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SEJ Church Business Administrators Conference
Written: 4/19/2013 6:35:51 PM
From the SEJ: Calling all church business managers! Have you considered what you need to do in 2014 for the upcoming heath care requirements that are now law? Have benefits for lay employees crossed your mind to share with the SPRC? Having trouble with risk management, new statistics tables...

United Methodists Welcome New Pope
Written: 3/18/2013
A UMNS Report By Heather Hahn and Amanda Bachus Hahn is a multimedia news reporter for United Methodist News Service. Bachus is Editor, el Intérprete magazine, and director of Spanish resources at United Methodist Communications. Pope Francis appears for the first time on...

Communications Trip Brings Benefit for Local Churches
Written: 3/15/2013
The newest members to the Mississippi Annual Conference Mississippi communicators with Rev. Larry Hollon, General Secretary of UM Communications. communications staff are back in...

Grants to Support Old Age Poverty Approved by COAM
Written: 3/13/2013 12:16:27 AM
Grants to help local congregations deal with issues surrounding "old age poverty" -- one of three focus areas concerning older adults for the current quadrennium -- will be offered beginning next year through the Committee on Older Adult Ministries (COAM), which is administratively r...

New Grant Helps Battle Diseases of Poverty
Written: 1/30/2013
From the United Methodist Church (www.umc.org) Nashville, Tenn. -- The United Methodist Church's efforts to battle malaria and HIV in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will get a boost, thanks to a $1.3 million grant from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.&nb...

District Listening Sessions on Change in Pension Benefits
Written: 1/25/2013
The 2012 General Conference changed the denomination retirement plan. The Clergy Retirement Security Plan (CRSP) is reduced in benefits and is provided to full-time clergy. It is up to each annual conference to determine the plan that will be provided to each clergy serving less than ful...

Candidacy Mentoring: A Call to Support those 'Called'
Written: 1/23/2013
By Tamica Smith-Jeuitt The Rev. Amanda Gordon is embracing a first time opportunity to serve as a candidate mentor following her six years of ministering in the Mississippi Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. According to Gordon, her district superintendent selected her ...

Olympian Leads Staff Discussion on Customer Service
Written: 1/15/2013
By Tamica Smith-Jeuitt A video clip from the 20th Olympic Games in Munich, David Wottle Germany set the tone for a staff meeting at the Mississippi Annual Conference office. It captu...

Clergy Leadership Conference January 28-30
Written: 1/14/2013
"The REST of the Story: Ministry at Jesus' Pace" Guest Speaker: Kirk Byron Jones January 28-30, 2013 St. Mark's UMC, Brandon, MS Ministry at Jesus’ pace calls for us to be people of action. It also calls us to be people who regularly stop and rest, who i...

Sunday Supper Events Reach Out to Military
Written: 1/10/2013
By Barbara Dunlap-Berg* If your congregation is seeking ways to reach out to military families, New Providence United Methodist Church, on the Tennessee-Kentucky border, might inspire you. Just six miles from the Fort Campbell Army base in Kentucky, New Providence is home to many retir...

Jackson Cokesbury Closes-Osman says Farewell
Written: 1/9/2013
By Jasmine Haynes News of closing the Jackson Mississippi Cokesbury store produced many questions for shoppers. Surprisingly, the most frequently asked question was not about the store itself but about the future of a popular employee. Osman Grice has worked at Cokesbury for over four...

MS Upholds Human Trafficking Awareness Day
Written: 1/9/2013
By Tamica Smith-Jeuitt When the United Methodist Church joins the nation in observingHuman Trafficking Awareness Day on Friday, January 11, Mary Ann Shook will be leading a ministry that brings comfort and hope to victims of this crime. Shook is the program coordinator for the East Mississi...

Conference Cabinet Works on Statewide Vision
Written: 1/9/2013
By Jasmine Haynes The extended cabinet of the Mississippi United Methodist Conference started the New Year strong by holding a meeting on Thursday, January 3 in Jackson. Cabinet members convened to discuss the state of the conference and opportunities for growth. A primary goal...

2012: A Year's Worth of Disasters
Written: 12/31/2012
A UMNS Report By Linda Bloom A late-season hurricane that swept the U.S. Northeast coast and a typhoon flooding the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines capped disaster-response efforts by United Methodists during 2012. Although Typhoon Bopha made a deadly hit on Dec. ...

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Written: 12/23/2012
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Council of Bishops Vote on Bledsoe Assignment
Written: 12/20/2012
By Diane Degnan Washington, DC: The United Methodist Council of Bishops has voted to assign Bishop W. Earl Bledsoe to the Northwest Texas/New Mexico Episcopal Area effective January 1, 2013. The vote by active bishops, conducted via email in accordance with Council bylaws...

Hard Work and Hope in Advent
Written: 12/19/2012
The Rev. Tom Hazlewood (left) of The United Methodist Committee on Relief discusses recovery efforts following Hurricane Sandy with the Rev. Joseph Ewoodzie in Massapequa, N.Y., on Long Island. Ewoodzie is disaster response coordinator for the denomination's New York Annual Conference. &nbs...

Christmas Giving Blesses Giver, Receiver
Written: 12/19/2012
By Barbara Dunlap-Berg* Gridlocked parking lots. Harried employees. Cranky children. Exhausted shoppers. Empty wallets. ‘Tis the season to be jolly? Christmas shopping doesn’t have to be that way. Across the United States — in big cities and tiny hamlets — United...

Reclaim Christmas: 10 Ways to Simplify
Written: 12/19/2012
by Sophia Agtarap, Minister of Online Engagement | @sophiakris What’s not to love about the holiday season? People are a little more generous, your favorite coffee shop has its seasonal drink selection ready and there are enough gatherings to fill your soc...

United Methodists Honor Inouye's Service
Written: 12/19/2012
A UMNS Report By Heather Hahn* United Methodists are remembering Sen. Daniel K. Inouye not just as a World War II hero and a longtime U.S. senator from Hawaii but also as a fellow church member respected for his integrity and commitment to fairness. “Throughout his life and ...