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Advisory: News on bishops' elections available in several ways

Jul. 14, 2008    News media contact:   Tim  Tanton * (615) 7425470*   Nashville {Advisory}

>By United Methodist News Service

News about The United Methodist Church's election of bishops this week  will be available in a variety of formats, including e-mail and  text-messaging bulletins as well as RSS feeds.

United Methodists are electing nine bishops during regional meetings-or  jurisdictional conferences-in the United States this week. United  Methodist Communications, through United Methodist News Service and the  Web Ministry Team, will work with church communicators in each of the  five jurisdictions to provide coverage.

>Resources include:

A dedicated Web page at www.umc.org/elections2008, providing  ballot-by-ballot election updates, news stories and biographical  information about episcopal candidates. UMNS will post a story on each  bishop elected, as well as wrap-up stories on where bishops in each  jurisdiction are appointed to serve for 2009-12. In addition, the News  Service will report on any other news emerging from the conferences.

A text-messaging service, available by free subscription, announcing the  election of each new bishop. To subscribe, send a text message from your  mobile phone to 47647 with the word BISHOP in the body. When you receive  a message asking for verification, reply with the word YES to confirm.  To unsubscribe, send another text message to 47647 with the word STOP in  the body.

An e-mail alert service announcing the election of each new bishop. This  will automatically be provided to subscribers of UMNS' daily news  stories. For a temporary subscription to receive the jurisdictional  updates, go to  www.umc.org/bishopupdates.

Recorded updates of each ballot as well as election results from  InfoServ, the denomination's official information service. Call (800)  251-8140.

An RSS feed, providing UMNS coverage of the jurisdictional conferences.  This is also available at www.umc.org/bishopupdates.

The jurisdictional conferences meet simultaneously July 16-19 in their  respective regions, except for the Northeastern Jurisdiction, which is  meeting July 13-18. The locations are: North Central, Grand Rapids,  Mich.; Northeastern, Harrisburg, Pa.; Southeastern, Lake Junaluska,  N.C.; South Central, Dallas; and Western, Portland, Ore.

Questions regarding coverage of the jurisdictional conferences may be  directed to Tim Tanton, Kathy Noble or Fran Walsh at newsdesk@umcom.org  or (615) 742-5470.

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