Latest Updates
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Catholic Charities of Diocese of Raleigh Awards Disaster Ministries a Grant for Recovery and Rebuilding Efforts
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Raleigh has awarded NC Conference Disaster Ministries a grant to support recovery and rebuilding efforts on Ocracoke Island. We are grateful for the generosity of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Raleigh and their support of rebuilding homes, communities, and lives in eastern North Carolina. Continue Reading→
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Important Volunteer Announcement
NOTICE CONCERNING VOLUNTEERS: Effective immediately, all Disaster Ministries centers are not accepting volunteers, due to rising COVID-19 case numbers. This will be in effect the rest of this year and into January 2021. Please watch this website and the Disaster Ministries Facebook page for updates. Thank you. Continue Reading→
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Voices – Episode 9: Advent w/ Molly White
This season for Advent, the Board of Church and Society of the North Carolina Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church has prepared recorded Advent evening prayers for each day. Each evening prayer will be led by clergy or laity in our Conference and focuses on the theme of Shalom. By participating each evening in these… Continue Reading→
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Dr. Ashley Boggan Dreff Named General Secretary of GCAH
Dr. Ashley Boggan Dreff, cradle United Methodist, professor and author of Entangled: A History of American Methodism, Politics, and Sexuality and #Nevertheless: American Methodists and Women’s Rights, has been elected as General Secretary of the General Commission on Archives and History (GCAH). Her nomination from the search committee was voted and approved at a special… Continue Reading→
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An Encouragement for November
Just in time for All Saints Day, I led the funeral of an everyday saint. A “Renaissance woman” and natural athlete, Donna White, who was born blind, roller-skated, played tennis, rode a bicycle, and played softball using an oar for a bat. (Her family yelled, “Swing!”) She played the flute and piano, put together jigsaw… Continue Reading→