Providence United Methodist Church - Staff Ministry Bio's
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Ken Carter |
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Ken Carter has served as senior pastor of Providence United Methodist Church since July, 2003. During these years, PUMC has successfully completed a capital campaign, “One Vision, Many Gifts”, dramatically reducing its indebtedness; initiated significant local and global ministries, including a local mission with homeless families and an HIV/Aids initiative in northern Haiti; and welcomed several hundred new members. In addition, PUMC has been awarded grants from the Valparaiso Institute and the Louisville Institute, and has been included in “vital congregational” studies by Congregations of Intentional Practice (Lilly Endowment) and the Romans 12 Project (General Board of Discipleship). In addition, PUMC has twice received certification as a “Welcoming Church” by Igniting Ministries/United Methodist Church. Ken would quickly say that these accomplishments have come through the efforts of many faithful and sacrificial leaders, and that the church is still on a journey from “Good To Great”! Ken is a native of Georgia, and a graduate of Columbus State University (BS), Duke University (M.Div), University of Virginia (MA) and Princeton Theological Seminary (D.Min). He is also a graduate of Leadership Greensboro and Leadership Winston-Salem. His previous pastorates, across 20 years, were in East Bend (Smithtown), Greensboro (Christ, St. Timothy’s) and Winston-Salem (Mount Tabor), North Carolina. He has been active in the community and in the larger church. The following activities are representative: Board Member, Hospice of Yadkin County; Board Member, Habitat For Humanity of Greater Greensboro; Paul Harris Fellow, Crescent Rotary Club, Greensboro; Board Member, National Conference of Christians and Jews, Greensboro Chapter; Member, Institutional Review Board, Wake Forest University School of Medicine; Director, General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, United Methodist Church; and Trustee, Brevard College. Ken has been elected as a delegate to the 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 Southeastern Jurisdictional Conferences and the 2004 and 2008 General Conferences of the United Methodist Church. He has also served as president of the Western North Carolina Conference Board of Ordained Ministry and as chair of the Western North Carolina Committee on The Episcopacy. In addition, he was a member of the Study Commission on the Ordained Ministry of the United Methodist Church (2004-2008). He was a member of the Pastor-Theologian program of the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, New Jersey (1999-2002, 2005-2007) and The Oxford Institute for Methodist Theological Studies (2007). He has also served on mission teams in Bolivia (1992, 1994), Guatemala (2003), and Haiti (2005, 2006, 2007). As a preacher, Ken’s sermons have appeared on Day One/The Protestant Hour, and in the Abingdon Preaching Annual, Biblical Preaching Journal, and The Christian Century. He has preached in the Duke University Chapel and for renewal weekends in a number of churches, ranging in size from very small mountain churches to congregations of more than five thousand members. He is the author of five books, among them A Way of Life In The World: Spiritual Practices For United Methodists (Abingdon). Ken is married to Pamela Barrow Carter, a native of Oak Ridge, North Carolina and a graduate of Wake Forest University and Duke Divinity School. Pam has served as a United Methodist campus minister (at UNC-Charlotte and Salem College), as an associate pastor (Guilford College UMC, Greensboro) and as a minister of education (Maple Springs UMC, Winston-Salem). She currently serves in a very part-time role as Director of Senior Adult Ministries at Providence UMC, and is a volunteer leader in outreach ministries, particular with the resettlement of families devastated by Hurricane Katrina and with the Haiti Mission. Ken and Pam are parents of two daughters: Liz, a senior at UNC-Chapel Hill and Abby, a freshman at UNC-Wilmington. Ken’s hobbies are exercise, listening to music, blogging and reading. Pam enjoys creative design projects, movies and renovating their cabin in at Lake Junaluska. Together, they have enjoyed traveling to England, Ireland, Israel, Canada and China, and supporting the pursuits of their daughters. |
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