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It’s time for the UMC to illumine its brighter heritage and its claim: “Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors.” Make it true! It’s well past time. I’m a woman of God sharing my life with another Jesus-following woman. It’s my time to proclaim the Gospel, loud and proud: I am part of God’s good creation God is well pleased. It’s time for Gospel-followers to stride forth from desert gloom to promised-land, to reclaim full, equal regard in the church and in ministry. It’s time for challenge, for change, for The UMC to stop justifying discrimination.

The Scriptures and the Holy Spirit profess: Forty years! Enough desert-wandering! Forty years of exclusion, second-class citizenship, demeaning rhetoric – forty years of manufactured smoke attempting to eclipse the Light of the Gospel. Forty years of the hierarchy repeating: wait, have patience change takes time. Forty years hearing, then proclaiming, “All are welcome at this table,” yet knowing that United Methodist policy asserts I’m not welcome to claim authority to speak those words reflecting Jesus’ inclusive, redemptive love. Forty years exiled in a hostile desert by a denomination claiming to share living water. Forty years of ministry, in hiding – serving our grace-filled God in a rule-bound institution. It’s been forty years since my baptism and confirmation. When I timidly mentioned my youthful call to ministry to that pastor, he picked me up and spun me around! Joy! Ordination followed, then ministry in local churches, a college campus, working with new generations of seminary students.

At 13 I professed my faith, then entered the nearby United Methodist college at 18, seminary soon after. The pastor’s big smile and country music illustrations, preaching Jesus’ teachings: love, grace, caring for outcast, embracing enemies, striving for justice. Church enthralled me: caring community, ladies inviting me to their pew, join the choir, stay for cookies. Now I follow that brightest star, to risk offering my best gift to God, to the church, to the world, offering myself.Īt the tweening age of twelve, friends dragged unchurched me to United Methodist Youth Fellowship. “A light shines in the darkness and the darkness does not overcome it.” I’ve chosen, in my quiet (for a preacher) ways, to follow that light, to point it out, to insist that light shines even when it seem eclipsed by storms, suffocated in gloom. I chose the celebration of Epiphany to speak boldly in faith. It’s time – I’m called to leap, not knowing where I’ll land. I’ve thought things over for decades, all my adult life. I’ve mastered ‘think before you speak.’ I take my time. Houston Methodist provides training on health care compliance topics to its vendors and contractors, as required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).I think things over: reflect, ruminate, wrangle, revisit, brood, mull, process, ponder in my heart. IT-related information for all employees, including key updates, frequently used apps, IT Help Desk support and moreĬontains tools to help Houston Methodist investigators and affiliates in their global collaboration network find the necessary expertise and skills to complete their research needs, develop conferences and seminars, publish articles and identify and apply for funding opportunities. Physician-related IT information, including key updates, Epic tools, training and access information, downtime order sets, mobile tools, Dragon, e-Rx, telemedicine and library resources and more. MORTI or the Methodist Online Research Technology Initiative is the online portal of the Houston Methodist Research Institute that manages the electronic submission, review and approval of research projects at Houston Methodist. Methodist Online Research Technology Initiative (MORTI) The MARS system simplifies the process of making life changes such as birth of a child or marriage, and applying for Houston Methodist jobs. MARS helps streamline business processes system-wide in key functional areas such as Finance, Supply Chain Management, Grants, Human Resources and Learning Management Systems. Methodist Administrative Resource System (MARS) We’re dedicated to helping you grow your soul through unparalleled spiritual care and values integration.įloat Pool services provides trained, skilled temporary staff for planned and unplanned staff absences and vacancies to Houston Methodist Primary Care Group and Houston Methodist Specialty Physician Group. We have two dedicated chaplains who provide spiritual care to corporate employees and physicians within the Primary Care Group (PCG) and Specialty Physician Group (SPG).

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