{"id":10594,"date":"2011-06-24T15:32:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T19:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=10594"},"modified":"2011-06-24T15:32:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T19:32:40","slug":"2011-12-georgia-harkness-scholarship-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/2011-12-georgia-harkness-scholarship-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"2011-12 Georgia Harkness Scholarship Recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Eleven Women Receive Seminary Scholarships<\/strong><br \/>\nThe 11 scholars awarded the 2011-12 Georgia Harkness Scholarships  have been invited to participate in the United Methodist continuing  educators\u2019 gathering in Miami, Fla., in July.<br \/>\nThe Rev. HiRho Park, the General Board of Higher Education and  Ministry\u2019s director of Continuing Formation for Ministry, said the  meeting will provide scholars a chance to learn about issues that the  church will deal with during the 2012 General Conference.<br \/>\nThe $5,000 scholarships are for women over 35 who are planning to  be ordained as elders. Second-career clergy are important to The United  Methodist Church, Park said.<br \/>\n\u201cOne-third of male clergy and one-fourth female clergy who are  serving churches with a 1,000 or more membership are second-career  elders, according to the research that my office conducted in 2009,\u201d  Park said.<br \/>\nGBHEM increased the number of recipients who will get the $5,000 a  year scholarship from 10 to 11 in 2009. This year, GBHEM hosted  luncheons and a dinner for past Georgia Harkness scholars during the  regional clergywomen\u2019s consultations. The luncheons were part of the  Board\u2019s effort to build a network of Georgia Harkness scholars who can  nurture other women entering ministry.<br \/>\nThe Georgia Harkness Scholarship Program endowment is more than  $500,000, and GBHEM hopes to build the endowment to $1 million with the  help of the United Methodist Foundation for Higher Education. Park  encourages local churches to invite current and former Harkness scholars  to speak about their faith journey as women leaders of the church.<br \/>\nHarkness, the first woman theologian to teach in a Protestant  seminary in the United States, dedicated her life to dismantling  discrimination because of race and gender in The United Methodist Church  and the world.<br \/>\nHarkness, who taught at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary  in Evanston, Ill., died in 1974. She was instrumental in the 1956  decision giving women full-clergy membership in The Methodist Church.<br \/>\nThe recipients of the scholarship named for her are chosen by a  committee of United Methodist elders and GBHEM staff. Of the eleven scholarship recipients, two are from BUSTH:<br \/>\n<strong>Kim Kie<\/strong> of Pittsfield, Mass.; New England Annual Conference; First UMC  of North Adams in North Adams, Mass.; Boston University School of  Theology.<br \/>\n<strong>Mimi Mills<\/strong> of Biddeford, Maine; New England Annual Conference; Crossroad  UMC in Sanford, Maine; Boston University School of Theology.<br \/>\nFor a full list of recipients, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gbhem.org\/site\/apps\/nlnet\/content3.aspx?c=lsKSL3POLvF&amp;b=3527165&amp;ct=10878407&amp;tr=y&amp;auid=8561143\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nFor more information about the Georgia Harkness Scholarship Program, or  to invite a Georgia Harkness scholar to speak at your church, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gbhem.org\/harkness\">www.gbhem.org\/harkness<\/a> or  contact the Rev. HiRho Park at 615-340-7409.Date:  6\/16\/2011 12:00:00 AM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven Women Receive Seminary Scholarships The 11 scholars awarded the 2011-12 Georgia Harkness Scholarships have been invited to participate in the United Methodist continuing educators\u2019 gathering in Miami, Fla., in July. The Rev. HiRho Park, the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry\u2019s director of Continuing Formation for Ministry, said the meeting will provide scholars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}