Discipleship Ministries of The United Methodist Church

Discipleship Ministries, formerly known as the General Board of Discipleship (GBOD), is one of 13 international agencies, boards, and commissions of The United Methodist Church. Discipleship Ministries has the primary responsibility for the support of receiving, nurturing, and caring ministries of congregations in The United Methodist Church in the areas of Christian education, worship, music, evangelism, new church development, stewardship, lay leadership development, age-level (children, youth, adult) and family ministries, small-group ministries, ethnic local church concerns, devotional life, spiritual formation, and other areas related to the lives of people, church leaders, and the ministries of congregations.

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Description: Dr. Joycelyn Elders (1933-) served as U.S. Surgeon General in 1993 and 1994. She then returned to medical practice in Arkansas, but took time off to speak to the Northeast Jurisdictional Conference of the United Methodist Church meeting in Amherst, Massachusetts. Subjects included the education of children, health, sex education, and race - and the part to be played by the church. After an introduction, Dr. Elders begins speaking at 8:08.

Length: 60:01
Recording Date: July 16, 1996
Recorded at: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts