United Methodists Release State of the Church Report 2018

United Methodist Communications FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 10, 2018 Nashville: A new report from The United Methodist Church on the state of the church says that 50 years after the creation of the denomination through the merger of The Evangelical United Brethren Church and The Methodist Church, the church’s ministries around the world are thriving. "This 2018 [...]

United Methodist Bishops Recommend a Way Forward

  For immediate release  May 4, 2018 United Methodist Bishops Recommend a Way Forward CHICAGO – United Methodist bishops, meeting in Chicago, engaged in a prayerful process to discern a way forward.  At the conclusion of the discernment process, the Council of Bishops strongly approved the following motion and rationale: Having received and considered the [...]

General Secretary: “Vital congregations never lose focus of their ‘why.’”

By Rick Wolcott* “Discipleship, first and foremost, begins with me.  In other words, you cannot teach what you do not know.  You cannot model what you do not practice.  You cannot lead where you have not been.” That was just one of the messages that UMC Discipleship Ministries General Secretary the Rev. Junius B. Dotson [...]