Come to the Table: a Conference-Wide Bible Study (GC Delegation)
Conference-wide Bible Study begins the week of May 8, 2022. All are invited to register and participate for three consecutive weeks, via ZOOM.
Conference-wide Bible Study begins the week of May 8, 2022. All are invited to register and participate for three consecutive weeks, via ZOOM.
The Conference Committee on Nominations is seeking interested, called, and qualified laity and clergy to fill positions on the following committees: Archives & History Equitable Compensation Finance & Administration Higher Education & Ministry Hispanic Committee Korean Ministry Council Native American Ministries Nominations Pacific Islanders Committee
As we close out Women’s History Month, I want to offer some recommendations for my clergy sisters on the journey, as well as insights on how the church can be true to equity and equality for women within and beyond The United Methodist Church. For
The California-Pacific United Methodist Foundation is pleased to announce its Grants and Scholarship Program for 2022. The generosity of a number of donors to the Foundation, we makes this program possible. The Foundation will be making grants and scholarships of over $170,000 this year: Scholarships
Update: The contact information has been updated with a new email address. The California-Pacific Conference and its Disaster Response Task Force are seeking volunteers to work on restoring living quarters for refugees on the CST campus in Claremont, California. Work includes bed assembling, cleaning, painting,
March 15, 2022 Louisiana residents trying to recover from 18 months of weather disasters are benefiting from a unique partnership formed by United Methodist, Mennonite and Amish communities to help with recovery and rebuilding efforts in storm-ridden Lake Charles. The coalition consists of the Louisiana
March 14, 2022 The late Rev. Ernest Fremont Tittle, a white pastor who died in 1949, would be proud of his church in 2022, believes his successor, a Black woman. First United Methodist Church of Evanston, Illinois, has donated $50,000 to a fund set up
Critical Race Theory (CRT) examines how laws in the United States have built and supported racial inequities. It is an ideological framework that names race as a social construct and asserts racialized inequities in society are fostered by historic and current systemic, institutional, and legal
In fall 1999, I enrolled in a master’s degree program in African American Studies at Clark Atlanta University, a historically black school in the Atlanta University Center, which includes Morehouse and Spelman colleges. The first class we took was “AAS 501: Africa and the African Diaspora.” We
As a child of the ’70s, I was raised by loving parents to be “colorblind”: to not see race, to treat everyone as simply “human,” to see everyone as a child of God. When I became a parent, this attitude stuck with me. My spouse