Obituary – Jacqueline Louise Cobb Brunson
Jacqueline L. Cobb Brunson was born on March 25, 1948, in Little Rock, Arkansas to Andrew and Eunice McKillion Cobb of Sweet Home, Arkansas. She was the third daughter of five beautiful girls born to this union. In 1964 she united in holy matrimony to Vastie Brunson, Jr., and to their union, three children were […]
2024 EarthKeepers
The Global Ministries EarthKeepers program trains and supports United Methodist laity and clergy to address local environmental concerns and the systemic structures that give rise to those concerns. It is a response to the call to practice social and environmental holiness in the Council of Bishops’ 2009 document, “God’s Renewed Creation: A Call to Hope […]
Obituary – Rev. Diane Miller
Patricia (Diane) Sturgeon Miller went to be with her Lord and Savior on October 31, 2024, at the age of 79. She was born on October 24, 1945, in San Antonio, Texas. She was the cherished oldest daughter of Gladys Gange Sturgeon and Maurice Sturgeon. Diane grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At the age […]
Obituary – Nell Barling
Nell Dean Bruner Barling joined her Heavenly family on Oct. 31 in Fort Smith, AR, 94 years after she was born on the same date in 1930 in Bay, AR. She was the daughter of Rev. William Glen Bruner and Edna Christine (Nichols) Bruner. Nell and her three younger brothers grew up in a sharecropper […]
Obituary – Bishop Bennie D. Warner
Please pray for the family of Bishop Bennie D. Warner who passed away on October 27. Bishop Bennie D. Warner was elected a UMC bishop in 1973 and served one term as the episcopal leader of the Liberia Annual Conference, as well as Vice-President of the country (elected 1977) until the military coup led by Samuel Doe overthrew […]
University of Arkansas Wesley College Ministry Celebrates Centennial
written by Kelli Reep In 1924, Central United Methodist Church in Fayetteville founded a student ministry at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. What began as loading up college students on buses and bringing them to worship quickly expanded into an on-campus ministry with a dedicated director and spaces for meetings, offices, a kitchen, and […]
Caring Friends: A Respite Ministry
As we age, our chance of a dementia diagnosis increases from 10% at 65 years old to 30% at 80 years old. If we are diagnosed with dementia, we and perhaps our spousal caregivers are likely in time to withdraw from our social networks and those networks from us. As explained by former United Methodist […]
Obituary – Rev. Dr. Richard Dean Leach
Our beloved husband and father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, Richard Dean Leach, age 90, of Hot Springs Village, left us peacefully and changed his address to a heavenly one on Monday, October 21, 2024. He was born June 17, 1934, in Phillip, South Dakota, to the late Dr. John V. Leach and Edna Blessing Leach. He […]
Eight generations at Hazel Edward UMC in Newark
Written by Rev. Jerome Jolly, pastor of Hazel Edwards Memorial UMC Hazel Edwards Memorial UMC was the first church built in the Newark Community after the town was moved from the Akron community to the White River. Two of my great-great grandparents (Dr. V. L. Pascoe and John Austin Sr.) helped build the first wooden church […]
Salem UMC in Benton Opens Community Diaper Pantry
written by Denise Willoughby and Rev. Corey Read Since February 2024, Salem UMC has distributed almost 23,000 diapers to 78 families in Saline County. The Salem Community Diaper Pantry is a ministry of Salem United Methodist Church in Benton and was started to help struggling families in their community by reducing their cost for diapers. […]