UMC News
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Deaconesses are still here – let’s invest in them too!
26 November 2024A distinctly separate order from deacons, deaconesses and home missioners serve in a wide variety of full-time lay ministries for the church.
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Zimbabwean gets posthumous honorary ordination
26 November 2024The Rev. Norest M. Nyakudanga became the first lay member in Zimbabwe to be honored with a posthumous ordination for decades of preaching in The United Methodist Church.
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General Conference leaders start afresh
26 November 2024With mostly new membership, the group that plans The United Methodist Church’s big legislative assembly hopes to turn the page on past mistakes and act with more transparency.
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World AIDS Day call: ‘Put people first’
25 November 2024At two global AIDS conferences, numerous speakers emphasized that faith communities can play a vital role in combating the stigma attached to the disease.
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Bishop Warner remembered for humility in exile
25 November 2024After a military coup forced him out of his native Liberia, United Methodist Bishop Bennie Warner began ministry anew in the U.S. He died at age 89 after serving in Oklahoma and Arkansas.
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Philippines reelects Acdal, Estrella, Painit
22 November 2024United Methodists in the Philippines have reelected three bishops and assigned them to continue in the episcopal areas that they had been leading.
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Social media graphics from UM News
22 November 2024Meme for the first Sunday in Advent is available to download in four languages and share on social media.
