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August 9, 2023 With a prophetic voice and heart for social justice, bishops from the Western Jurisdiction are mourning the death last week of their colleague, mentor, and friend: Bishop Melvin G. Talbert. “Mel was an amazingly gracious, approachable, powerful church leader and mentor of emerging
May 25, 2023 Recently, two disaster response team members from the California-Pacific Conference traveled to remote Alaska with the idea they were going to focus solely on assessing damage caused to homes by last fall’s Typhoon Merbok, when they stumbled upon a pick-up game of
May 15, 2023 When the Rev. Murray Crookes returned to his home state of Alaska in 2018 to start a new church, he wasn’t sure where to begin. He spent a lot of time in the community before learning of a regular gathering of Alaska
April 11, 2023 Friends and leaders from across the Alaska Conference and Western Jurisdiction gathered March 19 in Anchorage to celebrate the chartering service of Ola Toe Fuataina United Methodist Church, a primarily Samoan congregation. Bishop Cedrick Bridgeforth of the Greater Northwest Episcopal Area presided over
Conference Secretaries for Global Ministries from the Western Jurisdiction gathered together February 28 – March 1, in Mill Vally, California, along with California-Nevada Conference and Global Ministries staff members. The Conference Secretary for Global Ministries (CSGM) are lay and clergy who promote relationships between annual
The Western Jurisdiction LGBTQIA+ Ministries team recently connected with a fellowship of young trans women in Uganda. The women are living in basic conditions in a challenging area of the country with limited resources. Many have been ejected from their homes and churches because of
As we welcome the three new bishops of the Western Jurisdiction, the new College of Bishops offers a short Epiphany message to share in local churches during worship service or online. Epiphany falls on Friday, January 6, 2023. The video features Bishops Karen Oliveto of
We come with hearts broken, yet again, by another senseless act of violence perpetrated against the LGBTQIA+ community, this time at Club Q in Colorado Springs on the eve of the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Because we believe that God’s heart is broken when any
November 10, 2022 As Dottie Escobedo-Frank walked up to the altar at Christ United Methodist Church in Salt Lake City to be consecrated as a bishop, she did so with bare feet. “I’ve always worked from the ground,” said Bishop Escobedo-Frank. “Every church I’ve been
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
