After the announcement of the first round of General Conference balloting, and the second round of balloting the next order of business at the plenary session was a Resolution to Enter a Capital Campaign from the Kansas West Conference Focus Team. A representative from Tyler Associates presented results of a feasibility study with a recommendation […]
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The results of the first round of balloting for delegates to General Conference 2008 were announced first thing this morning. The second round of ballots were also collected. Laity elected… Dixie Brewster Penny Schwab Clergy elected… No clergy elected in the first round of balloting.
A presentation on disaster relief was not on the agenda a month ago, but today it was an important part of the work of the Annual Conference. After several presentations, Bishop Jones brought our attention to three images in response to the recent tornadoes in Kansas. Scripture is the basis for what we do and […]
Serving All, Leading Together is the theme of the Annual Conference in Kansas West in 2007. The acronym is “salt.” Underneath Hutchinson is the largest salt deposit in North America. Salt mining is a key industry in town and another addition to the town is the newly opened Kansas Underground Salt Museum. Part of opening […]
I am currently at the Kansas West Annual Conference being held at the Grand Prairie Hotel and Conference Center in Hutchinson, KS. The afternoon session was disrupted by a tornado warning. It was announced early on that there would be the potential for a severe storm warning and it came to pass. Well, the good […]
Recent rain and warming temperatures have brought increased growth in nature – the grass is greening, the trees are budding and life is returning. It seems that the change of seasons, leads me to reflect on the life of the church. Recently I remembered something that I experience almost every year. When it is in […]
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Young Clergy
I recently found a link to the North Alabama Conference Young Clergy Forum from Bishop Willimon’s blog. North Alabama has also organized a Young Clergy Research Team. The Lewis Center for Church Leadership is currently conducting research about young clergy and their ministries. More information about this research and a link to the survey can […]
Today I heard a compelling vision about Wesley KU and Project Transformation – Kansas City at the Kansas City District clergy gathering. Wesley KU is a mission of the United Methodist Church at the University of Kansas with a vision “to build a community where college students are discovering their identity in Christ(BEAUTY), developing as […]
Bishop Scott Jones writes about Appointment Making in the Kansas Area of the United Methodist Church. The post begins with this sentence: Here is what I hope all United Methodists in Kansas know about the appointment-making process. As one under appointment in The United Methodist Church in Kansas, this sentence had me hooked to read […]
I recently posted about the the concept of narrative leadership – the interaction between individuals and the story that they find themselves in. I think that one concrete example of that is taking place within the United Methodist Church in Kansas. In both the Kansas East and Kansas West Conferences there has been significant work […]
Yesterday I met with the Kansas West Conference Board of Ordained Ministry and received a recommendation to the clergy session of the Annual Conference for election to probationary membership and commissioning. This is great news and I am excited! As a United Methodist, this is an important step moving toward ordination as an elder within […]
The Mainline Emergent/s gathering was an encouraging encounter with others seeking to do ministry in a way that is relevant to the surrounding culture and may be different than the way that things have been done within The United Methodist Church. I am considering how the conversations that I have had at this conference will […]
Rev. Andrew Conard 