All rights reserved. California-Pacific Conference, 2024.
Effective Black Parenting is a parenting curriculum out of the DC Children’s Trust Fund and approved for parenting instruction by many social service agencies nationwide. It is a 15-module parenting curriculum. We serve families who have been court-mandated to take parenting training and seek reunification
January 24, 2023 The Rev. Dennis Blackwell is weary of the news reports of people being shot, many times Black people. “Every morning, I turn the television on,” said Blackwell, a United Methodist pastor at Asbury Community Church in Woodlynne, New Jersey. “There are people
On Saturday, January 14, 2023, Holman United Methodist Church partnered with Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (ICYOLA), Angel City Chorale, and the Los Angeles Chapter of The Southern Christian Leadership Conference to present a free Martin Luther King Jr. Day Concert. The event
January 15, 2023 In 1848 Ellen Craft, an enslaved woman in Macon, Georgia, feared that her father – who was her White enslaver – would claim any child she bore as his property. And so, she and her husband, also enslaved, embarked on a remarkable
The General Commission on Religion and Raceby Dr. Arthuree Wright “Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything
November 17, 2022 In the wake of the election of Bishop Delores “Dee” Williamston, the first Black woman elected to the episcopacy in the South Central Jurisdiction, the latest installment of “Hollering for Change” looks at the history-making event. The Rev. Dr. Tori Butler speaks
November 10, 2022 Growing up in rural Alabama, it was Bishop Cedrick Bridgeforth’s grandparents who made sure he got to church – even on the days he didn’t want to be there. But it was in the church, Lakeview United Methodist and Oakville Baptist churches
November 7, 2022 After electing three new bishops on Friday, delegates to the Western Jurisdictional Conference learned on Saturday (Nov. 5) bishops new and recently elected were assigned to episcopal areas for the remainder of the 2020-2024 quadrennium. In addition to that, significant pieces of
November 4, 2022 The Rev. Cedrick D. Bridgeforth, director of innovation and communication in the California-Pacific Conference, has been elected a bishop by The United Methodist Church’s Western Jurisdiction. He becomes the first openly gay African-American man to be elected a bishop in The United Methodist Church.
October 27, 2022 Editor’s note: UM News is using first names only for some of those interviewed due to the stigma associated with incarceration. Attendees of the sixth National Summit on Mass Incarceration were urged to go back into their churches and communities and open
