The World Methodist Conference, a once-every-five-year global gathering of the Methodist-Wesleyan family, met Aug. 31-Sept. 3 in Houston. The theme, One, was organized around four sub themes – One God, One Faith, One People, One Mission. Several clergy members from the East Ohio Conference were among the nearly 2,000 people who attended the 21st World [...]
By Rick Wolcott* Two East Ohio Conference educators are looking forward to teaching online courses this fall through BeADisciple.com. The site, part of the United Methodist-affiliated Institute for Discipleship at Southwestern College, has more than 2,000 students participating in approximately 150 Christian education courses each year. Two of the new courses will be taught by [...]
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 [...]
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