Growing up in the Midwest, Joyce D. Sohl learned several important lessons: Think for yourself. Accept all. Always try to do your best. Prepare to be able to support yourself.
Those values would serve her well later in life as a pioneer for women’s ministries in The United Methodist Church.
Two Korean United Methodist clergy came together to record free hymns and special music for use during the Lenten season and on Easter Sunday.
The Revs. Yohan Go and Juhee Lee of the New England Conference worked with musicians to record 47 songs and make them available on Google Drive for any church that needs music to use freely.
Traditionalists committed to leaving The United Methodist Church have chosen “Global Methodist Church” as the name for the denomination they plan to launch. Learn More
Join Discipleship Ministries in celebrating the life and legacy of Rev. Junius B. Dotson on Saturday, March 6, at 12 noon. The service will be livestreamed from Houston, Texas. Following the live event, click here to find the recording of the service. Also, read Discipleship’s top executive dies of cancer.
Many are remembering the Rev. Junius Dotson, top executive of the United Methodist Church’ Discipleship Ministries agency. He died Feb. 24, less than a month after announcing his battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 55. His unexpected death brought together …
The Rev. Candace Lewis will become the first woman President-Dean of the UMC’s historically Black Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta and the first in the school’s interdenominational consortium of seminaries. Learn more…
UM churches scrambled to open as warming centers and overnight shelters as historic winter storms have left nearly 3 million homes in Texas and other states without electricity in subfreezing temperatures. Read More
My knowledge of Bishop F. Herbert Skeete began with my ordination as a deacon in 1982 and an Elder in 1984. He was my first bishop as an ordained clergy member in The United Methodist Church. Over the years, I …
Vaccines may not be enough to save an in-person General Conference this year — but virtual technology may not suffice either. General Conference organizers have made no final decisions about whether The United Methodist Church’s top lawmaking assembly can go …
Bishop F. Herbert Skeete, retired UM Bishop, died Feb. 11. He was a steady, visionary leader and friend to many and served the Philadelphia Episcopal Area for eight years.
