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UP^; NOVEMBER 4,1995 . i b u s f t Pi^ PRESSREPUBLICAN 'There's really ja high l&vel of frustration existing about ihfcj level of administrative responsibility... and the resulting question is: Is this really the way it has to be?\ ON ETHICS '.*. i. A minister's time By DAVID BttlGGS AP Religion.Writer Sitting in the, pew, congrega- tion members often imagine that their ministers spend each week deep in study, preparing ser- mons. Arid that is certainly the image prospective clergy bring to seminaries. Once they get out in local churches, however, clergy quickly find their days taken over by a series of constant interruptions, ranging from people calling for service times to vendors selling supplies. A new study in which resear- chers observed ministers at work for a full week found a third or more of their time was spent on administrative duties. Take away Sunday, and that percent- age rises to close to .50 percent, said the Rev. Gary William Kuhne, an assistant professor of adult education at Pennsylvania State University. \You have all the frustrations a manager would have, plus the frustrations a professional would have, and they're all melded into the same role,\ Kuhne said. Kuhne and Joe F. Donaldson, associate professor of higher education at the University of Missouri at Columbia, published their findings in the December issue of the Review of Religious Research. The' researchers observed five conservative Protestant pastors ranging in age from 36 to 46 for five days each, or a total of more than 250 hours. Past research has tended to rely on the opinions of experts or perceptions recorded on suryfeys. Kuhne said researchers thought clergy may underestimate the ac- tual time spent on ad- ministrative duties, however, since they are not tasks they en- joy doing and are not seen as im- portant parts of ministry.. In a 1985 survey of pastors conducted by Bethel Theological Seminary, ministers estimated they spent 20 percent of their time.in an administrative role, nearly double their preference. In observing what ministers actually do in a work week, Kuhne and Donaldson found that neatly half their time was spent in scheduled meetings, a catego- ry that included worship ser- vices. About a quarter was spent on desk work, half of that in- volving preparing sermons. Twelve percent of their time was spent traveling, 8 percent in unscheduled meetings, 6 percent on the telephone and 5 percent touring the building, inspecting the facilities and informally •includes worship 5% Other is not shown Source: Review of Religious Research 6% Tetephone 8% Unscheduled \ meetings talking with other staff. \Overall it can be said with some certainty that the amount of time really spent on ad- ministrative tasks is close to 30, 40 percent,\ Kuhne said. Donaldson said the duo's research should promote a recog- nition of the administrative duties of clergy. \The managerial dimension of clergy's work is perhaps greater than has been demonstrated,\ he said. Edward A. Buchanan, pro- fessor of Christian Education at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and the director of the Bethel study, said he had reser- vations about the small size of the sample, but that it supple- ments other research showing pastors spend a significant amount of time in administrative roles. Kuhne and Donaldson said churches also should be asking more basic questions about hav- ing their pastors taking on roles such as purchasing agents and chief administrators. \There's really a high level of frustration existing about the level of administrative responsi- AP/T.Tso bility ... and the resulting ques- tion is: Is this really the way it has to be?\ Kuhne said. Some solutions, Kuhne said, might be to enlist, greater in- volvement of congregation meinbers in running the church or hiring someone else to do the administrative tasks. Kuhne, who also pastors a small church in Erie, Pa., said that by delegating respon- sibilities and increasing the in- volvement of laypersons, he has cut the amount of time he spends on administrative tasks to less than 10 percent. Buchanan said seminaries can help pastors by offering conti- nuing education classes to help with administrative work. Though prospective clergy in seminaries can be warned about their administrative roles, the message apparently rarely gets through. In the seminary survey, pastors responded, \If we had told them about administrative tasks, they wouldn't have listen- ed anyway.\ It is not until they get out in the field, Buchanan said, that they \discover they're not going to study the Bible all day.\ RELIGION BRIEFS Grant OGDENSBURG - The Department of Christian Forma- tion received one a grant of $111,000 from the Bishop's Fund. The department is responsible for the Community of Religious Educators, an enrichment pro- gram for full-time professional director of religious education and pastoral associates. Money and staff also help to promote the rite of Christian initiation of. rite of election. The Bishop Fund's money is also used to purchase new videos and books to provide quality pro- grams for parishes. Mass times BLOOMINGDALE - Masses for St. Paul's Church are now held on the first, third and fifth Saturdays of each month at 4:30 p.m. and at 11 a.m. on every Sunday. Masses for Church of the Assumption are now held on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month at 4:30 p.m. and at 9 a.m. on every Sunday. These churches no longer hold masses at 6:30 p.m. on Satur- days. Holiday benefit CHATEAUGAY LAKE - The Brainardsville United Methodist Women are sponsoring the 2nd- Annual Mitten Tree Project through mid-December. Hats, mittens, gloves and scarves are being collected for distribution to area children of , all ages through various local agencies. Anyone who would like to knit, crochet or buy items to donate is invited to participate. For more information, call Jeanette Pulsifier at425-3584 f Jesus' PLATTSBURGH - The First Assembly of God Church is showing the film \Jesus Sun- day, Nov. 12, at 6 p.m. The Center for World Missions credits the film with \touching more lives than any other evangelistic effort in human his- tory.\ Filmed on location in the Holy Land, \Jesus\ presents the Gos- pel of Luke. Harvest bazaar PLATTSBURGH - The Platt- sburgh United Methodist Women are sponsoring the 5th-Annual Harvest Bazaar today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the United Methodist Church. Handmade craft items, food specialties and baked goods are -for-sale. Lunch-is- served from, 1 1 a.m. to.1:30 p.m. For more information, call Bet- ty.Sumner at 561-0170. Harvest supper KEESEVILLE - The Masonic Temple hosts its annual Harvest Supper today from 5 to 7 p.m. at the AuSable River Lodge. The supper costs $6 for adults and $3 for children .under 12. Takeout orders and deliveries are available. For more information, call 834-5523. Lecture series PLATTSBURGH - The Rev. Linda Hoddy begins a series of discussions on \Parents as Resi- dent Theologians\ at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Sunday, Nov. 5, beginning at noon. Participants are asked to bring a bag lunch and a $5 donation for \materials for the six-session series. Child care is provided. For more information, call Liz Pasti at 563-2445. Benefit concert LAKE PLACID - The Adirondack Community Church is hosting a concert by local musicians, Sunday, Nov. 5, at 4 p.m. The performance benefits the Wesley Meisteringers, the teen handJielL choirofjhechurch. The concert features jazz, show tunes, light classics and several old favorites. Suggested donation is $10 for adults and $6 for seniors and students. Chicken dinner AUSABLE FORKS - AuSable Forks United Methodist Church is hosting its annual chicken and biscuit dinner, Thursday, Nov. 7, starting at 5 p.m. The menu includes chicken and biscuits with all the trimm- ings. The dinner costs $6 for adults, $3 for children age 6 to 12, and children under 6 eat free. Initiation meeting TICONDEROGA - The Cath- olic Daughters of Court St. Mary 794 holds an initiation and mon- thly business meeting Thursday, Nov. 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the St. Mary's School gymnasium. Pancake breakfast PORT HENRY - The Mount Moriah Presbyterian Church is hosting a pancake breakfast, Saturday, Nov. 11, from 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. The menu consists of pan- cakes, scrambled eggs, toast, sausage, juice, coffee, tea and milk. Tickets' are $3.50 for adults «nd-$2 -for children and may be purchased at the door. Financial matters PLATTSBURGH - St. Peter's is offering the sixth and final presentation for the divorced and separated. Skip Rennell, a pro- fessional banker, is lecturing for the second time on finances. For more information, call Deacon Bob at the rectory at 563-1692. Christmas bazaar TICONDEROGA - The Church of the Cross is sponsor- ing a Christmas bazaar, Satur- day, Nov. 18, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Various crafts, jewelry, col- lectibles and plants will be sold. Lunch will be served. The United Methodist Church Beekman St. at Bailey Ave. Tele. 663-2992 November 5th, 1995 Twenty-Second Sunday After Pentecost 8:00 am Eucharist 9:00 am Church School 10:00 am Service of the Word and Table Waiting For A Vision 6:30 UnHni Mtth««it Youth Childeare Available \In UNITARIAN IMVERSAUST FELLOWSHIP 4 Palmer Street Rev. Linda Hoddy We Trust?\ November 5 SERVICE AND CHILDREN'S PROGRAM 10am American Baptist Pittsburgh First Baptist Church Gerald J. Bentley, Pastor Comer of Court 'n Oak Streets Sunday Worship 1000am Sunday School n : 15am-12:15pm Child Care 9-.45am-12:l5pm Wednesday 1 Bible Study & Prayer 7.30pm Parsonage- 5617852 Church: 563-2793 Piol-AMessage: 563O094 Paid Politico! Advertisement CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE 187 Broad St., Pittsburgh, NY 561-19^0 A Christ centered church with a family oriented ministry. / rif-iJjJ Sfr^K - -f*rlji(JS|j«ittiJ|iL_^ Sunday Schtiol 9:30 am C 11:00 am WorthipSer»ioB 11:00 am : Mitchell Greer, Evangelist BLESSED IS THE NATION... The Bible says, \Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord...\ (Psalm 33:12). Also, \Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. (Proverbs 14:34). When^ we vote for good candidates we serve our nation well. This is not all that we should do, however. There are other things even more important to our nation. One is prayer. \The prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects.\ (James Since it is th0 prayer of a \righteous\ man that has great power, our nation needs more righteous people. Ten righteous people would have saved Sodom from fire and brimstone, had there been that many in the city. See Genesis 18:23-32. There was a time in history when the human race itself was saved from destruction because of one man \who walked with God\ -Noah! See Genesis 6:7-9. All this translates into at least two things: (1) Those of us who profess to be Christians should walk more closely with God by following his word faithfully; and, (2) Christian evangelism is needed desperately in this country to save it from crime and all kinds of unrighteousness. No greater service can be rendered to our nation. Let us follow the Bible faithfully. Let us preach it diligently. Also courageously. \The same thing that makes better Christians, makes better citizens,\is a statement found in a newspaper years ago. Hov/true it is! For \blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.\ .'.\••\'• And we have said nothing of how important these things are to the individual, both for time arid for eternilji! We urge you - Take a gfeat interest in your nation and her people, your state and comrhunity. Also inyour own true welfare. Why not start attending the services of -•• - PLATTSBURiSH CHURCH OF CHRIST Meeting at 3 Tremt J lay Avenue, Plattsburgh, NY 12901 SUNDAYS: Biblo Classes at 10:00 A.M., Worship at 11:00 A.M. &2KK)PJVltlii»Sunday(C£Jll for evening service schedule fofothw weeks.] , .„ . i. aaty.^p^Y^^rcalwayaWELCOMEl Holy Land visit si gives per Our first view of Jerusalem was from Mount Scopus, near the Mount of Olives, at dusk. As the sun set, we clearly saw the gold- en Dome of the Rock, built on the site of Solomon's temple, and the booming modern city surroun- ding it. The Rev. Terry Fullam, our spiritual guide, asked, \Why would anyone come here? This is a city with peace in its name: Salem. Yet it has known very lit- tle peace. It's been fought over many times, even in our short lifetime. Psalm 48 suggests a reason to come: Walk around Zion, go around her, count her towers that you may tell them to the next genera- tion. For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide, even to the end.' • \You would not be a Christian today had not somebody told you about the grace, of God so you. could understand it. Someone had to tell the person who told you there's an unbroken chain of witnesses.\ Seeing Israel, \You will know more about God than those you work with. You have a responsibility to pass on what you know.\ A century ago, a British gen- eral walking on Jerusalem's old wall saw what appeared to be a large skull in an outcropping of rock, and remembered that Jesus was crucified at Golgotha, the Place of the Skull. He excavated a nearby hill and found a first century tomb with a trough in which a disc-shaped stone could be rolled, and cisterns below to water the garden of a rich man. While the traditional site of Calvary is beneath a 4th century Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the \Garden Tomb\ is equally plausible and has been lushly restored into a quiet oasis visited by 250,000 Christians a year. We celebrated communion there. Our group also walked down the steep Mount of Olives as Jesus did on Palm Sunday, and stopped in the Garden of Gethsemane which has 2,000- year-old olive trees that Jesus .may have seen. We even saw, whatjnighthave been the cell in Caiaphas' house that helcThim. We visited Shepherd's Field, near Bethlehem, where sheep still graze on sparce grass amidst the stones and heard a talk on Micah's prophesy that from Bethlehem will come a \ruler over Israel.\ Of course, most of Jesus' ministry was in Galilee. Though Capernaum, a fishing village that was his base, no longer ex- ists, we stood in the partly restored synagogue where he re- ally preached. On a high hill over Galilee, we took turns reading the Sermon on the Mount, though Jesus Who is a Presbyterian Anyway? Join us for a Three Part Series Nov. 5,12 & 19 at 11:30 am Following Worship First Presbyterian JL Church 34 Brinkerhoff Street Downtown Pittsburgh Paid Political Advertisement WKF 'IHI^I^I ByMik«McManui pi Jw> *yk fm ft probably never delivered the 100 + point sermon at a single time. We visited Caesarea Philippi, a source of the Jordan River, where the water flows from an underground spring. Rev. Fullam said it was at this spot that Jesus asked the most important of 3,294 questions in the Bible: \Who do you say that I am?\ Peter replied, \You'are $i\ «j Christ, son of the living God.\ \Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah, for this was not rastealed to you by man but by my Father in heaven.\ We also went to the surpris- ingly little Jordan River, where one person was baptized, and many had pastors pray for special needs before immersion. One person reported a major healing. Reactions? \We will never read the Bible the same way. We can relate it to places we have been,\ said Harvey Haack, a counselor with alcoholics in the Salvation Army. \Saying I'm back from the Holy Land, will mean a lot to those starting to read the Bible.\ Joan E. Gregg, who came with her husband, Bill, inflicted with terminal cancer, said, \Walking in Jesus' steps improved our faith. It is Jesus with skin on — a humanity that is hard to describe.\ Bill was at absolute peace and full of joy. Ralph and Dorothy Engle are converted Jews who were excited to exchange Christian wedding vows for the first time at Cana. He said his visit to Israel \brought me to a relationship I had not known tied to my Jewish roots, knowing that Jesus came from my roots.\ Ross Jones, 30, who traveled with his new wife, Emily, said \I came away enamored with Israel and have a better understanding of Old Testament prophesy.\ Emily adds, \I have a deeper understanding that our faith is focused more on life of Jesus than his teaching.\ Every pastor and serious Christian should make a ' pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Mike McManui it a Christian layman, author of \Marriage Savers\ and colum- nlit for more than 100 newspaper* na- tionwide. FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD 164 Prospect Ave. Plattsburgh, NY 563-5799 Pastor Michael San Soucie A Full Gospel Church SUNDAY SERVICES Sunday School - Nursery thru Adult 9J0am Praise & Worship 10:30am Children's Church 10:30am Praise & Worship 6:00pm Wednesday Services 7:00pm Paid Political Advertisement REDUCED CITY DEBT Since taking office, Mayor Rabideau and the Common Council have.reduced the city's debt, M .7 million in the last two years alone. I When Plattsburgh's debt for its electric department is factored out (only four NYS cities have such a department), its debt ratio falls to the middle of the state's 61 cities. STRONG MANAGEMENT When Clyde took office, he worked with department heads to streamline operations and limit costs, making city operations more responsive and effective. Today, the city has 8% fewer employees than when he took office. Paid for by the Committee to Re-Elect Clyde Rabideau for Mayor
