Hispanic Heritage Month: 'Sometimes the Light Just Falls in Your Lap'
"As I think about Hispanic Heritage Month, I thank God for our Hispanic/Latino clergy and churches, and also know that our connexion must be more supportive…
Each active clergy serving local churches should have received a copy of the book Unity of the Church and Human Sexuality put together by the General Board of Higher Education at either the clergy session or annual conference. If you still need to pick up your free book, contact your District Office.
Bishop Sally Dyck commends this book as we prepare for a day of conversation titled “The United Methodist Church: Into the Future” on Saturday, September 16. It will be held at Grace UMC in Naperville. Retired Bishop Sharon Zimmerman Rader will help lead the conversation and we will reflect on the following questions from the Council of Bishops:
The book can be used as a study guide in your local church before or following the event. Click here for more information. For more information and resources on the Commission on a Way Forward visit: www.umcnic.org/wayforward.
"As I think about Hispanic Heritage Month, I thank God for our Hispanic/Latino clergy and churches, and also know that our connexion must be more supportive…
At their installation services on Sept. 14 and 15, Revs. Wendy Hardin Hermann and Victor Melad Jr.—new superintendents of the Prairie Central and Lake North distr…
Northern Illinois United Methodists gathered at First United Methodist Church in Downers Grove on Sept. 8 to thank Rev. Arlene Christopherson for her over 30 years of ministry…
On the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, Bishop Dan Schwerin invites all to join him in this prayer.