United Methodist News Service – Recent Articles

• Indiana megachurch leaves denomination
  Granger Community Church, wanting to choose its own pastor, agrees to pay about $2.6 million to Indiana Conference.
• Church helps victims of flood and COVID-19
  United Methodists in Côte d'Ivoire, with UMCOR support, respond after flooding triggers a deadly landslide near Abidjan.
• Churches celebrate end of 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak
  United Methodist churches played a part in helping to share health and prevention information, as well as work to prevent the stigma Ebola survivors often face.
• Smaller communities affected by protests
  United Methodists have been involved in Black Lives Matter rallies in small towns and midsize cities.
• Close ties challenge rural Africa COVID-19 fight
  Close relationships in rural Africa make social and physical distancing to avoid COVID-19 culturally difficult.
• Court ruling temporarily halts Dakota pipeline
  United Methodists have supported the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in its efforts to protect both water quality and its spiritual home.
• Delegates: Use GC2020 delay for new vision
  An informal group of General Conference delegates is inviting church members to make use of the postponement to cast a new vision for the church.
• Time for Cross and Flame to go
  Symbol of The United Methodist Church is unwelcoming and even painful for many Black Americans, evoking memories of cross burnings.
• In trying times, churches extend their reach
  Grants from the United Methodist Committee on Relief allow churches to expand programs, increase capacity during pandemic.
• Donations pour in for church hospitals, missions
  United Methodist hospitals in Zimbabwe receive protective gear for front-line workers, while mission families get food relief from Nyadire Connection.