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All who sense the call to participate in ministry with asylum seekers and migrants are invited to two upcoming events at or near the U.S./Mexico border: 1) Welcome Strangers Worship & Blessing – On Sunday, December 9, 2018, at 10:15AM at Christ Ministry Center (San Diego), there will be an ecumenical Sunday morning worship service […]
Many of you are new to receiving our Erbele Etchings so we’ll start this letter with a brief introduction. We have been Global Ministries missionaries since 1989 and have been in mission in Nigeria, Russia, Latvia and Lithuania. For the last 10 years we served in the Alaska United Methodist Conference. Our biographies can be […]
Declaración conjunta en respuesta a las caravanas de migrantes centroamericanos 7 de noviembre de 2018 La migración humana es tan antigua como la historia humana. Individuos, familias, tribus y naciones se han ido trasladando desde ante de los tiempos de Abraham y Sara. A lo largo de los siglos, factores políticos y económicos, las guerras inclusive; retos concernientes a la salud y al medioambiente; el racismo, la xenofobia y la discriminación religiosa a veces […]
Dear Lay Servants, Greetings fellow Sisters and Brothers in Christ. As your new California Pacific Annual Conference Director of Lay Servant Ministries, I want to ask for your prayers as we together move forward in the ministry of the baptized. Even as we consider our way forward, we pause as we enter the Advent Season […]
Our Cal-Pac Disaster Response Team’s shower trailer, a mobile shower facility, is on loan with The Salvation Army near the border handling hundreds of anticipated migrants and asylum seekers.
Writen by Rev. Steve Poteete-Marshall Chair of the HIV/AIDS task force of the Cal-Pac Conference If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, make my joy complete; be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of […]
The Cal-Pac Disaster Response Task Force will present one of these new vests to the Trustees/Disaster Team of each church who makes progress toward disaster planning in their annual Charge Conference report. These bright yellow vests, depicting Clergy, will help quickly identify to the survivors of a local disaster a trusted person who can provide […]
The General Conference delegates of the Western Jurisdiction recently issued a statement in support of the One Church Plan. The full statement is available via the button below; below is an excerpt from the statement: We, the delegates of the Western Jurisdiction, have closely followed the work of the Commission on the Way Forward and […]
For the Lord your God…loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing. You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. – Deuteronomy 10:18-19 Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, In addition to The Council of Bishops’ strong, prophetic joint statement with the Methodist Church of Mexico, the United […]
Among the absolute beauty of our Southern California environment lies the latent potential for the opposite in the destructive fires we have witnessed. Those directly affected have so far been the people of our Westlake Village UMC, Thousand Oaks UMC, Malibu UMC, and St. Matthew’s UMC of Newbury Park. But, we now know that there […]
