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The Rev. Dr. Norman E. “Ned” Dewire
Director of Worship and Religious Life
228 Glen Village Court, Powell, OH 43065
(614) 325-0250 • (231) 348-3805 (cottage)
ndewire@mtso.edu
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Ned and Shirley, along with their two daughters, first came to Bay View as guests of David Scarrow’s parents in the mid-1960s. Shirley and Ned met as students at Ohio University (Athens). In his junior year, Ned became student pastor of four churches and finished his Bachelor of Science in education as a math major. He served as pastor and commuted to Boston University School of Theology for four years, earning a Master of Divinity. Following five years at Central United Methodist Church, Detroit, Ned became director of mission and church extension for the Detroit Conference. He was the first director of the Joint Strategy and Action Committee, coordinating the work of “home missions” staff of over 20 denominations. In 1975, he became general secretary of the General Council on Ministries for 12 years, then president of the Methodist Theological School in Ohio in Delaware, Ohio, retiring after 20 years in 2006. Ned is on the OhioHealth Board of Directors, and is president of the board of trustees of the West Ohio Conference, The United Methodist Church. He is a trustee of Ohio University and a member of the Ohio University Foundation Board. He is a special advisor to the president of Bethune-Cookman University, one of the historic black colleges in the United States. For 10 years each, he chaired the Social and International Affairs Committee and the Theological Education Committee of the World Methodist Council. He is now doing a project on consortia relationships among theological schools.
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The Rev.
Dr. Jack E. Giguere
Sunday Adult Bible Study I Instructor
jegiguere@hotmail.com
(231) 347-8277
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Jack is pastor emeritus of the Grosse Pointe United Methodist Church, Grosse Pointe, Mich. He holds bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees, and is a former district superintendent of the United Methodist Church’s Ann Arbor district. In addition, he served three terms on Bay View’s Board of Trustees. Jack’s recognized ability as a teacher beyond the church has taken him into public school, college and seminary classrooms. Each week, Jack’s class will focus on the first century cultural background of selected Bible material, seeking to understand the language used, historic setting, religious practices and social customs in their original context. With this information, the class, in discussion format, will build a bridge to the 21st century, seeking to apply the material to modern life so the “Word of God” may come alive for us in the 21st century. If you are eager to discover an approach to the Bible that is intellectually substantive, morally nourishing and spiritually vibrant, you will find your search rewarded in this class. Sunday Adult Bible Study I meets at 9 a.m. in the Campus Club. Each session will stand alone to accommodate first time attenders as well as class regulars.
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The Rev. Thomas R. Swears
Sunday Adult Bible Study II Instructor
tlswears@aol.com
(231) 347-8914
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The Adult Bible Study II Class will be a study of the life of David using Eugene H. Peterson's book, “Leap Over A Wall: Reflections On The Life Of David.” Books will be available for purchase at the McLean & Eakin bookstore. The class will meet at 10 a.m. each Sunday during the Assembly season in the board room at Wade Administration Building. The first session will be on June 15 and the final session on Aug. 10. David’s life was a rich, varied and challenging spiritual journey. The purpose of reflection on it is to help us better and more honestly reflect on the content and meaning of our own spiritual journeys. Among the several themes to be studied are: David and Saul; David and Goliath; David and Jonathan; David in Lament; David and Nathan; David and Bathsheba; David and Absalom; and David and God; plus several more. The leader of this year’s Adult Bible Study II class is the Rev. Thomas R. Swears, who is a retired pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He served two parishes, one in suburban Baltimore, Md., for seven years and another in Wilmington, Del., for 25 years. He was also an adjunct faculty member in homiletics and spiritual formation at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Penn., and is the author of two books: “The Approaching Sabbath” and “Preaching to Head and Heart.” He has also served as the Bay View Preacher/Lecturer on four occasions, in 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2007. The regular teacher for this class, the Rev. George Dauler, returns in 2009. He is teaching in Ohio this summer.
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Julie and Brooks are excited about being the coordinators in Bay View’s Christian Fellowship Class. Julie and Brooks are Houston, Texas, residents active at Second Baptist Church, Houston, and Julie is a third generation Bay View resident. Although Brooks and Julie coordinate the class, it is weekly led by different Bay View residents, each of whom bring their own unique talents and abilities. In the past few years the Christian Fellowship Class has studied series by such teachers as John Ortberg, David Dykes, Kirby John Caldwell, Tony Evans and Andy Stanley. This year’s study, due to popular demand, is another series by Andy Stanley, senior pastor of North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, Ga. The first half of summer the class will study a series called “On Location” which deals with what it means to be “Salt and Light” where we live, work and play. The second half of the summer we will study a series called “Discovering God’s Will.” It addresses the important steps of decision-making as we begin to discover the personal vision God has for us. As we discovered in class last year, Andy Stanley is a remarkable teacher of God’s Word. He message is clear, relevant and exciting. Each Sunday is a “standalone” Sunday – whether you are at Bay View for just one Sunday or are here all Summer, the Christian Fellowship Class welcomes you. Come join us this summer on Sunday at Voorhies Hall!
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Elizabeth Nelson
Children Sunday School
paulrnelson@yahoo.com
(231) 347-8933
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Bay View Children’s Sunday School welcomes all children from age 3 (should be potty trained) to those who have finished 3rd grade. Using a Vacation Bible School curriculum, we study God’s word to us through stories, songs and crafts which coordinate with the chosen curriculum. Join us on Sunday mornings from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. for an exciting time of learning and fun. No previous Sunday School experience necessary. The summer 2008 curriculum is “VeggieTales: The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything !” Each Sunday, children age 3 to 10 are dismissed during worship and flock to Hitchcock Hall for a special time of singing and learning. Popular video series, energetic singing and fellowship are enjoyed by all. Children are dismissed to their parents at the end of worship. Children’s Sunday School Director Elizabeth Nelson is a long time Bay View cottager. A teacher for more than 20 years, she currently serves as librarian at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich, Conn. She considers it a privilege to share God’s love with children in one of God’s most precious spots – Bay View. She enjoys reading, working on her cottage with husband, Paul (director of theater arts for Bay View), and spending time with her kids, Parker, age 14, and Ellen, age 7.
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Carolyn Nelson
Infant and Toddler Care
(231) 439-0668
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Carolyn Nelson and her daughters, Shannon, Chelsea, Meagan and Bethany, will provide infant and toddler care on Sunday mornings at Loud Hall. The room will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. each Sunday from June 15 through August 10; and from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on June 8, Aug. 17, 24 and 31. Carolyn, a former R.N., looks forward to providing a safe, nurturing and happy place for Bay View’s youngest.
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The Rev. Toby Jones
June 8-12
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Toby Jones is a fifth generation Bay Viewer and the great grandson of the legendary Bishop Raymond J. Wade, Bay View’s president from 1944-61. He served the Bay View recreation program for over a decade and was youth minister during his college and seminary days. He currently serves as associate pastor at the First Presbyterian Church of Harbor Springs, where he has led mission trips and transformational educational experiences, restructured church boards and teams to maximize spiritual growth, equipped and developed lay leaders for ministry, small group ministries, preaching, teaching and nurturing the spiritual formation of our youth, deacons and church leaders. In 2006 he was elected moderator of the Presbytery of Mackinac. The Rev. Jones received a bachelor’s degree (cum laude) in English composition and creative writing from DePauw University in 1983 and a Master of Divinity (with distinction) from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1987. He has served as a pastor, chaplain, teacher, counsellor, coach and advisor in Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio and New Hampshire. From 1988-1990 he co-founded and directed Public Action to Deliver Shelter (“P.A.D.S.”) in Lake County, Il., an organization which provided emergency shelter and food to the homeless of the entire county. A self-described “pastor by day and a rocker by night,” the Rev. Jones recently published his first book, “The Gospel According to Rock,” www.booksandbridges.com, in which he builds a bridge between two worlds once thought to be separated by an unbridgeable chasm.
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The Rev. Dr. Michael Ward
June 15-19
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The Rev. Dr. Michael Ward is England’s leading expert on C.S. Lewis. Born in Sussex, he studied English at Oxford and theology at Cambridge. He received a Doctorate in Divinity from the University of St. Andrews and was ordained in the Anglican Church in 2004. He served as Chaplain of Peterhouse, the oldest of the Cambridge colleges, 2004-2007, and during that same period was assistant minister at St. Mary’s, Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire. Dr. Ward is co-editor of “Heresies and How to Avoid Them: Why it Matters What Christians Believe,” and of the forthcoming “Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis.” He is the author of “Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis.” The book is considered a major breakthrough in the study of Lewis and of the “Chronicles of Narnia” in particular. Dr. Ward was guest lecturer at the four-day C.S. Lewis Conference in Seoul, South Korea, in 2007; guest lecturer at Lewis Conference, Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 2006; and guest lecturer at the four-day Lewis Conference, Örebro Theological Seminary, Sweden, in 1998. In the United States Dr. Ward has spoken at Notre Dame, Harvard, Hillsdale College and Wheaton College, and in England has debated Christian fiction with the atheist writer Philip Pullman, at Oxford. He contributed to the DVD special feature on Lewis produced by the Disney Corp., and also had a featured cameo performance in the James Bond film “The World is Not Enough.”
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Bishop John Shelby Spong
June 22-26
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Bishop John Shelby Spong, whose books have sold more than a million copies, was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark for 24 years before his retirement in 2001. A champion of progressive Christianity, Spong is a visionary voice in the religious community, calling people to step beyond boundaries of tribe, prejudice, gender and even religion to create a new humanity. His latest book, “Jesus for the Non-Religious,” expands his vision for a radically reformed Christianity, peeling away dogma to reveal the essence of Jesus. It is a new, deeper and more powerful exploration of the Jewish Jesus, about which he first wrote in his classic “This Hebrew Lord.” John Shelby Spong’s lifelong quest to rescue the church from irrelevancy has led admirers to hail him as champion of inclusive faith, and detractors to vilify him as a heretic. It is not a desire to destroy faith, however, that drives Bishop Spong, but rather the longing of a “God-intoxicated” mystic to enter the mystery that is Jesus Christ. “Jesus stands not only at the center of my faith, but at the center of all that I am,” he says. “My commitment, however, is to the reality of Jesus as a God experience, not to the reality of the traditional explanations.” Bishop Spong delivers more than 200 public lectures each year to standing-room only crowds, has written a host of bestselling books, and his weekly online column is read by thousands. He has been profiled on “60 Minutes” and also appeared on “Fox News Live,” “Politically Incorrect” and “The O’Reilly Factor.” Bishop Spong and his wife, Christine Mary Spong, have five children and six grandchildren. They live in New Jersey.
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Bishop Woodie W. White
June 29-July 3
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Bishop Woodie W. White is bishop in residence at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta. He was born in New York and received a Bachelor of Arts from Paine College in Georgia, and a Master of Divinity from the Boston University School of Theology. He has a host of honorary doctorates and awards. He has ministered to congregations in Worcester, Mass., and Detroit, and was general secretary of the United Methodist Church’s General Commission on Religion and Race from 1969-1984. He was elected bishop in 1984, and was resident bishop of the Illinois area 1984-1994; resident bishop for the Indiana Area 1992-2004; and president of the International United Methodist Council of Bishops in 1996-97. He has served on the adjunct faculty at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, Howard University School of Religion in Washington, D.C., and Wesley Theological Seminary, also in Washington, D.C. He has led preaching missions to Chile, Argentia, Brazil, Germany and Zimbabwe, and in 1994 led the largest pilgrimage ever (over 900) of Hoosiers to the Holy Land. He has written four books, including “Our Time Under God Is Now: Reflections on Black Methodists for Church Renewal.” He and his wife, teacher Kim Tolson, have five children.
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The Rev. Dr. Bruce W. Robbins
July 6-10
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The Rev. Dr. Bruce W. Robbins serves as pastor at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church. Previous to this appointment, he served as general secretary for the General Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns of The United Methodist Church (UMC). As general secretary, he was the ecumenical staff officer for The United Methodist Church. Dr. Robbins was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. He attended Oberlin College in Ohio and graduated with majors in English and Spanish literature. He then went to Union Theological Seminary in New York, funded by a Rockefeller Fellowship, for a Master of Divinity where he specialized in theology. He received his doctorate in church history from Southern Methodist University. First ordained in 1974, he is a full member and elder of the Minnesota Annual Conference and has served local congregations in Vermont and Minnesota as well as numerous ecumenical and interreligious relationships. He served on the International Methodist/Anglican Dialogue, co-moderated the WCC’s International Pentecostal Dialogue, and has specialized in Christian-Jewish relations. His most recent book, “A World Parish? Hopes and Challenges of The United Methodist Church in a Global Setting,” was published in 2004. Presently, Dr. Robbins teaches U.S. religious history at United Theological Seminary in New Brighton, Minn. Dr. Robbins is married to Carol Braswell Robbins, who serves on the faculty of City University of New York. They have two adult children, Adam and Casey.
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The Rev. Dale Schlafer
July 13-17
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Dale Schlafer has served as co-founder and president of the Center for World Revival and Awakening since 1998. The center is a worldwide ministry dedicated to building the local church by promoting revival of the church, awakening of the lost, and reformation of society. The center hopes to see the church of Jesus Christ come alive, bringing the greatest harvest of the lost in history. Prior to establishing the center, the Rev. Schlafer served with Promise Keepers in two vice presidential posts. He also was chairman of the board at Promise Keepers from the ministry’s inception to 1994. He served 22 years as senior pastor of South Fellowship in Littleton, Colo., and six years as a senior pastor in New Jersey. The Rev. Schlafer was director for the “Clergy 96 – Fan Into Flame” conference, an unprecedented gathering of 40,000 pastors in Atlanta in 1996. He also served as director of “Stand In The Gap – A Sacred Assembly of Men,” which was held in Washington, D.C., in 1997, and attended by 1.3 million men. He was a contributing author for several books and has authored “A Revival Primer” and “Revival 101 – How Christ Ignites His Church.” The Rev. Schlafer committed his life to Christ at an early age and his call to pastoral ministry came in 1961. A native of Philadelphia, he holds a Bachelor of Arts from Westminster College of Pennsylvania and a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary. He lives in Florida and has been married to Liz for 42 years. They have three grown children: Tracey, Todd and Kyle.
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The Rev. Dr. John H. Thomas
July 20-24
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John Thomas was elected general minister and president of the United Church of Christ in 1999. He is one of five officers comprising the Collegium of Officers which guides the national ministries of the United Church of Christ. The Rev. Thomas is the presiding officer of the collegium, and is charged with the care and nurture of the spiritual life of the church. He also is the principal spokesperson of the general synod, and official representative of the church in ecumenical and interfaith relations. The Rev. Thomas was ordained in 1975 and served as associate minister of the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Cheshire, Conn., from 1975-1981, and as minister of the First United Church of Christ in Easton, Penn., 1982-1991. In 1991 he was appointed assistant to the president of the United Church of Christ for Ecumenical Concerns. In that role he was instrumental in the development of the full communion relationship between the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and three reformed churches. The Rev. Thomas is a graduate of Gettysburg College (1972) and Yale University Divinity School (1975). He studied at the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, Switzerland, and is the author of numerous articles on ecumenical issues. He has received four honorary Doctor of Divinity degrees. He is married to Lynda Thomas, a librarian in Shaker Heights, Ohio, where they live. He has two sons, Andrew, born in 1978, and David, born in 1982.
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Dr. Rebecca J. Scott
July 28 - August 1
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Rebecca J. Scott is the Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Radcliffe College, a Master of Philosophy in economic history from the London School of Economics, and a doctorate from Princeton University. Her book “Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery,” appeared from Harvard University Press in fall 2005, and subsequently won the Frederick Douglass Prize and the John Hope Franklin Prize. Dr. Scott’s current project traces three generations of a family through the Atlantic world, from the grandmother’s captivity as a young woman in Senegambia, West Africa, in the 1780s, through enslavement in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, to exile in Cuba. The next generation settled in New Orleans, but in the face of prejudice against free people of color in Louisiana the family emigrated to France. The third generation became Atlantic entrepreneurs in the cigar trade, and the youngest grandson was an outspoken advocate of equal rights, serving as a delegate to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention during Reconstruction. Dr. Scott’s lectures will weave the story of this family’s Atlantic itinerary into a broad discussion of the slave trade, the age of Atlantic revolutions, and the dynamics of emancipation.
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The Rev. Susan Henry-Crowe
August 3-7
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Susan Henry-Crowe has been a South Carolina Conference deacon since 1974 and elder since 1977. She received her Bachelor of Arts in religion and philosophy from Winthrop College and her Master of Divinity from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. She has been dean of the chapel and religious life at Emory University, 1991-present; and director and associate, South Carolina Conference Council on Ministries, 1985-1991. She pastored five South Carolina churches from 1976-1985. She served on the General Conference Judicial Council, 1992-2000; Judicial Council First Reserve, 2000-04; and Judicial Council, 2004-present. She was a general conference delegate in 1980, 1984 and 1988 (reserve); and member of the Plan of Organization/Rules Committee, Commission on Communications, Ethnic Minority Local Church. She has served as a trustee at Claflin University, Santiago College and Columbia College. She teaches polity at Candler School of Theology, where she is also a member of the Clergy Advisory Committee; and has participated in strategic planning at Emory University. Dr. Crowe has organized mission trips to China, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Northern Ireland; and brought her expertise to the Chaplaincy Review Committees at Duke University, Agnes Scott College and Yale University. She has been a speaker/workshop presenter at colleges, universities and Schools of Christian Mission, as well as preacher for many annual conferences.
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The Rev. Dr. Linda Mercadante
August 10-14
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Linda Mercadante is B. Robert Straker Professor of Theology at The Methodist Theological School in Ohio. She received a Bachelor of Arts from the American University, Washington, D.C.; M.C.S. from Regent College and a doctorate from Princeton Theological Seminary. Dr. Mercadante has a passion for the intersection of theology and culture. An ordained Presbyterian minister, she considers teaching as ministry. She has been training lay persons and future ministers in systematic, historical and constructive theology at The Methodist Theological School for the past 20 years. Believing strongly that theology is “faith seeking understanding,” Dr. Mercadante works hard to help students appreciate that a) everyone has a theology, b) good theology aids grace, and that c) “bad theology can kill.” To this end, she frequently uses film in her teaching and has served as Visiting Scholar in Media and Theology at The University of Edinburgh (Scotland). A former journalist, writing is an important part of her vocation. She has published four books and many articles on the theological aspects of human dysfunction, trauma, film and television, gender issues, reproductive loss and the urban environment. She has won numerous grants and awards, and leads workshops in spiritual autobiography, addiction recovery, and the faith/film paradigm. She lectures widely, gives retreats, and enjoys conducting adult education seminars in churches. She lives in Worthington, Ohio, with her husband, Joseph Mas, and son David Mercadante.
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The Rev. R. Robert Kimes
August 17-21
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The Rev. R. Robert Kimes is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, a member of the West Ohio Conference. Bob has served congregations in rural settings, villages, suburbs and cities beginning in 1949 as the student associate pastor at Broad Street United Methodist Church in downtown Columbus, Ohio. His ministry granted him the privilege of serving 13 years as district superintendent in the then Cincinnati and Dayton South Districts. He was dean of the cabinet with Bishops Dwight E. Loder, Edsel A. Ammons and Judith Craig. He has served on conference and district committees, chaired the conference program committee, served on hospital, children’s home, seminary and retirement home committees as a trustee, and presently serves as chair of the board of trustees of Wesley Hills, a Methodist elder care retirement community in Lancaster, Ohio. He has taught at seminaries, led workshops on worship experiences; and co-authored with his wife, Bettirae, church school literature for grades I-III, which is used in 30,000 Methodist congregations in the United States and Australia. Most recently he served as director of worship and religious life at Bay View. Now, Bettirae and he are residents of Wesley Ridge, a United Methodist Elder Care retirement community in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, where he serves as chaplain-in-residence, looking toward the day when a chapel will be built as part of the campus complex to care for the overflow of persons attending vesper hours.
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The Rev. Larry Grooters
August 24-28
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Larry Grooters was raised in Grand Rapids, Mich. He graduated from Hope College, majoring in psychology. He graduated from Western Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity degree in 1965. Larry was a pastor in the Reformed Church of America serving churches in Morrison, Ill.; Rockford, Mich; Scottsdale, Ariz.; and Charlevoix, Mich. Among other community involvements while in Charlevoix, Larry headed the Charlevoix Ministerial Association for 10 years. After 40 years in the ministry, almost 27 of them in Charlevoix, Larry moved to Traverse City where he is active as an elder at Bay Pointe Community Church. Larry is passionate about the power of the local church and likes the quote: “There is nothing like the local church when it is working well.” Larry is married to Mickey Hoffman Grooters, who chaired the Communication Discipline and taught composition and literature at Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City for many years. They have three children – Laura, who with her three boys lives in Florida; and two sons, John and Jeff, who with their four children live in Holland, Mich.
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The Rev. Dr. R. Stanley Sutton
August 31
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“Stan” has been serving as treasurer of the West Ohio Conference since 1994. Before coming to Ohio, Stan was the treasurer of the Detroit Annual Conference for 10 years. He has served United Methodist churches in Rochester, Mich., and Ortonville, Mich. Stan also serves as the treasurer of the North Central Jurisdiction and was a member of the General Council on Finance and Administration, where he served as chairperson of the Audit and Review Committee. This quadrennium he has served on the Denominational Health Task Force and was elected to the jurisdictional conference. Stan is a “second-career” pastor. His first career was electrical engineering, where he was chief controls engineer for the Ex-Cell-O Corp. He has a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Purdue University and a Master of Business Administration from Wayne State University. He did his seminary work at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, earning a Masters of Divinity, and was awarded a Doctor of Divinity by Adrian College in 1992. Stan is an avid woodworker and pilot. He has an instrument rating and likes any excuse to fly in his Cessna 172. Stan and his wife, Jeri, have two grown children, Tracy and Don, both of whom are married. They have three grandchildren, who are perfect in every way. After 20 years of “Bay View cottage lust,” Stan and Jeri purchased a cottage on Forest Street in 2007. Over the winter it has undergone major renovation. |
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