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The United Methodist Church is a "connectional" church and as such our links are especially important; the links on the Web are no different.

The United Methodist Church

http://www.umc.org/
Official Web site of the The United Methodist Church

About the United Methodist Church

http://www.umc.org/abouttheumc/
What we believe, history, and more

United Methodist News Service

http://www.umc.org/umns/
Press releases about the church

United Methodist Key Information from the General Board of Global Ministries

http://gbgm-umc.org/connections/
Other United Methodist Links
 

United Methodist Boards, Commissions and Councils

The United Methodist Church loves to organize things
 

The General Board of Discipleship of The United Methodist Church

http://www.gbod.org/
Provides quality resources and services to help church leaders build systems that enable every congregation to fulfill its primary task of making disciples of Jesus Christ

Discipleship Resources Worldwide

http://www.discipleshipresources.org/
A publishing unit of the General Board of Discipleship of The United Methodist Church

The General Board of Church and Society

http://www.umc-gbcs.org/

Seeks the implementation of the Social Principles and other policy statements of the General Conference on Christian social concerns

The General Board of Global Ministries

http://gbgm-umc.org/
Missions and worldwide ministries of the church

The General Board of Higher Education and Ministry

http://www.gbhem.org/
United Methodist colleges, universities and seminaries

The General Commission on Archives and History

http://www.gcah.org/

The General Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns

http://www.gccuic-umc.org/
Advocates deepening commitment and witness to Christian Unity for the wholeness of the Christian church and effective mission in a global reality

The General Commission on Religion and Race

http://www.umc.org/gcrr/

The General Commission on the Status and Role of Women

http://www.umc.org/gcsrw/
Serve as advocate, catalyst, and monitor to empower women and to transform the church so that an inclusive people of God might be in ministry and mission to a hungering and hurting world

The General Commission on United Methodist Men

http://www.ummen.org/
To assist men to know Jesus Christ, to serve Him, to grow spiritually, and seek daily to do His will

Scouting Ministry of the United Methodist Church

http://www.umcscouting.org/
Galvinizing Methodist support for Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, CampFire, Four-H, and other Civic Youth Serving Agencies

The General Council on Finance and Administration

http://www.gcfa.org/
Accountable to United Methodists through the General Conference in all matters relating to the receiving, disbursing, and reporting of funds contributed for the support of national and worldwide ministries

United Methodist Communications

http://umcom.org/
Audio, video, print and news in support of the United Methodist Church

United Methodist News Service

http://www.umc.org/umns/
To gather news of The United Methodist Church for dissemination to the religious and secular media, the church's web site and e-mail subscribers

United Methodist Publishing House

http://www.umph.org/
The official publisher of The United Methodist Church

Cokesbury Online

http://www.cokesbury.com/
The retail operation of the United Methodist Publishing House

 

Regional and Local Links

Illinois and Naperville links
 

Northern Illinois Conference

http://www.gbgm-umc.org/nillconf/

All Illinois United Methodist Churches

http://www.gbgm-umc.org/umchurches/il1.stm

Community United Methodist Church

http://www.gbgm-umc.org/communityil/
(The folks across the street)

Grace United Methodist Church

http://www.gbgm-umc.org/napervillegrace/

Wheatland Salem United Methodist Church

http://www.gbgm-umc.org/wheatland/

Naperville Chamber of Commerce

http://www.naperville.net/
Wesley is a member!

City of Naperville

http://www.naperville.il.us/

 

Threads of Methodism

The United Methodist Church represents several streams of Methodism in America but those who follow the path blazed by John Wesley are found in other bodies in the U.S. and throughout the world
 

The Methodist Church (United Kingdom)

http://www.methodist.org.uk/

The original Methodist Church

Yr Eglwys Fethodistaidd yng Nghymru

http://www.westwales.co.uk/methodism/
The Methodist Church in Wales (in English as well as Welsh)

The United Church of Canada

http://www.uccan.org/
Our brethren to the north

The Free Methodist Church in Canada

http://www.fmc-canada.org/
Our brethren to the north who didn't unite

The Free Methodist Church of North America

http://www.fmcna.org/
Free Methodists in the U.S.; established in 1860 as an abolitionist church which also advocated equal rights for women. Has connectional and episcopal structure similar to the United Methodist Church

World Methodist & Christian Weblinks (From the Methodist Church in Singapore)

http://www.methodist.org.sg/worldlinks.html

Links to Methodist bodies and Christian resources worldwide

The World Methodist Council

no web site (space reserved here for when there is one)
The World Methodist Council is made of of 71 Christian bodies in the Methodist tradition including United, Uniting, Free Methodist, Wesleyan and Nazarene churches. It's too bad they don't have a Web site, because it would be a great resource 
 

The Congregational Tradition

This tradition is strongly Methodist and Wesleyan but believes that ultimate authority in the church rests with the local congregation; most bodies are small and loosly organized so there are no denominational sites for the Primitive Methodist Church, the Congregational Methodist Church, or the Methodist Holiness Church  
 

The Evangelical Methodist Church

http://www.emchurch.org/
A schismatic, theologically and politically conservative American Methodist body
 

The African-American Tradition

This tradition grew out a a desire by African-Americans to control thier own churches when segregation and racial discrimination in America made it impossible to do so as part of the exisiting Methodist bodies
 

The African Methodist Episcopal Church

http://www.amenet.org/
An African-American tradition of Methodism dating to 1787 when African-Americans rebelled against the segregation imposed on them at St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia

The Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

http://www.c-m-e.org/
Formerly the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, the CME Church was formed after the emancipation of American southern Blacks from slavery, when the the desire of many freed persons to have and control their own church became primary
 

The Holiness Tradition

Churches in this tradition place a special emphasis in striving for Christian perfection through study, prayer and God's grace
 

Church of the Nazarene

http://www.nazarene.org/
The Church of the Nazarene grew out of the 19th century Wesleyan holiness revival and represents a Pentacostal Holiness tradition of Methodism

The Wesleyan Church

http://www.wesleyan.org/
The Wesleyan Church is an evangelical, Protestant denomination named in honor of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, whose emphasis on a life of faith, self-discipline, and perfect love is their example

The Salvation Army

http://www.salvationarmy.org/

Founded by a Methodist minister, the Salvation Army combines a traditional Wesleyan emphasis on the Bible as the core of belief and the saving Love of Jesus Christ with an intense and very practical personal concern for the poor, downtrodden and despised of the world 
   

About Methodism

Articles and sites about Methodism
 

Compton's Encyclopedia Online: Methodism

http://www.optonline.com/comptons/ceo/03132_A.html#003

Encyclopædia Britannica: Methodism

http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/7/0,5716,117347+1,00.html
An extremely complete resource and history

Britannica.com: Methodism

http://search.britannica.com/bcom/search/results/
1,5843,,00.html?p_query0=methodism

Yahoo: Methodist

http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Religion_and_Spirituality/
Faiths_and_Practices/Christianity/Denominations_and_Sects/
Methodist

Yahoo: United Methodist Church

http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Religion_and_Spirituality/
Faiths_and_Practices/Christianity/Denominations_and_Sects/
United_Methodist_Church/

 

Unofficial Methodist Sources

Although we are all children of God we are still human and there are multiple threads of belief and polity within our denomination; many of them are expressed outside of official church sites
 

The United Methodist Reporter

http://www.umr.org/
Unofficial Weekly UM Newspaper

The United Methodist Church Online (Unofficial UMC Page)

http://www.netins.net/showcase/umsource/
A comprehensive set of Methodist links

The United Methodist Webring

http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=umc;id=1;list
Exists for the purpose of creating an online community of United Methodists; any United Methodist church, district, conference, juridiction, agency, board, or organization (official or unofficial)  is invited to join

The Order of Saint Luke

http://www.saint-luke.org/
A Religious Order in the United Methodist Church dedicated to Sacramental, and Liturgical Scholarship, Education and Practice

The Confessing Movement within The United Methodist Church

http://www.confessingumc.org/
The purpose of the Confessing Movement is to call The United Methodist Church, all laity and all clergy, to confess the person, work, and reign of Jesus Christ; a theologically and politically conservative Methodist movement

The Unofficial Confessing Movement Page

http://ucmpage.org/

UMDecision2000

http://www.umdecision2000.com/
A movement to reaffirm the current language of the Book of Discipline concerning homosexual practice and the current prohibition on homosexual union services

Good News

http://www.goodnewsmag.org/
A magazine calling for renewal within United Methodism

Aldersgate Renewal Ministries

http://www.aldersgaterenewal.org/
Another renewal movement within United Methodism

United Methodist Action

http://www.ird-renew.org/umaction.htm
The United Methodist arm of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, a renewal movement for liberal Protestant bodies

Evangelical Renewal Fellowship

http://www.newpathways.com/ministry.html
Folks who believe the California-Nevada Conference has abrogated their responsibility to the denomination and want a new Conference

The Reconciling Congregation Program

http://www.rcp.org/
United Methodist individuals, congregations, campus ministries, and other groups which publicly welcome all persons, regardless of sexual orientation; represents a broad range of theological thought but is generally a politically liberal movement

Affirmation

http://www.umaffirm.org/

United Methodists for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Concerns

CORNET: Covenant Relationships Network

http://www.umaffirm.org/cornet/
The United Methodist COvenant Relationships NETwork (CORNET), an advocacy group, seeks justice and love in the UMC in relation to same-gender covenant services

Key Christian Links
Other links of particular value of use in our Christian life. 
 

The World Wide Study Bible

http://ccel.wheaton.edu/wwsb/
Wheaton College mirror of this great resources from Calvin College

The Bible Gateway

http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?
A completely searchable online Bible

About.com This site tends to be very balanced in coverage of the Web in all areas

Christianity - General
http://christianity.about.com/
Christianity - Protestantism
http://protestantism.about.com/
Christian Humor
http://christianhumor.about.com/
Christian Teens
http://christianteens.about.com/