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A Little Help From Jesus – Sermon Delivered at Washington National Cathedral Announcement of Associate Director of Lay Leadership and Age-Level Ministries “Defining Disgrace,” The Hill Op-Ed Co-authored with Sister Simone Campbell Bishop of Methodist Church in Argentina Expresses Concern on Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric DisAbilities Ministries Going to General Conference 2016 Garden Grove UMC Celebrates Groundbreaking […]
*Learn more about Native American Ministries Sunday! 1) Hawaii District's "How to" Workshops include Rev. Se Hee Han, Archana Carey, and Rev. Greg Batson as leaders on March 19, 2016 at Aiea Korean UMC 2) This is it: Watch the final episode of "The Committee," featuring Cal-Pac's Rev. Sarah Heath (Shepherd of the Hills, Rancho […]
I am pleased to announce that Demetrio L. Beach will become our Conference Associate Director of Lay Leadership and Age-Level Ministries, effective July 1, 2016. Mr. Beach is presently serving in Discipleship Ministries at Trinity First United Methodist Church (El Paso, TX). His primary responsibility in this position has been to help laity discover their […]
In 1913, the Spanish American Industrial Training School for Boys enrolled its first students in Gardena, CA. Soon afterwards, the school changed its name to the Spanish American Institute. Its aim was to provide an industrial education for Mexican boys in the California-Pacific region. Eventually, the school became a non-profit which, today, offers scholarships for […]
A recently published op-ed entitled, “Defining Disgraceful,” written by Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño and Sister Simone Campbell in response to the anti-immigrant rhetoric of Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump, has received widespread support from faith communities and beyond, including from Bishop Frank Brown Nully of the Evangelical Methodist Church of Argentina. In a letter to […]
Originally delivered by Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño at Washington National Cathedral, Sunday, February 28, 2016 – Video of the sermon is below Luke 13:1-9 This week we found ourselves living with those who one day surrounded Jesus with their questions about the tragedies of life. What did Jesus think about the people from Galilee who […]
The following is what a newly immigrated family experienced when they moved nearby Grace United Methodist Church in Riverside, CA and visited on Sunday: “I, Mohammad Nekarae (Hamouon) moved here to the United States on June 15th 2015 with my wife and 3 daughters. We arrived in LAX and as all the nearby housing facilities […]
The DisAbility Ministries Committee is going to General Conference 2016! We are excited about meeting United Methodists from around the world! We will be ensuring that everything is accessible, as well as promoting awareness and providing information. Eight petitions have been prepared by Committee chair Sharon McCart and submitted by the Committee. These petitions run […]
About 100 Lay Servants were treated to Keynote Speaker Jodi Cataldo’s address that challenged us to look at the paradigm shift that is taking place in our church recently. Jodi is the Director of Laity in Leadership at Discipleship Ministries. Four workshops were also held featuring “Whimsical Worship”, “Leading in Social Justice” “Forming Young Leaders […]
When Bishop Broderick Huggins of St. Paul’s Baptist Church of Oxnard received an anonymous death threat scrawled over a photo of him in a local newspaper, nearby Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church and North Oxnard United Methodist Church joined St. Paul’s Baptist for Ash Wednesday of 2016. This momentous occasion was the personification of the […]
