Some UMC information, fall 2022
RECOMMENDED ONLINE RESOURCES: - Bishop Sandra Steiner Ball’s church address at Annual Conference 2022 go to ( https://www.wvumc.org/state-of-the-church ) - The United Methodist Church’s Q&A go to ( https://www.umc.org/en/content/ask-the-umc-series-is-the-umc-really ) - The History of the “incompatibility statement” go to ( https://um-insight.net/perspectives/a-history-of-incompatibility-part-1/ ) - Rev. Rob Renfroe’s video series about why it’s time to leave The UMC go to ( https://www.youtube.com/c/GoodNewsMethodist ) - Rev. Adam Hamilton’s video series about #ProudToBeUMC go to ( https://tinyurl.com/ProudtobeUMC ) Where is here and how did we get here? Since Wesley, several consistent concerns: that the sacrament be available to the people, and that the people have a say in the church. Questions of who and how arise. Sadly, racism is part of our history. Wesley: without official church authority, sends Coke to ordain Asbury. Asbury only accepts with the voice of