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• Union Church to Host United Methodists

United Methodists from throughout West Virginia and Virginia will meet today at the Old Rehoboth Church building near Union. The church is 225 years old this year. Festivities begin at 10 a.m. with a worship celebration at 1 p.m. Bishop Ernest Lyght, the resident and presiding bishop of the West Virginia Annual Conference will preach. The Rev. Dr. Joe Kenaston of Lewisburg United Methodist Church will portray Bishop Asbury, the pioneer bishop of American Methodism. Holy Communion will be offered. The Rev. David Donothan, Minister of Music at Christ Church United Methodist in Charleston, will direct a choir composed of singers from around the West Virginia Annual Conference.

• Charleston Gazette
• June 27, 2011

• Methodists & microcredit.

John Wesley was not the greatest preacher of his day. His occasional friend and sometime nemesis George Whitefield was that. "My brother Wesley acted ...

• First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
• Nbr. 2009, January 2009

• Big Tenets; Dick Cheney Wowed the Nra; Last Week He Tried to Woo the Methodists

Still, Methodists are much less firmly in the Republican camp than the NRA. Gay and gay-friendly Methodists tried to modify the church's anti-gay policies by vote at the Conference. They lost again in Pittsburgh, 55-45 percent -- a much smaller margin than in previous years. The vote led some ultra-conservative Methodists to broach the notion of schism and a more liberal group to speculate the vote could swing their way next time. City Paper has obtained tapes of secret speeches [Dick Cheney] delivered May 6, when he apparently spoke separately to each side in the Methodists' dispute. Unfortunately, neither of the tapes was labeled, and then we lost one of them. But here, unedited, is Cheney's address to at least one group of Methodists: My fellow co-religionists. It's wonderful to be b...

• Pittsburgh City Paper
• July 30, 2009

• Methodists Not Happy with Claremont School of Theology

CLAREMONT - A local seminary is temporarily sanctioned for straying too far from the flock. Claremont School of Theology was given a public warning in January by the University Senate, an elected body in charge of determining which theological schools meet the criteria for listing as institutions affiliated with The United Methodist Church.

• The Sun (San Bernardino, CA)
• April 19, 2010

• Churches Make Merger Official -- Union Avenue, St. Luke's Methodists Join, Celebrate

Methodists on Monday officially took the people out of the historic Union Avenue United Methodist Church building, approving their merger into St. Luke's United Methodist on Highland Street. The fate of the newly secular building on Union at Cooper now rests with the Land Use Control Board, which is to consider on July 8 a plan by CVS to raze the building and erect a pharmacy.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• June 08, 2010

• Methodists Plant Vision, and a College Grows

The year was 1959. The Tidewater area - remember when it was called that? - was feeling the pressure of baby boomers whose parents had arrived here during World War II. They were now ready for college, but there were few choices of four-year residential campuses. At the same time, a farm family on land that straddled Norfolk and Princess Anne County was feeling the pressure of growing real estate taxes and wished to sell.

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• January 19, 2011

• Methodists Not Happy with Claremont School of Theology

The University Senate cited Claremont School of Theology for not submitting its current audit and for "failing to consult fully with United Methodist authorities in a substantial reorientation of the institution's mission and proposed transformation from a school of theology to a university with schools of ministry. Along with the warning came an embargo on $800,000 in allocations from The United Methodist Church's Ministerial Education Fund, which supports scholarships and budgets at the 13 United Methodist seminaries. The money accounts for 8 percent of the school's funding.

• Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
• April 17, 2010

• Ministry Would Lose Fundingif Methodists Ok Budget Cut

North Georgia Methodists plan to scale back on charitable giving in a midyear budget reduction up for a vote today. A $1 million reduction to the North Georgia Conference's 2009 budget could stymie charitable giving and other areas of ministry, said Jim Showman, a lay delegate of the Augusta District of the United Methodist Church.

• Augusta Chronicle, The
• August 17, 2009

• Black Methodists Urged to Share God's Promise of Amazing Grace

Quoting from Luke 4:21 in the Bible, [James A. Forbes] told members of United Methodism's Black caucus that he heard the voice of God on the day of President [Barack Obama]'s inauguration telling him that 2009 would be "the year of the Lord's favor." He acknowledged the dire problems facing the nation, including a steep economic, decline; widespread loss of jobs, homes and investments; two intractable wars; a growing crime rate and prison population; and the unrelenting rise of HIV and AIDS in the Black community. Yet, he said, "Sometimes God specializes in doing great work in times of deep trouble...God will do something this year that will be called amazing. There is a tradition in Heaven," he explained, noting the 1968 assassinations of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F....

• New Pittsburgh Courier; City Edition
• September 08, 2009

• Methodists to Host Supper in Eddington

EDDINGTON - The North Brewer-Eddington United Methodist Church will host a public supper at 5 p.m. Saturday, May 21, at the church, Route 9, on the be...

• Bangor Daily News
• May 16, 2011