Hope vs. the toilet bowl effect
contributed by Karen Millar, General Conference 2019 Delegate Each time I’ve gone to General Conference, I have gone with a sense of anticipation and hope that much will be accomplished to honor God and to further His Kingdom throughout the world. I have left home feeling prepared after much reading and secure, knowing that prayer […]
The Reader’s Nook: October 2018
contributed by Roy Smith, Senior Pastor of Trinity UMC Each month, we ask a featured contributor to the Arkansas United Methodist to tell us what they’re reading, and why we should be reading it as well. This month’s contributor is the Rev. Roy Smith of Trinity United Methodist Church in Little Rock, Arkansas. Living Without […]
Methodist Family Health celebrates opening of new, state-of-the-art residential treatment center for youth
On Oct. 16 — only one year after breaking ground on its newest building — Methodist Family Health invited professionals and residents from around Arkansas to attend the dedication ceremony of its state-of-the-art psychiatric treatment center. The highly modernized residential treatment center is the newest building on Methodist Family Health’s United Methodist Children’s Home campus in […]
Arkansas UMC opposes domestic violence: How Methodists can take steps to prevent abuse in the church
contributed by Sara Bayles, Senior Pastor of Sylvan Hills UMC Until I became a pastor, I had no clue that October — a month full of autumn temperatures, changing leaves, and a month typically focused on gearing up for stewardship and Advent in the life of the church — is also Domestic Violence Awareness month. […]
Finding Hope After Tragedy
This past month has been a tough, confusing, and at times, chaotic month for many Americans across the East Coast of the United States. Hurricane Florence — a Category 1 storm that had been labeled by North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper as a “1,000-year rain event” — made landfall on Sept. 14 on North Carolina’s […]
Single legislative committee to allow for full delegate participation
St. Simons Island, Ga.: Meeting October 4-5, 2018 in St. Simons Island, Ga., the Commission on the General Conference adopted a plan for the legislative structure of the Special Session of the 2019 General Conference. The Commission on the General Conference has determined by a unanimous vote that there will be only one legislative committee—to […]
Center for Calling and Christian Leadership at Hendrix Hires Program Coordinator
CONWAY, Ark. (October 3, 2018) – Eva Englert-Jessen ’12 has begun work as the program coordinator for the Center for Calling and Christian Leadership at Hendrix College, part of the Miller Center for Vocation, Ethics, and Calling. This grant-funded position, made possible by the United Methodist Foundation of Arkansas (UMFA), will help the Center create […]
Judicial Council hearings to be accessible via livestream
The United Methodist Judicial Council will partner with United Methodist Communications to livestream oral hearings held during the Council’s fall meeting at the Placid Hotel in Zürich, Switzerland. All of the oral hearings will take place on October 23, beginning at 8:30 a.m. CEST (Central European Summer Time) – which is six hours ahead of […]
Noted Preaching Scholar, Author to Keynote ArkLaTex Lectures
DALLAS (SMU) – Dr. Frank A. Thomas, an internationally renowned author, scholar and preacher, will be the keynote speaker on Monday, Oct. 22 at the second annual ArkLaTex (Arkansas-Louisiana-Texas) Lectures in Preaching. Co-sponsored by the Perkins Center for Preaching Excellence at Southern Methodist University and Williams Memorial United Methodist Church in Texarkana, Texas, the event […]
Celebrate MARCHA Sunday on Oct. 14
Sisters and Brothers, I greet you in the name of Christ our Redeemer. MARCHA is the voice for the Hispanic/Latino community within the United Methodist Church (UMC) and the Methodist Church of Puerto Rico and it advocates for justice, equity, and peace. MARCHA plays an important role in the formation and development of the Hispanic/Latino […]