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European Central Conferences Plan for a New Future
The three European Central Conferences of The United Methodist Church covering 32 countries and 10 time-zones are making plans for the future.It may include separation, re-organization and the re-drawing of the United Methodist map of Europe. As the church at its upcoming General Conference in late summer of 2022 will consider plans that open the door for central conferences, annual conferences and local churches to leave the denomination to form or to unite with a new Methodist denomination, the four bishops Eduard…
What is the use of open doors if there are no eyes and hearts to perceive them?
Among the 23 local churches of the UMC in Czechia, there is also a Russian-speaking church. What does it mean for its pastor to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world? His great-grandfather was persecuted for his faith in God, accused of being an enemy of the people, sentenced to death on Stalin’s orders and executed by firing squad in 1937. His grandfather, also a Christian and evangelist, was killed in the Second World War. His…
DIFFERENT FORM OF CHURCH IN POLAND
There are not many United Methodist church buildings that are older than 600 years. But in Glaznoty, in the northern part of Poland, there is one. And it is not only a historical building but a place where new expressions of church can be experienced. The church of Glaznoty had been built in the 14th century with fieldstones. Until 1945, this building was used by the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union, which lost its legal existence in Poland…
DID YOU HEAR?
by: Haley Henson Oct 2 2017 About Creation? About God? About Sin? About Jesus Christ? About spreading the gospel? These were the questions that, together, created our theme for Roma camp this year. With the grace of God, the willing hearts of volunteers and partnering with our American brothers and sisters in Christ, we were able to create a fun, Jesus centered camp for the children in Perechyn, and Seredne, Ukraine (two villages near Uzhgorod, Ukraine). The first two weeks…