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Economic Inequality & Education Event
By Sandy Clingenpeel, Desert Southwest Conference Task Force on Economic Inequality, CBCS The Conference Task Force on Economic Inequality is hosting a Zoom presentation on Economic Inequality and Education on March 4, 2021, at 7:00-8:30 PM (MST). We will discuss...
DSC Campus Ministry Sunday Resources for Worship
By Rev. Dr. Brooke Isingoma, Chair of the DSC Board of Higher Education and Pastor at St. Matthew United Methodist Church February 21, 2021, is DSC Campus Ministries Sunday! Please use the DSC Campus Ministries Sunday video, highlighting the work of our four campus...
The Heart of the Desert Southwest Conference
At last year's Annual Conference our Bishop with the support of the Sessions Committee identified the Navajo Nation and Water Relief as our Conference Mission Project. As we know from news reports then, and now, the need was and is great on the Navajo Nation. With the...
2020 Apportionments End Year Solidly Despite COVID Pandemic
I offer the following words from Scott Whitmire, President of the Desert Southwest Conference Council on Finance & Administration (CF&A): When the COVID pandemic arrived in earnest last March, none of us had any idea of how it would affect the finances of our...
Church Communications Group
Start the new year strong! If you're a church communicator plan on joining Tuesday Talks on Tuesdays at 10:00 AM (Arizona Time) with me and other church communicators around the Desert Southwest Conference. We meet most Tuesdays for an hour. Each week we talk about...
Fraud Prevention Reminder
Last year the Desert Southwest Conference set up an anonymous hotline for reporting criminal activities such as financial fraud or sexual abuse in our churches. Each church received custom magnets with the hotline information. Now is a great time to remind your church...
Engaging Our Vision
Where Love Lives February Resources
“Committed to its Wesleyan Roots” We are in a time when the nation is divided, and so is the Church. United Methodists are rooted in the teachings of Jesus. We are also influenced by some of the beliefs of the founder of Methodism, John Wesley. Wesley believed in...
Halt Arizona’s Death March to Executions
By Paul Bullis, Chair of Desert Southwest Conference Prison Reform Ministry WE NEED TO HALT ARIZONA’S DEATH MARCH TO EXECUTING PRISONERS The State of Arizona is poised to resume executing its death row prisoners. We must act now to halt Arizona’s death march to...
Announcing New Conference Clergy Wellness Task Force
We are pleased to announce the creation of the Conference Clergy Wellness Task Force at the direction of the Connectional Ministries Team. Structurally this task force will fall within the Health & Caring Ministries Team. Members include Melissa Rynders, Tom...
Soulology
Soulology is a place where one can mentally and spiritually check-in and examine oneself through the lens of inclusive queer theology. Without any traditional boundaries, barriers, and limitations. Find out more.
Annual Conference 2021 News
Annual Conference information will be distributed through the Conference News newsletter. Please instruct your church lay members to Annual Conference to subscribe to the Conference newsletter by visiting https://dscumc.org/subscribe and filling out the newsletter...
Where Love Lives January Resources
January's messages for the Western Jurisdiction's #WhereLoveLivesUMC campaign address a topic that has separated many people from one another, the subject of marriage equality. Use the resources provided to Invite your community to find the non-anxious presence of God...
UMC News
An Invitation to CST’s 43rd Annual MLK Event
Please share this invitation with your congregation to join Claremont School of Theology on Tuesday, January 26, 2021, via Zoom for the 43rd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration and Lecture! The event begins with worship at 4:00 PM PST or 5:00 PM MST, the...
Conversations about Racism and The UMC: A book discussion about I’m Black. I’m Christian. I’m Methodist.
Join the I’m Black. I’m Christian. I’m Methodist. writers and editor Rudy Rasmus in a robust discussion moderated by M. Garlinda Burton on January 19 at 1:00 PM MST, 12:00 PM In the book, ten Black women and men explore life through the lens of compelling, personal...
Scriptual Reflections for Mental Wellness
Compiled by Ryan Dunn and originally published at https://www.umc.org/en/content/scriptural-reflections-for-mental-wellness How many of the following symptoms have you ever personally encountered? Depression… anxiety… inability to concentrate… mood changes… trouble...
