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A weekly newsletter to keep you connected.
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Please click the button above to see the schedule for West District Missional Office locations. It is our hope that when you notice where we are planning our "office for the day" you will join us for conversation and share what exciting events are taking place in your places of worship and ministry. This office time is open to both laity and clergy.
Blessings and Prayers,
The West District Staff
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Charge Conference online forms are available! Deadline for submission of online reports is two weeks prior to your charge conference. Pastors were continued as users for the online process. To add lay people for your church as users to the system, the pastor needs to log in and add each person.
For information regarding. . .
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New Online Clergy Assessment Process
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The Clergy Assessment is a new online system, and will be completed annually for providing feedback, mentoring and coaching resources, and improving clergy fruitfulness as disciples, as leaders of congregations, and as missional developers in the community and world.
The Clergy Assessment is a formative process rather than a summative procedure to assist clergy in gaining greater insights through self-reflection, self-evaluation, and feedback provided by the Staff/Pastor Parish Relations Committee in areas to affirm and areas that need further development. The purpose of ongoing feedback for clergy is not to 'prove' but to 'improve'.
A Conference generated email was sent to all pastors and Staff Parish Relations Chairpersons regarding how to access the system to complete the clergy assessment. Deadline to complete the online form is November 30. For more information go to http://www.inumc.org/clergyassessment.
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District Committee on Ordained Ministry Training
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Multiple dates and locations available!
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 It is time again to begin planning for our Fall dCOM Training Events. This training event would be an excellent opportunity for new dCOM members to get an overview of the committee's responsibilities. We will also be sharing the changes in the 2016 Discipline that may impact the work of the dCOMs. The schedule for the meetings is as follows: (10 AM - 1 PM (Eastern Time) - a working lunch will be provided) Monday, September 26th - Wesley Chapel UMC, 2100 US-150, Floyds Knobs, IN Tuesday, September 27th - Warsaw First UMC (Connection Campus), 1692 West Lake Street, Warsaw, IN Wednesday, September 28th - Indianapolis Union Chapel, 2720 E 86th St, Indianapolis, IN
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John Wesley Ministry Available to Your Church
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 Dr. David R. Lash is available to bring his special ministry to your congregation. Lash will explain Wesley's life, his successes and failures. Lash can either come to you dressed as John Wesley and talk to you in first person (as if he is actually John Wesley), or he can come dressed in modern attire and talk about John Wesley.
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In an effort to keep this newsletter as concise as possible, we are listing local church events only on the district web site. To view these events, simply CLICK HERE, and you will be directed to it. If your church has an event you would like featured on this calendar, please e-mail the details to Katie Swisher at west.district@inumc.org.
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OPEN HOUSE at former Grace UMC in Terre Haute
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Sunday, September 18, 2016 at 2:00 PM ET
7th & Locust Streets, Terre Haute, IN
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 Members of the Terre Haute area United Methodist churches and their guests are invited to an OPEN HOUSE at the former Grace United Methodist Church at 7th and Locust Streets in Terre Haute, on Sunday, September 18, at 2:00 pm. The former Grace Church and others merged into the Northside Community Methodist Church in 1999, and the building was acquired by the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at Indiana State University, which has converted it into an education center. It contains, among other things, a library on religion and spirituality, a chapel using repurposed furnishings and altar pieces from the Grace Church and from St. Meinrad Archabbey, as well as a garden of meditation and memory which includes limestone pieces from Fourth Avenue and Grace Methodist Churches, preserved in perpetuity adjacent to a fountain and flame. The open house will begin with a brief program at 2:00 pm and will include light refreshments and guided tours. Rev. Dr. Clark Cowden from the Northside Community Methodist Church and the Emmanuel Methodist Church will be part of the program. Please come and see this beautiful renovation and restoration, so respectful of the traditions of the local United Methodist Churches and their Evangelical United Brethren predecessors.
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United Methodist Women of Indiana Annual Meeting
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Friday-Saturday, October 7-8, 2016
Grace United Methodist Church
219 W. Mulberry Street, Kokomo
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Friday
Evening Meal will be at 5pm
Hands-On Project to follow 6-8pm EST (we will be packing meal totes for school children)
Saturday Registration: 8:30am Meeting: 9:45am-3pm Speaker: Andris Salter, UMW Assistant General Secretary
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Laity Day with the Bishop
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Saturday, October 15, 2016
Castleton United Methodist Church
7101 Shadeland Avenue, Indianapolis
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Join us for a meaningful day of learning and listening with our new bishop. Come hear the call to hope, be reminded that hope restores us and moves us. Come hear the hope stories of others who are partners with us in the work of Christ and the church. Share together in workshops that will inspire, teach and challenge your personal call to hope.
We hope that you are encouraged and inspired to discover, develop, and deploy fruitful leaders!
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Thursday, November 10, 2016
Zionsville United Methodist Church
9644 Whitestown Road, Zionsville
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 Our Bishop, Leadership Development and Chairs of the Indiana Conference Clergy Orders call for a gathering of all clergy and clergy candidates (certified candidates, deacons, elders, local pastors, retirees and seminarians) to cultivate our clergy covenant.
All clergy, active and retired, including Elders, Deacons, Local Pastors, Certified Candidates, Seminarians and clergy serving in various Extension Ministries need to attend this important gathering. While this is not a "mandatory" event, all clergy are strongly encouraged to attend.
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West District Lay Servant Academy
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Saturday, November 19, 2016
Sullivan First UMC
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 Please mark your calendars for the fall session of the West District Lay Servant Academy. Classes will be held Saturday, November 19th at Sullivan First United Methodist Church.
More details and registration forms will be coming soon!
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SAVE THE DATE: UMW Spiritual Growth Retreat
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Friday-Saturday, January 20-21, 2017
McCormick's Creek Canyon Inn
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 Please mark your calendars for the United Methodist Women Spiritual Growth Retreat. More details will be coming soon!
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Rev. John Groves
Superintendent
765-51-UMCDS
(765-518-6237)
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Rev. John Davis
Associate S uperintendent
(office) 765-276-4797
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Katie Swisher
District Assistant
(office) 765-276-4797
Preferred Telephone Hours:
Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays - 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
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