UMC News
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Growing a new kind of Christian community
28 March 2025Spring Forest in Hillsborough, North Carolina, is part monastery, part collective farm and part any number of other things.
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Pastor creates the community she longed for as a child
28 March 2025The Rev. Elaine A. Heath overcame a difficult childhood to make a successful career as a church leader and educator. Her latest incarnation is as the abbess of a new kind of Christian community.
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Church grapples with loss of foreign aid
25 March 2025United Methodists are feeling the effects of the gutting of U.S. foreign assistance and speaking out about how such aid saves lives.
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Churches confront mass federal layoffs
25 March 2025Pastoral care, prayer and protests are some of the ways United Methodist congregations are supporting church members and others affected by the Trump administration’s drastic cuts.
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2025 Sierra Leone Annual Conference
24 March 2025March 4-9, Freetown, Sierra Leone
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Youth ministries help historic churches stay vital
24 March 2025St. Mark United Methodist in Chicago and Holman United Methodist in Los Angeles serve their growing communities by empowering young people and providing effective outreach ministries.
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Amid war, central conference practices ‘shalom’
21 March 2025United Methodists in a region that stretches from North Africa to Poland gathered for a meeting that focused on bringing peace in a time of strife.
