“Our challenge is to be realistic about our resources while not allowing our anxiety about decline to pre-emptively limit what God wants us to do.” — The Rev. Kennetha Bigham-Tsai on the denomination’s budgeting process.
NEWS AND FEATURES
General agencies face tough budgeting season
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UM News) — United Methodist general agencies are in the process of developing their spending plans for the year ahead. They do so as the ongoing fallout of the pandemic, high inflation rates and rising church disaffiliations are affecting finances throughout the denomination. Heather Hahn reports.
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California-Nevada Conference
Interim bishop plans to step down by Dec. 31
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Bishop Sally Dyck announced that she plans to step down as interim bishop of the California-Nevada Conference no later than Dec. 31. Dyck has served as interim since March, when Bishop Minerva Carcaño was suspended with pay while under complaint. Dyck said it’s possible Carcaño could be reinstated before the end of the year if a just resolution is reached or other determinations are made by the Judicial Council, the denomination’s top court. In The United Methodist Church, the complaint process is confidential.
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Dakotas Conference
Boarding school children remembered
RAPID CITY, S.D. — United Methodists and others joined in mourning and reading the names of Native American children who perished while living at Rapid City Indian Boarding School in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Participants also held a memorial walk as part of the Oct. 10 event. The 50 children, some of their names now unknown, died of disease, malnutrition or exposure to freezing temperatures while attempting to escape. The boarding schools were opened to take Native Americans away from their families to make them more "American." Their Native American culture was forbidden. This year's ceremony was the fifth remembering the Rapid City school's victims. Doreen Gosmire and Dave Stucke have the story.
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UM News: Pastor reflects on abuses at Indian boarding schools
United Methodist Foundation of Western North Carolina
Campus ministry goes where people are
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The campus ministry at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte doesn’t have its own building, which has turned out to be somewhat of a blessing. “The entire campus is our parish — all 30,000 students,” says Stephen Cheyney, a faculty member and university pastor who helps lead the ministry. “They’re not coming to us. We’re going to them.”
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Global Ministries
105-year-old looks back at literacy ministry
ATLANTA — When Ruth Johnson Colvin found out that more than 11,000 people in and around Syracuse, New York, couldn’t read, she determined to do something about it. At 105 years old, she can look back on more than six decades of teaching people all over the world to read through the Literacy Volunteers of America organization, with the help of Global Ministries. Christie R. House has the story.
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PRESS RELEASES
Foundation Investment Management
Fund outperforms market downturn
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — UMC Foundation Investment Management reported that its indexed investments have stood up well to the market downturn, outperforming benchmarks. That includes a fund based on United Methodist Social Principles. Foundation Investment Management is an asset-management firm serving to fulfill the investment needs of United Methodist agencies, foundations and other institutions.
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COMMENTARIES
UM News includes in the Daily Digest various commentaries about issues in the denomination. The opinion pieces reflect a variety of viewpoints and are the opinions of the writers, not UM News staff.
Florida Conference
Church leaders: Withholding apportionments does harm
LAKELAND, Fla. — United Methodist apportionments support ministries that individual churches can’t do on their own, including disaster-response coordination, church camps, campus ministries and international missions. Joe Henderson writes about how threats to withhold apportionments do harm. Meanwhile, the Love Your Neighbor Coalition — comprised of 12 United Methodist-related caucuses — calls on the Council of Bishops to challenge efforts by some disaffiliating churches to withhold apportionments.
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Read Love Your Neighbor statement
RECENT HEADLINES
Kenyan church helps drought-stricken community
Romanian hotel houses one-stop shop for ministry
EVENTS
Monday, Oct. 17-Friday, Nov. 11
Your Ministry of Planning and Leading Worship
Monday, Oct. 17-Monday, Dec. 12
Devotion to Jesus: The Divinity of Christ in Earliest Christianity
NEWS AND FEATURES
General agencies face tough budgeting season
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UM News) — United Methodist general agencies are in the process of developing their spending plans for the year ahead. They do so as the ongoing fallout of the pandemic, high inflation rates and rising church disaffiliations are affecting finances throughout the denomination. Heather Hahn reports.
Read story
California-Nevada Conference
Interim bishop plans to step down by Dec. 31
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Bishop Sally Dyck announced that she plans to step down as interim bishop of the California-Nevada Conference no later than Dec. 31. Dyck has served as interim since March, when Bishop Minerva Carcaño was suspended with pay while under complaint. Dyck said it’s possible Carcaño could be reinstated before the end of the year if a just resolution is reached or other determinations are made by the Judicial Council, the denomination’s top court. In The United Methodist Church, the complaint process is confidential.
Read announcement
Dakotas Conference
Boarding school children remembered
RAPID CITY, S.D. — United Methodists and others joined in mourning and reading the names of Native American children who perished while living at Rapid City Indian Boarding School in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Participants also held a memorial walk as part of the Oct. 10 event. The 50 children, some of their names now unknown, died of disease, malnutrition or exposure to freezing temperatures while attempting to escape. The boarding schools were opened to take Native Americans away from their families to make them more "American." Their Native American culture was forbidden. This year's ceremony was the fifth remembering the Rapid City school's victims. Doreen Gosmire and Dave Stucke have the story.
Read story
UM News: Pastor reflects on abuses at Indian boarding schools
United Methodist Foundation of Western North Carolina
Campus ministry goes where people are
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The campus ministry at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte doesn’t have its own building, which has turned out to be somewhat of a blessing. “The entire campus is our parish — all 30,000 students,” says Stephen Cheyney, a faculty member and university pastor who helps lead the ministry. “They’re not coming to us. We’re going to them.”
Read story
Global Ministries
105-year-old looks back at literacy ministry
ATLANTA — When Ruth Johnson Colvin found out that more than 11,000 people in and around Syracuse, New York, couldn’t read, she determined to do something about it. At 105 years old, she can look back on more than six decades of teaching people all over the world to read through the Literacy Volunteers of America organization, with the help of Global Ministries. Christie R. House has the story.
Read story
PRESS RELEASES
Foundation Investment Management
Fund outperforms market downturn
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — UMC Foundation Investment Management reported that its indexed investments have stood up well to the market downturn, outperforming benchmarks. That includes a fund based on United Methodist Social Principles. Foundation Investment Management is an asset-management firm serving to fulfill the investment needs of United Methodist agencies, foundations and other institutions.
Read press release
COMMENTARIES
UM News includes in the Daily Digest various commentaries about issues in the denomination. The opinion pieces reflect a variety of viewpoints and are the opinions of the writers, not UM News staff.
Florida Conference
Church leaders: Withholding apportionments does harm
LAKELAND, Fla. — United Methodist apportionments support ministries that individual churches can’t do on their own, including disaster-response coordination, church camps, campus ministries and international missions. Joe Henderson writes about how threats to withhold apportionments do harm. Meanwhile, the Love Your Neighbor Coalition — comprised of 12 United Methodist-related caucuses — calls on the Council of Bishops to challenge efforts by some disaffiliating churches to withhold apportionments.
Read commentary
Read Love Your Neighbor statement
RECENT HEADLINES
Kenyan church helps drought-stricken community
Romanian hotel houses one-stop shop for ministry
EVENTS
Monday, Oct. 17-Friday, Nov. 11
Your Ministry of Planning and Leading Worship
Monday, Oct. 17-Monday, Dec. 12
Devotion to Jesus: The Divinity of Christ in Earliest Christianity
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