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I am pleased to announce that I intend to appoint the Rev. Jan R. Wiley as the next Superintendent of the East District of the California-Pacific Conference effective July 1, 2014. Rev. Wiley has a long and faithful history of service in our conference with
True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice. Martin Luther King Jr. January 20, 2014 This year as we give God thanks for the life and incredible and transformative justice witness of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I
Brothers and Sisters, It is with sadness that I inform you that Bishop Jack M. Tuell died yesterday. We are thankful for Bishop Tuell’s great leadership and the legacy he leaves with the California-Pacific Conference. Let us remember to keep his wife Marji in prayer
Brothers and Sisters, Let us keep in prayer Tonga as Cyclone Ian reaches the islands. I am reaching out to the leader of The Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga so that they are aware that we are praying for them as United Methodists. Let us
Brothers and Sisters, I have received word that Bishop Jack M. Tuell is now in hospice care. Bishop Tuell was Resident Bishop of our predecessor Pacific Southwest Annual Conference, and then of the California-Pacific Annual Conference from 1980 to 1992. Let us keep him and
Luke 2:1-14 Brothers and Sisters, On the eve of this Christmas I am praying that the joyful goodwill and peace promised to us by the One who loves us all and to whom we belong will come upon us and upon every child of God
Brothers and Sisters, At our annual conference session earlier this year we celebrated the visionary leadership of Bishop Gerald Kennedy who in 1963 invited to come to the West 8 Methodist pastors from Mississippi who had been condemned and ostracized by Methodists and others for
Brothers and Sisters, The two times I had the privilege of being in the presence of the Honorable Nelson Mandela, he mentioned his ties to the Methodist Church. He credited the Methodists for having educated him and thus prepared him for his journey in life.
Brothers and Sisters, On this day I am giving God thanks for all of you! I have prayed for you this morning with a grateful heart. You are truly a servant people devoted to the work of grace and mercy of Christ Jesus, generous of
The California-Pacific Annual Conference is called to a “Fast for Families” for national immigration reform by Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño who delivered the following statement at a press event today with Catholic Archbishop José H. Gomez, LA County Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas, LA County Federation labor
