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 [...]
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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 |
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 |
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, UMC, United Methodist Church on June 2, 2009 |
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 |
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 [...]
John Ed Mathison: Six ways for a pastor to make a lasting difference
Posted in Church Renewal, Leadership Development, North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio on March 6, 2009 |
In his address last week to North Georgia’s Wesleyan Covenant Renewal Movement, Dr. John Ed Mathison focused not only on seven concerns about the United Methodist Church, but on six specific ways pastors can become more intentional about make a lasting difference in the lives of others. Dr. Mathison, who “retired” last year following more [...]
John Ed Mathison: Seven concerns about the UMC
Posted in Book of Discipline, General Conference, Judicial Council, Leadership Development, North Georgia Conference, Stewardship, UM Higher Education, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio on March 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The man who led one of the United Methodist Church’s strongest and largest congregations for more than three decades shared his “ideas and opinions” last week about the future of the denomination. Dr. John Ed Mathison, pastor of Frazer Memorial UMC in Montgomery, Ala., for 36 years, spoke at a gathering of the Wesleyan Covenant [...]
North Georgia UM pastor is ‘Chaplain of the Year’
Posted in North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, Video on February 5, 2009 |
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 [...]
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 [...]
Lyn Powell on the new United Methodist membership vows
Posted in Book of Discipline, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Doctrine, Evangelism, General Conference, Laity, North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church on January 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
New membership vows for the United Methodist Church took effect on Jan. 1, 2009. Formerly, incoming members pledged “to be loyal to the United Methodist Church” and “to faithfully participate in its ministries by their prayers, their presence, their gifts, and their service.” Now, new members will pledge loyalty “to Christ through the United Methodist [...]
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