The Certified Lay Minister Program of the Kansas Area in Partnership with the Center for Church Leadership and Kansas Wesleyan University passed. The training will include 12 college hours taken over three to four years. I think that this program will be a good one of revitalization of congregations in providing for the leadership for […]
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Ballot 2 Laity – none elected Clergy – none elected Ballot 3 Laity – Mollie Haberer Clergy – Pat Ault-Duell and A. Mark Conard
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 […]
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 […]
I have posted a review of The Form and Power of Godliness: Wesleyan Communal Discipline as Voluntary Suffering (PDF document) by Kevin Watson. This paper was originally presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Wesleyan Theological Society. In the review, I seek to address themes of the paper, application and relevance to The United […]
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deeply committed
Several weeks ago my wife, Nicole, and I visited Kevin and Melissa Watson – friends from seminary who are living in Oklahoma. Kevin is serving Lamont United Methodist Church and Melissa is working at the local bank. It was a joy to connect with people from Wesley Theological Seminary, as they seem to be few […]
This is a question which will be considered, along with others in a conversation that will be taking place this week at Resurrection around the theme – What does 21st century worship look like? I believe that this conversation will have implications in the services here and may have effects wider than this local congregation. […]
I try to keep up on news within the United Methodist Church through RSS feeds from UMC.org, particularly the feed for United Methodist News (RSS link). I have recently been encouraged about hope for the future of the denomination in effective ministry as a part of God’s Kingdom through several articles. Plan would pave way […]
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Appointment Blog
While reading and considering the book: the blogging church, I began to think about how some of the themes presented in the book could be utilized in The United Methodist Church in the annual conference. What if there was a blog about the appointment possibilities that the cabinet was considering? While some annual conferences are […]
Rev. Andrew Conard 