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Conference Center and Instant Connection Thanksgiving Holiday Schedule
Written: 11/19/2009
Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, an abbreviated version of the Instant Connection email will be sent to churches, clergy, and other subscribers on Wednesday afternoon, November 25.
The United Methodist Center offices in West Sacramento will be closed on Thursday and Friday (Nov. 26-27).
To...
Thanksgiving Ministries - Tell Us What's Happening at Your Church
Written: 11/17/2009
Is your church doing a community Thanksgiving meal? Or maybe there's another special ministry that you do at this time of year. Please tell us, so that we can tell everyone else!
Please write on the wall at our Communications Facebook page and give us details!...
TechShop Now Offers Apple Software!
Written: 11/12/2009
TechShop - the source for discount software, hardware, and web solutions for United Methodist churches and ministries - now offers select Apple software for your Mac computer.
You spoke, and TechShop listened. With the increasing demand for Mac products, TechShop was asked if it could off...
EDITOR'S ERROR - in 'Cal-Nev Churches Respond to Tongan Disaster'
Written: 11/7/2009
There was an error by the editor, and not by the writer of the story, Becky Perry, in the first sentence of the story, "Cal-Nev Churches Respond to Tongan Disaster" (Nov. 4, 2009). There are TWO churches involved - Hilltop United Methodist Church of Seaside, California and Church...
Interact With Us on Our Facebook Page
Written: 11/6/2009
By Cate Monaghan
Interim Communications Director
Communication at its best is a "two-way street," and the proliferation of social media has given rise to the expectation that it will be just that. People don't want information to be simply pushed down to them; they want to react to it. ...
Help Others Get Connected!
Written: 11/6/2009
By Jane Horstman
CA-NV Communications
Remember when "viral" was a bad thing? Depending on what virus you were talking about, it could send shivers down your spine. Well, today "viral" has taken on an entirely new - and completely opposite - meaning. Just ask Susan Boyle (of &...
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Written: 11/5/2009
Technology to the rescue! The California-Nevada Annual Conference is encouraging the use of technology by groups, to overcome the limitations imposed on them by both budgetary constraints and distance - and is making some new tools available. Adobe Connect is an Internet-based teleconferencing prog...
Making Sure We Nurture Younger Generation's Call
Written: 11/3/2009
"Nothing tests a person's faith quite like working in a church," writes Eric Van Meter, director of the Wesley Foundation at Arkansas State University, in his article "Making Sure We Nurture Younger Generation's Call" published in the October 23, 2009 issue of the United Methodis...
'ChristProfits' Site Launched by Cal-Nev Pastor Is Called 'Christian Craigslist'
Written: 11/2/2009
"It's like a Christian 'Craigslist' and Yellow Pages all in one," declares the Home Page of a new website, created by a pastor in the California-Nevada Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church.
ChristProfits.net is the brainchild of The Rev. Dr. Lois Black, pastor of First UMC of ...
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Written: 10/29/2009
By Cate Monaghan Interim Director of Communications, CA-NV Annual Conference "Wesley didn't want to do field preaching, either," communicators are told Although Bishop Sally Dyck called communications in the church a "ministry of ink," it was more contemporary tools wh...
UMAC Elects Officers
Written: 10/29/2009
At the closing business meeting of the United Methodist Association of Communicators meeting in Nashville, October 20-23, new officers were elected to fill expiring terms.
Joining UMAC President Sandra Brands, Director of Communications for the Troy (New York) Annual Conference, are: Cate Monaghan,...
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Written: 10/29/2009
The church's communications agency must engage its audiences - especially young people - with relevant messages, states Larry Hollon in his blog, Church, Culture and Media. In a Q&A, Hollon explains how United Methodist Communications is using new media and making other changes as it seeks...
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Written: 10/28/2009
Two Cal-Nevada Conference leaders to be in attendance By Elliott Wright GBGM Information Officer COLUMBIA, SC - Major portions of the seventh national "summit" of Communities of Shalom, a movement of faith-inspired community development, will be broadcast live and free of charg...
GBGM Commissioning Service Available to Watch
Written: 10/28/2009
The webcast of the United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries' October 13 commissioning service is available, now, to watch on line. The service has been edited down into eight segments. Go to http://multimedia.gbgm-umc.org/pindownload/login.do?pin=2XDRU to download and watch each of the cl...
United Methodist 'Open Hearts' Tagline Wins Award
Written: 10/23/2009
Best-in-Class Taglines Selected by 4,800+ Nonprofit Professionals
Maplewood, NJ - The United Methodist Church's advertising and welcoming tagline - Open hearts. Open minds. Open doors. The people of The United Methodist Church - has been selected as a best-in-class tagline in the 2009 Getting ...
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Written: 10/23/2009
Bishop Sally Dyck, resident bishop of the Minnesota Annual Conference and President of the United Methodist Commission on Communications, addressed the denomination's communicators at the opening luncheon of the United Methodist Association of Communicators annual meeting. The bishop, who ref...
Dr. Fred Allen Shares Story of Transformation During Morning Bible Study
Written: 10/23/2009
The Rev. Dr. Fred Allen led the Thursday morning Bible study at the United Methodist Association of Communicators annual meeting in Nashville, Tenn.
Allen, who is the National Director of Strengthening the Black Church for the 21st Century and a member of the New York Annual Conference, ...
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Written: 10/16/2009
GCORR Eliminates Five Positions Oct. 12, 2009 | WASHINGTON (UMNS) - The United Methodist Commission on Religion and Race has announced a restructuring plan that eliminates five executive positions, including that of Jeneane Jones, formerly Director of Communications for the California-Nevada A...
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Written: 10/16/2009
Bethany Amey, a native of Turnersville, New Jersey, was commissioned on Tuesday (October 13) as a short-term, young adult missionary (US-2 program) of The United Methodist Church and assigned to the Asian Women's Resource Center (Gum Moon) in San Francisco, in the California-Nevada Annual Confe...
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Written: 10/16/2009
By Linda Bloom Oct. 14, 2009 | STAMFORD, Conn. (UMNS) Shannon and David Goran use the Internet to advertise their campus ministry to students in the Ukraine. So it seemed fitting that the young couple's formal commissioning as missionaries of The United Methodist Church could be viewed l...