Live Blogs to Come

by Jay Voorhees April 21, 2012

We haven't done any live blogging yet . . . because the Conference hasn't started! However make sure to check here for the latest in live blog updates during the plenary session of GC2012.

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Local Church

Weeping with grief, gratitude for closed church

Despite closing, a local church’s legacy will live on, thanks to the lives that it shaped through the years.

Tackling a petitions conundrum

The General Conference commission spent time grappling with what to do about petitions submitted by people who, for whatever reason, are no longer part of The United Methodist Church.

General Conference

The Rev. Lynn Hill, retired elder in the Tennessee-Western Kentucky Conference, preaches at the closing worship of the Commission on the General Conference meeting in Florence, Kentucky. Hill is the chair of the commission’s program committee. Beside him are Don Reasoner, who leads interpretation at General Conference, and Mills Maliwa, a commission member from South Africa. Photo by Heather Hahn.

What to expect at the next General Conference

The group that plans The United Methodist Church’s big legislative assembly is putting together the final details for holding the long-delayed General Conference next year in Charlotte, North Carolina. The group is as changed as the denomination it serves.

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