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Shawna and Alan Johnson.(Photo: Courtesy photo)
The aboriginal Wesley Foundation, a mission to the bookish community, was launched added than 100 years ago. The ministries are placed on academy campuses, a ability set afar from abundant of the apple about it, according to Alan Johnson, administrator of ULM’s Wesley Foundation. Campus ministers, aloof like an out of country missionary, needs to apprentice about and accept an acquaintance of this ability in adjustment to abbot to this association in which the academy apprentice is immersed.
“The words, 'Come…Grow…Serve' are the foundation for best aggregate we do,” said Johnson. “We appetite to be a abode and a association that academy acceptance appetite to appear be a allotment of. We strive to actualize an ambiance that is affable and that has a lot of amplitude for acceptance to be who they are.”
He explained that it is accepted that advance is afflictive and blowzy at times, but it is additionally believed that advance in Christ is axial to actuality absolutely human. “Wesley exists in ample allotment to accord acceptance the befalling to abound into who they were created to be,” he said. “We apprehend that takes time, and that every person’s adventure of acceptance continues to advance above college. So that agency we don’t get to see a lot of accomplished products, but our aim is to set them on a aisle that leads added up and added into a admiring accord with Jesus.”
As the acceptance grow, they are accustomed opportunities to serve on campus, in the community, and out in the advanced world. “Our adoration is that aback we bang into our graduates at Home Depot or see them bottomward the alley at a friend’s bells that we will acquisition them still admiring and confined Jesus.”
Shawna and Alan Johnson. (Photo: Courtesy photo)
Although amid on the campus of the University of Louisiana, Monroe, the foundation serves acceptance from Delta Association as able-bodied as added adolescent bodies in the acceptable academy age ambit that ability not necessarily be enrolled in school. Since ULM is a accompaniment school, acceptance from all over Louisiana are complex in the ministry.
Johnson, 46, grew up in South Arkansas. His parents, who accept been affiliated for 50 years, are both retired from Murphy Oil and still abide in the El Dorado area. He is the oldest of three children, with a sister, Robin, who lives on the West Coast and a brother, Brian, who lives on the East Coast.
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Students are encouraged to use the Wesley assets in the ULM Campus. (Photo: Courtesy photo)
He explained that he grew up activity to abbey and his parents did a abundant job of teaching me appropriate from amiss and the amount of family. “I don’t apperceive that they anytime talked to me about it, but somehow in the way they conducted themselves with added people, I abstruse that every actuality has amazing amount and that all activity is precious,” he said.
“I had added people growing up that buried acceptable actuality in me, but it wasn’t until academy that those seeds began to abound really,” he said. “Apparently my parents and others did a ton of watering, and again God did his thing.” He acclaimed that ancient during his apprentice year he began to admiration about the purpose and as a sophomore, he absolutely began allurement himself the “why am I here” blazon questions.
By the time he began his inferior year, he was actively attractive for the affirmation of God in his world.
Alan Johnson on a acceptance architecture cruise with students. (Photo: Courtesy photo)
“I started blind about the Wesley Foundation at Louisiana Tech, and absolutely the blow is history,” he said. “I met a guy alleged Andy Hurst, and absolutely believe, like in the book of Esther, that he was there ‘for such a time as this.' All the acceptable things that God had been accomplishing all forth through my parents and others, and all the struggles and questions and dreams that I had been experiencing had congenital up to this massive angled point, and I began to abound like crazy. I opened my affection absolutely to this Jesus guy that I had heard about my accomplished life, and he set a blaze abysmal central my affection that could not be independent and is still afire to this day. At that point, actuality affianced in some blazon of admiral seemed unavoidable.”
After admission from Louisiana Tech with a amount in accounting, he spent an added year at the Tech Wesley accomplishing a admiral internship. Eventually, he began alive on a Master’s of Divinity amount from Asbury Theological Seminary. “Like Chris Farley’s appearance in the cine 'Tommy Boy,' I was additionally in academy for seven years and did not become a doctor,” he said. “I am now an ancient in the United Methodist Abbey of Louisiana.”
The "prep" is the aboriginal befalling , the Wesley has to appointment with admission freshman. Johnson brand to do article to grab their attention. (Photo: Courtesy photo)
The Wesley additionally has a able ability against the all-embracing association and a few years ago developed a admiral program, Monroe 101, which gives all-embracing acceptance the befalling to accomplish American accompany and apprentice about the association of Ouachita Parish. “We accomplice a lot with Chi Alpha Campus Admiral in our efforts to allotment the adulation of Christ with acceptance from Nepal, Korea, and added countries about the world,” Johnson said.
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“One of the air-conditioned things about the Wesley architecture is that we accept the Bayou at our aback door,” he said. “Currently we accept six kayaks and one paddleboard that acceptance can use chargeless of charge. I assumption you could say that it’s included in their tuition.”
The accumulation has a account adoration account alleged The Journey, which meets on Tuesday evenings at 7:30. Acceptance booty administration in abounding aspects of that acquisition including arch in worship, active complete and video, praying for others, and affable new students. The Wesley Administration Team, which is about composed of 20-25 students, is amenable for abundant of what happens about Wesley on a account basis. This division they will be out on campus every Monday from 9-3 in an attack to accommodated acceptance and body relationships and a baby accumulation of apprentice leaders will be arch Point Groups, which are baby groups that accommodated account for a added attending at the scripture from the antecedent weeks Adventure gathering, for alternate advance and for prayer.
Students Ta'Von Washington, Gina Williams and Derry Jones affectation for chief pics with Alan Johnson at the Wesley. (Photo: Courtesy photo)
“Before Monroe, I served in adolescence ministries in West Texas and North Arkansas from 1994 through 2007,” he said. “For two years during that stretch, my wife Shawana, who I met aback we were seniors at Tech and affiliated in 1994, and I served as abode parents at a clandestine Christian adolescence home in East Texas.”
Johnson has been with ULM’s Wesley Foundation for 10 years. “During the bounce of 2006, an abstraction and admiration began to abound in my affection to serve on a academy campus, he said. “I anticipate I assuredly acquainted like God had developed me up abundant to be there for added acceptance the way Andy had been there for me. It was a difficult accommodation because we admired our abbey and association in Russellville Ark. and we had absolutely buried some roots there. We absolutely still go aback to appointment about already a year. So my wife and I prayed about it, and we talked to bodies we trusted and again we began to analyze campus admiral possibilities.” He explained that it was a continued journey, but afterwards about eighteen months they concluded up in Monroe. “There were several conversations and adventures that God acclimated to beacon us in this direction, but a brace of abundant Monroe guys – Reverend Bob Burgess and David Key – were active in our accommodation to booty a bound of acceptance aback into Louisiana.”
“Our babe Emery is a chief in aerial academy this year, and she afresh told us that she'd alpha her academy adventure walking the aforementioned sidewalks as her parents, in fact, she ability alike break in one of the aforementioned dorms. Emery and our son Reid accept basically developed up at the Wesley Foundation,” Johnson said. “ I anticipate Reid was in the added brand aback we took our aboriginal Wesley Mission cruise to Acuna, Mexico, to body a home for a ancestors in need.”
Front Joshua Hanna , Alan Johnson and Tra'Von Washington. (Photo: Courtesy photo)
The Wesley Foundation ULM is advantageous to be allotment of a beyond arrangement of United Methodist churches beyond North Louisiana. Several pastors in the breadth are actual admiring of the assignment with academy students. Besides accouterment abundant bare allotment for accepted operations, bounded United Methodist churches accomplice with ULM Wesley for contest on campus, account the use of their accessories for retreats and appropriate events, and advice accommodate banking assets for mission trips. Abounding of bounded churches associates are allotment of what is alleged the Wesley 300, which is a arrangement of individuals who accomplish to a account banking agreement of $25, $42, or $100. This is a basic allotment of account and an breadth that the accumulation is consistently aggravating to abound in adjustment to abide accomplishing accordant admiral at ULM.
Just like an out-of-country missionary, campus ministries charge accession added money in adjustment to abutment themselves. The agent Wesley Foundation ULM uses to accession allotment is the anniversary Sportsman’s Auction. Now in its sixth year, the bargain was the abstraction of Reverend. John Robert Black, a affiliate of the Board of Directors at the time, as a way to access both the fundraising and acquaintance about campus admiral to the association about ULM.
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“We’ve been so adored over the years to accept absurd bodies who accomplice with us to accomplish this a abundant event. Bodies don’t aloof buy tickets or accord items; we accept association who adapt jambalaya, beans, and the blow of our meal at little or no amount to us, Johnson said. “Multiple restaurants in the breadth accord some absurd cakes, pies, and added treats for our Dessert Auction, which has become a highlight of the night. We do several items on bashful auction, but our Auctioneer Rollin Alford moves us through 20 or so agitative bigger admission items such as a anniversary in a bank condo, a deer stand, and a actual nice Cajun Broiler.”
Because the summer is about a lower time for giving and the alpha of academy is an big-ticket time for campus ministry, accepting the bargain in backward summer/early abatement is a absolute banking addition for Wesley’s accepted budget. “Over the accomplished year, we accept accomplished decreases in our allotment that appear from the United Methodist Abbey of Louisiana. So now added than ever, we are relying on bounded churches, alumni, and acceptable individuals from about the association to accommodate the assets bare for able campus ministry.”
A Sportsman Bargain table advocacy is $550, which includes eight tickets. The acquirement of a table includes the best of a Ruger American Rifle or a fifty-quart Pelican Ice Chest. “We added this added to get bodies added aflame about the bargain and hopefully ample the room. Our ambition this year is to advertise thirty tables.” Individual tickets are additionally accessible for $20. To acquirement tickets, go to ulmwesley.eventbrite.com or alarm the ULM Wesley Foundation at (318) 343-2944.
Alan Johnson (Photo: Courtesy photo)
If you go
ULM Wesley Foundation Sportsman’s Auction
Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017 at 6 p.m.
Lea Joyner United Methodist Abbey Gym
Jambalaya banquet and alive bargain featuring hunts, guns, bows and more
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