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October 28, 2014 
Ingathering set for November 1

 

 

The 35th Thanksgiving Ingathering celebration will be Saturday, November 1.

Come celebrate with us at the following sites:

  • Western Iowa Technical Convention Center, Cherokee
  • First United Methodist Church, Cedar Falls
  • Asbury United Methodist Church, Webster City
  • Greenfield United Methodist Church, Greenfield
  • Iowa Wesleyan College, Mount Pleasant

Doors open at 8:00 a.m. Coffee and rolls will be available. Mission presentations, programs/worship services, bake sales, bazaars, and silent quilt auctions are part of the morning schedule. Enjoy lunch followed by the live quilt and woodcraft auctions. Proceeds from the bake sales/bazaars and auctions will be distributed throughout Iowa to participating food pantries.

 

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Mission Agency Will Match $1 million on UMC#GivingTuesday

The United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries announced that on Dec. 2, 2014, it will match up to $1 million in gifts made online to any project through The Advance as part of UMC #GivingTuesday.


 
Marie Kuch-Stanovsky, who chairs the communication and development committee of Global Ministries' board of directors, expressed enthusiasm about last year's record $6.5 million raised online through The Advance on UMC #GivingTuesday. "It was a wonderful sign of commitment and extravagant generosity, maximizing the impact of thousands of United Methodists coming together on one day to transform the world."

 

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GCFA and Vanco Develop Easy2Give - a giving app for The United Methodist Church

 

The General Council on Finance and Administration (GCFA), working in partnership with Vanco Services, LLC, has developed a convenient mobile-device app that will allow members and visitors to make donations to the church while they are at church or if they are away.


 
The app, called "Easy2Give", is now available as a free download for Android™ devices. An Apple� iOS version will be available by the end of the year.

 

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Iowa Conference News

A Community of Faith with a Foundation of Love

 

It was October 14, 1989.  A new community of faith met for its first service.  The scripture for the initial sermon mentioned "love" fourteen times.  And that foundation continues to guide mission and ministry.


 Walnut Hills United Methodist Church celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary on Sunday, October 26, 2014.

 

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United Methodist News
Top court affirms Schaefer's reinstatement as clergy

 

 

By Linda Bloom
Oct. 27, 2014 | MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UMNS)

 

The Rev. Frank Schaefer will remain a clergyman in The United Methodist Church.

 

In a ruling made public Oct. 27, the denomination's top court upheld a June decision by a regional appeals committee to reinstate Schaefer's ministerial credentials, modifying the penalty imposed upon the Pennsylvania pastor after he was found guilty last November of violating church law by performing a same-sex wedding for his son in 2007.

 

"The Judicial Council upon careful review of the decision of the Northeastern Jurisdiction Committee on Appeals in the matter of the Rev. Frank Schaefer and the questions of law presented by the counsel for the church finds there are no errors in the application of the church law and judicial decisions," said Decision 1270. "The penalty as modified by the Committee on Appeals stands."

 

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E-Reader Project set to expand in Africa, Philippines



By Sam Hodges
Oct. 20, 2014 | DALLAS (UMNS) 

 

At Gbarnga School of Theology, there's no running water, electricity comes and goes, and classrooms remain scarred from when troops occupied them during Liberia's long civil war.

 

On top of all this, Gbarnga - pronounced without the "G"- has closed temporarily because of the Ebola epidemic gripping Liberia and much of West Africa.

Still, learning goes on. That's because each student has an e-reader provided by The United Methodist Church and loaded with books well-suited for a pastor's education.

 

"These 85 students have their e-readers with them, wherever they are, and continue to use them to read and study and to preach and teach in churches," said Robin Pippin of The United Methodist Church's Discipleship Ministries (formerly known as the Board of Discipleship.)

 
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Events

Call for next School for Lay Ministry

Dear Friends:

 

Jesus tells us in Matthew 20:28 "For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many." 

 

Several years ago dedicated people with great vision initiated the School for Lay Ministry in the Iowa Annual Conference. 


 
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