Offerings on United Methodist Student Day support scholarships for United Methodist students in college and seminary. Student Day, historically our denomination’s first churchwide Special Sunday with offering, is usually observed on the Sunday after Thanksgiving (Nov. 27 this year). Churches can choose another Sunday to …
UMC leaders respond to presidential election outcome
As Americans continue to process the outcome of Tuesday’s presidential election in various ways that span a spectrum of emotions, United Methodist Church leaders are reaching out to encourage respect, reconciliation and a forward-looking resolve to seek peace and progress …
UMCOR, churches respond to Hurricane Matthew’s destruction
Hurricane Matthew, one of the fiercest hurricanes in nearly a decade, left a trail of destruction including nearly 1,000 dead in Haiti and up to 90 percent of some areas there destroyed, plus nearly 40 dead in the Southeast United States— …
New evangelical group to uphold tradition or seek division
Two UM News Service stories report on the inaugural meeting, Oct. 7, in Chicago, of a new Wesleyan evangelical group that calls for a global witness of steadfast orthodoxy that may ultimately leave The United Methodist disunited. UMNS’ Heather Hahn …
Bishop Johnson begins 2nd term on Church & Society board
Bishop Peggy Johnson begins her second term on the General Board of Church and Society today at the board’s organizational meeting for the 2017-2020 quadrennium. The meeting, Sept. 21-24, is being held at the Sheraton Columbia Town Center in Columbia, MD. Church …
Sierra Leone school struggles after Ebola, but relies on Ephrata UMC’s support
In the UM News Service August 16 story “United Methodists care for girls stranded after Ebola” Sierra Leone Conference Communications Director Phileas Jusu writes about the lingering effects of the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa among surviving children at …
3 UM clergy arrested for sit-in protest over wages at PHL
About a dozen clergy leaders staged a sit-in protest for higher wages at Philadelphia International Airport on Thursday, July 21, and were briefly arrested. Among them were: the Rev. David Tatgenhorst, pastor of St. Luke UMC in Bryn Mawr; the …
UM clergy close both political conventions in prayer
Two UM clergymen are part of the prayer life of both national political conventions happening this month in the U.S. presidential race. And both get to play their key roles on the climactic final night, one at the start, the …
Unity but not uniformity
The last became first through much of The United Methodist Church’s Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference, where nearly 300 delegates and bishops from 10 annual conferences met July 11-15, in Lancaster, Pa. The first plenary session, held on Monday night, honored peoples too often thought of last in our church and society.
After Orlando’s tragedy leaders urge prayer and action
Leaders across The United Methodist Church–from bishops to pastors to laity–are calling for heartfelt prayers in their lamentations over the bloody massacre that killed an unprecedented 49 people and injured 53 in Orlando, Fla., early Sunday morning, June 12. The …