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		<title>Key Taylor Award Nominations Due</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 18:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rural church nominations for consideration of the Key Taylor Award are needed by June 3. Congregations can nominate themselves. For 2012, an amount of $1200 will be awarded. The award, sponsored through the United Methodist Foundation, is to call attention to the mission work of all rural churches by honoring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2012 GC Wrap Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 11:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[United Methodists from five continents addressed a wide range of challenging issues, including church structure and human sexuality, and engaged in an Act of Repentance toward indigenous people during their 10-day legislative gathering.   Meeting in the Tampa Convention Center, steps away from the waters of Tampa Bay, the 988 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judicial Council Voids Plan UMC</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 20:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A compromise restructure plan for The United Methodist Church, adopted earlier this week by the 2012 General Conference, was declared “unconstitutional” May 4. That unanimous ruling came from the nine-member United Methodist Judicial Council, which had been asked by General Conference to make a declaratory decision on the constitutionality of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Becoming Disciples Who Make Disciples: Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 17:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Leek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[District Transition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of the clergy in the NC Conference are already engaged in the model of discipleship that District Superintendents will be leading as the Conference moves forward in the new paradigm. This video tells some of Chad’s huddle story. <a href="becoming-disciples-who-make-disciples-part-1/">Read more &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bishop Encourages Delegates During Final Worship</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 12:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Conference 2012]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The new president of The United Methodist Church’s Council of Bishops gave a nod to the challenges and difficulties of the 2012 General Conference during the closing worship service late May 4 at the Tampa Convention Center.   “Many of us, sisters and brothers, leave hurt,” said Bishop Rosemarie Wenner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GC2012 Shrinks Agency Boards</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 12:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2012 United Methodist General Conference spent the last hours of its last day May 4 scrambling to downsize agency boards, after the denomination’s top court ruled the “Plan UMC” restructuring legislation unconstitutional. After months of denomination-wide talk about agency reconfiguration, delegates tried to salvage some part of the movement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plan UMC Gets Tentative Approval</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 19:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Conference 2012]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By a vote of 567 to 384, the 2012 United Methodist General Conference gave tentative approval to a slightly amended version of “Plan UMC” to reconfigure general agencies and downsize their boards. It will be up to the lawmaking assembly to give final approval after the General Council on Finance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>General Conference Approves United Methodist Women Autonomy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 11:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Conference 2012]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By a vote of 889 to 20, General Conference made United Methodist Women an autonomous organization within the United Methodist Church May 1 during its quadrennial meeting Tampa, Fla. The historic vote separates the national policymaking body of women organized for mission within the denomination from the church’s mission agency [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delegates Make Commitments to Global Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 11:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Conference 2012]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As with a number of other items that were resolved without much notice in the morning plenary May 1, delegates to the 2012 General Conference approved two pieces of legislation that further the global ministry of The United Methodist Church. The Pacific Islander Ministry Plan was approved on the morning’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Guaranteed Appointments</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 15:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Conference 2012]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many delegates were surprised and even shocked by how quickly a far-reaching proposal that takes away the security of guaranteed appointments for ordained elders breezed by The United Methodist 2012 General Conference. The item was approved as part of a large numbers of proposals in the assembly’s April 30 consent [...]]]></description>
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