For the Rev. Charles Horace, a retired Liberian pastor, life without a pension was a daily struggle. He recalls weeks in which he would “just live on water” for two or three days. But through the Liberia pension fund, Horace now receives a quarterly pension benefit made possible by gifts to the Central Conference Pension Initiative.
United Methodists everywhere are encouraged to begin planning now to join in Change the World, a church-wide event on April 24-25 that prompts members to join with others in the community to make a difference locally and globally.
In response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti, The United Methodist Church will air specially produced television spots on CNN Headline News starting today and continuing through Monday, January 18.
A major earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti yesterday, causing widespread destruction. Millions of people are affected and thousands are feared dead. The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) has close ties with the Methodist Church in Haiti and is responding to the devastating earthquake with funding, material resources and prayers.
From now through January 31, 2010, Nothing But Nets supporters can donate $10 or more and get two complimentary tickets to an NBA game, subject to availability and participating teams.
InfoServ, the official information service of The United Methodist Church, will become exclusively an e-mail and online information service effective April 1, 2010. At that time, telephone support services will be discontinued.
The United Methodist Church begins its Advent television advertising campaign next week with a new Rethink Church commercial that emphasizes the importance of giving of one's self at Christmas. .
The bishops of The United Methodist Church are launching an appeal to help the people of the Philippines, hard hit by recent typhoon and flooding disasters.
The Commission on the General Conference has announced that Portland, Ore. has been selected as the site for the 2016 General Conference. The United Methodist Church’s top legislative body will meet at the Oregon Convention Center, the largest convention center in the Pacific Northwest, tentatively scheduled from May 10-20, 2016.
In a statement that says, “We cannot help the world until we change our way of being in it,” the bishops of The United Methodist Church announced a significant call to all United Methodists, ecumenical and inter-religious partners and people of goodwill around the world.
The United Methodist Council of Bishops has elected Bishop Rosemarie Wenner of the Germany Episcopal Area as its president designate. The council also elected Bishop Larry Goodpaster of the Charlotte Episcopal Area as president for a two-year term beginning May 6, 2010 and ending during the 2012 General Conference.
Reporting to the Council of Bishops today, the Call to Action Steering Committee laid out a vision of The United Methodist Church of the future and urged a system-wide operational assessment, from the general boards and agencies to the annual conferences to the Council itself.
The Commission on the General Conference is seeking a worship and music director for The United Methodist Church’s 2012 General Conference. The deadline for applying is Feb. 1, 2010.
The United Methodist Church’s advertising and welcoming tagline—Open hearts. Open minds. Open doors. The people of The United Methodist Church—has been selected as a best-in-class tagline in the 2009 Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards.
The Call to Action steering committee is entering the next phase of its work: conducting research and gathering data to be used in developing recommendations to be presented to the Council of Bishops and Connectional Table.
The Central Conference Pension Initiative (CCPI) is 90 percent of the way to its fundraising goal, but still $2 million short of the minimum amount needed to establish pension funds in every central conference.
Representatives of the Methodist, Lutheran, and Catholic traditions will gather in Chicago on Oct. 1 to mark the tenth anniversary of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, the most significant agreement between the Protestant groups and the Catholic Church since the Reformation.
United Methodist theologians, seminary representatives, and leaders from across Africa, as well as representatives from general church boards and agencies in the U.S., gathered August 19 - 20 in Kampala, Uganda, for a first-ever assessment of United Methodist theological education in Africa.
In 2008, the Nothing But Nets campaign eclipsed its ambitious fund-raising goals and raised more than $7 million from some 40,000 individual donors. The 2008 annual report issued by the United Nations Foundation, creator of the grassroots campaign, declared that 2008 donations represent significant increases over annual fund-raising the two previous years.
From front to back cover and pages in-between, the official United Methodist 2010 Program Calendar – now available from United Methodist Communications – encourages users to “rethink the way The United Methodist Church makes contact with the world.”
In what church leaders are calling a “historic moment” and an “ecumenical breakthrough,” the Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has voted to adopt a full communion agreement with The United Methodist Church.
United Methodist Communications announces the publication of the 2009-12 edition of The United Methodist handbook, a 48-page, colorful publication filled with comprehensive information about The United Methodist Church and the ways it lives out its global mission. The handbook is available at no charge.
Recently it was prematurely reported that a number of the proposed amendments to the Constitution of The United Methodist Church had been defeated. As of this date, not all annual conferences have voted on these proposed changes. The voting will not be completed until the Winter/Spring of 2010.
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