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A Story Needing to Be Told
Written: 7/21/2010
By Chaplain Sarge Wright John Taylor, now a retired United Methodist minister living near Shingle Springs, California, has been a longtime friend and colleague. He has a zest for living and an intense life mission that has been both interesting and productive. John was introduced to Heife...

Is Your Church 'Walking With the Poor'? Add to ACS Display
Written: 5/27/2010
The Conference Committee on Children and Poverty invites you to prepare a visual display (one per church) exhibiting the ways your congregation is walking with the poor. It will become part of a larger display at Annual Conference Session. Each year CCCP looks for ways to highlight the work of cong...

Congregations - Help Illustrate Your Work With Poor, for Display at ACS
Written: 5/20/2010
Each year at Annual Conference Session, the Conference Committee on Children and Poverty looks for ways to highlight the work of congregations which are effectively walking with the poor. Beyond writing checks or sending kits (which also are important), walking with the poor means working in partner...

Cal-Nev Churches Fight Diseases of Poverty Through Health Kits for Haiti
Written: 3/31/2010
It's another example of Ministry in Action. Pioneer United Methodist Church in Auburn packed 1,000 health kits for Haiti in one hour on March 20 – then sent them to the UMCOR West Depot in Salt Lake City, in a shipment that also contained kits from Grass Valley, Napa, Lincoln, Carson City, Spa...

Healthcare Bill's Passage Called 'Huge Step' Toward Affirming UM Social Principles
Written: 3/24/2010
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The chief executive of the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society (GBCS) says the U.S. House of Representatives took a "huge step" toward affirming the denomination's Social Principles when it passed health-insurance reform legislation on March 21. J...

Leader Chosen for 'Healthy Families, Healthy Planet' Initiative
Written: 1/21/2010
10 United Methodist annual conferences to work with General Boards of Church and Society and Global Ministries in international family-planning project. WASHINGTON, D.C. - Katey Zeh, a native Georgian, has been hired by the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society (GBCS) as the part-tim...

Christmas Eve Broadcast Is First Planned for UMC Radio in C�te d'Ivoire
Written: 12/10/2009
United Methodist Church radio in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa will broadcast for the first time on Christmas Eve 2009 - amplifying hope in a country still healing from a recent civil war. Through December 11, you may leave an inspirational quote, Scripture, testimony of God's grace, or ano...

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Church Launches Advent Ad Campaign
Written: 11/25/2009
Nov. 24, 2009 | NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) What if you went shopping for hope instead of giving in to hype this Christmas? How much difference could you make in the world? The United Methodist Church encouraged people to think "outside the gift box" to make Christmas more a...

Shoreview UMC Joins San Mateo Neighborhood in Feeding Program
Written: 9/3/2009
By Bruce Pettit CA-NV Annual Conference Communications Commission Shoreview, a neighborhood on San Francisco Bay in the city of San Mateo, wondered a few years ago whether the United Methodist Church was a good neighbor. Shoreview UMC's congregants are primarily Tongan and Samoan. Members had brou...

The Making of Staging a Miracle - the Video
Written: 8/14/2009
A four-minute video about the making of the 2009 Staging a Miracle production, A Hand out for Hope, at First United Methodist Church of Sacramento, has been uploaded to the website of the California-Nevada Annual Conference. Just click on REEL Witness under "Quick Links" on the upper left ...

Take GBOD Online Survey on Effect of Economic Crisis
Written: 8/14/2009
The General Board of Discipleship wants to know how the current global economic crisis is affecting practices of worship across The United Methodist Church. In particular, the board is trying to learn how the crisis affects staffing, programming, and the purchase and use of resources by local congre...

Get to Annual Conference One Day Early, Speak out for Those in Economic Peril
Written: 6/5/2009
The Conference Board of Church and Society, Council of Churches of Santa Clara County, and California Church IMPACT invite California-Nevada United Methodists to get to Annual Conference in Sacramento one day early - on Tuesday, June 16 � and take part in a huge faith rally, 9 a.m. to noon, to let s...

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Lawmakers Praise Church as Civil Voice on Poverty
Written: 5/8/2009
By Linda Green* WASHINGTON (UMNS) National lawmakers this week encouraged United Methodist bishops to keep fighting against world hunger and disease, saying civil voices are necessary to break through partisan politics on issues such as health care and poverty. "United Methodists ...

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Valley Choral Society Concert on May 17 to Benefit Habitat for Humanity
Written: 5/7/2009
Valley Choral Society will perform at Trinity Cathedral Church, Sunday, May 17 at 7:30 p.m., in a concert celebrating "the beauty of our earth and sky, and the joy that family and friends bring to our lives." Music by John Rutter and Mack Wilberg. All proceeds will benefit Habitat for Human...

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Bishops Launch Rethink Church With Worker Outreach
Written: 5/6/2009
By Linda Green* May 5, 2009 | GAITHERSBURG, Md. (UMNS) Mario Ramirez of El Salvador comes daily to a trailer on a parking lot in this Washington, D.C., suburb looking for work as a gardener or general day laborer. On May 5, some 15 United Methodist bishops visited the ministry sit...

Faith Group Urges CA UMs to Vote 'No' on Proposition 1C
Written: 4/22/2009
The California Coalition Against Gambling Expansion - a statewide, faith-based organization "that seeks to prevent the problems caused by gambling" - has joined the California Council of Churches in opposing Proposition 1C on the May 19 ballot, which would restructure the state lottery and change it...

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Words, Photos Show Struggle In Darfur
Written: 4/9/2009
By Linda Bloom* April 8, 2009 | NEW YORK (UMNS) As journalists who travel the world, Chris Herlinger and Paul Jeffrey know that once you finish telling a story, you have to move on to the next one. But the complex and compelling crisis that enfolds the people of Darfur keeps drawing ...

Denominations To Rebuild Homes In Neglected Little Woods
Written: 4/9/2009
NEW ORLEANS (CWS) - One of the still-neglected tragedies of Hurricane Katrina, the historic lakefront community of Little Woods in New Orleans' Ninth Ward, will get a rebuilding boost starting in April, thanks to a first-of-its-kind network of national volunteers spearheaded by humanitarian agency C...

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Tragedy in Sudan Moves Conference to Expand Goals
Written: 4/3/2009
By Annette Spence* March 31, 2009 | YEI, Sudan (UMNS) The tiny, frail child appeared to be asleep in his hospital bed. It was only when the mother wailed - and the nurse began to tie up the infant's toes - that observers realized what was happening. The child had just died. The n...

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Backpack Project Flourishes at New Community UMC
Written: 3/30/2009
New Community United Methodist Church in Oakhurst, California took an idea from another church and "ran with it" - and thinks it could inspire other UMCs. Debbie Gudger, an active member of New Community, says that years ago she read in the Conference newsletter about Gridley UMC's backpac...