Classes resume August 6, & I'm slated to teach EIGHT this new year: Basic Hebrew, Intermediate Hebrew, Anthropology for Missions, Missions to Indigenous Peoples, "English Plus" [polishing literary/grammatical skills... since I'm the only Native-Speaker of English], and Wisdom Literature, Christology, & Biblical Theology (it is my first time to teach those last 3 subjects). BHTS now offers three Master's Degrees: M. of Divinity, M. of Ministry, and [brand new] M. of Theology (just accredited by Philippine University Senate of the UMC). M.Div. and Th.M. are required for those proceeding into Doctorates. Dr. Frederick Long [NT] generously gave me several GREAT books {Printed by GlossaHouse Publishing} for my Hebrew & Greek students [Ruth & Mark photos!] that I will use at BHTS! New paintings by Keith Neely, remind me of Welcoming Picture Bible from Boys’ Life!

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from Your Missionary, Dr. David Upp { I’m Professor in Blue Samoan Clergy-Shirt!} August 2018

My 2nd Year on Mindanao at Bishop Han Seminary

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Gen.Conf. 2016: Response from National Fellowship of Asian-American UM's: "While the proponents of Rule 44 tried to pitch their tents during the storm of parliamentary procedures and when the extensive debate over the Council of Bishops recommendation to cradle the petitions on human sexuality for another two years was dragged on, more and more delegates expressed their confusion and dismay over the process deeply rooted and firmly grounded in Robert’s Rules of Order, a North American Parliamentary Process. The cavernous [intentional!] cultural gap and the resonant parliamentary procedure that dis-jointed the overseas delegates with the U.S. delegates became more evident while hot-button issues were discussed. While the metaphor of doing business under the Palaver Tree, an African consensus-building process, was floated around; this remained only as a beautiful metaphor.

Anti-Biblical Changes to UM Sexual Morality Are Opposed by Non-USA & by USA Ethnic Minorities

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In my opinion, GC16 was a weirdly pressurized and verbally jeopardized space due to high-stake petitions that were on the table, such as, Rule 44 and Human Sexuality. Most importantly, they were criss-crossed with potential divisions and schisms within the denomination. Dropping one’s guard during those tense moments would find oneself holding forth like a lost and somnolent passenger in an airport terminal in a foreign land. Massive exogamy and the defections of our baptized and confirmed prevent us from being too optimistic about how many of our children will identify as Christians in coming years. If we want to save drowners, we need to be swimmers. -UM Rev. Jacob Dharmaraj, Ph.D. NFAAUM has Twelve Caucuses: Japanese, Chinese, South-Asian [like India], Hmong, Lao, Filipino, Middle Eastern, Cambodian, Korean, Pakistani, Formosan, and Vietnamese UM’s.

The Global Church solidly supports God’s Moral Laws, Biblical Sexual Morality, Ethnically Diverse & Homogenous Nations. I have served the Full Range: from Yorkshire/UK [red] to Liberia (black = World’s Most Diverse). Hetero-sexuality is recognized as humans’ only Natural Orientation.

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Rev.Dr.Israel Kamudzandu at é Omaha, NEB. Living Hope UMC ( I visited & shared on July 1st)

Rev. Susan Murithi, serving ì Gypsum & Mentor UMC’s {Geoff Iringo is her Husband & pastors Roxbury UMC!} (I visited Mentor UMC, on Itineration, July 22nd)

ì Rev. Robert Selvakumar R. Nambinarayanan of Tribune KS & Towner {in Colorado} UMC’s (I Preached at T&T on July 15th)

On July 29th, Missions Talk for Eureka & Hamilton UMC’s, new Pastor Rev. Hyun Jung Choièè

{“Missionary Pastors” here in GP from Zimbabwe, Malaysia, The Philippines, Kenya, and Korea.} ______________________________ On July 9th, I attended MY “Home Church” [Hutch: Trinity UMC), welcoming New Sr. è Pastor: Rev. Lennie Maxwell.

Itineration for International G.P. Pastors

Rev. î Hyun Jung Choi’s brother is Joseph Choi [married to Elkhart Rev. Shella Choi èè]. Their home church is Jooan Methodist Church in, Incheon, South Korea; the congregation that built, funds, and runs the Seminary where I teach on Mindanao!

“Reaching age 100 is already less remarkable than it used to be. That trend will continue. The good news is we will also be inbetter health at those advanced ages than people are now. Could 80 be the new 50? We’d better hope so, because the math is bleak IF people stop working at age 65-70, which is precisely what The Wall Street Journal* wrote on their front page. And we see it in the lack of workers available out in the real world…. As I’ve pointed out before, when Franklin Roosevelt created Social Security for people over 65, life expectancy was roughly around 56. US Retirement agewould now be around 82 IF the retirement age had kept up with Life Expectancy. Try an d sell that to voters. Worse, generations of politicians have convinced the public that not only is this possible, it is guaranteed. They've made promises they can’t possibly keep, but the public arranges their lives assuming the impossible will happen. It won’t. We have lost the ability to disagree amicably and ratioally. Not so long ago, Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill could sit down and work on SocialSecurity, Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich could sit down and not only modify welfaare, but balance the buget. Those days are gone.” >John Mauldin, 6/23/2018 *[https://www.wsj.com/articles/retiring-baby-boomers-leave-the-u-s-with-fewer-workers-to-support-the-elderly-1529553660] At age 67, I am already among the oldest 22% of US Men. However, it seems to me, perfectly normal to keep working for several years. –Dr. David Upp

July TQ: IS Mindanao Larger than "The Big Island" of Hawaii? A: YES! Hawaii is nearly size of Fiji's largest island, but Mindanao has NINE Times the Area of Hawaii [H=4,028 & M=36,775 sq. mi.], & more people, too [H: Ranks 135th with 190,821 vs. Mindanao’s 7th at 25,537,691 !!] Mindanao now has a larger population than the entire Continent of Australia! July Bonus TQ: What is "Tribology"? (Hint--it is not a branch of Anthropology) A: Science of Interacting Surfaces... friction/wear/lubrication, > Greek tribō = "I rub/chafe/massage". Inter-disciplinary Field: dated from Leonardo da Vinci's 'Two Laws of Friction' written 1493.

August TQ: Are "Whites" becoming a Minority within the USA population? [Hint: correct answer will depend on how terms are defined & reported.]

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