Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, a retired minister in The United Methodist Church and an activist in the American civil rights movement, died Friday, March 27, 2020. He served as the third president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference from ...
The Council of Bishops (COB) of The United Methodist Church has asked all United Methodists to join people of faith in a day of prayer tomorrow, March 25, asking God to rid the world of the coronavirus pandemic. The COB also announced that the May ...
The Commission on General Conference has made a determination that the General Conference will not meet in 2020 as originally planned and elected to work toward setting a date in 2021.
The Executive Committee of the Commission on the General Conference today announced that the General Conference will be postponed and will not occur May 5-15, 2020 as planned.
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The Executive Committee of the Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church has asked for the postponement of the 2020 General Conference, set to begin in six weeks, because of the new Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic.
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The Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church has asked the denomination’s highest court, the Judicial Council, to decide whether the legislation implementing The Protocol of Reconciliation Grace Through Separation is constitutional.
Lent is a forty-day journey that can become, for us, an extended conversation with God. God’s power, our weakness. God’s provision, our emptiness. God’s abundance, our scarcity. God’s righteousness, our imperfection. God’s wisdom, our confusion.
Eighteen annual conferences in the U.S. and ten episcopal areas outside the U.S. paid 100% of their general Church apportionments for 2019, according a newly released report from the General Council on Finance and Administration (GCFA).
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The Philippines College of Bishops of The United Methodist Church has voiced support for legislation that will be sent to the 2020 General Conference regarding Protocol of Reconciliation Grace Through Separation.
The World Methodist Council is partnering with other organizations in offering training for Young Adults on Interreligious Relations that started in Asia and is now expanding globally. This year’s Young Adult Training for Religions Amity (YATRA) will...
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Council of Bishops President Ken Carter today challenged delegates to the 2020 General Conference to use prayer in grappling with the tough questions that The United Methodist Church.
The Kabacan Central United Methodist Church, a vital congregation considered as one of the flagship churches of the Mindanao Philippines Annual Conference celebrated Ecumenical Sunday last January 19, 2020.
Council of Bishops President Bishop Ken Carter remembers the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a season of violence and racism.
The memorial service for Bishop Michael Coyner will be at 11 a.m. Eastern Time Saturday, Jan. 18, at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 100 W. 86th St., Indianapolis, Indiana. Bishop Coyner, retired Bishop of Dakotas and Indiana areas, died ...
Bishop Michael Coyner, retired Bishop of Indiana Area, died today January 8, 2020. Bishop Coyner had been diagnosed with esophageal cancer that had spread to his liver. Mike Coyner is originally from Anderson, Indiana. He received his B.A. from ...
Retired United Methodist Bishop R. Kern Eutsler died this morning, January 2, 2020. Bishop Eutsler was the one of the oldest living United Methodist Bishops. He turned 100 years old in August 2019.
How was the group which produced the Protocol formed? In the summer of 2019, Bishop John Yambasu (Sierra Leone Episcopal Area) invited five persons from three constituencies within The United Methodist Church – traditionalists, centrist, and ...
A diverse group of representatives from United Methodist advocacy groups with contrasting views and bishops from around the world has collaborated on a proposed agreement for the separation of The United Methodist Church (UMC) that has the unanimous ...
As we journey through Advent on the way to Christmas, we read and sing Israel’s promises and prophecies. We hear the prophet Isaiah’s invitation: “Come, let us walk in the light of the Lord” (Isaiah 2:5). And for many of us, all of this ...
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is a global, ecumenical, and annual event which was first observed in 1908 in the chapel of a small Atonement Franciscan convent of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the hills of New York. The celebration soon...
The Council of Bishops is offering scholarships to first-time attenders to participate in the National Workshop on Christian Unity and UMEIT: USA.
The Council of Bishops meets twice each year as a global body, inclusive of residential and retired bishops of the church. The Council Meeting included the following actions and agenda items:
The Council of Bishops has announced the assignment of bishops to the boards and agencies of The United Methodist Church for 2020-2024 quadrennium. Here are the assignments:
Bishop Cynthia Fierro Harvey, the area bishop of Louisiana Conference, was today elected president of the Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church during the bishops’ meeting at Lake Junaluska Assembly.
Bishop Ken Carter, president of Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church, delivered his presidential address today, November 4, at the November meeting of the Council at Lake Junaluska Assembly in North Carolina.
The Judicial Council, the highest court in The United Methodist Church, has released decisions from its October 2019 decisions. Here are some of the key rulings:
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The Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church will meet November 3-6 at Lake Junaluska Assembly in North Carolina to prepare for the 2020 General Conference, elect new officers and ratify a constitutional amendment among other things.
The Ebony Bishops of The United Methodists Church (African-American bishops serving in the United States) have called on the denomination to include African-American clergy and laity in the ongoing discussions on the future of the church, as they ...
The United Methodist – Episcopal Church Dialogue Committee has released a series of videos highlighting shared ministries between the churches and discussing the current full communion proposal developed by the committee.
The United Methodist Church – Episcopal Church Dialogue Committee has released a series of videos highlighting shared ministries between the churches and discussing the current full communion proposal developed by the committee. This video ...
This fall, the United Methodist-Episcopal Dialogue Committee will be releasing a series of videos that discuss common ministries and the current full communion proposal entitled 'A Gift to the World.' In this video, Dean Jan Love (UMC) of the ...
This fall, the United Methodist-Episcopal Dialogue Committee will be releasing a series of videos that discuss common ministries and the current full communion proposal entitled 'A Gift to the World.' In this video, the presiding bishop of the ...
This fall, the United Methodist-Episcopal Dialogue Committee will be releasing a series of videos that discuss common ministries and the current full communion proposal entitled 'A Gift to the World.' In this video, Rev. Dr. Jean Hawxhurst, ...
This fall, the United Methodist-Episcopal Dialogue Committee will be releasing a series of videos that discuss common ministries and the current full communion proposal entitled 'A Gift to the World.' In this video, Dean Gregory Jones (UMC) and ...
The United Methodist – Episcopal Church Dialogue Committee has released a series of videos highlighting shared ministries between the churches and discussing the current full communion proposal developed by the committee. In the first video, ...
WASHINGTON, D. C - United Methodist bishops are honoring and remembering the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Cain Hope Felder, a distinguished scholar and first executive director of the Black Methodist for Church Renewal (BMCR), who passed at his home in ...
An ordained person from a Methodist or Wesleyan church is being sought to serve the World Methodist Council as Director of the Methodist Ecumenical Centre in Rome (MEOR).
On October 2-4, 2019, leaders from all of the major Christian traditions will gather in Montgomery, Alabama, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of enslaved African peoples to Jamestown, Virginia (USA). The commemoration is part of ...
The Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Local Initiatives Grants.
The United Methodist Committee on Faith and Order (CFO) has completed its work on a theological statement entitled Sent in Love: A United Methodist Understanding of the Church. This document is being sent to the 2020 General Conference for review and...
Ecumenical staff who serve as church-wide leaders in various denomination met recently and issued a statement on their commitment to end racism. Click here for the statement.
Dozens of key African-American laity, clergy and episcopal leaders met in Chicago on Thursday and Friday to discern and map out the future of the Black Church in The United Methodist Church as a prelude to the 2020 General Conference.
THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH PHILIPPINES CENTRAL CONFERENCE RESOLUTION WHEREAS, We, United Methodists in the Philippines are intensely opposed to any move that dissolves the United Methodist Church. From the beginning of the Church...
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Bishops in Africa have vowed that The United Methodist Church will continue in Africa even after the 2020 General Conference. Therefore, the bishops have resolved not to support any proposed legislations or plans that call for dividing or dissolving ...
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A group of theologically diverse United Methodists met at Floris United Methodist Church in Virginia on Friday and Saturday to continue seeking a way to resolve the impasse on the ordination of LGBTQ members and the blessing of same-gender marriages ...
The Council of Bishops, in response to a request from the Commission on General Conference, has voted to ask the Judicial Council to rule on the implications of the invalid votes discovered during the independent investigation of the 2019 Special ...
In the aftermath of the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, Council of Bishops President Bishop Ken Carter is calling for United Methodists to help end white supremacy and xenophobia which he says is fueling the culture of violence.
The Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church is inviting applications for the following programs: 2020 Local Initiatives Grants and scholarship to attend the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey in Geneva.
The October 2019 Docket of the Judicial Council has now been posted. The Judicial Council will meet October 29-November 1 in Evanston, Illinois, USA.