The United Methodist Church in the Philippines, despite a steep decline in its reported membership, will enjoy an overall increase in the number of delegates it sends to the 2102 General Conference and will have a level of representation far out of proportion to its membership. Likewise, the representation level of the European Central Conferences [...]
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GC 2012 delegates set at 988 — Philippines gains delegates despite large membership loss
Posted in Book of Discipline, General Conference, Judicial Council, Southeastern Jurisdiction, United Methodist Church, tagged UMC, United Methodist Church on January 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Podcast: Randy Maddox on ‘Methodist Doctrine, Spirit, Discipline’
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Discipleship, Doctrine, Holiness, Laity, Leadership Development, Southeastern Jurisdiction, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on August 25, 2010 |
MethodistThinker.com is on hiatus until after Labor Day. In the interim, we’re highlighting podcasts from our Spring 2010 season. This podcast features an address by Dr. Randy L. Maddox, William Kellon Quick Professor of Theology and Methodist Studies at Duke Divinity School. In his presentation, he focuses on a widely quoted statement made by Methodist [...]
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 UMC, United Methodist Church on July 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Podcast: Randy Maddox on Methodist ‘doctrine, spirit, discipline’
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Discipleship, Doctrine, Holiness, Laity, Leadership Development, Podcasts, Southeastern Jurisdiction, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on May 4, 2010 |
John Wesley, co-founder of the Methodist movement (along with his brother Charles), once wrote: I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am afraid lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having the form of religion without the power. And [...]
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 [...]
Bishop Lindsey Davis: ‘The primary task of the Church’
Posted in Bishops, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Sermons, Southeastern Jurisdiction, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio on August 28, 2008 |
MethodistThinker.com is presenting a retrospective on Bishop Lindsey Davis’ 12 years as the episcopal leader of the North Georgia Conference, now the largest United Methodist conference in the U.S. His tenure in North Georgia comes to a conclusion at the end of this month. In 2005, Bishop Davis was one of the featured speakers at [...]
Paul Leeland consecrated a UM bishop
Posted in Bishops, Sermons, Southeastern Jurisdiction, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio on July 20, 2008 |
From the July 20 Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference Daily Christian Advocate (PDF): Offering almost fatherly advice to his new episcopal colleague, retiring Bishop J. Lawrence McCleskey urged new bishop Paul Leeland to act as a shepherd for his flock. In his sermon in the final event of the 2008 Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference, McCleskey pointed out the [...]
Bishops assigned
Posted in Bishops, North Georgia Conference, Southeastern Jurisdiction, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio on July 19, 2008 |
Last night, in the Stuart Auditorium at Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, the 13 bishops of the United Methodist Church’s Southeastern Jurisdiction (SEJ) received their assignments for the next four years. Current North Georgia Bishop Lindsey Davis will be heading back home to Kentucky after 12 years in Atlanta. Bishop Mike Watson, who has served the [...]
Paul Leeland elected bishop
Posted in Bishops, Southeastern Jurisdiction, United Methodist Church on July 17, 2008 |
It came on the sixth ballot. The vote took place yesterday; the results were announced this morning. Ballot 6 Number of votes cast – 498 Number of valid ballots – 493 Number needed to elect – 296 Paul Leeland was elected bishop with 298 votes. Dr. Leeland is currently the director of ministerial relations and [...]
The next North Georgia bishop
Posted in Bishops, North Georgia Conference, Southeastern Jurisdiction, tagged Audio on July 16, 2008 |
With the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference now underway, here is the “lay of the land” regarding who may be selected as the next North Georgia bishop. It is unlikely that any of the six bishops elected four years ago will be moved from their current locations. It is also unlikely that Bishop Charlene Kammerer, assigned to [...]
SEJ Conference this week
Posted in Bishops, Evangelism, North Georgia Conference, Southeastern Jurisdiction, United Methodist Church on July 16, 2008 |
From the July 18 Wesleyan Christian Advocate, the newspaper of the North and South Georgia Conferences of the United Methodist Church. This week…504 delegates from the 15 Annual Conferences that make up the Southeastern Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church will gather at Lake Junaluska for their quadrennial conference. Of that total, 56 delegates are [...]
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