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| The Francis Asbury Award for Fostering
United Methodist Ministries in Higher Education
The Francis Asbury Award is a non‑monetary award to recognize
and encourage support of higher education ministries within The
United Methodist Church. The award will offer recognition to
individuals who have made a significant contribution to fostering
the church's ministries in higher education at the local, district,
or annual conference level of the church. The name is based on
Bishop Asbury's admonition to the people called Methodist to
erect a school in the vicinity of every church ". . . to give the key
of knowledge in a general way to your children, and those of
the poor in the vicinity of your small towns and villages."
Criteria
All persons, clergy or lay, employee or volunteer, who are members of The United Methodist Church and who meet the criteria below are eligible for the Francis Asbury Award.
The individual must be:
- A United Methodist, lay or clergy;
- Active in supporting, strengthening, and promoting the church's work in higher education ministries (schools, colleges, campus ministries, scholarships, Black College Fund, Africa University) at the annual conference, district, or local church level;
- Offering outstanding leadership, above and beyond basic responsibilities, to help bring heightened awareness to the significance of the church's higher education ministries;
- Involved in efforts in agreement with the direction and policy concerns of the annual conference board of higher education and campus ministry and the Division of Higher Education of the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry.
Selection
- The Francis Asbury Award for Fostering United Methodist Ministries In Higher Education is given annually at the Awards Banquet at The Southwest Texas Annual Conference.
- The Board of Higher Education and Campus Ministry selects the awardee for their annual conference.
- There is a maximum of one award per annual conference.
- Each annual conference submits their awardee for nomination for the national Francis Asbury Award to the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry (GBHEM), The United Methodist Church, Nashville, Tennessee.
The SWTC BHECM accepts nominations of individualls who meets the criteria above prior to January 25, each year.
Nominations
Nominations can be made to the Chair of the Promotions & Publicity Sub-Committee of the BHECM.
The Chair must receive nominations no later than January 25 each year to be considered for that year.
Francis Asbury Award Nomination Form
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Higher Education and Campus Ministry
Past Francis Asbury Award Recipients
2010 Rev. John Feagins
2009 Elizabeth Westbury
2008 Rev. Richard Young
2007 Maxine Ross
2006 Rev. Charlie Parker
2005 Rev. Mark Adams
2004 Alamo Heights UMC and
San Antonio Campus Ministries
2003 Rev. James Miller
2002 Susan Sprague
2001 Linda Keen
2000 Rev. David Minnich
1999 Margaret Berry
1998 Judith Johnson
1997 Harry G. Kahl
1996 Karl W. Brown
1995 No nominees
1994 David L. Semrad
1993 Mack Adams
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