One Has to Wonder
By Rob Renfroe — A number of our larger, most healthy churches have recently been told that their senior pastor is being moved to another appointment, without consultation with the pastor or the congregation. One is Mt. Bethel in the North Georgia Annual Conference....
Disruption at Mt. Bethel UM Church
By Walter Fenton -- "We were taken completely by surprise,” said Lindsay Hill, chairwoman of Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church’s Staff Parish Relations Committee (SPRC), as she still tries to absorb Bishop Sue Haupert-Johnson’s decision to move the congregation’s...
Health care and the most vulnerable
Archive: Health care and the most vulnerable By Rob Renfroe If you own a television, listen to the radio, or read the newspaper, it’s nearly impossible to not get caught up in the intense debate regarding health care. Few issues regarding public policy have created...
Archive: The turning tide of United Methodism
Archive: The Turning Tide of United Methodism By Bill Bouknight Over the past 15 years, we have witnessed the cresting and subsequent decline of the liberal tide in American Methodism. Simultaneously, the influence of evangelicalism and orthodoxy has been steadily...
Methodism in Côte d’Ivoire
Archive: Methodism in Côte d’Ivoire By Tim Tanton The United Methodist Church’s roots in Côte d’Ivoire date back to 1914, when William Wadé Harris arrived in the country from neighboring Liberia. Completing a prison sentence for his role in a political revolt, Harris...
Bishop Boni’s call to prayer
Archive: Bishop Boni’s Call to Prayer By Tim Tanton When God spoke to Bishop Benjamin Boni, the leader of the Côte d’Ivoire’s United Methodists responded. It was October 2000, and violence had convulsed the country following public anger over a presidential election...
Letting Jesus build his Church
Archive: Letting Jesus build his Church By Elizabeth Glass-Turner Whether on the property of a declining, derelict United Methodist church, or in an old Winn-Dixie, Jorge Acevedo is haunted by the red letter words of Jesus’ great commission to go. Pastor of a church...
“Lord, send us the people nobody else wants”
Archive: "Lord, send us the people nobody else wants" By Elizabeth Glass Turner Jorge Acevedo never pictured himself as the lead pastor of a multi-site congregation. A self-described “pagan” before his conversion, Acevedo came from an unchurched background before...
