Start the morning off right: Prayer

by Laura Allen April 26, 2012

Day 3 of GC2012 means committee meetings, where delegates work through the petitions that have been submitted for consideration. This morning, I stopped by Board of Church and Society A meeting, which will work on roughly 96 petitions related to the Social Principles of the United Methodist Church.

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