maxie Dunham, to name but a few, were demonstrating how to be the church in the world – loving God with heart and mind, making others more important than self.