EATING TOGETHER: A Learning Retreat, September 15-16, 2017at Camp Chestnut Ridge in Efland, NC All are welcome! Life Around the Table (Corridor District) invites you to join us for a weekend retreat to celebrate the mystery and miracles that happen when we gather around the table. At the retreat you will get a taste of the new curriculum… Continue Reading→
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NC Conference Receives Grant for Hurricane Response
The North Carolina Conference Disaster Response Ministry is one of six non-profits to receive a grant from the North Carolina Disaster Relief Fund for Hurricane Matthew recovery efforts. The $225,000 grant was announced by Governor Roy Cooper at a NC Conference home rebuilding site in Lumberton on June 28. Hurricane Matthew flooded tens of thousands… Continue Reading→
2017 Seed Funds Available NOW!
The NC Conference Mission Team has some remaining Seed Funds for 2017. If your congregation has come up with a new ministry dream that will engage your members with your community, we’d like to help you make that dream come true! 2017 Seed Fund applications will be accepted until July 31, 2017. Applications will be… Continue Reading→
Get Packing for Christmas!
It may be the middle of July, but Christmas will be here shortly—particularly as the Missions Team makes plans to work with Agape Christmas boxes for children in Armenia this year. We need to have all of the boxes at MERCI in Goldsboro by October 1 in order to ship them in a timely manner… Continue Reading→
Let There Be Light!
Thanks be to God, Dr. Martin Thormodsen and the Norwegians Archer Hatfield Memorial Hospital, known to us as Rotifunk Hospital now has 24 hour electricity! Electricity provided by a new 40KW solar power system. Now we have lights all night long to perform surgery, clean and repair wound and broken bones, and deliver babies. Before… Continue Reading→
Asbury UMC Key Taylor Recipient
A choir member was overheard in the hallway saying, “Is there something special going on today that I don’t know about?” Rev. Jim Reed is proud of the Asbury UMC congregation in Washington, NC. Unbeknowst to them, he submitted an application for the Key Taylor Rural Church Award. Rev. Jim wrote, “When asked what we… Continue Reading→
Renfro Trust Funds Available
The Renfro Trust Fund awards annual bricks-and-mortar grants to small rural United Methodist congregations in the Southeastern Jurisdiction. Renfro Trust Funds are available for award with a firm deadline for application of September 1 of the year in which the application is made. Please note: Applications will only be accepted when submitted by the Conference… Continue Reading→
Meet A Missionary!
Quynh Nguyen, a General Board of Global Ministries missionary in Vietnam, will be visiting North Carolina from October 21, to November 4, 2017. Ms Nguyen will be available to visit Church groups of any size to share her work in Vietnam. To schedule Quynh at your Church, contact the Reverend Bill Haddock at revbillh@nccumc.org or… Continue Reading→
It’s Not Just a Rug
The main room of the trailer was dark and dusty with old towels covering dirty windows. The darker kitchen had broken drawer fronts and needed a real scouring. There were two fair-sized bedrooms and two very small bathrooms, yet quite a few storage closets. There were appliances that the mom was pleased to have: a stove,… Continue Reading→
Giving Together Hurricane Matthew Relief Fund of Cumberland Community Foundation, Inc. Awards Six More Grants to NC Conference Disaster Response
The Giving Together Hurricane Matthew Relief Fund of Cumberland Community Foundation, Inc. awarded the North Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church (NC Conference) six more grants of $10,000 to support Hurricane Matthew recovery work in Cumberland County. This brings their generous support total to $90,000. The first grant of $10,000 was awarded in January,… Continue Reading→
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