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Written: 8/19/2008 By Michelle Scott United Methodist News Service NEW YORK -The United Methodist Committee on Relief is coordinating medicines and medical supplies being provided through U.S. government-sponsored emergency airlifts to the conflict zone in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. The South Caucasus n...
Written: 5/5/2008 Mississippi LeadersMississippians have been selected by the General Conference for leadership roles on the general church level. The Rev. Joe May, pastor of Anderson UMC in Jackson and a Mississippi clergy delegate to General Conference, was elected as the first alternate to the Jud...
Written: 4/24/2008 General Conference 2008 opens with worshipOn the 40th anniversary to the day of the creation of The United Methodist Church, and within 40 miles of where it happened, United Methodists from 129 annual conferences and 50 countries gathered at the Fort Worth (Texas) Convention Center for the start of ...
Written: 4/17/2008 To see stories included in our 2008 General Conference Preview special section, please click here. To see the pdf of our 2008 General Conference Preview, please click here....
Written: 2/6/2008 By Marta W. AldrichUnited Methodist News Service FORT WORTH, Texas — When United Methodists convene this spring for their worldwide assembly, they can expect wider international representation, a denominational budget built around four new areas of focus and carefully choreographed opening sessions...
Written: 10/16/2007 By United Methodist News ServiceDirectors of the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries have abruptly dismissed the mission agency’s chief executive. The decision not to re-nominate the Rev. R. Randy Day came Oct. 9 upon recommendation from the board’s personnel committee during the board’s ann...
Written: 10/16/2007 A UMNS CommentaryFrom the General Secretaries of The United Methodist Church Editor's note: The top staff executives - or general secretaries - of The United Methodist Church's boards and agencies have worked with other church leaders to develop four "areas of focus" for the denomination's ministri...
Written: 10/16/2007 By Marta W. AldrichUnited Methodist News Service NASHVILLE — The face of today’s United Methodist is markedly different than it was 40 years ago — a reality that concerns church financial leaders tracking how changing demographics are hitting the denomination in its pocketbook. In the Unit...
Written: 9/6/2007 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) - The United Methodist Church could have a new hymnal by 2013 under plans endorsed by the denomination's Board of Discipleship. Directors of the board, meeting Aug. 22-25, voted to ask the 2008 General Conference to form a hymnal creation committee next year to begin develop...
State of the Church report encourages dialogue
Written: 5/14/2007 (UMNS) As President Bush surveyed tornado damage in Greensburg, Kan., on May 9, United Methodists responded to the storms across Kansas with prayers and humanitarian aid. Bishop Scott J. Jones, who visited the town the day before Bush, expressed sadness and offered prayers for those affected by the...
Written: 5/3/2007 SPRINGMAID BEACH, S.C. (UMNS) - The president of the bishops of The United Methodist Church is calling on the denomination to reclaim its heritage as a Christian movement. Bishop Janice Riggle Huie told her colleagues on the Council of Bishops that the church "must be led more by a clear vision and...
Discipleship agency to shift focus to grow leaders and churches
Written: 12/18/2006 (UMNS) - The people of The United Methodist Church are participating in a malaria-prevention campaign, Nothing But Nets, that plays on the image of balls flying into nets to encourage donations for malaria nets for African families. United Methodist Bishop Thomas Bickerton of the denomination'...
Written: 11/17/2006 (UMNS) The only phone card Sgt. 1st Class John Brian Gregory can use that is not blocked by the Afghanistan government is the one featuring the United Methodist Church's Cross and Flame. Gregory is "way out in the boonies" at Camp Salerno in Khost, Afghanistan, and he tells his wife Nina that the o...
Written: 8/15/2006 Theon Johnson III of Sharon, a member of Canton United Methodist Church, was elected co-chair of the United Methodist Board of Discipleship’s Division on Ministries with Young People at the group’s recent meeting in Nashville. Johnson also serves on the United Methodist Student Movement’s steering c...
Written: 8/1/2006 United Methodist News Service MUTARE, Zimbabwe — For Marie Manisha, whose homeland of Burundi is still recovering from war, good communications is essential to life itself. “Without communication, there is no life,” she said, speaking in French. She and 27 other United Methodist commun...
Written: 7/26/2006 New York, New York (GBGM) - The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) has issued an urgent appeal for funds to assist civilians caught in the renewed fighting in the Middle East. "Our funds for Middle East emergencies are painfully low," said the Rev. Paul Dirdak, UMCOR director. "As Christi...
Written: 6/30/2006 By Neill Caldwell United Methodist News Service LAKE JUNALUSKA, N.C. — It's a new summer and a fresh start for the picturesque United Methodist retreat center here, which has continued to concentrate on its mission and ministry through the aftermath of a controversy last fall. The Lake Ju...
U.S. United Methodist membership drops below 8 million
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