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UMC Global Ministries’ Missionary Joy Prim, deaconess, will be in southern California in April. Come and learn about her service to Overseas Workers! Joy is a member of the California-Pacific Conference and served Philippine immigrants at the Filipino Migrant Center in Long Beach before being
It’s time! Let’s gather at the Northwest Leadership Institute in April in Boise, Idaho to worship, dream and strategize the church on the other side. In the midst of quiet quitting, denominational splintering, and generations deconstructing their faith, it’s time to dream about the opportunities
There are two primary driving forces for Bishop Connie Shelton: being herself and keeping the rhythms that sustain her. Being herself is “incredibly liberating,” Shelton noted, commenting that she does not have to try harder if she just leans into her own being. Additionally, there
March 22, 2023 Yewon Park’s feet provided some welcome levity as a group of United Methodists immersed themselves in Native American culture and reckoned with injustices the first Americans suffered. “You’ve got little feet!” said Henrietta Mann, an accomplished academic and Cheyenne prayer woman, while performing
March 21, 2023 Friends of Friendship Park, led by the Rev. John Fanestil, a United Methodist pastor, continues to defend the preservation of the oceanfront park, located on the border between Mexico and the U.S. Supporters say the park is at risk of being seriously affected
With women in leadership all around her, Laura Merrill never thought that she could be limited in being a pastor. She is a fourth-generation first-born woman. Her mother worked outside the home, despite the culture of the time. With the noted superpower of helping, Merrill
The biggest driving force for Robin Dease in pastoral ministry is to make change. Her call to ministry story is one that shows tenacious work ethic and the highest of standards. Before she was appointed as a district superintendent, Dease needed to believe that she
March 10, 2023 Our theological intern Jackie Celin unpacks her day of state advocacy with an interfaith community. She encourages all of us to consider how we might be able to participate in this type of advocacy at the state level. “But let justice roll
When she was serving as a district superintendent in the Michigan Conference, one of Kennetha Bigham-Tsai’s pastors asked her to be a part of their baptisms happening in a park. Dressed distinctively in a long African dress and ready for a day of events around
March 13, 2023 An international United Methodist body is giving fresh energy to efforts to restructure the global denomination so that its different geographic regions would each have greater autonomy and stand on equal footing. The Standing Committee on Central Conference Matters devoted most of its first
