United Methodist News Service – Recent Articles

• April 26 wrap-up: Bishop urges delegates to follow God’s lead
  Delegates enjoyed a rousing worship service before heading into the last weekday of committee meetings.
• Bishop: Follow God’s lead at General Conference
  op Sharma Lewis of the Mississippi Conference urged delegates to try to discern God’s plans before they settle on their own as United Methodism moves into uncharted territory.
• Bishops, delegates join rally for Palestine
  Sponsored by United Methodist Kairos Response, the rally brought together more than 100 United Methodist delegates and observers — along with at least six bishops — to hear from a variety of speakers and call attention to Palestine-related legislation before General Conference.
• Prayer room available to General Conference attendees
  Open to all, “Cultivating the Garden of the Heart” includes prompts and Scriptures in Portuguese, Korean, French, Spanish and Kiswahili.
• April 25 wrap-up: Regionalization gets go-ahead, Eurasia leaves
  Day 3 produced two historic moments: the passage of a constitutional amendment that aims to put The United Methodist Church’s different geographic regions on equal footing and the approval of four Eurasia conferences’ official departure from the denomination.
• Eurasian conferences get go-ahead to form own church
  The four annual conferences in Russia and its neighboring countries are leaving to form the autonomous Christian Methodist Church.
• A journalist and a cartoon fish can point the way
  With the future of The United Methodist Church at stake, believers need to trust in God, be faithful witnesses and work together, said speakers during the Laity Address at General Conference.
• Groups busy advocating at General Conference
  Caucuses and other groups make their points in various ways outside the plenary and legislative committees of the United Methodist General Conference.
• Bishop preaches message to end violence against women
  During morning worship at the United Methodist General Conference, Bishop LaTrelle Miller Easterling raised her voice to tell women who have suffered abuse: “You are strong. You are brave. And you are beloved of God.”
• General Conference gives regionalization green light
  General Conference has now passed much of the legislation that aims to give the church’s different geographic regions equal standing in decision-making authority.