New updates to the 2016 Book of Discipline, the denomination’s policy book, are now online. This updated version contains additions to the list of United Methodist bishops, to include bishops elected in late 2016, 2017 and 2022, as well as a ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Council of Bishops (COB) of The United Methodist Church is petitioning the denomination’s top court for clarification on its recent decision regarding the General Conference that will be held in 2024. The church’s court, known...
“It is amazing to be able to take courses from people who have been clergy, have Ph. Ds, are seminary instructors, and in one case was an active Bishop!” states part-time local pastor Tara Macy serving Shasta Lake’s Community UMC. “The quality of the...
Thank you, California-Nevada faith family. Because of your generous, sacrificial giving our conference has met our General Church apportionment goal for the past 4 years. Through the UMC connectional system, we have made mission possible in ...
January 05, 2023 | Conference Committee on Episcopacy
The Conference Committee on Episcopacy would like to express our gratitude to Bishop Sally Dyck for continuing as our interim Bishop until Bishop Carcaño’s suspension is resolved or until this period of episcopal assignment ends on August 31, 2024. ...
The General Commission on Religion and Race (GCORR) is proud to announce the awarding of $325,614 in grants to 38 projects that will increase intercultural competency and support vital conversations about race, cultural diversity, and systemic equity...
Editor's note: Go, Sow, Grow is a prayer initiative that launched early in 2022 in which local churches were invited to pray for one another in order to align our prayers for God's vision of growth and abundance to manifest among us. As a companion...
The Western Jurisdiction met from November 2-5 in Salt Lake City and elected three new episcopal leaders. Bishop Cedric Bridgeforth is serving the Greater Northwest Episcopal area, Bishop Dottie Escobedo-Frank is serving the California Pacific ...
There will be a Cal-Nev Conference mission trip in March 2023 to Bishkek, the capital city of Kyrgyzstan from Thursday March 2nd to Saturday March 11th. In Kyrgyzstan, Islam is the main religion, but the constitution guarantees freedom of religion....
Applications are now open for scholarships from the United Methodist Higher Education Foundation. Every year, UMHEF awards $2+ million to students planning to attend one of the 100+ UM-related colleges, universities, and seminaries across the ...
Palestinian Christians have long called to us to "Come and See, Go and Tell" the stark reality of Palestine today, to dispel the world's grievous misconceptions and mobilize the global church to be effective justice-seekers and peace-builders. ...
January 04, 2023 | Western Jurisdiction College of Bishops
As we welcome the three new bishops of the Western Jurisdiction, the new College of Bishops offers a short Epiphany message to share in local churches during worship service or online. The video features Bishops Karen Oliveto of the Mountain Sky ...
In this season of church separation, even some life-long, generations-long United Methodists might be questioning what it means to be a part of our denomination. The United Methodist Church is a connectional system through which each of us are ...
Editor's note: Go, Sow, Grow is a prayer initiative that launched early in 2022 in which local churches were invited to pray for one another in order to align our prayers for God's vision of growth and abundance to manifest among us. As a companion...
"Everyone ate until they were full. The disciples collected 7 baskets of leftovers." Matthew 15:37 This scripture leads a recent newsletter from Temple UMC San Francisco. We'd be hard pressed to find a more appropriate passage given their year of ...
Editor's note: I have slightly modified Hahn's original article to foreground Bishop Wilbur Choy. The link at the end of this excerpt will take you to Hahn's original article on UMNews and all of the remembrances. United Methodists over the past 12...
California-Nevada's next Certified Lay Minister (CLM) training cohort convenes January through May of 2023. It will include a refreshed curricular design and a hybrid course module incorporating google classroom software to house course resources and...
December 22, 2022 | Conference Committee on Episcopacy
Editor's note: The text below is available is Spanish, Tongan and Korean. In an effort to address ongoing misunderstanding and confusion related to the process involving Bishop Minerva Carcaño, our California-Nevada Conference Committee on ...
The Cypress School Kindness Club program proposal from First UMC Redding was awarded a grant from the General Board of Church and Society (GBCS). GBCS awards annual PEACE WITH JUSTICE, HUMAN RELATIONS DAY and ETHNIC LOCAL CHURCH grants to Methodist ...
Note from Bishop Sally: Before you read my message, please watch this youtube presentation, which sets the context for my Christmas message. Apologies if it starts with a short advertisement. If you watch this youtube of NASA’s James Webb Space...
The United Methodist General Board of Church and Society (GBCS) Ethnic Young Adult (EYA) internship program is now receiving applications for young justice seekers willing to unpack their faith and identity and develop a deeper understanding of ...
The United Methodist Church’s highest court ruled that new delegate elections “are not required” for the long-delayed and potentially pivotal General Conference, now set for 2024. “The delegates duly elected to the 2020 General Conference for the ...
Author's note: This article is a reprint that originally appeared in The Connection in 2001. Rev. Linda Kelly has returned to the Side-by-Side listening ministry she founded and directed for 12 years in Friendship Park, now as a staff member of ...
It is easy to feel isolated working in local church ministry. The demands seem and often are overwhelming, so much so that we forget that our church is a part of a connectional system that offers resources and support. As we look forward to a new ...
Editor's note: Go, Sow, Grow is a prayer initiative that launched early in 2022 in which local churches were invited to pray for one another in order to align our prayers for God's vision of growth and abundance to manifest among us. As a companion ...
Editor's note: Remember to use our connectional system as you develop your local ministries! Feeding the hungry is a part of our DNA as United Methodists. Across our connection - from national agencies, jurisdictions, conferences and local churches -...
In its coming session, The United Methodist Church’s highest court faces multiple questions related to the delay of the denomination’s top lawmaking assembly to 2024. The Judicial Council also continues to deal with questions on how to handle church...
Creation Care resources for Advent and Christmas As we move through Advent and Christmas, there are many resources available to help incorporate ways to honor creation and raise awareness about climate justice in worship and in other church ...
Editor's note: Go, Sow, Grow is a prayer initiative that launched early in 2022 in which local churches were invited to pray for one another in order to align our prayers for God's vision of growth and abundance to manifest among us. As a companion ...
Hope United Methodist Church in South San Francisco has equipped itself to be a Resiliency Center. What does that mean? The team at Hope UMC wanted to become an island of clean energy even when the electrical grid is down. The Resiliency Center is...
Editor's note: The California-Nevada Committee on New and Vital Congregations (CNVC) supports and resources the efforts of the annual conference for creating new faith communities and encouraging vitality in existing congregations and communities of...
It takes a team to run a local church. Pastors, lay leaders, SPRC's, trustees, and those serving on finance committees have tremendous responsibility and must work together to provide vital ministries in the communities they serve. These local ...
Lay Servant Ministries (LSM) is a training program for everyday people to step up their service within the church across our conference. It is one of the fastest growing program in California-Nevada, due in large part to our emphasis on clergy-laity ...
United Methodist Communications has created a special presentation called We are the church. Together. that will remind congregations of their identity as United Methodists while also inviting them to have constructive conversations about what they ...
“Ke tau nofo‘aki tali kia Sihova ē; Na‘e nofo‘aki tali hotau laumālie: Pea ‘i he‘ene folofola na‘a tau ‘amanaki pē.” Psalm 130:5, ko ‘emau tautapa ia kia Sihova he ‘aho fkkoloa ni, fakataha moe potu Saame, ‘aki ha loto hounga’ia ‘aupito………….ke tau ...
United Methodists in the United States, the Philippines and Central and Southern Europe are meeting in November to elect and consecrate new bishops and assign bishops to specific regions or episcopal areas. Bishops are the top clergy leaders of The ...
“The first thing to understand is that a Home Missioner is a lay person,” states Ray Jellison, member of Pioneer UMC in Auburn, California, and candidate for the office of Home Missioner in the UMC. He hopes to be consecrated in April 2023 and ...
As the number of church disaffiliations rises, United Methodist financial leaders have started preparing what will be the denomination’s lowest budget sent to General Conference in nearly 40 years. The board of the denomination’s finance agency, the ...
In November, First UMC of Bakersfield generously donated a well-equipped tool trailer to the Disaster Response Ministry of the California-Nevada Conference of the United Methodist Church. District Superintendent David Niu accepted this donation from ...
People across California-Nevada are invited to give generously to our Native American Ministries this Giving Tuesday, November 29th. November is recognized as Native American Heritage month and it is a wonderful opportunity to learn more about the ...
November 23, 2022 | The Western Jurisdiction LGBTQIA+ Ministries Team
We come with hearts broken, yet again, by another senseless act of violence perpetrated against the LGBTQIA+ community, this time at Club Q in Colorado Springs on the eve of the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Because we believe that God’s heart is ...
A couple weeks ago this tweet appeared, written by a young woman identified as Garden Coffee Lady, in Sacramento: my husband and i wake up every morning and bring our coffee out to our garden and sit and talk for hours. every morning. it never gets...
The Committee on the Annual Conference Session (COACS) met on November 14th and confirmed the dates for our 175th Annual Conference: Thursday June 15th through Sunday June 18th. An incorrect set of dates had been printed in the 2022 Journal naming ...
In May, Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta was again elected president of East Timor (now renamed Timor-Leste in honor of its Portuguese cultural heritage). He took the oath of office at midnight on May 20, when the nation celebrated its 20...
In 2001, the Rev. John Holler and a mission team from South Carolina traveled thousands of miles to work at the Fairfield Children’s Home. They fell in love with the orphans and The United Methodist Church’s Old Mutare Mission that was caring for ...
The office of Leadership Development has added another Spiritual Gifts Course that will be held in December. Session one of the course will take place on Friday December 9th, from 6:00pm-8:30pm. Session 2 of the course will take place the next day, ...
Rev. Heather Leslie Hammer, has published a book of historical fiction based on the life of her great-great-grandmother, who lived in the Shetland Islands in the 1800s: Shetland Mist: A Shetland Family in the Methodist Movement. The story was first...
The Cal-Nevada Climate Justice Ministries Task Force is planning ways to help our annual conference become informed, motivated, and organized for action. We are creating an email network of churches and individuals who are concerned about God’s ...
United Methodists in the United States, the Philippines and Central and Southern Europe are meeting in November to elect and consecrate new bishops and assign bishops to specific regions or episcopal areas. Bishops are the top clergy leaders of The ...
Global Ministries Team of the Conference Committee on Christian Service Recognizes Support to GBGM Missionaries Twenty-five (25) Local United Methodist Churches and two (2) United Women in Faith units in the California-Nevada Conference have ...
