This is where you’ll find posts for the West District webpage.
First UMC in Sun City hosted its own Cultural Competency Training and so could your church! Learn more.
Save the date for the 2023 district leadership conference. The plan includes two Thriving workshop sessions and bonus workshops.
As I was preparing for the sermon I’ll deliver on Sunday, the 14th, I was struck by Luke 12:49, “I have come to bring fire to the earth, how I wish it were already kindled!” Fire can be both destructive and beneficial, it burns trees and brush, but that fire also...
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit[b] of God was moving over the face of the waters. Genesis 1:1-2 (NRSV) At the beginning of creation, we read...
Cynthia Holly will be transitioning to be the single Administrative Assistant for all four districts in the Desert Southwest Conference beginning August 1, 2022. Cynthia has been a District Administrative Assistant for five years serving with the South and East Districts and brings a wealth of experience for this new position.
Meet the new clergy in the West District.
In his book Quietly Courageous, Gil Rendle talks about the difference between management and leadership, and he refers to an old proverb where “management asks the question of whether we are doing things right, while leadership asks the question if we are doing right things.”
In 1973, in a Methodist church in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico there was a revival like the one in Acts only without the foreigners from various places.
People were speaking in tongues, worship services extended to weekdays, prayer meetings were well attended, lives were transformed, and the Juan Wesley Methodist seminary (one of only two Methodist seminaries in Mexico) was born.
How often do many of us avoid ‘going out’ because we aren’t certain which way the wind of the day will affect us? How often do we avoid ‘listening’ for God’s voice guiding us? Sometimes His voice is just a whisper…but, when we are still and trusting, then His words can come to us as a loud command.