UMNS Daily Digest - May 7, 2012 (General Conference, Judicial Council, blogs, Twitter, Alan Morrison
From "United Methodist News Service" <newsdesk@umcom.org>Date Mon, 07 May 2012 15:29:30 -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 >Monday, May 7, 2012 >[2]GC2012: Itas a wrap >[3]Home alone >[4]Boy Scout to GC2012: Be prepared >[5]Bishop emphasizes making disciples >[6]Go west, United Methodists >[7]Stomping out malaria >[8]General Conference 2012A> >[9]General Conference appA> >[10]General Conference BlogsA> >[11]Digital LoungeA> >[12]Change the World 2012A> >[13]Imagine No MalariaA> >[14]Read Additional UMNS StoriesA> >[15]Find us on Facebook >[16]Twitter >[17]Contact Us >(615) 742-5470 aWe need time to consider what just happened.a a Bishop Jeremiah L. >Park, New York Area. >GC2012: Itas a wrap TAMPA, Fla. (UMNS) a From the opening worship service on April 24 to the final amen on May 4, The United Methodist Churchas top legislative body ended aguaranteed appointmentsa for clergy, said no to adding another bishop, and voted to stay the course on the churchas highly contested stand on homosexuality. The nearly 1,000 delegates from more than 60 countries were stunned when the Judicial Council voided a plan >to reorganize the denominationas bureaucracy. >[18]Read full story and post a commentA> >Home alone TAMPA, Fla. (UMNS) a One blogger writes of apostpartum depression.a A tweeter admits to having PTSD. Even after they went home, clergy and lay people were using the social media network provided by United Methodist News Service and Methoblog.com to voice their kudos and their >disappointments. >[19]Join the conversationA> >Boy Scout to GC2012: Be prepared TAMPA, Fla. (UMNS) a Overseeing the logistics of General Conference can be intimidating, but the Rev. Alan Morrison credits his Boy Scout training, going back to when he planned a patrol camping trip at the age of 11. The Boy Scout went on to become an Eagle Scout a and later >the General Conference business manager. >[20]Read his storyA> >Bishop emphasizes making disciples TAMPA, Fla. (UMNS) a Bishop Rosemarie Wenner, president of the Council of Bishops, said one of the biggest accomplishments of General Conference 2012 was learning better how to reach out and make disciples. aLetas do what we are called to do, right there in local churches,a said Wenner in a news conference May 4. >[21]Listen to the news conferenceA> >Go west, United Methodists TAMPA, Fla. (UMNS) a General Conference 2016 will be held in Portland, Ore., where delegates can expect temperatures to be 10 to 20 degrees cooler from Tampa. The site of the General Conference, held every four years, has traditionally rotated among the churchas five geographic U.S. jurisdictions. The last General Conference in the Western >Jurisdiction was in Denver in 1996. >Stomping out malaria BATON ROUGE, La. (UMNS) a More than 2,000 people from eight cities hit the pavement on April 21 to raise money for mosquito nets in malaria-ravaged countries. The Louisiana Skeeter Run was sponsored by the Louisiana Annual (regional) Conference as part of The United Methodist Churchas Imagine No Malaria campaign. How serious is the malaria epidemic? Every 60 seconds, someone dies from malaria. >[22]See the storyA> Did someone you know pass along this copy to you? Get your own copy >[23]here. United Methodist News Service is a ministry of United Methodist >Communications. 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