Latest Updates
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Clergy Benefits Seminar Now Open!
The Clergy Benefits Seminar educates clergy about their conference and denominational benefits and prepares them for the retirement transition in their ministry. Visit the registration page to register by February 12. Continue Reading→
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Stewardship & Finance Webinar Recording from Discipleship Ministries
We start each new year with this webinar that is focused on the new member of the stewardship team, finance committee, or church council—those who are looking to get started strong right from the first week! In all things, connect your church’s money to mission and your people’s giving to their discipleship! We updated the… Continue Reading→
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Mission Opportunity in Liberia
Rev. Bill Haddock will be leading a mission team to Liberia May 1-13, 2023. The purpose of the trip is to enhance the partnership which the NC Annual Conference of the UMC has with Ganta Mission Station. Continue Reading→
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Help Our Armenian Neighbors
If you get the Project Agape newsletter, you know that the Armenian Christians of Artsakh continue to be persecuted. Azerbaijan forces (Azeri) invaded Artsakh, destroying everything that Project AGAPE had helped build: the distribution center, the school, and the hospital, and the homes. The country was divided in two, and our friends fled south. The Azeri… Continue Reading→
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2023 IRS Standard Mileage Rates
On December 29, 2022, the Internal Revenue Service issued the 2023 standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes. Beginning on Jan. 1, 2023, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car (also vans, pickups, or panel trucks) will be: These… Continue Reading→
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Lenten Devotions Begin Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday is Feb. 22. As you look forward to the Lenten season, the conference will offer a series of Lenten devotions celebrating the theme of Graceful Hospitality present in our congregations and at the communion table. 2023 marks the 70th anniversary of the formation of the Ten Dollar Club, also known as the New Room… Continue Reading→