United Methodist News

The Holston Annual Conference followed up on bold decisions and giving of recent years by approving a tithe-based apportionment and collecting $154,625 in an offering for south Sudan. They also raised $61,933 for children’s ministry in Holston and in Africa and sent food, health, and school supplies to Liberia and Zimbabwe valued at $232,221.

The Rev. Dale E. Austin, North Central New York Annual Conference Secretary for 19 years, offered the closing motion as the conference ended its final annual conference session in preparation for their future ministry as part of the Upper New York Annual Conference.

The Rev. Nicolas Camacho travels through hostile territory for mission projects.

United Methodists of the Northern Illinois Conference took bold action to reach new people in new places by approving a second stage of new faith communities at its 2010 Annual Conference.

At 10:59 a.m. on June 19, 2010, the Rev. Dr. Marcus Matthews, Resident Bishop of the Upper New York Area of the United Methodist Church, called to order the first session of the Upper New York Uniting Conference at the OnCenter in Syracuse.

Bishop Thomas J. Bickerton told the 1,800 members that he sees signs of hope in the Western Pa. Conference, despite significant challenges facing the denomination.

With a closing motion presented by Western New York Annual Conference Secretary, the Rev. Dr. Gregory Crispell, on the afternoon of June 5, 2010, and a benediction by the Rev. Dr. Marcus Matthews, resident bishop, the Western New York Annual Conference closed for the last time, planting the seed for new ministry within the Upper New York Annual Conference.

The Baltimore-Washington Conference gathered for its 226th session June 2-4 in Baltimore under the theme “Passionate Disciples Celebrate in Worship.”

The United Methodist Church is experiencing heightened stress, says Ken Carter. What does this mean for the future?

Central conference fund will help thousands of retired pastors and surviving spouses.

“Reach Out to Serve” was the theme of the Peninsula-Delaware Annual Conference, held June 10-12 at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in Princess Anne, Maryland.

Nearly 1.4 billion people worldwide live on less than $1.25 a day. Nearly 2.5 million Floridians live below the federal poverty line. Changing that reality was a main focus of discussion June 10-12 during the 2010 Florida Annual Conference.

Mission station trying to hold off miners interested in mineral-rich property.

Undocumented student wants others to see him not as a criminal but as a child of God.

It was never hard for the attendees of the forty-second Oregon-Idaho Annual Conference Session to remember that they were gathered under the theme “Boldly Making Disciples of Jesus Christ: Embracing Change.”

Nettles Talbert taught son to “acknowledge the humanity in the other person.”

Two United Methodist churches lay claims to starting the celebration.

The forty-second session of the Yellowstone Annual Conference was held June 10-13 at Crowne Plaza Hotel in Billings, Mont.

More than 1,300 people gathered at the Valley Forge Convention Center here under the leadership of Bishop Sudarshana Devadhar for the eleventh session of the Greater New Jersey Annual Conference.

Too many moms and dads buy into the myth they are irrelevant in matters of the spirit.