The NC Conference Board of Trustees has voted that the chapel and large meeting room in the new NC Conference headquarters facility will be dedicated in honor of the late Rev. Dr. Sam Dixon. Rev. Dixon was an Elder member of the NC Conference working with the United Methodist [Read the rest of this entry »]

CareNet East invites you to attend “What Keeps You Awake at Night? Sane Living in a Stressed Out World,” An Interfaith Clergy Enrichment Conference, featuring Rev. Dr. Paul M. Mullen, PhD, LPC, on 16 February 2010, 9:00 A.M. to Noon.
St. James United Methodist Church
2000 East Sixth Street
Greenville, NC
What you can [Read the rest of this entry »]

Purpose of the event:
Provide training related to school based health centers to communities and interested school based partners as a part of the Train the Trainer Grant.
What are School Based/School Linked Health Centers?
School based/school linked health centers provide comprehensive preventative services to children ages 10-19 who are enrolled in public [Read the rest of this entry »]

The deadline for completing statistical Tables I, II and III has been extended to February 15, 2010. Due to heavy usage during peak operating hours, data entry on the on-line forms is being delayed. Various memory and bandwidth issues are being resolved currently but are not producing the expected results [Read the rest of this entry »]

How can the church minister to a broken world increasingly indifferent or even hostile to faith? Recognizing that new realities require new approaches the North Carolina Conference has embraced a new plan for organization of Connectional Ministries.
A January 19th Ministry Summit involving The Conference Connectional Table, Board of Ordained Ministry, [Read the rest of this entry »]

The next gathering of the Unity Dialogue will occur on Friday, Feb. 19, from 5-7p.m. Avent Ferry UMC in Raleigh is hosting the dialogue at the church on Avent Ferry Road.
The Unity Dialogue is an open table for discussion about homosexuality, a topic that affects millions who live as gay, [Read the rest of this entry »]

Due to the recent disaster in Haiti and the need for a coordinated response from the NC Conference, Steve Taylor will continue to work in disaster response until February 28. Previously the Director of Missions and Justice Ministry, Taylor was one of four whose positions were discontinued effective January [Read the rest of this entry »]

The Service of Death and Resurrection for Sam Dixon service on Friday, Jan. 22, will be video-streamed by Edenton Street UMC. It can be viewed at 10 a.m. on Friday at the following link: http://esumc.org/Worship/SundayService.aspx

The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), a part of the GBGM, is mobilizing resources and working with its partners to begin direct relief operations in Haiti. UMCOR has a four star rating from Charity Navigator and is one of the only organizations working in Haiti to have an A [Read the rest of this entry »]

(sent by the General Board of Global Ministries in New York – http://new.gbgm-umc.org)
By Elliott Wright
New York, NY, Jan. 17, 2010 – The Rev. Clinton Rabb, 61, a leader in The United Methodist Church’s extensive mission volunteer program, died on January 17 in a Florida hospital of injuries caused when he [Read the rest of this entry »]