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Change the World event (May 17-18) reaches five-year milestone Register now for free resourcesEarth Day - April 22Game Changers SummitWebinar - April 24 -7:30pmlearn more about using technology to improve people's futures around the world. Click here for more information. 
Covenant is a 24-week, video-based Bible study encouraging dialogue and conversation. It's divided into three, eight-week modules designed to fit around your schedule. Click here for more details.
Teaching Partners
The University of Chicago's Master of Divinity Program (UChicago MDiv) currently has three openings for Teaching Partners for the Arts of Ministry course sequence. Click here for more information. he United Methodist Church. 
Golden Cross Sunday
is observed in the month of May in honor of older adults in your congregations. Click here for more information on how to order special offering envelopes. UVC-Downtown is becoming UVC-River North
Join Urban Village Church on May 4 as they kick off their relaunch at 1000 N. Orleans in Chicago (moving from the Spertus Institute). RSVP at the Facebook event.Worship time remains the same at 10:15 am.
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Outdoor Retreat Ministries News
Register for Spring Confirmation Retreats at Reynoldswood and Wesley Woods this April!
Not too early to start thinking of Summer Camp either!
Click herefor info and registration.
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175th Annual Conference Online Registration Open
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- Register online at www.umcnic.org/AC2014
- Cost is $61 through May 8.
- Cost increases to $80 on May 9.
- The mail-in registration form will be available for download from www.umcnic.org/AC2014 or contact your District Administrator to make arrangements to receive it.
- Click here to read Bishop Dyck's invitation.
Other Important Dates:
- Hotel Reservations at Pheasant Run can be made through May 7.
- Display Table applications due May 16.
- Opening Worship June 8 - 3pm.
- Memorial Service - June 9 9:45am
- Retirement Service - June 10- 10:45am
- Ordination June 10 - 7pm.
For other updates and information on the 175th Annual Conference - June 8-10 visit www.umcnic.org/AC2014. The site will continually be updated as information becomes available.
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Urban Summit II - May 17
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Bishop Dyck welcomes participants to the first Urban Summit on May 18, 2013.
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Bishop Dyck invites all United Methodists in the City of Chicago and throughout the annual conference to come together for the 2nd Chicago Urban Summit on May 17, 2014, 8:30am - 12:30pm at Whitney M. Young Magnet High School at 211 S. Laflin, Chicago (just down the street from the episcopal residence).
Our 2nd Urban Summit will focus on "Healthy Partnerships." We will explore what makes for any healthy partnership and then in our "Action Labs," we will hear about healthy partnerships with government organizations, police, schools, and other churches (especially Chicagoland and beyond) as well as partnerships with funding sources. Click here for more information and to learn more...
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Creative Ministries Grants
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The NIC Program Council is now accepting applications for the 2014 Creative Ministries Grants. Thanks to your apportionments, 28 programs received grants last year.
Applications must be submitted on or before May 1, 2014.
Click here for the form. For more info contact: Rev. Christopher Pierson at cpierson@umcnic.org or 847-931-0732 ext.15.
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Imagine No Malaria - Music to fight Malaria
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 United Methodists raise 80 percent of funding goal - Imagine No Malaria counts $60 million in donations and uncountable blessings. Read more...
World Malaria Day Concert
As a celebration please join the conference for concert on Sunday, April 27 from 3-4:30 pm at Barrington UMC to sing, dance and listen to music to mark World Malaria Day and our fundraising success.
Headlining our concert will be Bassel & the Supernaturals (http://basselmusic.com) a Chicago based jazz-fusion ensemble led by Syrian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist Bassel Al-Madani.
Tickets to the show are $10 (in advance or at the door) and we will announce the total money raised by the conference to date at the event. Click here to purchase tickets.
Invite your church to this event by downloading and posting this flyer.
"Cover the 'Net" for World Malaria Day
As World Malaria Day approaches on April 25, Imagine No Malaria is asking supporters to #CovertheNet to raise awareness across social media networks about this killer disease that claims the life of a child every 60 seconds. Read more and start tweeting. |
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Update on the Red Door Fund
Just one year ago, at a special session of the Annual Conference, we as the Annual Conference, voted to assist churches in our conference who were having trouble re-financing or repaying church mortgages whose rate of interest was onerous. The Fund has approved mortgage refinancing to 26 churches in the Conference, totaling approximately $21.68 million.The good news is that this refinancing will save those churches, as a group, $371,073.72 this year in interest and principal payments.
Read the full story.
Clean Slate Petition
Join the movement to make sure every youth has a fair shot at success in Illinois. The NIC Board of Church and Society encourages you to sign a petition to support the Clean Slate Initiative (HB4084 and SB978) that will break down the barriers to opportunity by requiring the state to automatically clear certain juvenile arrest records every year. Click here to learn more.
Calling All Singers for AC Choir
The 2014 Annual Conference Worship Team invites you to participate in an ALL-Conference Mass Choir during this year's Annual Conference Service of Ordination, June 10 at the Pheasant Run Conference Center. The choir will be singing the Spiritual Medley for Pentecost arranged by Rev. Dr. Cynthia Wilson (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary). It can be found in the worship resource Zion Still Sings (p. 108). Click here for rehearsal times and details.
Annual Conference Kit Challenge
This year's collection will benefit the Midwest Mission Distribution Center in their efforts to assemble "layette" kits which are provided to parents to welcome a new child into this world. This witness testifies to the sacred worth of every child. Click here to see your District's challenge.
Spanish as a Second Language Summer Camp
All ages are invited to participate in a one-day intergenerational experience
we are calling Spanish Camp. It brings together those who have little or no prior experience of the Spanish language, anyone who's already taken the SSL course and Spanish speaking congregations as they together celebrate and learn. The day will be held on June 28 at Barrington First United
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