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The tendency at General Conference is to get really focused on and caught up with the big things, the major issues, the things that the media will pay attention to. But there are a myriad of amazing things that are happening here at the General Conference, and I want to give a shout out for these . . . → Read More: Amazing Things that Have Been Done, Thanks be to God!  So, let me tell you in a nutshell how this General Conference thing works. Individuals, groups, and agencies from all parts of the United Methodist world have submitted petitions to the General Conference (which meets every 4 years). The breadth and span of these petitions is incredible. Some are petitions to change pieces of the Discipline . . . → Read More: Legislative Committees General Conference makes it clearly and sometimes painfully evident that we are a global church. Sometimes United Methodists don’t like to acknowledge this. We remain content and sheltered inside the walls of our church. Perhaps we are involved in the District, maybe even the Annual Conference. But a global church? That is hard to wrap our . . . → Read More: The Work of Translation There is a long standing tradition at Central that one of the United Methodist Women’s groups makes chocolate Easter Eggs to raise money for mission. This year we had a crazy idea: what if we bought some of these eggs and then delivered them to our neighbors around the church??? So we did just this. We . . . → Read More: Loving our neighbors with chocolate and peanut butter Greetings from Pulaski! We made it to Pulaski this morning for day 1 of our weekend mission trip to work on tornado recovery. 7 months after the tornado, they are still working hard to rebuild. In particular, there are 5 homes they are hoping to move families into before Thanksgiving. Many people are still in temporary shelters . . . → Read More: Pulaksi Mission It feels like we have been in Brazil for a LONG time…but in real time, we have only been away for two days! We spent a long time traveling, but God was extremely gracious to us from the beginning, getting us on an early flight to Charlotte, getting all of our luggage to . . . → Read More: Brazilian hospitality It has been a long and wonderful couple of days here in El Salvador. Sunday was our first full day here, and we spent the day touring around a couple of smaller towns, walking through the markets and drinking coffee. Many of the churches do not have services on Sunday morning, but . . . → Read More: Bendiciones Being in Central America feels like coming home. I had this overwhelming feeling as we rode in the small school bus from the airport in Guatemala City across the border into El Salvador. The smell, the sounds, the countryside and the city, even the feeling of the school bus seats, all of . . . → Read More: Coming Home I have been reading Adam Hamilton’s book “24 Hours that Changed the World” as an additional devotional reading for the past two days. About today, Holy Saturday, Hamilton says that it is a day of despair and hopelessness. I imagine that it was for the first followers of Jesus, for those disciples who looked at each . . . → Read More: Holy Saturday: A Day of Waiting There’s something deep inside of me that believes the world should stand still on Good Friday. So, it’s always puzzling to me why things still go on as usual. My Friday class will still happen at the gym, people will still go out and about their business. Most of the world will make no distinction that . . . → Read More: Good Friday: A Day the World Stands Still |
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