Other "Thinking Drafts" and writing by Keith Drury -- http://www.indwes.edu/tuesday .

 NOTE: The following paper was prepared as an outline history of how the cooperative "Aldersgate curriculum" cooperation between various holiness denominations unraveled. It reflects both a personal (Keith Drury) and a denominational (Wesleyan Church) perspective thus it is likely biased and only part of the picture. Nevertheless it is presented for historical insight for research study by those involved in the study of inter-denominational cooperation.

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1. 1978-1979. Aldersgate negotiation with David C. Cook about picking up the "Bible-In-Life Pix" take home paper as a substitute or alternative to the Junior paper produced by the Free Methodists and used by all non-Nazarene Aldersgate members. The negotiations were completed but the final decision rejected the alternative and determined to stay with our own take home papers even if they were not financially profitable.

2. Fall, 1988. The Free Methodist Church ceases printing operation, raising the decision as to what the Free Methodists would do for curriculum -- either something cooperatively with the Wesleyans, or with the Church of the Nazarene.

3. Fall 1988. Aldersgate is disbanded. In a meeting at the Indianapolis Hilton, all primary participants voted to disband the Aldersgate Cooperative with the agreement that none of the former participants would use the name "Aldersgate" on subsequent publications.

4. Winter 1988. Wesleyans investigate cooperation with the Nazarenes in a Kansas City meeting. Attending: Earl Wilson, David Keith, Nathan Birky, Phil Riley, Bob Foster, and Everette Pleyer. Wesleyans investigated the possibility of potential cooperation with the Church of the Nazarene, coming to the meeting with interest in either adding our own cover to the Nazarene contents, or buying the plates from the Nazarenes. This meeting occurred following the collapse of Hymnal cooperation for other reasons. Wesleyans left this meeting disappointed with Nazarene insistence that to cooperate at such levels, Wesleyans would be required to pay a full one-half of the development cost regardless of unit sales. The Wesleyan position was hopeful that Wesleyans could pay the development cost (all pre-press cost including editorial) based on unit sales; if Wesleyans sold only 25% of the total they would only be required to pay 25% of the editorial cost. Following this meeting, a general assumption developed that cooperation with the current Nazarene administration was probably not going to be financially feasible over the long term for Wesleyans.

5. Winter 1988. Free Methodist cooperation investigated. Meeting in Marion Indiana, David Keith, Nathan Birky, Dan Wollam, and Dan Riemenschneider discussed possible cooperation between Free Methodists and Wesleyans. Wesleyans proposed a cooperative curriculum with the Free Methodists where Wesleyans would do all editing and Free Methodists would essentially become "users" of the Wesleyan curriculum. Free Methodists left this meeting disappointed believing "cooperation with the Wesleyans wouldn't give us enough involvement."

6. Winter 1989-90. Free Methodists decide to adopt Nazarene curriculum. I