Continuing education project to help Methodist leaders in Ecuador
Written by ENI Tuesday, 19 June 2012 16:21
Pastors and lay leaders working with the United Methodist Church in Ecuador will get much needed continuing education over the next year and a half, thanks to an agreement with a Brazilian seminary.
Members of the theology faculty of the Brazilian Methodist Church in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Sao Paulo, will send teaching staff to Quito, beginning next month, to offer one- and two-week courses.
The agreement was signed 23 May by the bishop of the Ecuadorian church, Silvio Cevallos Parra, and the faculty dean, Paulo Roberto Garcia. The joint Andean Sun (Sol Andino) project is based on a similar six-year-old program in Africa called Sol Africa, according to the United Methodist Church website.
The project is in response to a concern expressed in 2011 from the Methodist Church of Great Britain, which said that newer leaders serving in Ecuador were trained in seminaries of other denominations that do not have a Wesleyan theological base.
The first stage of the project is being planned in July, when Professor Jose Carlos de Souza of the Brazilian Methodist Church and Professor Maria Ines Simeone of the Methodist Church of Uruguay will travel to Ecuador.
The school will send two teachers per semester this year and next, and will include scholars from across South America. The project is coordinated by Margarida Ribeiro, with the collaboration of Nicanor Lopes.
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