This is a sticky wicket. On the one hand, who best to provide services to the poor and homeless than faith-based organizations. Of course this works fine in a...
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Hi, My name is Daniel Pelak and I am currently a clinical psychology student at Eastern Illinois University and a former graduate from Southeastern College. I...
... student at Eastern Illinois University and a former graduate from Southeastern College. I am currently working on my thesis and I am wondering if you...
I used to belong to a small country church of the United Methodist Church. I went back to visit it last Sunday, and it is in pathetic shape as far as...
Institute of Progressive Christians Commends NAE Effort to Protect Creation The Institute of Progressive Christians Commends the National Association of...
Greetings to you on this fine day! So many of the rural churches keep their doors open due to the fact that they have preschools or something else renting...
... The Discipline (2000 edition) says in paragraph #2548 that the DS will make a recommendation to "discontinue" a local church. There are a series of steps...
Thanks for the nice message. That is a good idea about the daycare center. Unfortunately, this church is way out in the boondocks and I think the nearby...
The closing of a church is determined differently, from conference to conferenc and case to case. On message boards, I read that some conferences have a...
Hi all! I'm a certified candidate for LLP in Iowa. Can someone enlighten the group on the appointment process? When would the DS call you (April, May, June,...
I was reading some messages from 4 years ago. You said you were not a literalist. Will you give me a detailed list of reasons. I guess there a number of...
The appointment process will vary from bishop to bishop. Some conferences will make the appointments somewhat piecemeal. The call comes when the appointment is...
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... literalist. Will you give me a detailed list of reasons. I guess there a number of ministers in the UMC that are not literalists. I am sure there are quite...
... Don't know about Iowa. I'm a LLP candidate myself in the Virginia Annual Conference. Here the District Board of Ministry conducts a series of interviews...
I assume that if my PPRC does not want me to move and I have not voiced a desire to move and I don't get a call within a week after that "magical day," I am...
... voiced a desire to move and I don't get a call within a week after that "magical day," I am not moving.< In our conference you're absolutely right, Greg....
As an LLP the DS will call you anytime. I don't know when your Annual Conference is but LLP's are appointed by the DS who will want your name down for Annual...
M Scalora, I thank you for your timely reply to my question about why you are not a literalist. It was equal to anything I have read in official UMC books....
... why you are not a literalist. You are quite welcome. ... you should consider writing a book. :-) Perhaps that is because much of it comes from official...
... why you are not a literalist. You are quite welcome. ... you should consider writing a book. :-) Perhaps that is because much of it comes from official...
... working on this. I've at least tried to delete the duplicates from our message board. Mike W Who sometimes thinks that redundancy is a good thing, but not...
