Ukranian Delegate Glad to be United Methodist
Ukranian Delegate Glad to be United Methodist By Sam Hodges The Rev. Yulia Starodubets came to the United Methodist General Conference from Ukraine, which is more than two years into a grinding war with Russia. Because commercial air travel in her country remains...
Reduced Budget Passed
Reduced Budget Passed By Heather Hahn General Conference delegates on May 3 approved a denominational budget with a bottom line that will vary by about $20 million, depending on giving collection rates over the next two years. But no matter what happens, the total...
Prison Evangelism Transforms Inmates
Prison Evangelism Transforms Inmates - By Kudzai Chingwe - HARARE, Zimbabwe (UM News) Editor’s note: For security purposes, only the first names of incarcerated individuals have been used. In an effort to share God’s love with those in need, The United Methodist...
Thank You From A Christmas Charity Kid
Thank You From A Christmas Charity Kid - By Elizabeth Glass Turner - Have you ever bought and donated Christmas presents for kids through an Angel Tree project or local congregational initiative? If so, let me say Thank You for all the kids opening Lego sets, Frozen...
On Contemporary Wesleyan Essentials
On Contemporary Wesleyan Essentials - By David F, Watson - “In essentials unity; in non-essentials liberty; in all things charity.” Christians have recited this maxim at least since the seventeenth century. There is real wisdom here. It does, however, compel us to...
Following the Lead of the Healer
Following the Lead of the Healer - By Stephen Seamands - Healing played an essential part in Jesus’s three-year earthly ministry. In fact, along with teaching and preaching, it was one of his three major activities. The Gospel of Matthew sums up Jesus’s ministry in...
With Faith, Pondering Death
With Faith, Pondering Death - By Terry Mattingly - There was nothing unusual, in the early 1970s, about a student hearing one of his professors preach during chapel. But one sermon – “How Would You Like to Die?” – impressed the seminarian who would later become...
Offer them Christ
Offer them Christ - By Rob Renfroe - I had a strange reaction as I read a United Methodist News article about a youth conference held this summer. The theme of “Youth 2023” was BOLD – Being Ourselves, Living Different. It was sponsored by Discipleship Ministries and...
