Saturday, February 28, 2009
Liberian District Supt. Rev. Jerry Kulah's Comments on Segregation, Paternalism in Proposed Methodist Constitutional Amendments
Emphasis has been added by Cal Skinner.
PRESENTATION:
The Global Nature of the United Methodist Church
West Africa Central Conference, Convening with the Liberia Annual Conference, The United Methodist Church, Tubman Memmorial UMC, Weaver Avenue, Paynesville Monrovia, 17-21 December 2008
Bishop Felton May, General Secretary, General Board of Global Ministries, and Representative of the Council of Bishops;
Bishop Joseph Humper, President of the College of Bishops, West Africa Central Conference, and Resident Bishop, Sierra Leone Area;
Bishop Arthur F. Kulah, Acting Resident Bishop, Nigeria Area;
Bishop Benjamin Boni, Resident Bishop, Cote D’Ivoive Area;
Bishop John G. Innis, Resident Bishop, Liberia Area;
Distinguished Delegates to the seventh Quadrennial Session of the West Africa Central Conference, Observers, fellow United Methodists, my brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ.
Greetings
I bring you Advent greetings in the gracious name of our Savior and Lord, Christ Jesus. I would like to thank the College of Bishops through Bishop John Innis for the invitation to address this august body on the Global Nature of the Church; that is, the United Methodist Church. I feel very honored by this invitation, and pray that my attempt to speak to the issue that has raised serious concerns in our global Church in recent times would contribute to our understanding and appreciation of the Church of Jesus Christ that we all belong to. It is also my hope that this presentation will strengthen our resolve to remain united as a global Church as we carry out our mandate to advance the cause of the Gospel of Jesus Christ until he comes.
Introduction
The United Methodist Church, formerly, the Methodist Church, since its union with the Evangelical United Brethren Church on 23 May 1968 has its origin within the Church of England where John Wesley, its founder was a clergyman, as was his father, Samuel Wesley, before him. His mother, Susanna Wesley, a woman of zeal, devotion, and strength of character is said to have been the most influential personality in the life of John Wesley.
Following his radical Spiritual transformation at a prayer meeting on Aldrsgate Street, in London on May 24, 1738 Wesley proclaimed the Gospel of Jesus Christ with two major emphases, which remain foundational to Methodism.
John Wesley did not actually begin a Church, but founded a Movement for fostering revival within the Anglican Church of England.
During his day in the Anglican Church, the tradition was that an Anglican priest was not allowed to preach outside his parish.
The Anglican Church at the time was a Church for only the elite, with no concerns for the poor and marginalized.
In addition, Wesley saw a big contradiction in the Church’s stewardship of the Gospel intended for all people of the world, people of all conditions of life.
Therefore, he went out into the byways and highways, into the coalmines, the prisons, the street corners, the market places to proclaim the Gospel.
Because of his evangelistic outreach, thousands of souls came to faith in Jesus Christ.
For many of these saved souls he developed discipleship programs, and they became evangelists to their own people.
When he was threaten with excommunication for taking the Gospel outside the walls of the Anglican Church, it was when he made that famous declaration, that if you would excommunicate me for preaching the Gospel to lost and helpless souls, then
At the famous Christmas Conference of 1784, Cook and Asbury were concentrated as Bishops to oversee the work of the Movement outside all off England and today the United Methodist Church has indeed taken on a global nature with its presence on five continents of the world (Europe, America, Asia, Latin America, and Africa).
Even though we are today developing a global Church, yet the two images of being a Movement and a Church remains with us.
Definition of Key Words
Permit me to begin by providing descriptive definitions of key words contained in our topic under consideration. They are the Church and the Global Church
As the movement grew and expanded across the Atlantic, it was caught between the tension of remaining a Movement and becoming a Church. For nearly 100 years following the death of John Wesley, the Methodist Movement started becoming more ecclesiastical; at the same time, the Church started becoming division-driven over various ideologies.
USA Methodists became somewhat distinct from the British Methodists. The division was primarily instigated by the political dynamics in America following its independence when the Anglican Church with which the Methodist Movement in America was associated was seen as part of the colonial oppressive system against American independence. Hence, the Movement was forced to disassociate itself from the Anglican Church and, thereby, become a Church of its own.
The division continued with the Methodist of the North in America separating from Methodist of the South, mainly because of the insistence of Methodists of the South on the practice of slavery as its source of economic prosperity and would not let go. This the Methodist of the North had rejected as contradicting Scripture and the American Constitution that declares freedom for all and equal rights for all.
In addition, White Methodists refused the inclusion of black Methodists in their Churches.
Their outright rejection of blacks was because they could not accept the fact that people who had been their slaves would now become their equals in the Christian faith by worshiping with them in the same Church.
Thus, they refused to accept as equals African-American pastors and Churches.
This racial tension was one of the major factors leading to the American civil war.
Steps Leading to Unity amongst Methodists
Following the end of the civil war where the American South lost, the Methodists of both North and South began to find ways to reunite, but still had the exclusion of blacks from the Church to deal with.
As a compromise for reducing racial tension and for accommodating blacks within the Methodist Church, the General Conference created a Central Conference in the United States for all blacks while all whites remained in the Jurisdictional Conferences.
Certainly, this step was a smart way of sustaining racism and segregating between blacks and whites in the Methodist Church.
Hence, racism in actuality was not dealt with, but, at least, all black Methodists could comfortably worship in an all black Church while the whites continue to worship in an all white Church.
However, by the 1900s, the Methodist Church began to move toward a greater sense of unity as oppose to division. In addition, the Church began to reflect a more global nature.
All this effort toward unity culminated into the merger of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Methodist Church into the United Methodist Church on 23 May 1968.
Formation of African Central Conferences
While these developments were taking place in the United States, missionaries from both the north and south of America started moving into other parts of the world with the Gospel, including Africa.
Their earnest labor produced rapidly growing Churches.
These Churches soon formed into Annual Conferences.
Moreover, the Annual Conferences soon created Central Conferences because of their rapid growth.
Initially, Annual Conferences from outside the United States were not allowed to have representatives to General Conference commensurate with their membership.
When they were allowed to General Conference, they were permitted to have only two (2) representatives/delegates.
However, it was not long until the leadership of the General Conference recognized the injustices of this and began to change.
Annual Conferences from outside the United States were now allowed to have representatives to General Conference commensurate with their membership.
Proposal for Regional Conference and its implications for African Central Conferences
At the most recent General Conference, some leaders of the United Methodist Church in America proposed an amendment to the Constitution of the UMC for the creation of “Regional Conferences.”
Thus far, the idea proposed is that the Jurisdictional Conferences in the USA whose equivalent outside of the USA are our Central Conferences would remain unchanged.
However, that a Regional Conference be created in the United States that is over all the Jurisdictional Conferences.
At the same time, the proposal is requesting that African Central conferences change their name from Central Conference to Regional Conference.
Arguments for and Against the Proposal
Proponents of the amendment have advanced the following arguments:
The first is that we need to change our name from Central Conference to Regional Conference because this name has had a racial overtone in the USA. It is also alleged to have had a racial overtone outside of the USA, including Africa since it was the white missionaries who established Central Conferences here, thereby crating a paternalistic relationship between the Church in America and the Church in Africa by a mother-daughter relationship.
While this argument, on the surface, looks appealing and unifying, there is a serious problem with it.
In the first place, the African Central Conferences are not the ones putting forth this proposal.
Members of the United Methodist Church in America among whom there exist no Central Conference are putting it forward.
The African Church is not complaining for bearing the name “Central Conference” neither does it know the history that once created a Central Conference for blacks in the States which was later eliminated.
Therefore, the proponents of this proposal appear to have some peculiar motive that has not yet been disclosed to us.
Besides, ever since the Church transitioned from missionary leadership to African leadership several decades ago, the African Central Conferences became African institutions;
Therefore, this argument to change our name to Regional Conference is not yet relevant.
The second argument of proponents of this proposal is that
The American Regional Conference is not being defined in the amendment.
In the first place, the Commission given the responsibility to study the global nature of the Church has not yet made its report to the General Conference.
Certainly, this proposal, as it stands, has the propensity to create
Therefore, we are constrained to ask the following questions to our American brothers (and sisters) who are making this proposal:
In addition, we might not have a common Discipline and a unified way of doing the business of the United Methodist Church.
Regional Conferences doing their own things could keep going their separate ways until new denominations eventually evolve.
According to the first epistle to the Corinthians, Paul refers to the Church as members of one body but with many parts. Unless these parts effectively function together, the body is bound to suffer diverse consequences (I Corinthians 12: 12-27).
The American Methodists might just be the hands, while their African brothers and sisters are the feet.
We need each other to sustain the unity of the Church. The pursuit of Regional Conferences is not likely to enhance our unity but to divide us.
As long as an issue is ecclesial, biblical, and theological, it must concern the General Church. And we must jointly address it. For example, the issue of homosexuality, ordaining gay pastors and bishops, and approving of homosexual marriage, etc are all issues that concern the General Church. In addition, our primary source for answers to these issues remains the Holy Bible, not anyone’s culture or tradition.
The third argument surrounds the financial sustainability of the boards and agencies of the General Church.
As the financial situation currently stands, it is a fact that almost all of the money to run the agencies comes from the United States. Therefore the unpublicized but vehement argument amongst some of the leaders of our American Methodist church is:
The Western Jurisdiction is also being subsidized by other jurisdictions, particularly the Southeast Jurisdiction.
When one therefore uses this argument against the African Church, it has the tendency to be prejudicial and racist because the same argument is not being raised to the Western Jurisdiction.
Besides, our financial challenges are not due to rapid lost in membership as does the Western Jurisdiction, but civil crises, wars, diseases, coupled with institutionalized corruption of some African leaders that affects every institution, including the Church.
However, in my opinion, this argument should serve as a wake up call to all African Central Conferences to face up to the reality of becoming more and more financially sustainable.
Against this background, I am very delighted to share with this Conference that the Liberia Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church has already taken this path to financial sustainability. The Liberian Area has an endowment foundation call the Liberia Unite Methodist Empowerment Foundation. This Foundation, which has already raised over three hundred ($300,000.00) dollars, aims to raise ten million dollars within ten to fifteen years for the continued support of the projects and ministries of our Conference. We therefore call on other Annual Conferences within Africa to pursue this path to financial sustainability, if they have not yet begun to do so.
While it might be too early for the Central Conferences of Africa to out rightly reject the proposal that is still in its pupa stage of development, I wish to advance the following recommendations for the consideration of this Central Conference.
Until the Commission entrusted with the responsibility to study and make its report to the General Conference has done so, and clarifies to us why there is a need for this proposal, we are constrained to make the following assumptions:
Before Africans were allowed full representation commensurate with their membership, the General conference had committed itself or imposed upon itself a maximum of 1000 delegates of global representation to General Conferences. The current Church growth statistics shows that a good number of the Churches in the USA are in a state of decline for several reasons. One reason is due to migration. But a major reason is that some of the Churches have rejected biblical Christianity and settled for a liberal theology that denies cardinal biblical truths.
For example, some pastors and Churches in the United States no longer believe in the atonement, the virgin birth of Jesus Christ; the physical death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and, hence, deny the authority of Scripture.
They have lost their vision for the Church as taught in the Bible, and as John Wesley understood and taught it.
As Rick Warren clearly points out in his book, the Purpose Driven Church, “
Another sad reason for their rapid decline is their gravitation towards and warm embrace of homosexual practices to the extent that they are even daring to coerced the General Church to accept. These Churches described above have lost many of their members to other denominations and are in perpetual decline. In addition, the situation is not likely to change until they repent and return to the faith of our fathers (Biblical Christianity).
Our (African) delegates going to General Conference are going there with a biblical perspective.
Because of our biblical perspective and continued growth, the liberals within the Church see their African brothers and sisters as threat to the control of the Church; just as about 140 years ago, whites Methodists in America saw black people as a threat to the control of the Church.
Certainly, this divisive spirit should not be encouraged amongst brothers and sisters who claim allegiance to Jesus Christ.
Christian Leadership in the Context of the Global Nature of the Church
The need for quality leadership to govern all the Societies created by the Methodist Movement was very central to the ministry of John Wesley. He accomplished this through the Class meetings. As David W. Kendall of the Free Methodist Church of North America points out,
Wesley known that developing quality leaders was the most important task of any leader. He known also that if you lead a Movement or a Church and wish to develop quality leaders, you are responsible to
In addition, this is the kind of leader the global Church needs; a leader with a global mindset, a leader that is visionary. A global leader also develops other leaders around him or her; and therefore works as a team and not as a lone ranger.
As we endeavor to elect a leader for our Church for the Sierra Leone Area at this Conference, it is our prayer that God will guide the process and provides us a visionary leader who will stand on the shoulders of previous leaders to take our Church to greater heights.
Conclusion Remarks
As I end this presentation, I wish to call to mind a concern raised by John Wesley five years to his demise. He had entertained the fear that, the people called Methodists would not cease to exist across the globe but that they would exist as a mere sect, having the form of godliness but having no power to live for Christ.
And that would certainly be the case unless they held to the
I am afraid that the current trend within global Methodism wherein some are calling for segregation within the Church in the name of Regional Conferences might well be confirming Wesley’s fear.
Let us recommit ourselves to the Lordship of Jesus Christ and to an undivided commitment to the supremacy of the Holy Bible as our final authority for faith and practice.
We must ensure that after our labor on earth is done; we shall leave behind positive legacies that future generations would build upon.
We must build upon and leave behind a United Methodist Church, as did John Wesley and others before us.
I thank you.
PRESENTATION:
The Global Nature of the United Methodist Church
West Africa Central Conference, Convening with the Liberia Annual Conference, The United Methodist Church, Tubman Memmorial UMC, Weaver Avenue, Paynesville Monrovia, 17-21 December 2008
By: Jerry P. KulahBishop Rose-Marie Wenner, Resident Bishop, Germany Area, and Representative of the Council of Bishops;
District Superintendent, Monrovia District Conference
Liberia Annual Conference, the United Methodist Church
Bishop Felton May, General Secretary, General Board of Global Ministries, and Representative of the Council of Bishops;
Bishop Joseph Humper, President of the College of Bishops, West Africa Central Conference, and Resident Bishop, Sierra Leone Area;
Bishop Arthur F. Kulah, Acting Resident Bishop, Nigeria Area;
Bishop Benjamin Boni, Resident Bishop, Cote D’Ivoive Area;
Bishop John G. Innis, Resident Bishop, Liberia Area;
Distinguished Delegates to the seventh Quadrennial Session of the West Africa Central Conference, Observers, fellow United Methodists, my brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ.
Greetings
I bring you Advent greetings in the gracious name of our Savior and Lord, Christ Jesus. I would like to thank the College of Bishops through Bishop John Innis for the invitation to address this august body on the Global Nature of the Church; that is, the United Methodist Church. I feel very honored by this invitation, and pray that my attempt to speak to the issue that has raised serious concerns in our global Church in recent times would contribute to our understanding and appreciation of the Church of Jesus Christ that we all belong to. It is also my hope that this presentation will strengthen our resolve to remain united as a global Church as we carry out our mandate to advance the cause of the Gospel of Jesus Christ until he comes.
Introduction
The United Methodist Church, formerly, the Methodist Church, since its union with the Evangelical United Brethren Church on 23 May 1968 has its origin within the Church of England where John Wesley, its founder was a clergyman, as was his father, Samuel Wesley, before him. His mother, Susanna Wesley, a woman of zeal, devotion, and strength of character is said to have been the most influential personality in the life of John Wesley.
Following his radical Spiritual transformation at a prayer meeting on Aldrsgate Street, in London on May 24, 1738 Wesley proclaimed the Gospel of Jesus Christ with two major emphases, which remain foundational to Methodism.
First was the “The Gospel of God’s grace, offered to all (people) and equal to every human need.”The end result of Wesley’s ministry was its great spiritual transforming effect across England, America and now Africa, Asia and South America.
Second was the “moral ideal which this gospel presents to (people)”-salvation from sin; call to social holiness of life that responds in the love and service of humanity (Scott, B. James and Molly Davis Scott. Restoring the Wesleyan Class- Meeting Dallas, Texas: Provident Publishing, 2008, p.3).
John Wesley did not actually begin a Church, but founded a Movement for fostering revival within the Anglican Church of England.
During his day in the Anglican Church, the tradition was that an Anglican priest was not allowed to preach outside his parish.
The Anglican Church at the time was a Church for only the elite, with no concerns for the poor and marginalized.
In addition, Wesley saw a big contradiction in the Church’s stewardship of the Gospel intended for all people of the world, people of all conditions of life.
Therefore, he went out into the byways and highways, into the coalmines, the prisons, the street corners, the market places to proclaim the Gospel.
Because of his evangelistic outreach, thousands of souls came to faith in Jesus Christ.
For many of these saved souls he developed discipleship programs, and they became evangelists to their own people.
When he was threaten with excommunication for taking the Gospel outside the walls of the Anglican Church, it was when he made that famous declaration, that if you would excommunicate me for preaching the Gospel to lost and helpless souls, then
“The World is my parish!”The continued growth of that Movement led the Church across the Atlantic to the Colonies of America. Wesley then sent Francis Asbury and Thomas Cook there to oversee the work.
At the famous Christmas Conference of 1784, Cook and Asbury were concentrated as Bishops to oversee the work of the Movement outside all off England and today the United Methodist Church has indeed taken on a global nature with its presence on five continents of the world (Europe, America, Asia, Latin America, and Africa).
Even though we are today developing a global Church, yet the two images of being a Movement and a Church remains with us.
Definition of Key Words
Permit me to begin by providing descriptive definitions of key words contained in our topic under consideration. They are the Church and the Global Church
The Church:Development Reality of the Methodist Movement across the Globe
Several images are used in the New Testament to describe the Church as “the temple”, “the Body of Christ”, and “the Bride of Christ” to whom Christ has entrusted the responsibility to care, nurture, evangelize, worship, edify believers, give, study, pray , seek spiritual gifts and be holy. The Church is a community of true believers under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Persons divinely called preach the Word of God in this redemptive fellowship, and the sacraments are duly administered. In classical Greek, the Church is the “ekklesia” of God; a people called out and set apart for God; who have been brought into life relationship with Jesus Christ by faith and indwelt and empowered by the Holy Spirit (Eph. 1:3-5; 1 Pet. 2:9).
Hence, the Church is founded on the Lord Jesus Christ (Matt. 16:18). The Church is brought into being and empowered by the Holy Spirit, who is constantly developing the character of the Lord Jesus Christ in his people (Acts. 1: 8; 2; 4:11-12; 1 Pet. 2:4-6). The Church of Jesus Christ contains people of all races who thereby become one new people, one big family in the sight of God (John 17: 11, 20-21; 1 Cor. 12:12-13)
The Global Church:
A Church is a global Church where there is a fair and proportionate representation of its members across the globe to all of its decision-making bodiesIt is a Church where all of its members love, support and respect one another, and perceive one another as indispensable members of the One Body of Christ. The Global Church is a Church that encourages all of its members to bring their resources (gifts, graces, skills, abilities, talents, expertise, material goods, etc) together for the common growth and development of the Church, and of one another until Christ comes.
- committees,
- agencies,
- boards, etc.
As the movement grew and expanded across the Atlantic, it was caught between the tension of remaining a Movement and becoming a Church. For nearly 100 years following the death of John Wesley, the Methodist Movement started becoming more ecclesiastical; at the same time, the Church started becoming division-driven over various ideologies.
USA Methodists became somewhat distinct from the British Methodists. The division was primarily instigated by the political dynamics in America following its independence when the Anglican Church with which the Methodist Movement in America was associated was seen as part of the colonial oppressive system against American independence. Hence, the Movement was forced to disassociate itself from the Anglican Church and, thereby, become a Church of its own.
The division continued with the Methodist of the North in America separating from Methodist of the South, mainly because of the insistence of Methodists of the South on the practice of slavery as its source of economic prosperity and would not let go. This the Methodist of the North had rejected as contradicting Scripture and the American Constitution that declares freedom for all and equal rights for all.
In addition, White Methodists refused the inclusion of black Methodists in their Churches.
Their outright rejection of blacks was because they could not accept the fact that people who had been their slaves would now become their equals in the Christian faith by worshiping with them in the same Church.
Thus, they refused to accept as equals African-American pastors and Churches.
This racial tension was one of the major factors leading to the American civil war.
Steps Leading to Unity amongst Methodists
Following the end of the civil war where the American South lost, the Methodists of both North and South began to find ways to reunite, but still had the exclusion of blacks from the Church to deal with.
As a compromise for reducing racial tension and for accommodating blacks within the Methodist Church, the General Conference created a Central Conference in the United States for all blacks while all whites remained in the Jurisdictional Conferences.
Certainly, this step was a smart way of sustaining racism and segregating between blacks and whites in the Methodist Church.
Hence, racism in actuality was not dealt with, but, at least, all black Methodists could comfortably worship in an all black Church while the whites continue to worship in an all white Church.
However, by the 1900s, the Methodist Church began to move toward a greater sense of unity as oppose to division. In addition, the Church began to reflect a more global nature.
- The North and South became fully integrated;
- the black Central Conference was eliminated, black men and women were granted membership in white local Churches and Jurisdictional Conferences;
- black preachers became members of the Annual Conferences and Jurisdictional Conferences and were included in the leadership.
All this effort toward unity culminated into the merger of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Methodist Church into the United Methodist Church on 23 May 1968.
Formation of African Central Conferences
While these developments were taking place in the United States, missionaries from both the north and south of America started moving into other parts of the world with the Gospel, including Africa.
Their earnest labor produced rapidly growing Churches.
These Churches soon formed into Annual Conferences.
Moreover, the Annual Conferences soon created Central Conferences because of their rapid growth.
Initially, Annual Conferences from outside the United States were not allowed to have representatives to General Conference commensurate with their membership.
When they were allowed to General Conference, they were permitted to have only two (2) representatives/delegates.
However, it was not long until the leadership of the General Conference recognized the injustices of this and began to change.
Annual Conferences from outside the United States were now allowed to have representatives to General Conference commensurate with their membership.
Proposal for Regional Conference and its implications for African Central Conferences
At the most recent General Conference, some leaders of the United Methodist Church in America proposed an amendment to the Constitution of the UMC for the creation of “Regional Conferences.”
Thus far, the idea proposed is that the Jurisdictional Conferences in the USA whose equivalent outside of the USA are our Central Conferences would remain unchanged.
However, that a Regional Conference be created in the United States that is over all the Jurisdictional Conferences.
At the same time, the proposal is requesting that African Central conferences change their name from Central Conference to Regional Conference.
Arguments for and Against the Proposal
Proponents of the amendment have advanced the following arguments:
The first is that we need to change our name from Central Conference to Regional Conference because this name has had a racial overtone in the USA. It is also alleged to have had a racial overtone outside of the USA, including Africa since it was the white missionaries who established Central Conferences here, thereby crating a paternalistic relationship between the Church in America and the Church in Africa by a mother-daughter relationship.
While this argument, on the surface, looks appealing and unifying, there is a serious problem with it.
In the first place, the African Central Conferences are not the ones putting forth this proposal.
Members of the United Methodist Church in America among whom there exist no Central Conference are putting it forward.
The African Church is not complaining for bearing the name “Central Conference” neither does it know the history that once created a Central Conference for blacks in the States which was later eliminated.
Therefore, the proponents of this proposal appear to have some peculiar motive that has not yet been disclosed to us.
Besides, ever since the Church transitioned from missionary leadership to African leadership several decades ago, the African Central Conferences became African institutions;
- self-governing,
- self-sustaining,
- self-theologizing, and largely,
- self-supporting.
Therefore, this argument to change our name to Regional Conference is not yet relevant.
The second argument of proponents of this proposal is that
“We need to cerate the possibility of a regional Conference in the USA to deal with cultural issues and other questions that do not concern the rest of the world."Again, there are several problems associated with this argument.
The American Regional Conference is not being defined in the amendment.
In the first place, the Commission given the responsibility to study the global nature of the Church has not yet made its report to the General Conference.
- At the seat of the just ended General Conference, which we were privileged to attend, they brought in an incomplete report and
- asked for additional four years to study the globalization of the Church.
Certainly, this proposal, as it stands, has the propensity to create
- division and
- segregation
Therefore, we are constrained to ask the following questions to our American brothers (and sisters) who are making this proposal:
- Why are you trying to create a new structure in America, which will not affect the current structure of the Jurisdictional Conferences there, and are giving the name to the African Church without changing the name of the Jurisdictional Conference in America?
- Why are you trying to create a new structure in America with no definition or clear description, no clearly stated objectives, while sustaining the Jurisdictional Conferences, which are the equivalent of the African Central Conferences? (Norlan B. Harmon, Understanding the United Methodist Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998, p. 100)
In addition, we might not have a common Discipline and a unified way of doing the business of the United Methodist Church.
Regional Conferences doing their own things could keep going their separate ways until new denominations eventually evolve.
According to the first epistle to the Corinthians, Paul refers to the Church as members of one body but with many parts. Unless these parts effectively function together, the body is bound to suffer diverse consequences (I Corinthians 12: 12-27).
The American Methodists might just be the hands, while their African brothers and sisters are the feet.
We need each other to sustain the unity of the Church. The pursuit of Regional Conferences is not likely to enhance our unity but to divide us.
As long as an issue is ecclesial, biblical, and theological, it must concern the General Church. And we must jointly address it. For example, the issue of homosexuality, ordaining gay pastors and bishops, and approving of homosexual marriage, etc are all issues that concern the General Church. In addition, our primary source for answers to these issues remains the Holy Bible, not anyone’s culture or tradition.
The third argument surrounds the financial sustainability of the boards and agencies of the General Church.
As the financial situation currently stands, it is a fact that almost all of the money to run the agencies comes from the United States. Therefore the unpublicized but vehement argument amongst some of the leaders of our American Methodist church is:
"Let the people who pay the money make the decisions about Church Structure.”Based upon information we often gather from various UMC websites, African Central Conferences are not alone in their struggle to become financially self-sustaining.
The Western Jurisdiction is also being subsidized by other jurisdictions, particularly the Southeast Jurisdiction.
When one therefore uses this argument against the African Church, it has the tendency to be prejudicial and racist because the same argument is not being raised to the Western Jurisdiction.
Besides, our financial challenges are not due to rapid lost in membership as does the Western Jurisdiction, but civil crises, wars, diseases, coupled with institutionalized corruption of some African leaders that affects every institution, including the Church.
However, in my opinion, this argument should serve as a wake up call to all African Central Conferences to face up to the reality of becoming more and more financially sustainable.
Against this background, I am very delighted to share with this Conference that the Liberia Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church has already taken this path to financial sustainability. The Liberian Area has an endowment foundation call the Liberia Unite Methodist Empowerment Foundation. This Foundation, which has already raised over three hundred ($300,000.00) dollars, aims to raise ten million dollars within ten to fifteen years for the continued support of the projects and ministries of our Conference. We therefore call on other Annual Conferences within Africa to pursue this path to financial sustainability, if they have not yet begun to do so.
While it might be too early for the Central Conferences of Africa to out rightly reject the proposal that is still in its pupa stage of development, I wish to advance the following recommendations for the consideration of this Central Conference.
- That the Commission entrusted with the responsibility to study this proposal and make a report to General Conference first completes its studies and make its report. It must
give us its conclusions, and
proposed changes with clear definitions.
Then we as the Central Conferences of Africa will be able to make an informed decision based on our commitment to John Wesley’s dream to sustained a biblically directed, evangelistically functional, Spirit-filled, credible, accountable and unified global Church called the United Methodist Church. - That the Commission to study the proposal be restructured to reflect a global team, since, in fact, the proposal is one that has global implications. Leaders from the American UMC cannot plan for us in isolation and tell us what is best for us.
The period of colonization and paternalism is over for the people and Church in Africa.
Any decision regarding the future of the Church must involved leaders of the Church in Africa from its conception stage to the time it becomes a finished product. In this way, such a decision would be understood, owned by the people, and sustained by them.
Until the Commission entrusted with the responsibility to study and make its report to the General Conference has done so, and clarifies to us why there is a need for this proposal, we are constrained to make the following assumptions:
Before Africans were allowed full representation commensurate with their membership, the General conference had committed itself or imposed upon itself a maximum of 1000 delegates of global representation to General Conferences. The current Church growth statistics shows that a good number of the Churches in the USA are in a state of decline for several reasons. One reason is due to migration. But a major reason is that some of the Churches have rejected biblical Christianity and settled for a liberal theology that denies cardinal biblical truths.
For example, some pastors and Churches in the United States no longer believe in the atonement, the virgin birth of Jesus Christ; the physical death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and, hence, deny the authority of Scripture.
They have lost their vision for the Church as taught in the Bible, and as John Wesley understood and taught it.
As Rick Warren clearly points out in his book, the Purpose Driven Church, “
Where there is no vision, the people go to another parish."So many Methodists have left these liberal congregations for other denominations; some have even left the faith for a Christ less eternality, because the shepherds have not fed them with adequate spiritual food (Ezekiel 34: 1-13).
Another sad reason for their rapid decline is their gravitation towards and warm embrace of homosexual practices to the extent that they are even daring to coerced the General Church to accept. These Churches described above have lost many of their members to other denominations and are in perpetual decline. In addition, the situation is not likely to change until they repent and return to the faith of our fathers (Biblical Christianity).
This means that as the African representation increases, the American representation decreases proportionately to keep the limit of 1000 membership at General Conference.The significance of this reality is that the missionaries who came to us in Africa and went to the rest of the world a hundred years ago brought to us a biblical faith.
As the Church in Africa has grown and the formula used to have representation at the General Conference applied, African representation has dramatically increased until nearly 30% of General Conference is now coming from outside of the USA!
Our (African) delegates going to General Conference are going there with a biblical perspective.
Because of our biblical perspective and continued growth, the liberals within the Church see their African brothers and sisters as threat to the control of the Church; just as about 140 years ago, whites Methodists in America saw black people as a threat to the control of the Church.
Certainly, this divisive spirit should not be encouraged amongst brothers and sisters who claim allegiance to Jesus Christ.
Christian Leadership in the Context of the Global Nature of the Church
The need for quality leadership to govern all the Societies created by the Methodist Movement was very central to the ministry of John Wesley. He accomplished this through the Class meetings. As David W. Kendall of the Free Methodist Church of North America points out,
“The rise and spread of Methodism owed much to the Class-Meeting as a laboratory for developing a holy people, a people transformed by God’s grace who, in turn, had transforming impact upon their world.”James and Molly Scott also observed,
“Virtually all Church lay leaders came out of the Class-Meetings…mature both spiritually and practically. Young adults came out of the Class-Meeting grounded in biblical theology, spiritually alive, clear about their Christian values and prepared and motivated in a number of ways to serve the Church and Christ in the world” (Scott, B. James and Molly Davis Scott. Restoring the Wesleyan Class- Meeting, Dallas, Texas: Provident Publishing, 2008, p.3).Unfortunately, many of our Churches, Districts, and Conferences today ignore this method of developing leaders within our Church.
Wesley known that developing quality leaders was the most important task of any leader. He known also that if you lead a Movement or a Church and wish to develop quality leaders, you are responsible to
(i) appreciate them for who they are;Wesley left this legacy with us.
(ii) believe that they will do their best;
(iii) praise their achievements and not envy their achievements; and
(iv) accept your personal responsibility to them as their leader.
In addition, this is the kind of leader the global Church needs; a leader with a global mindset, a leader that is visionary. A global leader also develops other leaders around him or her; and therefore works as a team and not as a lone ranger.
As we endeavor to elect a leader for our Church for the Sierra Leone Area at this Conference, it is our prayer that God will guide the process and provides us a visionary leader who will stand on the shoulders of previous leaders to take our Church to greater heights.
Conclusion Remarks
As I end this presentation, I wish to call to mind a concern raised by John Wesley five years to his demise. He had entertained the fear that, the people called Methodists would not cease to exist across the globe but that they would exist as a mere sect, having the form of godliness but having no power to live for Christ.
And that would certainly be the case unless they held to the
- faith,
- doctrine, and
- discipline
I am afraid that the current trend within global Methodism wherein some are calling for segregation within the Church in the name of Regional Conferences might well be confirming Wesley’s fear.
Let us recommit ourselves to the Lordship of Jesus Christ and to an undivided commitment to the supremacy of the Holy Bible as our final authority for faith and practice.
We must ensure that after our labor on earth is done; we shall leave behind positive legacies that future generations would build upon.
We must build upon and leave behind a United Methodist Church, as did John Wesley and others before us.
I thank you.
Labels: Free Methodist Church, Jerry Kulah, John Wesley, Liberia, Rick Warren, United Methodist Chuch
# posted by Cal Skinner : 1:06 PM
Friday, February 06, 2009
DeKalb County Wind Farm Locatoins
PIN Number, the owners' names and mailing addresses are included for the DeKalb County wind farm locations below:
0636400002 - SANDERSON DOUGLAS G, 3528 HERMAN RD,
0636501003 - RIGHT OF WAY
1002300002 - J & J FAIVRE FARMS LLC, 8555 ANDRA CIR KINGSTON, IL 601458289
1002300004 - J & J FAIVRE FARMS LLC, 8555 ANDRA CIR KINGSTON, IL 601458289
1002400006 - J P FAIVRE LLC, 8555 ANDRA CIR KINGSTON, IL 601458289
1003100004 - DAVID J & C DAWN HALVERSON, PO BOX 245 DEKALB, IL 601150245
1003300005 - JOHN GOVIG, 17936 SHABBONA RD MALTA, IL 60150
1003300006 - JAMES GOVIG, 405 S MALTA RD MALTA, IL 601509787
1003400004 - SCOTT LUTZ, 146 SENECA TRL BLOOMINGDALE, IL 601082426
1004200002 - BARBARA GOVIG, 17391 SHABBONA RD MALTA, IL 601508403
1004400001 - BARBARA GOVIG, 17391 SHABBONA RD MALTA, IL 601508403
1005300002 - WILLIAM GROVER, 205 S WOODLAWN RD ROCHELLE, IL 610689615
1005300005 - WILLIAM GROVER, 205 S WOODLAWN RD ROCHELLE, IL 610689615
1006400002 - TARRYN THADEN, 115 ANDRESEN CT DEKALB, IL 601151025
1007400001 - DANIEL SANDERSON, 16445 TOWER RD MALTA, IL 601508603
1008100002 - JAMES J & BERNICE E JONES, 823 BRUCE ROBERT LN HAMPSHIRE, IL 601407707
1008200002 - JAMES J & BERNICE E JONES, 823 BRUCE ROBERT LN HAMPSHIRE, IL 601407707
1008300002 - PHYLLIS BENSON, 101 GOLF CT SANDWICH, IL 605481447
1009100002 - FRANKLIN D & CAROL W SANDBERG, 101 S MALTA RD MALTA, IL 601509782
1010300003 - VERN DRENDEL FARMS, LLC, 11721 IL STATE RTE 72 GENOA, IL 60135
1010400001 - VERN DRENDEL FARMS, LLC, 11721 IL STATE RTE 72 GENOA, IL 60135
1011100001 - JAY JOHNSEN. 40W289 RTE 38 ELBURN, IL 60119
1011300001 - JAY JOHNSEN, 40W289 RTE 38 ELBURN, IL 60119
1015100002 - VERN DRENDEL FARMS, LLC, 11721 IL STATE RTE 72 GENOA, IL 60135
1015300004 - VERN DRENDEL FARMS, LLC, 11721 IL STATE RTE 72 GENOA, IL 60135
1018200007 - RICHARD A & EVELYN I SANDERSON, 2944 GREENWOOD ACRES DR APT W326 DEKALB, IL 601154949
1018200009 - RICHARD SANDERSON, 2944 GREENWOOD ACRES DR APT W326 DEKALB, IL 601154949
1018200010 - RICHARD A & EVELYN I SANDERSON, 2944 GREENWOOD ACRES DR APT W326 DEKALB, IL 601154949
1018300003 - LINDA HINKSTON, 1306 MONROE ST MENDOTA, IL 613421469
1018300004 - DOUGLAS SANDERSON, 3528 HERMANN RD LEE, IL 605309630
1018400006 - LINDA HINKSTON, 1306 MONROE ST MENDOTA, IL 613421469
1019200007 - RICHARD A & EVELYN I SANDERSON, 2944 GREENWOOD ACRES DR APT W326 DEKALB, IL 601154949
1020200002 - LAVERN L & MARJORIE A OLSON, PO BOX 165 102 E NAVAHO SHABBONA, IL
605500165
1020300001 - ROBERT MULLINS, 217 N SHABBONA RD SHABBONA, IL 605509600
1020400001 - NATL BANK & TRUST CO, FARM SERVICE DEPT 1350 W PRAIRIE DR SYCAMORE, IL
601783166
1021100004 - VERN DRENDEL FARMS, LLC, 11721 IL STATE RTE 72 GENOA, IL 60135
1021200002 - VERN DRENDEL FARMS, LLC, 11721 IL STATE RTE 72 GENOA, IL 60135
1022100004 - OEHLERKING, E & M TRUST, PO BOX 960 DUNDEE, IL 601180960
1022300004 - LOIS HICKEY, 9265 CHALLAND RD SHABBONA, IL 605504072
1022300005 - ROBERT HICKEY, 14030 HAUMESSER RD SHABBONA, IL 605504091
1022300006 - EUGENE W & DOROTHY L HERRMANN, 13287 SHABBONA RD SHABBONA, IL 605504037
1025100001 - KENNETH, ERNEST AND LORETTA EHRHART, 13738 UNIVERSITY RD SHABBONA, IL
605504061
1025200001 - KENNETH EHRHART, 13738 UNIVERSITY RD SHABBONA, IL 605504061
1025300001 - ESSER FARMS INC, c/o JAMES A STODDARD 2045 ABERDEEN CT - STE A SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
1025400005 - NATL BANK & TRUST CO, 230 W STATE ST SYCAMORE, IL 601781419
1026200003 - OEHLERKING, E & M TRUST, PO BOX 960 DUNDEE, IL 601180960
1026300002 - ROBERT E & JO ANN SKABO, 8910 TOMAHAWK TRL SHABBONA, IL 605504147
1026400002 - BARBARA GOVIG, 17391 SHABBONA RD MALTA, IL 601508403
1026400003 - BARBARA GOVIG, 17391 SHABBONA RD MALTA, IL 601508403
1027100003 - EUGENE W & DOROTHY L HERRMANN, 13287 SHABBONA RD SHABBONA, IL 605504037
1027300004 - EUGENE W & DOROTHY L HERRMANN, 13287 SHABBONA RD SHABBONA, IL 605504037
1027300006 - VAUGHN BOEHNE, 13236 SHABBONA RD SHABBONA, IL 605504158
1027400004 - ABP FARMS TRUST, c/o MARTIN GOODRICH & WADDELL INC 2020 ABERDEEN CT SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
1028400001 - EUGENE W & DOROTHY L HERRMANN, 13287 SHABBONA RD SHABBONA, IL 605504037
1029100002 - WILLIAM HAJEK, 11683 MCALLISTER RD WATERMAN, IL 605567084
1029100003 - VAUGHN BOEHNE, 13236 SHABBONA RD SHABBONA, IL 605504158
1029200001 - NATL BANK & TRUST CO, FARM SERVICE DEPT 1350 W PRAIRIE DR SYCAMORE, IL 601783166
1030200004 - ROBERT E & JO ANN SKABO, 8910 TOMAHAWK TRL SHABBONA, IL 605504147
1031300003 - RAYMOND MAST, PO BOX 35 LEE, IL 605300035
1031400001 - LAVERN R & M CAROLE JORDAL, 3118 E SLEEPY HOLLOW RD EARLVILLE, IL 605185037
1031400003 - LAVERN R & M CAROLE JORDAL, 3118 E SLEEPY HOLLOW RD EARLVILLE, IL 605185037
1032100002 - RAYMOND MAST, PO BOX 35 LEE, IL 605300035
1032200001 - RAYMOND MAST, PO BOX 35 LEE, IL 605300035
1032200002 - JAMES L & DANIEL J KENNEDY, PO BOX 135 LEE, IL 605300135
1032300001 - DIANE FOX, 10530 E 850TH ST COLCHESTER, IL 623261981
1033100002 - KENNETH & JANE FLEWELLIN, PO BOX 272 305 W CHEROKEE SHABBONA, IL 605500272
1033200005 - KENNETH & JANE FLEWELLIN, PO BOX 272 305 W CHEROKEE SHABBONA, IL 605500272
1033400002 - FITZGERALD FAMILY FARMS LLC, 12407 W MAIN STREET RD HUNTLEY, IL 601429570
1034200003 - ABP FARMS TRUST, c/o MARTIN GOODRICH & WADDELL INC 2020 ABERDEEN CT SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
1035100005 - ABP FARMS TRUST, c/o MARTIN GOODRICH & WADDELL INC 2020 ABERDEEN CT SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
1035200008 - MARTIN GOODRICH & WADDELL INC, 2020 ABERDEEN CT SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
1036100002 - ABP FARMS TRUST, c/o MARTIN GOODRICH & WADDELL INC 2020 ABERDEEN CT SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
1036400008 - KENNETH E & GLENDOLA BARSHINGER, 15120 WILLOW RUN DR DEKALB, IL 601159052
1127300003 - TERRY MARTIN, 8060 MINNEGAN RD WATERMAN, IL 605567112
1127300004 - MARY JOAN HALFPENNY, 9035 MCGIRR RD WATERMAN, IL 605567233
1127400002 - HAROLD T & JEANETTE M ERLENBACH, 8288 LEE RD WATERMAN, IL 605567049
1128300003 - ELLA ROSENWINKEL, 13110 GALENA RD PLANO, IL 605459522
1128400002 - & RUSSELL, LELAND G WILLIAMS, ROSALIE M, 453 JASMINE ST DEKALB, IL 601158968
1129300006 - TEND FARMS TRUST, c/o MARTIN GOODRICH & WADDELL INC 2020 ABERDEEN CT SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
1129300008 - TEND FARMS TRUST, c/o MARTIN GOODRICH & WADDELL INC 2020 ABERDEEN CT SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
1129400004 - MARY JOAN HALFPENNY, 9035 MCGIRR RD WATERMAN, IL 605567233
1129400005 - ELLA ROSENWINKEL, 13110 GALENA RD PLANO, IL 605459522
1129502002 - TAX DEPT UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD CO, 1700 FARNAM ST FL SOUTH OMAHA, NE 68102
1130100002 - TEND FARMS TRUST, c/o MARTIN GOODRICH & WADDELL INC 2020 ABERDEEN CT SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
1130200009 - KENNETH E & GLENDOLA BARSHINGER, 15120 WILLOW RUN DR DEKALB, IL 601159052
1130200010 - SHERI MILLSPAUGH, 3582 W 400 S ALBION, IN 467019490
1131200005 - TEND FARMS TRUST, c/o MARTIN GOODRICH & WADDELL INC 2020 ABERDEEN CT SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
1131400005 - TEND FARMS TRUST, c/o MARTIN GOODRICH & WADDELL INC 2020 ABERDEEN CT SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
1132100015 - TEND FARMS TRUST, c/o MARTIN GOODRICH & WADDELL INC 2020 ABERDEEN CT SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
1132300002 - DONALD D & SARAH L BEND, 1426 S 157TH ST OMAHA, NE 681302519
1132300004 - TEND FARMS TRUST, c/o MARTIN GOODRICH & WADDELL INC 2020 ABERDEEN CT SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
1132400002 - TERRY R & SHERRIE M MARTIN, 8060 MINNEGAN RD WATERMAN, IL 605567112
1132502003 - TAX DEPT UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD CO, 1700 FARNAM ST FL SOUTH OMAHA, NE 68102
1133300002 - KAY THORSEN, 12495 WATERMAN RD WATERMAN, IL 605567222
1224200003 - WINTERTON DEAN A TRUSTEE, 1173 COUNTY LINE RD
1224400012 - WINTERTON DEAN A TRUSTEE, 1173 COUNTY LINE RD
1301100001 - ABP FARMS TRUST, c/o MARTIN GOODRICH & WADDELL INC 2020 ABERDEEN CT SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
1301400002 - ABP FARMS TRUST, c/o MARTIN GOODRICH & WADDELL INC 2020 ABERDEEN CT SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
1304200001 - EVELYN BRUMMEL, 2976 LEE RD SHABBONA, IL 605504126
1304300004 - ROBERT E & JO ANN SKABO, 8910 TOMAHAWK TRL SHABBONA, IL 605504147
1304400003 - ROBERT E & JO ANN SKABO, 8910 TOMAHAWK TRL SHABBONA, IL 605504147
1309200001 - EVELYN BRUMMEL, 2976 LEE RD SHABBONA, IL 605504126
1309400001 - WILLIAM R & BONNIE J MULLINS, 215 N SHABBONA RD SHABBONA, IL 605509600
1316100003 - WILLIAM MULLINS, 215 N SHABBONA RD SHABBONA, IL 605509600
1316100004 - WILLIAM MULLINS, 215 N SHABBONA RD SHABBONA, IL 60550
1316100005 - WILLIAM MULLINS, 215 N SHABBONA RD SHABBONA, IL 605509600
1316200007 - WILLIAM MULLINS, 215 N SHABBONA RD SHABBONA, IL 605509600
1316200013 - WILLIAM MULLINS, 215 N SHABBONA RD SHABBONA, IL 605509600
1316300004 - KENNETH & JANE FLEWELLIN, PO BOX 272 305 W CHEROKEE SHABBONA, IL 605500272
1316300005 - WILLIAM R & BONNIE J MULLINS, 215 N SHABBONA RD SHABBONA, IL 605509600
1316501001 - PROPERTY TAX DEPT - AOB-2 B N & S F RAILWAY CO, PO BOX 961089 FORT WORTH, TX 761610089
1317100001 - TEND FARMS TRUST, c/o MARTIN GOODRICH & WADDELL INC 2020 ABERDEEN CT SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
1317400006 - KENNETH & JANE FLEWELLIN, PO BOX 272 305 W CHEROKEE SHABBONA, IL 605500272
1318100001 - WILLIAM R & BONNIE J MULLINS, 215 N SHABBONA RD SHABBONA, IL 605509600
1318200001 - JAMES D & CHRISTINE E BANNISTER, 12905 CATHY LN PLAINFIELD, IL 605858174
1318200003 - MARLENE FLEMING, 1193 COUNTY LINE RD LEE, IL 605303036
1318200004 - GREG S & LISA J FLEMING, 9805 TOWER RD LEE, IL 605303011
1318300002 - PENNY WINTERTON, 1173 COUNTY LINE RD - BOX 29 PAW PAW, IL 61353
1319100002 - HELEN HERRMANN, PO BOX 278 SHABBONA, IL 605500278
1319300001 - DEAN WINTERTON, PO BOX 29 PAW PAW, IL 61353
1319300002 - CRAIG DONNELLY, 8985 ELVA RD DEKALB, IL 601158908
1319400004 - DENNIS FLEMING, 1193 COUNTY LINE RD LEE, IL 605303036
1319400005 - MARLENE FLEMING, 1193 COUNTY LINE RD LEE, IL 605303036
1320300005 - DAVE PETERSON PETERSON FARM CORP, 8560 TOWER RD SHABBONA, IL 605504041
1320400001 - RAYMOND C & BETTY L HOUGHTBY, 14645 LAGOON DR JACKSONVILLE, FL
322502332
1321300006 - OEHLERKING, E & M TRUST, PO BOX 960 DUNDEE, IL 601180960
1329100010 - ROBERT MULLINS, 217 N SHABBONA RD SHABBONA, IL 605509600
1329400005 - ROBERT MULLINS, 217 N SHABBONA RD SHABBONA, IL 605509600
1330100001 - JOAN STIGLIANI, PO BOX 27142 ALBUQUERQUE, NM 871257142
1330100003 - CARROLL DONOHO, 7450 W COUNTY LINE RD PAW PAW, IL 613539425
1330200008 - KENNETH C & LORETTA R SCHRAMER, 24883 W MIDDLE FORK RD BARRINGTON, IL 600102476
1330200010 - KENNETH C & LORETTA R SCHRAMER, 24883 W MIDDLE FORK RD BARRINGTON, IL 600102476
1330300005 - CARROLL D & MARILYN R DONOHO, 7450 W COUNTY LINE RD PAW PAW, IL 613539425
1330300006 - CARROLL DONOHO, 7450 W COUNTY LINE RD PAW PAW, IL 613539425
1330400005 - LESLIE MULLINS, 6732 W COUNTY LINE RD PAW PAW, IL 613539424
1404100004 - LARRY BARSHINGER, 2435 LEE RD SHABBONA, IL 605504119
1404200006 - JACK K & SUSAN R BARSHINGER, 2229 HILL LN BATAVIA, IL 605109001
1405200002 - DONALD D & SARAH L BEND, 1426 S 157TH ST OMAHA, NE 681302519
1405200004 - LARRY J & PHYLLIS J BARSHINGER, 2435 LEE RD SHABBONA, IL 605504119
1405400010 - MARK & MARY FONTAINE ANDERSON, 542 S WASHINGTON AVE PARK RIDGE, IL 600684156
0636400002 - SANDERSON DOUGLAS G, 3528 HERMAN RD,
0636501003 - RIGHT OF WAY
1002300002 - J & J FAIVRE FARMS LLC, 8555 ANDRA CIR KINGSTON, IL 601458289
1002300004 - J & J FAIVRE FARMS LLC, 8555 ANDRA CIR KINGSTON, IL 601458289
1002400006 - J P FAIVRE LLC, 8555 ANDRA CIR KINGSTON, IL 601458289
1003100004 - DAVID J & C DAWN HALVERSON, PO BOX 245 DEKALB, IL 601150245
1003300005 - JOHN GOVIG, 17936 SHABBONA RD MALTA, IL 60150
1003300006 - JAMES GOVIG, 405 S MALTA RD MALTA, IL 601509787
1003400004 - SCOTT LUTZ, 146 SENECA TRL BLOOMINGDALE, IL 601082426
1004200002 - BARBARA GOVIG, 17391 SHABBONA RD MALTA, IL 601508403
1004400001 - BARBARA GOVIG, 17391 SHABBONA RD MALTA, IL 601508403
1005300002 - WILLIAM GROVER, 205 S WOODLAWN RD ROCHELLE, IL 610689615
1005300005 - WILLIAM GROVER, 205 S WOODLAWN RD ROCHELLE, IL 610689615
1006400002 - TARRYN THADEN, 115 ANDRESEN CT DEKALB, IL 601151025
1007400001 - DANIEL SANDERSON, 16445 TOWER RD MALTA, IL 601508603
1008100002 - JAMES J & BERNICE E JONES, 823 BRUCE ROBERT LN HAMPSHIRE, IL 601407707
1008200002 - JAMES J & BERNICE E JONES, 823 BRUCE ROBERT LN HAMPSHIRE, IL 601407707
1008300002 - PHYLLIS BENSON, 101 GOLF CT SANDWICH, IL 605481447
1009100002 - FRANKLIN D & CAROL W SANDBERG, 101 S MALTA RD MALTA, IL 601509782
1010300003 - VERN DRENDEL FARMS, LLC, 11721 IL STATE RTE 72 GENOA, IL 60135
1010400001 - VERN DRENDEL FARMS, LLC, 11721 IL STATE RTE 72 GENOA, IL 60135
1011100001 - JAY JOHNSEN. 40W289 RTE 38 ELBURN, IL 60119
1011300001 - JAY JOHNSEN, 40W289 RTE 38 ELBURN, IL 60119
1015100002 - VERN DRENDEL FARMS, LLC, 11721 IL STATE RTE 72 GENOA, IL 60135
1015300004 - VERN DRENDEL FARMS, LLC, 11721 IL STATE RTE 72 GENOA, IL 60135
1018200007 - RICHARD A & EVELYN I SANDERSON, 2944 GREENWOOD ACRES DR APT W326 DEKALB, IL 601154949
1018200009 - RICHARD SANDERSON, 2944 GREENWOOD ACRES DR APT W326 DEKALB, IL 601154949
1018200010 - RICHARD A & EVELYN I SANDERSON, 2944 GREENWOOD ACRES DR APT W326 DEKALB, IL 601154949
1018300003 - LINDA HINKSTON, 1306 MONROE ST MENDOTA, IL 613421469
1018300004 - DOUGLAS SANDERSON, 3528 HERMANN RD LEE, IL 605309630
1018400006 - LINDA HINKSTON, 1306 MONROE ST MENDOTA, IL 613421469
1019200007 - RICHARD A & EVELYN I SANDERSON, 2944 GREENWOOD ACRES DR APT W326 DEKALB, IL 601154949
1020200002 - LAVERN L & MARJORIE A OLSON, PO BOX 165 102 E NAVAHO SHABBONA, IL
605500165
1020300001 - ROBERT MULLINS, 217 N SHABBONA RD SHABBONA, IL 605509600
1020400001 - NATL BANK & TRUST CO, FARM SERVICE DEPT 1350 W PRAIRIE DR SYCAMORE, IL
601783166
1021100004 - VERN DRENDEL FARMS, LLC, 11721 IL STATE RTE 72 GENOA, IL 60135
1021200002 - VERN DRENDEL FARMS, LLC, 11721 IL STATE RTE 72 GENOA, IL 60135
1022100004 - OEHLERKING, E & M TRUST, PO BOX 960 DUNDEE, IL 601180960
1022300004 - LOIS HICKEY, 9265 CHALLAND RD SHABBONA, IL 605504072
1022300005 - ROBERT HICKEY, 14030 HAUMESSER RD SHABBONA, IL 605504091
1022300006 - EUGENE W & DOROTHY L HERRMANN, 13287 SHABBONA RD SHABBONA, IL 605504037
1025100001 - KENNETH, ERNEST AND LORETTA EHRHART, 13738 UNIVERSITY RD SHABBONA, IL
605504061
1025200001 - KENNETH EHRHART, 13738 UNIVERSITY RD SHABBONA, IL 605504061
1025300001 - ESSER FARMS INC, c/o JAMES A STODDARD 2045 ABERDEEN CT - STE A SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
1025400005 - NATL BANK & TRUST CO, 230 W STATE ST SYCAMORE, IL 601781419
1026200003 - OEHLERKING, E & M TRUST, PO BOX 960 DUNDEE, IL 601180960
1026300002 - ROBERT E & JO ANN SKABO, 8910 TOMAHAWK TRL SHABBONA, IL 605504147
1026400002 - BARBARA GOVIG, 17391 SHABBONA RD MALTA, IL 601508403
1026400003 - BARBARA GOVIG, 17391 SHABBONA RD MALTA, IL 601508403
1027100003 - EUGENE W & DOROTHY L HERRMANN, 13287 SHABBONA RD SHABBONA, IL 605504037
1027300004 - EUGENE W & DOROTHY L HERRMANN, 13287 SHABBONA RD SHABBONA, IL 605504037
1027300006 - VAUGHN BOEHNE, 13236 SHABBONA RD SHABBONA, IL 605504158
1027400004 - ABP FARMS TRUST, c/o MARTIN GOODRICH & WADDELL INC 2020 ABERDEEN CT SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
1028400001 - EUGENE W & DOROTHY L HERRMANN, 13287 SHABBONA RD SHABBONA, IL 605504037
1029100002 - WILLIAM HAJEK, 11683 MCALLISTER RD WATERMAN, IL 605567084
1029100003 - VAUGHN BOEHNE, 13236 SHABBONA RD SHABBONA, IL 605504158
1029200001 - NATL BANK & TRUST CO, FARM SERVICE DEPT 1350 W PRAIRIE DR SYCAMORE, IL 601783166
1030200004 - ROBERT E & JO ANN SKABO, 8910 TOMAHAWK TRL SHABBONA, IL 605504147
1031300003 - RAYMOND MAST, PO BOX 35 LEE, IL 605300035
1031400001 - LAVERN R & M CAROLE JORDAL, 3118 E SLEEPY HOLLOW RD EARLVILLE, IL 605185037
1031400003 - LAVERN R & M CAROLE JORDAL, 3118 E SLEEPY HOLLOW RD EARLVILLE, IL 605185037
1032100002 - RAYMOND MAST, PO BOX 35 LEE, IL 605300035
1032200001 - RAYMOND MAST, PO BOX 35 LEE, IL 605300035
1032200002 - JAMES L & DANIEL J KENNEDY, PO BOX 135 LEE, IL 605300135
1032300001 - DIANE FOX, 10530 E 850TH ST COLCHESTER, IL 623261981
1033100002 - KENNETH & JANE FLEWELLIN, PO BOX 272 305 W CHEROKEE SHABBONA, IL 605500272
1033200005 - KENNETH & JANE FLEWELLIN, PO BOX 272 305 W CHEROKEE SHABBONA, IL 605500272
1033400002 - FITZGERALD FAMILY FARMS LLC, 12407 W MAIN STREET RD HUNTLEY, IL 601429570
1034200003 - ABP FARMS TRUST, c/o MARTIN GOODRICH & WADDELL INC 2020 ABERDEEN CT SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
1035100005 - ABP FARMS TRUST, c/o MARTIN GOODRICH & WADDELL INC 2020 ABERDEEN CT SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
1035200008 - MARTIN GOODRICH & WADDELL INC, 2020 ABERDEEN CT SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
1036100002 - ABP FARMS TRUST, c/o MARTIN GOODRICH & WADDELL INC 2020 ABERDEEN CT SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
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1127400002 - HAROLD T & JEANETTE M ERLENBACH, 8288 LEE RD WATERMAN, IL 605567049
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1129300006 - TEND FARMS TRUST, c/o MARTIN GOODRICH & WADDELL INC 2020 ABERDEEN CT SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
1129300008 - TEND FARMS TRUST, c/o MARTIN GOODRICH & WADDELL INC 2020 ABERDEEN CT SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
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1130200010 - SHERI MILLSPAUGH, 3582 W 400 S ALBION, IN 467019490
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1131400005 - TEND FARMS TRUST, c/o MARTIN GOODRICH & WADDELL INC 2020 ABERDEEN CT SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
1132100015 - TEND FARMS TRUST, c/o MARTIN GOODRICH & WADDELL INC 2020 ABERDEEN CT SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
1132300002 - DONALD D & SARAH L BEND, 1426 S 157TH ST OMAHA, NE 681302519
1132300004 - TEND FARMS TRUST, c/o MARTIN GOODRICH & WADDELL INC 2020 ABERDEEN CT SYCAMORE, IL 601783140
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1318100001 - WILLIAM R & BONNIE J MULLINS, 215 N SHABBONA RD SHABBONA, IL 605509600
1318200001 - JAMES D & CHRISTINE E BANNISTER, 12905 CATHY LN PLAINFIELD, IL 605858174
1318200003 - MARLENE FLEMING, 1193 COUNTY LINE RD LEE, IL 605303036
1318200004 - GREG S & LISA J FLEMING, 9805 TOWER RD LEE, IL 605303011
1318300002 - PENNY WINTERTON, 1173 COUNTY LINE RD - BOX 29 PAW PAW, IL 61353
1319100002 - HELEN HERRMANN, PO BOX 278 SHABBONA, IL 605500278
1319300001 - DEAN WINTERTON, PO BOX 29 PAW PAW, IL 61353
1319300002 - CRAIG DONNELLY, 8985 ELVA RD DEKALB, IL 601158908
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1319400005 - MARLENE FLEMING, 1193 COUNTY LINE RD LEE, IL 605303036
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1329400005 - ROBERT MULLINS, 217 N SHABBONA RD SHABBONA, IL 605509600
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1330200010 - KENNETH C & LORETTA R SCHRAMER, 24883 W MIDDLE FORK RD BARRINGTON, IL 600102476
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1330300006 - CARROLL DONOHO, 7450 W COUNTY LINE RD PAW PAW, IL 613539425
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1405200004 - LARRY J & PHYLLIS J BARSHINGER, 2435 LEE RD SHABBONA, IL 605504119
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Labels: DeKalb County, Wind Farm, Windmill
# posted by Cal Skinner : 8:28 PM
