Category: Faith & Ministry
Take hold of each moment
Denny Wissinger, the Michigan Conference’s Co-Lay Leader, invites us to embrace the season of Advent as an opportunity to be present as expectant people awaiting Christ’s coming.
Youth & Young Adult Resource Roundup, DEC 2024
This winter issue summarizes events, scholarships, and resources for youth and young adults and their leaders that churches can promote in their publications.
New grant and funding workshops
This winter, the Michigan Conference will host several online workshops and trainings on grant writing and nontraditional funding sources.
The calming waterfall
Temba Nkomozepi, an EngageMI Ministry Partner, describes the sights and sounds of being an agricultural missionary at Mujila Falls Agriculture Center in Zambia.
Getting to the heart of Advent
Taylorie Bailey, the Michigan Conference’s Co-Lay Leader, challenges us to spend as much time preparing spiritually as checking off our to-do lists.
EngageMI reports due January 10
Mission leaders for EngageMI churches are asked to submit their 2024 EngageMI report by January 10, 2025.
What are you thankful for?
Rev. Dean Prentiss, superintendent of the Greater Southwest District, asks us to pause and give thanks to God for all that we’ve been given.
Ways to manage an endowment fund
Rev. Dr. David Bell explores the rationale behind establishing a separate committee to oversee endowments in local churches.
A lesson in caregiving
In a role reversal, Heather Jue-Wong reflects on how she traveled to Peru as a health professional on a Volunteers in Mission journey and became the patient.
UM Student Day set for November 24
Churches are encouraged to receive an offering for United Methodist Student Day, which funds scholarships for United Methodist students.