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WEEKLY UPDATE
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UMC DAILY DIGEST
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UM News Digest moving to three days a week
UM News is switching to a three-days-a-week schedule with the Digest. We no longer will be providing a Digest on Tuesdays, except during special events such as General Conference or when there is breaking news that affects the denomination. UM News will continue to send out the Digest on Mondays and Wednesdays as well as providing the Friday Digest, which includes the top stories from the week. The change begins this week. Please email [email protected] with questions.
UM News is switching to a three-days-a-week schedule with the Digest. We no longer will be providing a Digest on Tuesdays, except during special events such as General Conference or when there is breaking news that affects the denomination. UM News will continue to send out the Digest on Mondays and Wednesdays as well as providing the Friday Digest, which includes the top stories from the week. The change begins this week. Please email [email protected] with questions.
Meet ‘Methodism’s Paul Revere’
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Freeborn Garrettson has been called “Methodism’s Paul Revere” because of the amount of time he spent traveling on horseback to preach the Gospel. He was a Methodist pastor, an American patriot, strict pacifist, committed abolitionist and one of the most passionate preachers of his generation. Philip J. Brooks shares his story in a new installment of the “Unsung Heroes of Methodism” series.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Freeborn Garrettson has been called “Methodism’s Paul Revere” because of the amount of time he spent traveling on horseback to preach the Gospel. He was a Methodist pastor, an American patriot, strict pacifist, committed abolitionist and one of the most passionate preachers of his generation. Philip J. Brooks shares his story in a new installment of the “Unsung Heroes of Methodism” series.
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Plambeck wins bishop post in North Central
The Rev. Lanette Plambeck, the only endorsed candidate for bishop of the Iowa Annual Conference, was elected on the third ballot at the North Central Jurisdictional Conference. She received 102 votes of the 167 ballots cast. She needed 101 to be elected (60% of valid votes).
“I love our God, and I love The United Methodist Church,” Plambeck said. “I wasn’t born in it but was called to it, and I believe to the very depth of who I am and that our very best years are ahead of us, right here, right now.”
The North Central Jurisdiction consists of 167 delegates, an equal number of United Methodist clergy and laity, from the nine states forming the North Central Jurisdiction. The assignments of bishops in the North Central Jurisdiction will be announced later in the week.
Plambeck has been serving as the assistant to the bishop and director of clergy and leadership excellence in the Iowa Conference.
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Winders is director of communications for the Iowa Conference.
Find all of UM News’s coverage of the 2022 episcopal elections of The United Methodist Church on our landing page.
The Rev. Lanette Plambeck, the only endorsed candidate for bishop of the Iowa Annual Conference, was elected on the third ballot at the North Central Jurisdictional Conference. She received 102 votes of the 167 ballots cast. She needed 101 to be elected (60% of valid votes).
“I love our God, and I love The United Methodist Church,” Plambeck said. “I wasn’t born in it but was called to it, and I believe to the very depth of who I am and that our very best years are ahead of us, right here, right now.”
The North Central Jurisdiction consists of 167 delegates, an equal number of United Methodist clergy and laity, from the nine states forming the North Central Jurisdiction. The assignments of bishops in the North Central Jurisdiction will be announced later in the week.
Plambeck has been serving as the assistant to the bishop and director of clergy and leadership excellence in the Iowa Conference.
Read story
Winders is director of communications for the Iowa Conference.
Find all of UM News’s coverage of the 2022 episcopal elections of The United Methodist Church on our landing page.