Fall Planning Underway

On Saturday, August 11, 2012, will be our church planning retreat looking ahead for at least the rest of the calendar year. I hope that everyone on the Administrative Council and its extended committees will make every effort to be present. Of course anyone that is interested is welcome to come read more »

2012 General Conference Report

Every four years, the United Methodist Church has up to 1,000 laity and clergy delegates elected from every annual conference in the world meet to update our Book of Discipline and the Book of Resolutions. This year they met April 24-May 4, 2012, in Tampa, Florida. Here are some of read more »

Using Technology to Enhance Your Devotional Life

In preparing for a lesson Sunday on “Computers, Humans, and God,” it occurred to me that there might be some who would be interested to know about some tools that you can use to enhance your devotional life. In this issue, I want to tell you about two of them. read more »

General Conference Starts April 24, 2012

Every four years, the United Methodist Church has up to 1,000 laity and clergy delegates elected from every annual conference in the world meet to update our Book of Discipline and the Book of Resolutions. This year they will meet April 24-May 4, 2012, in Tampa, Florida. The Book of read more »

Will You Be My Neighbor? (Part 2)

First, let me say, “Thank You!” for your faithful giving in 2011. We finished the year well and were able to give 10% of our balance for the year toward Second Mile giving for apportionments. Apportionments, for those who don’t know, are the monies we pay to the district, annual read more »