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5/16/2024

Bishop Carlton P. Minnick didn’t hesitate to preach about the demands of Christian faith. “It’s so much easier to sing ‘My Jesus, I Love Thee’ than it is to love like Jesus loved,” he said in one sermon. In his own risk-taking efforts to follow Jesus, Minnick championed women in ministry and helped lead the Council of Bishops to speak out against U.S. nuclear weapons policy. He also became known as a superb Bible teacher, and as a bishop who didn’t put on airs. The Rev. Mary John Dye recalls ...

5/16/2024

The General Commission on Religion and Race has developed an info graphic that outlines 10 cultural items that will help folks be in communitiy with their Asian American siblings, Click here to find the graphic on the GCORR website, and to access a downloadable PDF.  

5/16/2024

Editor’s Note: As we get closer to Annual Conference 2024, we are highlighting our main offering opportunity, to help fund a scholarship at Africa University for students from West Angola, as well as our partnerships with Africa University and the West Angola Conference. To learn more about our ACS 2024 Offerings, please click here.  Methodist missionaries have been working in the country of Angola, on the West Coast of Africa since 1885, at mission sites in both East and West Angola. Following...

5/16/2024

In preparation for the 2024 Annual Conference, the Lay Servant Ministries is offering a learning opportunity for youth and young adults to explore the United Methodist organizational structure and how it allows us to live out Wesleyan Theology. The Lay Servant Ministries is offering a brand-new course on transformational leadership.   

5/16/2024

The General Commission on Religion and Race (GCORR) presents Our Shared Journey, a webinar that seeks to educate participants on some history of both Asian American and Pacific Islander cultures and the distinct differences between them. The webinar covers the presence of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the UMC, celebrating how far both racial/ethnic groups have come and the ongoing challenges Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders face in the UMC today. Panelists include: The Rev. ...

5/16/2024

During May we will celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander month with stories and videos from our AAPI community in California-Nevada.  We will explore cultural contexts in which our AAPI siblings follow Jesus, thrive in community and participate in healing our world. Video interviews will be released throughout the month of May and include: Ruby Bago, chairperson of the Asian American Caucus; Rev. Vathanak Heang, chairperson of the national Cambodian Caucus and pastor of Memorial UMC in ...

5/16/2024

Editor's note: The official date set to celebrate Peace with Justice Sunday is May 26, 2024. We encourage churches to celebrate on a date that is most convenient for your congregation. Resources to celebrate and promote this this Special Sunday can be found here.   This Special Sunday is a denomination wide celebration intended to raise awareness that even in a world plagued by war and terror, violence and destruction, people of faith have a clear call to build peace with justice. As United ...

5/16/2024

  We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.  – Herman Melville   Let me give you a new command:  Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples –  when they see the love you have for each other.” - John 13:34-35 We rejoice that God has moved the hearts of Lake Park UMC and...

5/16/2024

“Make an effort to preserve the unity of the Spirit with the peace that ties you together.” Ephesians 4:3 CEB Holding Scripture’s call for Christian unity before us, we lament that some have chosen to leave The United Methodist Church. At the same time, we must clarify that the Global Methodist Church has no official relationship with The United Methodist Church and has not been endorsed by any of its official bodies. There has been no request for such a relationship and, as such, there is no ...

5/10/2024

This past month, our Cal-Nev Conference participation in the 2020 Bear Fire came to an end as the collected non-profits concluded their efforts.  The Conference has been involved for four years in this Butte County wildfire recovery.  This Butte County complex of fires, in the summer of 2020, consumed 320,000 acres and destroyed 1500 homes. Tragically 15 people died.   Our initial response in 2020 included two weeks at the Local Assistance Center in Oroville.  We assisted 360 households with ...