By Rick Wolcott* “I believe that each of you here has been called by God to be in ministry, either lay or clergy, in a deeper way,” East Ohio Conference Bishop John L. Hopkins said during opening worship of the recent candidacy summit. Forty-four people attended the two-day summit, a joint ministry of the East [...]
UMC to Host First-ever North American Evangelism Conference Denominational leaders, seminary faculty and local church practitioners from the United States and Canada, who either work or teach in the field of evangelism, will convene in Nashville next month for a historic meeting to discuss how to reclaim evangelism in today’s world. “The United Methodist Church [...]
At Annual Conference in June, 13 elders and two deacons were ordained. The average age of those ordinands was 39 – the same as the average age of the six elders and one deacon ordained at Annual Conference 2013. Those figures stand in stark contrast to the findings of the annual Lewis Center for Church [...]
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