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 […]
Q&A with Bishop Laura Merrill
In November 2022, Bishop Laura Merrill was elected as a United Methodist Bishop and assigned to the Arkansas Annual Conference. She has recently moved to Arkansas and begun serving in her assignment, and she has plans to travel to meet as many clergy and laity as possible over the next few months. So that you […]
Obituary – Gloria Bessie Renfroe
Gloria Renfroe, 91, of Clinton was born on May 02, 1931 to the late Robert and Elizabeth (Jones) Ashbrook in Cave City, Arkansas and passed from this life on January 17, 2023 surrounded by her loving family. She served as a pastor’s wife for over fifty years and taught school for thirty of those years. […]
Welcome to the refreshed ARUMC.org website!
In July of 2018, I had the honor and privilege of announcing a radically redesigned and reconstructed Arkansas Conference of the United Methodist Church website. This website consolidated many Conference websites into one, made it secure and mobile-friendly, and provided far more information than it ever had before. However, in the four and a half […]
Experiencing the year in Jubilee
contributed by Rev. Dr. Michelle Morris, First UMC Bentonville The Year of Jubilee was a celebration that was meant to take place every fifty years in Ancient Israel in which the land laid fallow and was allowed to recover, and all past debts were canceled and people were returned to their ancestral land. It was […]