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If you or your ministry team have been walking for the Bishop's Health Challenge "Walking to the Four Corners of the World", we want your stories! Send us your video clips, photos and stories, tell us why you walk, how participating in the walk has changed your life and what impact you hope to have on those for whom we walk.

We'll share the best "Walking to the Four Corners" story at the 2012 Annual Conference in June at Lakeside. Upload photos, stories and video clips to our West Ohio Facebook page or send to West Ohio Communications on DVD at 32 Wesley Blvd., Worthington, Ohio 43085. Be sure and label DVD's with your church and contact information. Questions? Contact Lisa Streight at the conference office, 614-844-6200. To be considered for featuring at Lakeside, submissions must be received at the West Ohio Conference by May 10, 2012.

As the 2012 General Conference approaches, United Methodist News Service is looking at details of legislation and offering information to help readers better understand how the church works.  A number of proposals are aimed at restructuring the denomination and its general ministries, so UMNS asked the top executives of each agency to answer five questions about their agency's role in the church. [more]

The Southwest Texas Conference United Methodist Men are hosting an informational debate March 31 at 3 p.m. to publicize about the denominational changes to be proposed at this year's General Conference session. The event will happen in San Antonio.
 

E-mail questions or concerns to umcdebate12@gmail.com, and they might be included in the debate. For those unable to join the live event, the debate will be streamed live on the web at http://www.umcswtx.org/debate-general-conference. Participants will be able to send questions during the debate.

Each year at Annual Conference we provide a First Aid Station located at the rear of Hoover Auditorium that provides assistance to those in need. It is intended to provide minimum assistance with referral being made to off-site medical care. The station is staffed by volunteers who are willing give of their time and talent to assist any annual conference member in need. If have questions or if you are interested in volunteering in this capacity, please contact John Wade at medic_503@yahoo.com or by phone at 419-905-6013.

Wings of the Morning Caravan Campaign is a fundraising campaign to purchase a new airplane for the aviation ministry in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Indian Run United Methodist Church in Dublin will host a major fundraising event on Sunday, April 29 from 5-8 p.m. Watch the video about this special dinner and auction and join us!

In an area of Africa where six million people live with no roads for transportation, hope and help come in the form of a small airplane and a pilot who evacuates critically ill and injured villagers to health care facilities, and flies in medical supplies, bibles, payrolls, pastors, and mission teams. Read more about this ministry and donate.