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UMNS Daily Digest - April 19, 2012 (Pan-Methodist, Council of Bishops, guaranteed appointment, Minis
From "United Methodist News Service" <newsdesk@umcom.org>Date Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:03:52 -0700
To ensure consistent delivery, please add [1]newsdesk@umcom.org to your >contact and/or safe senders list. >View Online | Add to Address Book | Subscribe UMNS Daily Digest - Produced by United Methodist News Service >Thursday, April 19, 2012 >[2]Pan-Methodist vote set for GC2012 >[3]Bishops urged to bring peace to GC2012 >[4]aWhat ifa no guaranteed appointments? >[5]Clergy proposals fall short >[6]U.S. food aid policies must change >[7]UMC.org covers General Conference >[8] >General Conference 2012A> >[9] >General Conference appA> >[10] >General Conference BlogsA> >[11] >Change the World 2012A> >[12] >Social Networks and FeedsA> >[13] >Read Additional UMNS StoriesA> >[14]Find us on Facebook >[15]Twitter >[16]Contact Us >(615) 742-5470 aI think the relationship among the Pan-Methodist churches exists primarily to repair the breach that opened up over two centuries ago. If full communion can represent a repair of that breach, all the better.a a The Rev. Stephen J. Sidorak Jr., top executive, United Methodist Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns. >Pan-Methodist vote set for GC2012 TAMPA, Fla. (UMNS) a Delegates to the 2012 United Methodist General Conference will be asked to affirm a new relationship with the African Methodist Episcopal, African Methodist Episcopal Zion, African Union Methodist Protestant, Christian Methodist Episcopal and Union American Methodist Episcopal denominations. A celebration of Pan-Methodist full communion will be at 4:30 p.m. May 1, a day also set aside for recognition of United Methodist ecumenical partners. >[17]Read full story and post a commentA> >Bishops urged to bring peace to GC2012 TAMPA, Fla. (UMNS) a United Methodist bishops on April 18 heard a challenge to embody the peace of Christ to the 2012 General Conference, to an anxious denomination and to the greater world. Charlotte (N.C.) Area Bishop Larry M. Goodpaster delivered that call during his final address to the Council of Bishops as that bodyas president. He said more anxiety precedes this General Conference than any in recent >history. >[18]Read full story and post a commentA> >aWhat ifa no guaranteed appointments? EAGLE CREEK, Ore. (UMNS) a For too long, cabinets have had to struggle to place each clergyperson in a congregation. All that could change if the General Conference scraps the guaranteed appointment system, writes the Rev. Laura Jaquith Bartlett, a pastor in the Oregon-Idaho Annual (regional) conference. aWhat if we had a system in place to care for >clergy who were no longer appointed?a [19]Read full commentary and post a commentA> >Clergy proposals fall short WINCHESTER, Va. (UMNS) a The Rev. Daniel Garrett, interim co-lead pastor at Braddock Street United Methodist Church in Winchester, Va., isnat finding General Conference proposals about clergy particularly clarifying. aWithout a coherent understanding of ordination, the proposal coming to the 2012 General Conference wants us to ordain people at the entrance to a provisional process where, if they fail to meet the requirements for full conference membership, they face the prospect of something like being aunordained.aa >[20]Read commentary and post a commentA> >U.S. food aid policies must change WASHINGTON (UMNS) a United Methodists and other members of the Interfaith Working Group on Global Hunger and Food Security have sent letters to congressional leaders, asking them to fundamentally change U.S. food aid policies to lower costs, deliver disaster aid faster and better help hungry people break out of poverty and aid dependence. aFood shipped from the United States takes longer to arrive than food purchased regionally,a reads part of the letter. aFor people facing a famine or other crisis, additional waiting time for a food delivery can >be a matter of life or death.a >[21]Read moreA> >UMC.org covers General Conference From April 23 until May 8, the United Methodist denominational website, [22]www.umc.org, will switch to full coverage of the 2012 General Conference. 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