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This is a report from one of our lay delegates to the 2010 Annual Conference Session held in Sacramento June 16-19, 2010. This first part of the report is a photo-journal to give you an idea of what an Annual Conference Session is like. The second part gives the low-down on what happened with the legislative items from his perspective.
Our Annual Conference is where clergy and lay representatives from United Methodist churches from the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley to the Oregon border and all of Nevada except for the Las Vegas area gather together will be held in Sacramento from June 16th to 19th. Select the Annual Conference 2010 link to go to the home page for the 2010 session. It includes a preliminary schedule, reports and resolutions (including the budget), registration for the session and housing, and more. Nick Strobel and Sherry Atkins are our lay delegates to ACS 2010, so if you have any thoughts on the resolutions (links below) they'll be voting on, let them know by June 15!
Give any feedback to Nick Strobel and Sherry Atkins by June 15! See the ACS 2010 website for the various reports and welcome letters
Launched June 18th, this blog was created to help the laity of our district keep in better contact with each other. Hopefully, people will use it to exchange ideas and share stories of what they are doing in ministry to their communities. Go to Fresno District UMC Laity Blog.
To post AND VIEW events or stories, click the "Comment" link on any of the pages. A page will appear with a textbox for you to post your event or story. You will also be able to view what other people have posted and reply to them. You'll need to give a name and your email address to reply to someone's posting or to post a new topic. The email address will NOT be visible on the page though. When you are finished entering your event or story in the large textbox, click the "Say It!" button near the bottom of the window.
Powered by the Holy Spirit, 'Rethink Church' serves as a catalyst that moves the denomination, and those we hope to reach, into dialogue -- and ultimately, into transformative, collaborative action. What if church were a verb? What would it look like? Go to "RethinkChurch.org" for more about changes underway in the United Methodist Church.
In response to declining membership with increasing number of "decaying" churches (using Dan Dick's Vital Signs definition) and the need to fix a structure that worked well in the 1950s but not the 21st century, the California-Nevada Annual Conference will be changing the role and scope of the district superintendents. For more on this, go to the Change in Conference structure page.
Bishop Brown also wrote an article about these changes (select the link to view it).
Every four years representatives from the United Methodist churches in Alaska, California, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, Montana, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and Hawaii gather to plan programs for the next four years and elect bishops for the annual conferences in the western United States. Our former bishop, Beverly Shamana, retired at the end of Annual Conference 2008 so Warner Brown was appointed as our bishop at the Western Jurisdictional Conference 2008.
The WJC 2008 was held in Portland, Oregon from July 16 to 19, 2008. Select the Western Jurisdictional Conference 2008 link to go its homepage for more information.
"A Future with Hope" -- Fort Worth, Texas from April 23 to May 2, 2008
Every four years representatives from United Methodist churches all over the world gather to set direction for the entire denomination for the following four years. General Conference is the only body that officially speaks for the denomination.
The 2008 General Conference met in Fort Worth, Texas from April 23 to May 2, 2008. Select the title link above to go to the General Conference 2008 homepage.
To find out more about General Conferences in general, see the General Conference 101 site or see the materials in our website about the UMC organization from our link below.
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