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  • From Your Heart to Theirs: Delivering an Effective Sermon

    The Fairway district LSM team is pleased to present this preaching course, open to all UMC laity. This course will expand upon basic public speaking and the foundations necessary for preparing an engaging sermon. Included are various types of sermons – from exegetical to topical to children’s sermons – as well as how to find…

  • The Conference Health Ministry Team is extending the application deadline for Local Church Health Ministry Grants to October 31. These grants support local churches in forming Health Ministry teams or launching new projects to address the social determinants of health in their communities. Apply today to support health and wholeness in your community! Apply Now→

  • In June, we celebrated the newest certified lay ministers at Annual Conference—faithful leaders now serving across our conference as lay pastors, children’s ministers, outreach coordinators, and more. Maybe you were there as these laity publicly proclaimed their commitment to live out the gospel in the ministries where they are assigned.

  • A House Divided: Practicing the Politics of Compassion in an Age of Outrage

    How do we do politics as people of faith? What core commitments might inform how we grapple with the most contentious issues of our day—like climate change, immigration, racism, gun violence, health care? How do we transcend the politics of outrage that dominates our society and turns neighbors, even family members, into enemies? Despite our…

  • The Practical Wesleyan Quadrilateral

    In this webinar with Ashley and Chris, we’ll examine a new Wesleyan Quadrilateral, the “practical quad.” We’ll review how Wesley implemented these four steps (or “method”) to grow the movement across England and how it led to extreme growth in the United States. This will include practical applications for growing churches today!

  • We Aren’t Broke

    We Aren’t Broke

    In a season of major change in the church when the familiar ways of funding and doing ministry are declining – we aren’t broke. There are many resources in the church that we can put to work in new ways to serve and engage our neighborhoods and generate new forms of revenue for ministry. Rev.…