by umcjnews | Nov 24, 2023 | Callings, Grassroots
New EarthKeepers Commissioned 57 New Global Ministries EarthKeepers were commissioned online in November. Click here to read the story and watch the commissioning service Online Global Ministries EarthKeepers Training Coming in March On November 20, 2016, Global...
by umcjnews | Dec 31, 2022 | Blog, Callings
By Rev. Richenda Fairhurst This month we celebrate a new year, 2023! This celestial action is measured, as the years of Jesus’s life were themselves measured, by our moving, spinning Earth. The revolutions and natural workings of this good planet are a gift of the...
by umcjnews | Jul 25, 2022 | Blog, Callings, Networking, News, Season of Creation
While my introductory framing of the August 2022 newsletter was somewhat abstract and theoretical, there are real practical applications and ideas behind it that I’m also hoping will continue to take root across our Methodist connection. One of those is a...
by umcjnews | Jul 24, 2022 | Blog, Callings, Resources, Season of Creation
Charge From the Land By Jacqueline Anderson I wrote this charge (or blessing) as one of three for the opening of the Center of Ecological Regeneration at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in the spring of 2022. I felt drawn to the invitation to write from...
by umcjnews | Mar 24, 2022 | Blog, Callings, Sustainable Fashion
By Lizzy Case I’m excited to share a little of the story of how I launched my Christian apparel brand, Arrayed. In the summer of 2013, I learned to sew. I had just gotten out of a 6-year relationship that left me reeling and in need of stability. I had inherited my...
by umcjnews | Feb 1, 2022 | Blog, Callings
Author: Martha Lyle Ford I grew up “in the country” near a small town an hour from Memphis, raised in a house surrounded by agriculture fields, woodlots and pastures, and in the First United Methodist Church of the county seat town, in the midst of an extended family...