Feeds:
Posts

Archive for February, 2009

Proposed amendments would separate UMC into ‘national entities’

Posted in Book of Discipline, Christian/Methodist History, General Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged on February 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Annual Conference sessions this year will include votes on a series of constitutional amendments that would dramatically alter the structure of the United Methodist Church. If enacted, these amendments would have the effect of barring non-U.S. United Methodists from voting on matters considered specific to the United States. James Heidinger, president of the renewal group Good [...]

Read Full Post »

Bishop James King: ‘We are returning to God’

Posted in Bishops, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Holiness, Laity, Revival, United Methodist Church, United Methodist Men on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

South Georgia Bishop James King has a message for men in the Feb. 20 Wesleyan Christian Advocate, the newspaper of the North and South Georgia Conferences. Professional economists suggest that the stock market has a way of correcting itself when things go to one extreme or the other. It appears that “correction” is a part [...]

Read Full Post »

John Ed Mathison on the future of the United Methodist Church

Posted in Church Renewal, Doctrine, General Conference, Leadership Development, tagged on February 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »

From the Wesleyan Covenant Renewal Movement, a group of theologically conservative pastors and leaders in the North Georgia Conference: The next meeting of the Wesleyan Covenant Renewal Movement will be [Tuesday morning] Feb. 24 at Norcross First UMC. Dr. John Ed Mathison will speak on the state of the church in the aftermath of the [...]

Read Full Post »

A Lenten focus: ‘Prayers of biblical hope’

Posted in Church Renewal, Evangelism, Prayer, Revival on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

For many Christians Lent has been transformed from a season focused on self-denial to a season focused on passionate praying for the fulfillment of God’s purposes in the world. The catalyst for that transformation is Seek God for the City, a prayer guide published yearly since 1996 by Waymakers, a ministry based in Austin, Texas. [...]

Read Full Post »

Bishop Schnase: The downside of ‘risk-taking mission and service’

Posted in Bishops, Discipleship, Evangelism, Laity, Missions, United Methodist Church, tagged on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

During a Q-&-A session at  January’s UM Congress on Evangelism, Bishop Robert Schnase (Missouri Conference) noted that churches that engage in risk-taking mission must be willing to live with disappointment, failure, and uncertainty. Bishop Schnase (Schnay’-zee) is the author of The Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations (Abingdon, 2007). One of those five practices is “risk-taking [...]

Read Full Post »

North Georgia UM pastor is ‘Chaplain of the Year’

Posted in North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged , on February 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Reserve Officers Association this week recognized Chaplain (Major) James B. (Jim) Higgins of the U.S. Army Reserve as Chaplain of the Year. The award is given for “extraordinary contribution to the welfare, morale and effectiveness of the military reserve services.” Major Higgins is also the senior pastor of  McEachern Memorial UMC in the North [...]

Read Full Post »

Wesleyan Christian Advocate to ‘cease publication’; paper may merge with UM Reporter

Posted in Media, North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church on February 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »

After a long financial struggle, the Wesleyan Christian Advocate, the 172-year-old newspaper of the North and South Georgia Conferences, will cease publication within the next six months. The paper, however, may continue in a different form as part of Texas-based UMR Communications, publisher of the UM Reporter, owner of the UM Portal web site, and [...]

Read Full Post »

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 35 other followers