Happenings Around the Church (Archive)

Friday, June 04, 2010
THE MINISTRY STUDY AND GUARANTEED APPOINTMENTS

    Study committees!  Study committees!  Study committees!   The United Methodist Church seems to have no end of study committees.    The overall assessment of the study committees of the last 40 years is that they have contributed little to the ren...

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
THE BOARD OF GLOBAL MINISTRIES AND RENEWAL

    Any serious renewal in the United Methodist Church will have to deal with the General Board of Global Ministries (GBGM).  This is the task that faces the Call to Action Steering Committee that will be making recommendations to the Connectional Table and the Council of Bishops...

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
UNITED METHODIST RESTRUCTURING – CAN WE MOVE BEYOND THE 1960s?

     One of the significant issues that came before the 2008 General Conference was the proposal on the World Wide Nature of the Church.   Twenty-three constitutional amendments would be required to make possible a new structure that would divide the church into regiona...

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Thursday, April 01, 2010
RESTRUCTURING, SUPERBOARDS, CHURCH AND SOCIETY, AND HEALTH CARE

RESTRUCTURING,  SUPERBOARDS, CHURCH AND SOCIETY,  AND HEALTH CARE

 

    It is, at this point, impossible to predict what the Steering Committee for Action will be recommending to the Connectional Table and the Council of Bishops on how the United Methodist Chu...

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