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Apportionments Jurisdictional Ministries

We are a part of the South Central Jurisdiction of The United Method­ist Church-IS annual conferences covering eight states from Nebraska to Texas, Missouri to Louisiana and New Mexico. As a part ofthe South Central Jurisdiction, we help support the four ministries named below.

Mount Sequoyah Conference and Retreat Center, located in Fayette­ville, Ark., is owned by the jurisdiction and serves as a retreat and training center for the churches and organizations of the eight-state area. Many Sunday school teachers and teachers-of-teachers learned skills and received inspiration for their tasks in events held at Mount Sequoyah. All ages, from youth to retirees, find information and enrichment on this mountaintop.

SMU (Southern Methodist University) Campus Ministry in Dal­las, Texas, is also owned by the jurisdiction. This apportionment helps to provide an active and evangelistic United Methodist campus ministry for SMU students. It seems particularly appropriate for us to support a United Methodist campus ministry on our United Methodist campus. (It is not used to support the operation of the university or provide scholarships for its students.)

Lydia Patterson Institute, owned by the jurisdiction, is located in El Paso, Texas. It is a secondary school providing a high-quality education to Hispanic students. Many of these students come from the barrios of Juarez, Mexico, crossing the bridge daily in order to attend classes in a decidedly Christian environment. For most of them this is the first step toward a col­lege education and an improved standard of living.

Jurisdictional Administration Fund supports the Jurisdictional Confer­ence, which meets every four years to elect bishops, to elect trustees for the three institutions named above and owned by the jurisdiction, to approve programs such as the Jurisdictional Youth Ministry Organization, and to adopt the budget. This fund also pays for the costs of the jurisdictional office and staff, headed by Oklahoma's Dr. David Severe and house at Oklahoma City University.