North Carolina is overwhelmed by the extensive need from recent (and pending) flooding and has requested teams come quickly. The Pacific-Northwest (PNW) and Oregon/Idaho (Or/Id) Conferences have joined together to send three ERT groups to North Carolina in response to Hurricane Florence. We welcome all Desert Southwest (DSW) ERTs to join these teams.

I am now on the road from church to church across our North District as our Church Conference season begins. So, an obvious question is — Why do we conference?

I do have one favorite memory for a lot of reasons.  It was in the year 2000.   I co-deaned a camp called “God’s Love under the Big Top.”   I agreed to dean the camp and then became pregnant.  So my friend, Marie, agreed to help.  That’s before she knew that she too was pregnant.  A third friend, Stacey, agreed to help us dean camp since she knew it would be challenging with us being pregnant.  Well.  You guessed it.   She got pregnant too!  We were the three pregnant deans that summer!!

“I encourage you to live as people worthy of the call you received from God. Conduct yourselves with all humility, gentleness, and patience. Accept...

Dear Friends, have you ever wondered how you discover what it is God wants you to do in life? Somehow we believe that we will “know” what path to take, or just exactly what our career should be. The story written below comes from a woman at Dayspring UMC. What her story tells us is that sometimes defining moments happen in ways that feel like an accident. Really, they happen when you are courageous enough to keep walking through the doors that open right before you.