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Want to know and understand better what is happening in the UMC right now? “Where Do We Go From Here, UMC?” is a great resource in the form of a podcast. It’s currently planned as six episodes, released weekly starting in mid-May. It started from a request from some of Westwood United Methodist Church folks […]
The following information is now available at calpacumc.org/ac2022: For members: Preliminary Report (PDF, pub. 5/20/2022) Virtual Backgrounds (.zip) 2023 Budget Questions Form Clergy Excusal Request Form Schedule Overview (PDF, rev. 5/2/2022) 2022 Lay Equalization Report (PDF) For presenters: Media Submissions (Deadline: June 3) For organizations: Slide Submissions (Deadline: June 3) Exhibit Table Application Form for June 17-18 in Costa Mesa, CA […]
The official day set to celebrate Peace with Justice Sunday 2022 is June 12, 2022. All are encouraged to celebrate this Sunday on any Sunday throughout the year. United Methodists relate to this special Sunday by seeking peaceful solutions, creating and supporting peace-related ministries in their conference and learning about peaceful, just efforts around the world. […]
May 20, 2022 Many are mourning the Rev. Marita Y. Harrell, a 57-year-old United Methodist pastor in Atlanta who was stabbed to death earlier this week. Police in DeKalb County, part of the Metropolitan Atlanta area, issued a statement May 20 saying they have arrested Christopher Griggs, 27, and obtained warrants against him for murder […]
The Sessions Task Force is pleased to report that we have sold out our rooms at the Hilton Orange County Costa Mesa. For those who still need a hotel reservation, we have negotiated rooms directly across the street at the Crowne Plaza Orange County Costa Mesa (located at 3131 Bristol St.) for the reduced room rate […]
May 19, 2022 Kit Evans-Ford, founder of Argrow’s House of Healing and Hope, is one of four diverse, spiritual leaders who will receive a 2022 Tom Locke Innovative Leader Award from the Wesleyan Investive in a virtual ceremony May 22. Argrow’s House, named for Evans-Ford’s grandmother, started in 2017 in Davenport, Iowa. The social enterprise makes bath and […]
May 20, 2022 The United Methodist Council of Bishops has the authority to call jurisdictional conferences this year to elect and assign new episcopal leaders in the U.S. However, that authority does not extend to changing the Sept. 1 date when church law says newly elected U.S. bishops officially take office, the denomination’s top court […]
Season 5 | Episode 5 KCET presents a new season of the Emmy® -winning historical documentary series Lost LA. Follow historian Nathan Masters as he goes on an adventure to discover the untold stories behind Southern California. Japanese Americans returning from World War II incarceration camps rebuilt their community in L.A.’s Crenshaw area. In the episode […]
May 18, 2022 The Rev. Giovanni Arroyo poses a difficult question to white United Methodists who say they want an end to racism. Do you want racial justice enough to voluntarily relinquish some of your power? Even those who say “yes” to this tend to make such changes in ways that don’t really shift things, […]
THE EPISCOPAL OFFICE AND THE BOARD OF PENSION AND HEALTH BENEFITS It is with sadness that we inform you of the death of Rev. Frederick Edwards Jr., a retired member of the California-Pacific Conference, on April 9, 2022. We recently became aware. Rev. Edwards is survived by his spouse, Janet, and children: John and Serene. A […]
