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UMTR Chicago Youth Mission: "Encounter 2009" PDF Print E-mail

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Sunday afternoon, 6-14-09: We arrived back home all safe and sound from our both successfull and enjoyable youth mission trip to Chicago. Click "read more" below to view some of our trip photos and read about our daily mission and fun activities.

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2008 Bicentennial PDF Print E-mail

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Mike and Janice Humble portraying the Rev. Valentine Cook and Muddy River Camp Meeting.  *CLICK PHOTOS* to view church historian Ms Evelyn Richardson's Bicentennial PowerPoint Presentation (special thanks to Mike & Melinda Riley for preparing the .ppt.)

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What Methodists Believe, Part 9 PDF Print E-mail

In this final installation of the series "What Do Methodists Believe?" I hope to address briefly and more specifically the way in which we live our faith together as Methodists. This concluding characteristic of Wesleyan theology and practice is that whatever we do as Wesleyans in the life and practice of the church we do with the whole people of God. In fact early Methodism had more lay leaders than clergy leaders, and many of these leaders were women.

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What Methodists Believe, Part 8 PDF Print E-mail

In Part 8 of our series on What Methodists Believe we will discuss just how Methodists, in the Wesleyan tradition, view the Church. Let it be said right at the start that Methodists reject any idea of "independent Christianity." We seek instead to be called into Christian community that unites us with the great cloud of witnesses in the Church of Heaven, and forms us into a Great-Commission connection in the Church on earth.

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What Methodists Believe, Part 7 PDF Print E-mail
John Wesley, when denied a pulpit by the Anglican Church of England, was asked by a colleague, "But where will your parish be?" Wesley showed himself unconcerned and stated, "The world is my parish." His response has been the Methodist mission challenge down through the centuries. We've not always lived up to it well, but nevertheless it is who we are. Wesleyan Methodists agree with John Wesley that the world is our parish. Our sending companion is the Lord Jesus Christ who unquestionably was mission-minded.

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