CIRCUIT RIDER
November/Decmber/January 2009-10
Vol. 34, No. 1© 2009•
by The United Methodist
Publishing House•ISSN 0146-9924
201 Eighth Avenue South
P. O. Box 801
Nashville, TN 37202

PUBLISHER
Neil M. Alexander

MANAGING EDITOR
Jessica Miller Kelley

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Circuit Rider is a professional journal for the applied practice of Christian ministry for United Methodist clergy. It is published quarterly by The United Methodist Publishing House and sent free to all United Methodist clergy on appointment and retired clergy upon request.

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Scripture quotations in this publication, unless otherwise indicated, are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyrighted © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America, and are used by permission. All rights reserved.