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.
Twelve African communicators of The United Methodist Church are in the U.S. to attend training on communications, social media and digital technologies to help them grow as journalists and report what is happening in their countries to the global church.
The steering committee formed in response to the Call to Action issued in May by the Council of Bishops began work on its task last week during an organizational meeting in Chicago.
The United Methodist Church is taking its Rethink Church advertising and welcoming campaign to one of the world’s most trafficked locales – New York City’s iconic Times Square.
Since the launch of www.10thousanddoors.org on April 20, 2009, more users have accessed the Find-a-Church feature of the Web site than any other section, according to tracking devices. The Web site is featured prominently in The United Methodist Church’s new Rethink Church advertising.
On May 5, 2009, many United Methodist bishops will embrace the plight of migrant workers by taking to the streets of the Washington, DC area to serve the workers breakfast.
United Methodists in the New York area will take to the streets of the city on May 6 to execute random acts of kindness as a part of the nationwide launch of a sweeping new campaign called Rethink Church.
Bishop Gregory V. Palmer, President of the Council of Bishops, expressed pastoral concern for all of those anywhere in the world who are affected by the H1N1 Flu (Swine flu) and for the families of those who have died from the flu.
On the eve of World Malaria Day, the people of The United Methodist Church announced they will participate in a nationwide nets distribution program in Sierra Leone in partnership with the United Nations Foundation, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent.
May 5 and 6 marks the kickoff of Rethink Church, the next evolution of The United Methodist Church’s “Open hearts” welcoming campaign. Major events will take place in New York City and Washington, D.C., and local churches and annual conferences are encouraged to put on events to benefit their communities, too.
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