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Leadership Resources
The United Methodist Church provides a wealth of online resources for those who hold lay and staff leadership positions in its churches, as well as for those who aspire to grow spiritually and develop their gifts and talents to use in God's service.
The United Methodist Church Web site provides news and information about the people and activities of the world-wide United Methodist Church, as well as links to numerous resources. The site also provides access to the Methopedia, which provides news, tools, and church-wide resources on personal, family, social, cultural, political, economic, spiritual, theological, church, and ministry issues.
Other resources include the following:
- California-Pacific Conference and Hawaii District sites provide administrative information, including church directories, event calendars, and contact information for United Methodist organizations.
- Boards and Commissions of the United Methodist Church provide information and materials for all areas of Christian ministry, spiritual growth, financial administration, social justice issues, lay leadership tasks, college scholarships, and interreligious concerns.
- Communications sites provide media resources for individual churches, including sources for hardware, software, and audio and visual materials.
- Publishing house sites provide access to United Methodist publications, as well as an online bookstore.
Conference and District
- California-Pacific Conference. Provides contact information and news about boards and ministries, annual conference, all churches in the conference, and the bishop's office.
- Hawaii District. Provides a church directory for United Methodist churches and staff in Hawaii and Guam, a calendar of district and special events, and information about the district camping program.
Boards and Commissions
- General Board of Church and Society. Offers downloadable resources, including sermons, bulletins, and worship and liturgical models. Order books, tapes, posters, and other justice resources. Find and contact elected officials.
- General Board of Discipleship. Provides resources for all areas of Christian ministry.
- Worship pages contains worship planning and sermon helps; ways to use the arts in worship; ethnic resources; ideas for contemporary, traditional, and emerging worship; music downloads; seasonal ideas; and the Revised Common Lectionary.
- Ministries with Young People pages provide downloadable applications for grants and scholarships. Use the Ministry Network to subscribe to e-newsletters for current information on what is going on with young people and their leaders around the world.
- The Upper Room Living Prayer Center enables you to place online prayer requests, which are forwarded to one of 300 Covenant Prayer Groups world-wide.
- General Board of Global Ministries. Provides links to New World Outlook and Response magazines; and a database of country profiles, containing general interest facts and figures, as well as profiles of missionaries in those countries.
- United Methodist Committee on Relief pages provide downloadable church bulletins and worship resources, as well as the procedure to make online donations to relief projects.
- General Board of Higher Education and Ministry. Provides applications for loans and scholarships; resources for students and campus ministers; bulletin boards; links to the United Methodist Student Movement, Student Forum, and Orientation Magazine Web sites; and a searchable database of United Methodist-related colleges and universities, campus ministries, and seminaries in the United States. Also provides resources for those exploring calls to ministry, including lists of licensing and course of study schools, certification programs, and links to scholarship applications.
- General Board of Pensions and Health Benefits. Provides links to Hark and You and Your Health newsletters; and resources for anyone receiving health or pension benefits from the United Methodist Church.
- General Commission on Archives and History. Provides a searchable database of detailed descriptions of archived material, an annual conference archives directory, and various online archiving resources.
- General Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns. Provides the agency newsletter, News for Our Ecumenical Colleagues; grant application; and video, Internet, and print resources.
- General Commission on Religion and Race. Contains pages devoted to each of the five recognized racial/ethnic groups (Native American, white, black, Asian/Pacific, Hispanic), with information regarding their work; a link to the UM Monitor; and a downloadable version of the Conference Commission on Religion and Race Manual.
- General Commission on the Status and Role of Women. Provides "Celebrating Women" worship materials and The Flyer e-newletter.
- General Commission on United Methodist Men. Provides Scouting resources, Bible studies, United Methodist Men Magazine, and links to other denominational Web sites.
- General Council on Finance and Administration. Provides downloadable financial, membership, and legal reports; and general church financial data.
- Joint Committee for New Congregational Development. Provides tools and materials for revitalizing congregations.
Communications
- United Methodist Communications. Provides communications resources; an online training center; and scholarship and fellowship applications.
- Techshop Ministry. Provides ministry organizations with competitive pricing for professional technology hardware and software.
- Giving Programs. Provides resources for United Methodist Church giving programs.
- Educational Films. Provides an extensive selection of audio and visual materials for Sunday school programs, Bible studies, and group discussions.
- Igniting Ministry. Provides resources for the denomination's advertising and welcoming campaign, including downloadable graphics.
- Interpreter Magazine. Provides the denomination's ministry magazine.
- Information Service. Provides answers to questions about all aspects of United Methodist beliefs, people, and organizations. Use the Ask Now feature to get answers to your questions.
- United Methodist TV. Provides inspiring stories and discussions of social justice issues.
Publishing House
- United Methodist Publishing House. Provides links to all Publishing House publications, including Christian Believer, Circuit Rider, Disciple, Newscope, and Vacation Bible School resources.
- Cokesbury. Online book and Christian supplies store.
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