“There is a revolution happening,” stated Rev. Dr. David Vásquez-Levy, president of the Pacific School of Religion (PSR) in Berkeley while hosting a recent webinar featuring three guest speakers including Bishop Minerva Carcaño of the ...
“The Book of Discipline is your friend!” said Rev. Debra Brady, District Superintendent of the Central Valley District and one of two guest speakers featured during the May 13th CNUMC Webinar entitled, “Ordering the Life of The Church During a ...
Editorial: Learning the wisdom of Divine love as we shelter in place I’m convinced that nothing can separate us from God’s love in Christ Jesus our Lord: not death or life, not angels or rulers, not present things or future things, not powers or ...
Bishop Minerva, as she is affectionately known not only within our conference but throughout the wider UMC, ecumenical and interfaith connection, does not have 'slow' weeks. On any given day Bishop can be found leading and developing advocacy ...
LOS ANGELES, April 24, 2020 - The Pacific Islanders COVID-19 Response Team with the Pacific Islander Center of Primary Care Excellence (PI-CoPCE) today released the following statement in response to new data showing the alarming ...
By Mark Harrison, Director of Peace with Justice, General Board of Church and Society Peace with Justice Sunday is the first Sunday after Pentecost. Join us on June 7, 2020, as we gather for our online worship service to celebrate this important ...
San Fransisco, like many California cities, has a large population that is unhoused and is at high risk for exposure to coronavirus which causes COVID-19. Area shelters are often crowded and unable to create social distancing protocols while ...
Editor's note: The following article includes detailed comments from Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño around the pandemic's impact upon migrants around the globe. Bishop Carcaño serves as the chair of the denomination's Immigration Task Force. Click here ...
Alternating between topics on local church program or ministries and administrative issues, the California Nevada United Methodist Annual Conference has presented webinars each Wednesday at 4 p.m. followed by a Q & A session since April 1st, 2020. ...
California-Nevada conference has started offering weekly video reflections considering lectionary passages for the coming Sunday. Posted each Tuesday, the video reflections will feature clergy and lay leaders from across the conference sharing ...
Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño will join California Industrial Area Foundation (IAF) leaders for a virtual statewide action on Tuesday May 5th at 5:45p. There 8 Industrial Area Foundation (IAF) broad-based organizations and sponsoring committees in ...
The crisis of the pandemic we're all facing is calling us to be creative in staying connected and staying healthy. While we are very mindful of the people on the front lines that are serving us and risking their lives more so that we remain safe and ...
Greetings Conference Family, Grace and peace to you in the precious name of our Risen Lord, Christ Jesus! I am holding you close in prayer. Thank you for your gifts of emails of support, cards of love, and masks that your lovely and loving hands ...
National Network of Korean-American United Methodist Women (NNKUMW) members in seven jurisdictions across the US have made protective masks. The masks are being donated to vulnerable neighbors, such as the homeless, nursing homes, and mission ...
California-Nevada Conference Coronavirus COVID-19 Communications Timeline Editor’s Note: After weeks of sheltering in place and being immersed in news of the pandemic from across the world it is easy to lose track of where we are – home – and how ...
Editor's notes: On April 28, 2020, Nevada leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and The United Methodist Church called on Governor Steve Sisolak to extend the 'Stay Home for Nevada" order until reliable testing was more widely ...
Students and Staff from the University of the Pacific, California's only United Methodist-related university, shared a special message on TikTok. Student Leaders from various religious and spiritual groups, including the Open Door Methodist Student ...
For many of us sheltering in place may bring on a case of FOMO - fear of missing out. While we can't open your favorite restaurant, get you tickets to the big game or send you on that vacation that now seems like a distant dream we can help you stay...
On Wednesday April 22nd Giovanni Arroryo, GCORR team leader for Program Ministries hosted a conversation on Facebook Live with Rev. Lydia Muñoz and Ryan Bowers about the hurdles and inequities communities and churches of color are experiencing when ...
Native American Sunday arrives this week, nearly four years since the Annual Conference’s Act of Repentance created new healing among members of our regional connection. Since then, Native American Sunday funds have been given to provide critical...
The Rev. Brad Bennett points to a patch on the snow-covered ground and says, “My spot’s right there.” The “spot” is Bennett’s plot in a tiny cemetery on family farmland near Jane Lew, West Virginia, where he plans one day to rest in peace next to his...
The Waller Center, an urban retreat and community center based in San Francisco and managed by the Board of Camping and Retreat Ministries of the California-Nevada Conference, was suddenly empty as user groups cancelled their reservations for ...
On April 1st the California-Nevada conference began hosting weekly webinars every Wednesday at 4p PDT. The webinars are designed to bring folks across the conference together to learn new skills that will both help us adapt to life in this time of ...
East Bay Formosan gives a great example of what can be done even though we are not gathering on Sunday in the sanctuary. What is your church doing in the community during this time of shelter in place? Please send us your stories! By Peri Chen, ...
The following is an op-ed written by Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño along with fellow Bishops across California in conjunction with the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity and is excerpted from The Sun, a San Bernardino newspaper, a part of the ...
"and when Jacob saw them, he said, “This is God’s camp!” So, he called that place Mahanaim." (Genesis 32:2) I asked myself, "What is our theology of comfort in the ministry of camping and retreat in this COVID-19 pandemic?" I brought up the word ...
By Dawn Blundell, Pastor, Epworth UMC Epworth UMC plays a very active role in serving folks in need in our Northern Nevada community. Through Epworth Community Food Pantry, Fallon Daily Bread, we are able to provide food, clothing, care, and ...
The following is excerpted from a letter sent by The Rev. Glen Chebon Kernell, Executive Secretary of Native American and Indigenous Ministries, General Board of Global Ministries and Allyson Potts, Executive Director, Loans and Scholarships, ...
By Cory Paine, Pastor, Community Methodist Church and California-Nevada Relief Disaster Case Manager This project was an outreach to the children at home during the Covid 19 situation. We organized an Easter Bunny drive by with the assistance of a ...
Westpath has provided a spanish translation of the CARES Act summary. Actualización sobre el COVID-19 Ley CARES —Resumen de Impacto Potencial para la UMC Visión general El viernes 27 de marzo de 2020, la Cámara de Representantes acompañó al ...
By Ron Dunn, Pastor, Newcastle UMC How can we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? Easter in Exile How can we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land? How can we sing our Easter “alleluias” all by ourselves? How can we make our way to the empty ...
By Sadie Stone, Pastor Bethany UMC On March 16, 2020 the Mayor of San Francisco, announced that we were to shelter in place and only essential personal should continue to go to work. The order went on to note that the homeless population was exempt ...
By JB Brayfindley “Cameras, sound bytes … we’ve had to gear up to do this,” said Rev. Dr. Lois Black, pastor at First United Methodist Church in Yuba City. Black is no stranger to adapting to new things and has often encouraged her congregation ...
By UM News communicators April 8, 2020 | UM News United Methodists in Africa and the Philippines are fighting COVID-19 by making personal protective gear, raising awareness in rural areas and busy cities and breaking down myths. And they are using ...
By Michael Yoshii In the midst of a season of holy days: Jewish Passover, Christian Holy Week, Muslim Ramadan, Buddhist Hanamatsuri, interfaith leaders will gather for an online vigil calling for an end to for-profit prisons and detention centers ...
This Holy Week will be one we may all remember most especially given this time of finding new ways to connect and overcome social isolation. Our Bishop, Minerva G. Carcaño is finding new ways to gather our conference faith family in this time and we ...
By JB Brayfindley Asking members to touch a coffee table in their home to recall Jesus knocking over tables in the Temple or asking families to unlock a door in their home to reflect on how the Resurrection story ‘unlocks’ hope, are both examples ...
By Jean Hawxhurst Three of the main ecumenical organizations in the United States of America have come together this Easter to promote a unified witness to our shared faith in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Bishop Teresa Jefferson Snorton is ...
Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, We write you today sending love and power in the name of Jesus Christ. In the roles we play within our California Nevada Conference community, we have had the opportunity to witness your great strength and ...
By JB Brayfindley “Even before the stay at home order, people who could and did attend weekly Lenten activities wanted a kit to use at home daily,” said Dedra Beauchamp, administrative assistant at Fair Oaks United Methodist Church. “The kits were ...
District Superintendent Shinya Goto and his wife Jennifer, like many of us, are working from home and homeschooling their children. Recently he reached out to pastors in El Camino Real District to see how pastors with kids were balancing work and ...
By Heather Hahn The Rev. Joseph Echols Lowery, a United Methodist pastor who loved to preach and was never afraid to speak truth to power, died at his home in Atlanta on March 27. He was 98. Lowery walked with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and ...
Shelter in place (SIP) guidelines are now in place through April 30th, and in some counties of the Bay District through May 3. Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño strongly urges our entire faith family across Nevada and California to continue sheltering in ...
By JB Brayfindley Although the services may be pre-recorded, the worship service is viewed ‘live.’ The music, the prayers, the liturgy are familiar. The time is the same as the typical Sunday morning worship. However, the place is different. ...
By Michael Yoshii A continue concern for human rights ministry in the Philippines has been the targeting of pastors and lay members engaged in support of the poor and marginalized. Recently United Methodist pastors in the Philippines have been ...
Wednesday Webinar April 8, 4p-5:15p PDT Click here to register. Join California-Nevada Executive Director of Finance and Administration Diane Knudsen for a deep dive into the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act and a discussion...
A Letter to the United Methodist Clergy of the Western Jurisdiction The United Methodist Church From the College of Bishops Beloved Servants of Christ, We write, as your episcopal leaders, in these unprecedented days of social change due to the ...
Nashville, TN – The Board of Directors of the General Council on Finance and Administration (GCFA) met by Conference Call on March 27 to discuss general Church apportionments for 2021. It is the Disciplinary responsibility of GCFA to present a ...
Nashville, March, 2020 – The outbreak of COVID-19 in the US and the resulting cancellation of group gatherings has led many United Methodist churches to plan online virtual worship experiences. To assure that local churches have the resources they ...
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