The East and West District Office will be closed Thursday, November 24 for Thanksgiving. We will return to the office Monday, November 28.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
May your holiday be filled with peace, love and joy.
Small vital congregations are growing through missional outreach and nurturing people. How does the N.O.W. ministry model work in your congregation? This webinar shares “vitality on the journey” from the lens of helping congregational leaders walk through the steps of making changes to increase missional-focused outreach.
Lent is an invitation to unburden ourselves from the times we have not lived up to our highest Christian ideals, and then to be free to fully live as Christ would have us live. The Vision of our Annual Conference challenges us to embody Christ in our churches in ways that are courageous. In ways that are loving like Jesus, acting for justice, and united in hope. This past Sunday I had the opportunity to witness how a group of people came together to experience the shared vision in a way that was holy and exciting all at the same time. Below is a little bit of that story.
Whether or not you are aware of it domestic violence and abuse is happening in
your congregation! Save October 2 for this important workshop.
How can leaders “See All the People” in your community? Build ministry teams to address the concerns and needs of the community while growing disciples. Gain insights about ministry models that can help leaders evaluate, plan and implement new ways of moving forward with fulfilling the church’s mission of transformative disciple-making.
Have you ever read anything that simply captured your imagination? Last week in our appointive cabinet meeting, Rev. Dan Morley placed before us a quote from John Wesley, the man credited with creating the Wesleyan movement, as part of our devotional time. The words have stayed in my heart and mind, so much so that I wanted to share them with you as we prepare to enter into our Lenten journey together. Here they are:
Discipleship Ministries has a series of free Leadership Development Webinars available These training sessions provided by Discipleship Ministries are made possible by support given to the World Service Fund. Register for one or all of the webinars by clicking on the title.
January 15th has come and gone. For those who don’t know the significance of that date, it was the date when all 2017 apportionments needed to be in to the Conference Office. I am excited to share with you that our District increased over what we were able to do in 2016.
UMCOR disaster relief warehouses regularly provide clean up kits, school kits, and hygiene kits to disaster response operations. To maintain stock levels at the Salt Lake City UMCOR warehouse volunteers may travel to the warehouse to assemble kits, or churches and other groups may assemble kits for the warehouse to pick up. The UMCOR call for support last fall met immediate needs and we thank the Conference for the great response! Currently, the SLC warehouse is in need of more hygiene kits.
