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United Methodist Men's Foundation hires former 
Discipleship staffer as its first executive director   

                                 
     NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) -- The United Methodist Men's
Foundation announced July 1, that it has hired James Snead as its
first executive director.
     Snead of Nashville, a former staff member of the churchwide
Board of Discipleship, had carried the responsibilities of
executive director of the Men's  Foundation since its inception in
1980. 
     The foundation, created to raise money to support the
scouting office in the General Board of Discipleship's Division of
United Methodist Men, has raised more than $3.5 million dollars.
The money has provided the church with a full-time staff person in
scouting for the past 16 years, paid administrative costs of the
Upper Room Living Prayer Center's WATS telephone line and has
funded numerous mission projects, in the United States and abroad.
     More than $1.2 million currently is held in designated
endowment funds at the foundation.
     Dale Waymire, Madill, Okla., foundation president, said that
today is a crucial time for the ministry of men. "Thousands of our
men are experiencing powerful spiritual renewal. The unprecedented
action of the United Methodist Church has established the new
General Commission on United Methodist Men that will need this
vehicle to support stepped up activities," he said. 
     Snead, who brings 34 years of experience with organizations,
ministries with boys and men, and financial giving, will head the
United Methodist Men's Foundation from his Nashville home. 
     Snead left the churchwide Board of Discipleship in 1995 to
work as a special representative to the president of Asbury
Theological Seminary. He has spent the past year working in
development for the seminary. Continuing his interest in United
Methodist Men, Snead has been involved in various training events
throughout the denomination.
     He said the role that he will play in the foundation and
within the new men's commission will be as "a servant to men
through the United Methodist Church." He said, he will "promote
listening to men and serving their spiritual needs."
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