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Saint Andrew’s UMC Doesn’t Sleep With the Fishes
Written: 8/20/2008
Christ continues to use the passion of fishermen and fisher-women to spread the Gospel. In response to the challenges expressed through Igniting Ministries, the congregation of  Saint Andrew’s UMC in Sylacauga is living our promise of open hearts, open minds and open doors by taking the ...

Aldersgate UMC- Huntsville celebrates another summer of mission by new generation of Christians
Written: 8/19/2008
Aldersgate UMC ‘s Youth Director Darin Easter says, “For the first time in 14 years of Youth Ministry, I tallied up our Youth Ministry’s service hours over the past summer.  Based on the number of Youth involved and the time that we spent actually working/ ministering to other...

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Chulafinnee UMC Holds first VBS in Thirty Years!
Written: 8/18/2008
One of the North Alabama Conference priorities is empowering a new generation of Christians. This summer, a small membership church worked toward that priority and celebrated God's blessings through this ministry. This summer, members of Chulafinnee UMC, a small community church in the Cheaha Distr...

Conflict and Relief, UMCOR in Georgia
Written: 8/13/2008
NEW YORK, August 12, 2008--The United Methodist Committee on Relief in Georgia is serving as the lead coordinating agency for medicines and medical supplies being provided through US Government-sponsored emergency airlifts to the conflict zone. This South Caucasus nation has been engaged in conflict...

Ninth Street UMC celebrates 100th anniversary
Written: 8/12/2008
The sanctuary at Ninth Street United Methodist Church in Decatur has always been filled with God’s holy presence, but on a Sunday morning last month, nostalgia abounded, as well. The church celebrated its 100th anniversary with a special service on July 13, 2008, combining both the contemporar...

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UM Mission Agency launches new China Program website
Written: 8/7/2008
New York, NY, August 6, 2008--On the eve of the Beijing Olympic Games, the mission agency of The United Methodist Church launched a new website on the work of the denomination in China. "Churches in China are among the fastest growing in the world today," the introduction to the site stat...

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Four North Alabama Conference clergy selected for the first rotation of Young Pastors’ Network
Written: 8/6/2008
Four North Alabama Conference clergy have been selected for the first rotation of the Young Pastors’ Network with Adam Hamilton of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection and Mike Slaughter of Ginghamsburg Church.  Those clergy are Mary Bendall, associate pastor of Tuscaloosa Firs...

Bishop Willimon to Speak in Cambridge
Written: 7/30/2008
During the first week of August, Bishop and Mrs. Willimon will be in Cambridge, England, where he is speaking at the C. S. Lewis Conference at Kings College in Cambridge.  The C. S. Lewis Conference explores the significance of C. S. Lewis and his work for the contemporary practice of the Chris...

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Emanuel Christian Church UMC celebrates dedication service
Written: 7/28/2008
One of North Alabama's new communities of faith, Emanuel Church, held its dedication service on July 12, 2008, to celebrate its move to the former Sheffield Highland UMC building.  "The leadership of the Northwest District Superintendent Mike Stonbraker has permitted us to use this w...

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Jasper First UMC Youth lead VBS in Belize
Written: 7/23/2008
Reprinted with permission from the Daily Mountain Eagle Youth from First United Methodist Church return from Belize by Jennifer Williams Eagle Reporter Sunday, Jul 20, 2008 While a host of local churches were involved in their own vacation Bible schools last month, a group of teens from Jasper...

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Weekly Benchmark Report system now in final test phase
Written: 7/22/2008
At Annual Conference 2008, local churches were told about the upcoming launch of the Weekly Benchmark Statistics Report.  This online report will be the way congregations report weekly figures for worship attendance, membership, professions of faith, and baptisms.  This ministry informatio...

Bishop Willimon to return to North Alabama for another four years
Written: 7/18/2008
On the final evening of the 2008 Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference, it was confirmed that Bishop William H. Willimon will continue as the Episcopal leader of the North Alabama Conference for another four years.  This announcement was made when the SEJ Committee on the Episcopacy reported ...

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McDonnell Chapel UMC celebrates blessing of multicultural VBS
Written: 7/16/2008
McDonnell Chapel UMC serves the urban southwest Huntsville area.  The congregation acknowledges that “Southwest Huntsville, like many areas in our Conference, is home to a beautiful, though somewhat fragmented, multi-cultural community.  God is faithfully answering prayer and enablin...

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Hartselle First UMC hosts international delegation
Written: 7/9/2008
In May, an interfaith delegation from Africa who were guests of the U.S. Department of State visited Hartselle First United Methodist Church to learn about Hartselle’s spiritual community and about the church and its pre-school ministries.  Rev. Robert Sparkman, senior pastor of Hartselle...

Eleven Women Receive Seminary Scholarships
Written: 7/8/2008
The 11 scholars awarded the 2008-09 Georgia Harkness Scholarships will visit Honduras in December as part of a continued program of global women's leadership development begun last year.  This year's group of scholars includes Melissa Self Patrick a member of the North Alabama Confere...

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Bill Hamer Coaches Bishop and Staff to Greater Effectiveness
Written: 7/7/2008
Bill Hamer, active member of St. Mark UMC, Birmingham retired just over a year ago as Senior Vice President at Protective Life Corporation.   Then God (and Bishop Willimon) called Hamer into a new form of ministry – coach and supervisor at the United Methodist Center. “I had a...

UMCOR Sager Brown in Urgent Need of Flood Buckets
Written: 6/28/2008
By Melissa Hinnen* BALDWIN, LA., June 26, 2008—UMCOR Sager Brown Depot has nearly depleted its supply of flood buckets after shipping thousands of buckets in response to recent floods. This low inventory is a serious concern especially when the Atlantic hurricane season is just beginning. De...

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Grace United Methodist Church Breaks Ground
Written: 6/27/2008
Grace United Methodist Church of the Northeast District broke ground on a new facility on Sunday, June 1, 2008. Superintendent Tom Bell joined Pastor Steve West for morning worship and groundbreaking ceremonies. The new building will be a 24,000 square foot Family Life Center with gym, walking track...

Committee on Episcopacy to request Bishop Willimon be reassigned to the Birmingham Area during 2008 Jurisdictional Conference
Written: 6/26/2008
The 2008 Southeastern (SEJ) Jurisdictional Conference will be July 16-19, 2008, at Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center in Western North Carolina.  During the SEJ Conference delegates from the 15 Annual Conferences within the southeast will gather under the theme “Living the Unite...

Birmingham-Southern student chosen to attend poverty seminar at General Board of Global Ministries
Written: 6/25/2008
Birmingham-Southern College student Haley Mills, a Spanish major from Fayette, has been selected as one of 15 young adults from across the U.S. to attend the 2008 Living Justice seminar of the General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church in New York, N.Y. Mills, who will be a j...