Central Conferences

Church Growth

Parishioners read responsively during worship at Central United Methodist Church in Luanda, Angola, in 2012. The Eastern Angola conference has added a statistician to their staff to better evaluate the progress of the church. File photo by Mike DuBose, UMNS.

More than names and numbers in Angola

New annual conference statistician looks forward to evaluating United Methodist progress through data.

Local Church

The Rev. Kanda Salumu examines an electronic voting machine during a demonstration in Kindu, Congo. The United Methodist Church is helping educate pastors and laypeople about the machines, which are unfamiliar to many Congolese. Photo by Chadrack Tambwe Londe, UMNS.

Raising awareness about voting in Congo elections

The United Methodist Church is helping pastors and lay people, many who have never touched a computer, prepare to use voting machines for the first time.

General Church

Leaders from the General Board of Church Society headquarters in Washington, D.C., traveled to Harare to meet with leaders from the Zimbabwe Episcopal Area June 20-21 to draft a revised version of its Social Principles. The decision to create a new document was made at the 2016 General Conference. The last revision was made by committee in 1968. Photo by Chenayi Kumuterera, UMNS.

Zimbabwe United Methodists weigh in on Social Principles

Listening sessions, said Bishop Eben K. Nhiwatiwa, ‘will go a long way in grounding our understanding of Social Principles and how to implement them.’

General Church

Gracious Matika (left) and her sister, Varaidzo, pose with her new diploma after Africa University’s June 9 graduation ceremony. Photo by Eveline Chikwanah, UMNS.

AU grad's study supported by U.S. teen

The work of a 14-year-old inspired to send a girl to university paid off this month when Gracious Matika received her diploma from Africa University.

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