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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: 8/18/2008 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
Ninth Street UMC celebrates 100th anniversary
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...
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: 7/28/2008 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...
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...
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: 7/16/2008 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...
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: 7/7/2008 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: 6/27/2008 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
Birmingham-Southern student chosen to attend poverty seminar at General Board of Global Ministries
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