by umcjnews | Dec 1, 2025 | Blog
By Rev. Mel Caraway United Methodists were well represented at COP30, both in person and virtually. Rev. Dr. Becca Edwards, Climate Fellow at the General Board of Church and Society and Texas Impact was on the ground in Belém, Brazil during the first week of this... 
by umcjnews | Oct 31, 2025 | Blog
By Kenneth Lynn Jobe The word enthusiasm originates from the Greek word entheos, meaning “filled with a god within,” referring initially to divine inspiration and later to passionate zeal. I am building a bridge. It is a suspension bridge across a clear water creek on... 
by umcjnews | Oct 28, 2025 | Blog
By E. Kevin Conley Our EcoTeam held four Caring for Creation Series. Each series had about six sessions held after the Sunday morning service. In each session we would view a TED Talk with a sustainability topic (about 15 minutes) and then discuss it for the remainder... 
by umcjnews | Oct 28, 2025 | Blog
By Karlah Y. Burton I made the earth, and created humankind upon it;it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.—Isaiah 45:12 (NRSV) On Thursday, October 16, 2025, I and other supporters of Clean Energy Now of Guilford... 
by umcjnews | Oct 28, 2025 | Blog
By Jane Sharer Maier The Grove’s sustainability team has been a fixture of The Grove church in Woodbury, Minnesota for over eight years. During that time, we have taken measures to make the Woodbury campus and our sister campus in Cottage Grove more sustainable by...