Latest Updates
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Campus Ministry Stories of Serving Joyfully
From mission trips to Mexico and Costa Rica to food pantries and Appalachian home repair, college students across two campuses are discovering the value of serving joyfully. These stories from Wingspan ILM Campus Ministry and Methodist University highlight what happens when students choose service — and find themselves changed in the process. Wingspan ILM Rev.… Continue Reading→
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Douglas Ward Takes on New Leadership Role with UMC General Agency
Over the last 23 years, Douglas Ward has faithfully led our Information Technology and Management Information Systems ministries, where he has worked to maintain and innovate our data systems, expanding our ability to collect and measure data, such as our Statistical Tables and Charge Conference reports, and enabling Conference leaders to make more informed decisions… Continue Reading→
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New Anti-Racism Study for Small Groups
Bridge the gap between learning about injustice and taking action. Many of us in the North Carolina Conference are familiar with the powerful book, Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization by Elaine Enns and Ched Myers. The process in this book invites settler Christians into a discipleship of decolonization. How are our histories,… Continue Reading→
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Upcoming Grant, Scholarship & Loan Opportunities
The NC Conference recommends the following grants, scholarships, and loans available to United Methodist churches and ministry leaders in the North Carolina Conference. These programs are funded by the Conference or our partner organizations. The funding opportunities listed here have application deadlines in the near future. Additional funding opportunities will be available later this year.… Continue Reading→
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Invite Nara Melkonyan from Project AGAPE to Your Church
Project AGAPE has been an important ministry between the Armenian people and the two United Methodist Conferences in North Carolina for about 30 years. Nara Melkonyan and her family have been the face of Project AGAPE in Nagorno-Karabakh and Vayk for most of that time. She and her staff have received and distributed aid from our state… Continue Reading→
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Rev. Dennis W. “Bud” Cameron Christian Service Award
We are pleased to share that the nomination window for the annual service award honoring Bud Cameron is now open. Rev. Bud Cameron, a retired pastor from the Western NC Conference, began serving in the North Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church in 2019. He served as pastor of Corinth UMC in Four Oaks… Continue Reading→