Antioch Community Church — A United Methodist Congregation issued the following announcement on Feb. 11.
Korean-American United Methodist pastors who serve cross-racial appointments created a program called “CRCC Madang” in 2017. The program is meant to cultivate a new generation of Korean-American United Methodist clergy through holistic learning to become transformative leaders in the denomination and beyond.
It begins with a weeklong intensive spiritual formation, learning and reflective time in person at a retreat center, followed by three months of weekly online classes.
The program provides practical training and continuing education from ministerial experts — gained from experience and not from a seminar — to enhance pastoral abilities and capabilities to serve their churches in a cross-cultural appointment.
The classes are practical and apply to subjects such as funerals and weddings, online service, self-care, hospital visitation, preaching in English and improving English accents, small-group ministry and retirement plans. They are led in English because the participants’ churches are English-speaking.
There are 15 graduates of CRCC Madang per year and 60 graduates total. The graduates make up about 24.7 % of the 243 Korean full-time pastors serving a cross-racial appointment as of 2020.
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Source: Antioch Community Church — A United Methodist Congregation
