Vilonia UMC Youth Host Valentine’s Celebration
Each year the Vilonia UMC youth host Valentine’s dinner to raise funds for their mission trips and conference youth events. Students are not asked to pay to attend these trips. Instead, the students hold a few churchwide fundraisers each year, and this is one of them. This is the first time in three years that […]
Sheridan First UMC Kids Collect Quarters
At Sheridan First United Methodist Church, kids collect quarters every Sunday morning during the Children’s Moments during worship. The quarters are placed into a tube that when full holds $100. This offering goes to various missions that impact food insecurity. In 2022, the children bought chickens and goats through Heifer Project and helped to fund […]
An open invitation from the Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference
RE: 2023 OIMC Immersion Experience, Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference We are looking forward to hosting our Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference (OIMC) Immersion, March 8-12, 2023. The experience provides history, context, and unique perspectives on Native peoples in The Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference and our involvement with The United Methodist Church. In addition, our Native communities proudly share our […]
First Black President Elected for the Arkansas Conference United Women in Faith
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., January 17, 2023 – Maybelline Strong, of Little Rock, was recently elected to serve as the first Black president of the United Women in Faith for the Arkansas Conference of the United Methodist Church. Strong has previously served as the communications secretary for her local United Women in Faith unit, the Committee on Nominations […]
Organizations Can Give Back During the Lenten Season During the 14th Annual Get Up & Give Collection Drive
LITTLE ROCK, AR (Feb. 7, 2023) – Methodist Family Health Foundation has a way for Arkansans to honor the Lenten season by contributing to our state’s children and families who are abandoned, abused, neglected and managing psychiatric, emotional, behavioral and spiritual issues. The 14th Annual Get Up & Give collection project asks Arkansans to contribute necessities […]
Obituary – Rev. Larry Hunt
Please pray for the family of Rev. Larry Hunt, a licensed local pastor serving in Arkansas from 1988 until retirement in 2014. Rev. Hunt died on February 3, 2023, in McLeansboro, Illinois. Rev. Hunt previously served at Pleasant Grove – Jonesboro and Eudora Scott Memorial. He was never married but had a family of hundreds, which […]
Staffing Update for the Northwest District
Friends, Our good friend, Karen Anderson, has submitted her resignation letter to the Northwest District Office, effective February 16, 2023, to take on a new full-time position in the NWA area. Karen joined the Northwest District staff in August 2020 as DCOM Registrar and Director of Lay Servant Ministries. Karen’s love for equipping disciples made […]
Announcement of In-Person Annual Conference Session – Saturday, May 13, 2023
Bishop Laura Merrill, with concurrence of the District Superintendents and in accordance with ¶603.5 of The Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church, has called a Special In-Person Session of the Arkansas Annual Conference to be held in Horner Hall at the Hot Springs Convention Center on Saturday, May 13, 2023 from 10:00 am […]
Recap of Respite 2023
Written by Amy Shores On the weekend of January 13-15, young adults from around the state gathered for the inaugural “Respite” weekend. Held at Mount Eagle Conference Center and sponsored by the Mount Eagle Program Committee, with support from the ARUMC Culture of Calling office, the vision for this weekend was to be a time […]
The Carpenter’s Workshop
Written by Keri Cousins, Youth Director Last summer, our youth director and volunteers at Goddard United Methodist Church began assessing what could be taught in the six-year youth program to help the youth succeed as they become young adults. They concluded that the students could use more education in basic life skills. Thus, a new program […]