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We need you! Interested in Creation Care, Sustainable property management, environment care, recycling, or any of the other areas in which we can take better care of the incredible planet we have been gifted? Interested in eco-justice camp for youth and young adults, with workshops
Cal-Pac California Legislative Advocacy Team:Affordable Housing, Homelessness, and Food Security First Meeting – Wednesday, March 1 @ 6:00 pm PST on Zoom http://www.calpacumc.org/advocacyteamsignup We all know that affordable housing, homelessness, and food insecurity are painful, urgent needs in Southern California. State legislators are working hard
The Western Jurisdiction LGBTQIA+ Ministries team recently connected with a fellowship of young trans women in Uganda. The women are living in basic conditions in a challenging area of the country with limited resources. Many have been ejected from their homes and churches because of
January 24, 2023 The Rev. Dennis Blackwell is weary of the news reports of people being shot, many times Black people. “Every morning, I turn the television on,” said Blackwell, a United Methodist pastor at Asbury Community Church in Woodlynne, New Jersey. “There are people
Are you interested in helping the local church know about missionaries and Global Ministries of the UMC? We are looking to build a team of laity and clergy that would help connect the local churches in the California-Pacific Conference with missionaries throughout the world. This
Do you have a passion for helping congregations become more accessible and welcoming to people with disabilities? Do you believe that anyone with any type of limitation needs to worship the living God? And maybe that they are called to lead worship? If you answered
Hurricane Ian has made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm. Our prayers are with the communities of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina as the storm tracks north. Our Response Our best response today is to pray, give, and prepare. As always, do not
September 1, 2022 United Methodists will need to both pray and act to end the scourge of gun violence, says a letter the Council of Bishops released Sept. 1 to the wider church. “As people of prayer, we followers of Jesus are called to be
September 1, 2022 “Thou shall not kill.” – Exodus 20:13 We are called as United Methodist Bishops to respond to the devastation and disruption due to gun violence. Communities around the world are traumatized, we are facing a global and national health crisis, and children,
August 24, 2022 Faith leaders and others at the 24th International AIDS Conference heard that newer global health threats like COVID-19 and monkeypox are hampering progress toward improving HIV prevention, treatment and care. The conference was held July 29-Aug. 2 in Montreal. Recent decades saw slow, steady
