A prominent United Methodist layman has compiled a percentage breakdown of last year’s votes on 32 proposed amendments to the United Methodist Constitution, showing the areas of the church in which the various amendments were most strongly supported or rejected. Although votes on the amendments took place at annual conference sessions in 2009, the totals [...]
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Prominent UM layman offers analysis of amendments outcome
Posted in Book of Discipline, General Conference, Laity, North Georgia Conference, Southeastern Jurisdiction, United Methodist Church, tagged United Methodist Church, UMC on July 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Bishop Scott Jones: Rethinking the path to a worldwide UMC
Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Christian/Methodist History, General Conference, Judicial Council, North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on June 23, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Following the defeat of proposed constitutional amendments aimed at restructuring the United Methodist Church into a series of more-autonomous regional conferences, the bishop who heads the Committee to Study the Worldwide Nature of the UMC is appealing for help in finding a restructuring approach that will gain approval across the denomination. Speaking last week at [...]
Podcast — Maxie Dunnam: The pastor as prophet, priest, evangelist
Posted in Doctrine, Evangelism, North Georgia Conference, Ordination, Podcasts, Preaching, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The final podcast of our spring season features one of the most prominent United Methodist leaders of recent decades: Dr. Maxie Dunnam. Maxie Dunnam was born in Mississippi in 1934. After earning a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Southern Mississippi (1955), he went on to earn a Master of Theology from Atlanta’s [...]
Four things the UMC must do ‘to serve the present age’
Posted in Church Development, Church Growth, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Doctrine, Holiness, Media, North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged UMC, United Methodist Church on May 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This post is by Richard Hunter, senior pastor of Snellville United Methodist Church (North Georgia Conference). He holds a doctorate in parish revitalization from McCormick Theological Seminary (Chicago) and teaches on the adjunct faculty at both Asbury Theological Seminary and the Candler School of Theology. — Ed. I want to be a part of renewing [...]
Bishop Mike Watson: The life-giving rules of Methodism
Posted in Bishops, North Georgia Conference, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Describing “the Methodist way of living” as being “based on faith not on fear,” presiding Bishop Mike Watson opened the 2009 session North Georgia Annual Conference. He spoke about the three General Rules of the United Methodist Church: “Do no harm, do good, and stay in love with God” (the last is literally “attending upon [...]
A conversation with North Georgia Bishop Mike Watson
Posted in Bishops, North Georgia Conference, Stewardship, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bishop Mike Watson, episcopal leader of the United Methodism’s largest U.S. Conference, is interviewed in the premiere issue (PDF) of the North Georgia Advocate, now the official newspaper of the North Georgia Conference. (The North Georgia Advocate is the successor to the recently discontinued Wesleyan Christian Advocate.) Bishop Watson was assigned to North Georgia last [...]
Leaders in North Georgia, Holston urge defeat of re-structuring amendments
Posted in Book of Discipline, General Conference, North Georgia Conference, Southeastern Jurisdiction, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, United Methodist Church, UMC on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Leaders from two Annual Conferences in the Southeastern Jurisdiction — the North Georgia Conference and the Holston Conference (covering parts of Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia) — are urging defeat of proposed constitutional amendments that would restructure the denomination. In North Georgia, a self-described “ad hoc group of very concerned United Methodist[s]” — which includes nearly [...]
Ed Tomlinson: Proposed amendments would ‘decimate connectionalism’
Posted in Book of Discipline, General Conference, Judicial Council, North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio on March 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Dr. Ed Tomlinson, who served for eight as years executive assistant to the bishop of the North Georgia Conference, is expressing strong opposition to five constitutional amendments to be voted on this year by Conferences throughout the United Methodist Church. If passed, the amendments would allow United Methodists in the United States to structurally segregate [...]
Wesleyan Christian Advocate to end publication this month
Posted in Media, North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The March 20 edition of the Wesleyan Christian Advocate will be the 172-year-old newspaper’s final issue “in its current format,” according to a story in the Advocate‘s March 6 edition. The newspaper of the North and South Georgia Conferences, battered in recent years by rising costs and declining revenues, then will go through a “two-stage [...]
