Iowa Annual Conference
Mission and Ministry
New drilling machine boosts clean water efforts
The United Methodist Church in Nigeria’s purchase of a new borehole-drilling rig offers the hope of clean water for more people in rural villages.
Mission and Ministry
Churches practice caution before reopening
United Methodist bishops are setting guidelines and recommending times for the churches in their conference to reopen — recommendations that are not necessarily the same as what their state governments are allowing.
Social Concerns
Annual event becomes forum on church’s future
Centrists and progressives turn Leadership Institute into discussion and strategizing session.
Social Concerns
Iowa clergyperson to face trial
The Rev. Anna Blaedel is charged with violating The United Methodist Book of Discipline as a “self-avowed practicing homosexual.”