A time of adversity Adversity reveals character. We face a time of adversity now, perhaps like no other time in several generations. Churches face economic challenges, a growing number of aging participants and a diminishing number of younger p...

"A Day of Downtown Rebirth" was the theme of the much anticipated groundbreaking for Memphis’ First United Methodist Church Sanctuary and Pepper Building Renovation on Sunday, October 5. The special event began with an outdoor worshi...

  Hurricane Gustav blew 35 Louisianans north for shelter from the storm. They ended up staying with a relative in the Nebo United Methodist Church community just outside Lexington, Tenn. The Rev. George Reed, pastor of the Nebo-New Hope Ch...

  Maples Memorial UMC, Olive Branch, MS, seeks full-time Director of Children’s Ministry. Position includes overall responsibility for supervising, directing, and ongoing evaluation of comprehensive Christian education ministry, ages ...

The Paducah District Office has moved. The new address and contact information is: Century Building 100 Fountain Avenue, Suite #317 Paducah, KY 42001 Phone - 270-442-0077 Fax - 270-442-0722 Email - padumc@comcast.net    ...

  For sale at Connectional Ministries office Ryobi 2800 Offset Printer Adobe Postscript Acetate Platemaker 714 Baum Air Fed Folder OKI Microline 321 Turbo 9 Pin Printer with stand HP 500 N Laser Jet Printer Call Martha Manuel at 731-664...

 On September 13, 2008, members of local churches and district superintendents joined the Memphis Theological Seminary (MTS) community for the dedication of Hilliard Hall in honor of former MTS president David Hilliard and his wife Patsy. &nbs...

The sweet rhythmic sounds of the a cappella voices of the United Methodist Women of Mozambique greeted us as we arrived in the capitol city of Maputo. "Welcome, welcome, welcome to Mozambique Today is a happy day because we received visitor...

"You are the last hope we have for food." These words were said to me recently by a lady with tears in her eyes. When I began my appointment as Reelfoot Rural Ministries Executive Director, the number of food boxes we gave in one month&rsq...

Six United Methodist youth groups spent the weekend,   October 3-4, at Reelfoot Rural Ministries helping people they’d never met. They arrived Friday evening and spent time getting to know those they were going to work with on Saturd...

Every year, the commercialization of Christmas seems to edge earlier into the year. Even though Christmas is nearly three months away, how does one truly begin to celebrate the birth of the Savior? In the Advent season, some serve Him through help...

On a beautiful Sunday afternoon, instead of going home to relax after the weekly worship service, members of Germantown United Methodist Church headed towards downtown Memphis.   Forming a caravan of pickup trucks and SUVs, their overs...

Making disciples is not a one-size-fits-all endeavor. Some churches within the Memphis Annual Conference are discovering this truth as they work to bear fruit by increasing their worship attendance and membership.  Within our annual conference,...

A bold attempt to reach unchurched people had the members of Alamo, Tenn.’s First United Methodist Church on their knees for six weeks praying for the success of their Community Picnic and Praise Service. "It was on our minds most wa...

Lambuth University was notified recently that the school has been approved to enter the exploratory stage in becoming a member of the NCAA Division-II. The NCAA Management Council approved Lambuth’s application. If all requirem...

Anita Kay Archer, Memphis Conference, and Betty Alexander, Tennessee Conference, are the first to welcome Bishop Dick Wills Jr. back to the Nashville Area for four more years as episcopal leader. Archer and Alexander were members of the Episcopacy Co...

Four million dollars isn’t small potatoes in anyone’s budget. Four million dollars, a sum pledged by two of Lambuth University’s most generous supporters, would go a long way toward spiffing up the Lambuth University campus, making ...

How can a Christian be in politics?” People of faith ask me this all the time. They seem startled that a former minister has served in public office, writes Roy Herron, the Tennessee Senate floor leader for the Democrat Party....

United Methodist Bishop Homer Ellis Finger Jr. dies A UMNS Report By Linda Green* May 27, 2008 Bishop Homer Ellis Finger Jr., a former president of the United Methodist Council of Bishops, died May 25 from heart failure. Finger, 91, of Givens Es...

David Comperry, a member of the Bishop's Study Committee, listed the five main recommendations: 1. establish an endowment program for agencies, 2. share administrative costs with the Tennessee Conference, 3. develop a plan to train and equip clergy a...