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Discipleship and Bible Study Resources

United Methodist Church - Official Website of the United Methodist Church - All about the UMC, Spiritual Journey, news, faith in action, movie and music reviews

General Board of Global Ministries - The Website of the General Board of Global Ministries for the United Methodist Church - All about news, programs, resources, online groups, UMConnect chat

California-Nevada Annual Conference - All about the Annual Conference, Connection newsletter, registration forms for annual conference

• What We Believe:  The conference's statement about our faith, and how we relate to the world around us

Delta District - All about the district: churches, clergy, contact information

UMCOR - United Methodist Committee On Relief - All about news, needs, One Great Hour of Sharing

New World Outlook - The Mission Magazine of the United Methodist Church

Missionary Minutes - Stories of missionaries and support work in more than 100 countries, each written by a current or former missionary, tied to a topical reading for each week (follow the link "Current Missionary Minute")

United Methodist Women (UMW) - Women's division of UMC GBGM site

California-Nevada Conference UMW site

Delta District UMW site

United Methodist Men - Information concerning the UMM Charter Program, training schedules, continual UMM outreach programs, and access to UMM resources.

GBOD - The General Board of Discipleship of the United Methodist Church

Upper Room - The Upper Room Ministries Website - All about daily disciplines of reading the bible, praying and sharing the Christian journey. E-mail daily devotional

• Devo'Zine:  Upper Room's web site for youth
• Pockets for kids:  Upper Room's web site for youth
• Pockets for adults:  Insights from Upper Room about guiding our children

United Methodist Communications - Communication tools for The United Methodist Church

Discipleship Resources - Publishing unit of the General Board of Discipleship of the United Methodist Church

• Free downloads of articles on topics from what's next for new members, to how God answers prayer, what it means to forgive others, and  how you can make a difference.

California Council of Churches - All about issues of concern to California's faith community such as hunger, homelessness, health care, child care, violence, civil rights, economic and environmental justice, and religious liberty.

World Council of Churches - The goal of the World Council of Churches.is not to build a global "super-church", nor to standardize styles of worship, but rather to deepen the fellowship of Christian churches and communities so they may see in one another authentic expressions of the "one holy, catholic and apostolic church"

Legislative Websites

California Legislators - Information on Legislative Organization and Process.  Enter a California zip code to find what Legislators represent that area

U.S. Senate - Congressional news, track legislation, find senators

U.S. House of Representatives - Congressional news, track legislation, find representatives

 Bible Study Resources

Crosswalk.com - Bible study tools including Bible searches (many translations -- see below), several Commentaries, Concordances, Dictionaries and Lexicons (including Hebrew & Greek).

Commentaries from Crosswalk.com

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes on the Bible

John Wesley's Sermons

World Wide Study Bible - This site includes multiple Bible translations (organized by book and chapter) as well as many other resources including commentaries, audio scripture, sermons, hymns, etc.

Oremus Bible Browser

The Bible, Revised Standard Version

BibleGateway.com

Christians Unite commentaries, history, devotionals

Olive Tree Bible Software provides Bible versions and study tools for Palm OS, Pocket PC, Smartphone and Symbian cell phones, and BlackBerry devices.

E-sword free downloadable Bible software

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