Methodist News

Woman to head Ohio seminary Wendy J. Deichmann Edwards, a member of the Western New York Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, will be inaugurated on Tuesday as the eighth president of United ...

Midwest Methodists May Be 'Sleeper' Win for Obama >> 1.0 Scale of 1 to 10 Read: 1 Propped: 1 Prop it When the Rev.

The Rev. Cathy Najmon likes to say her 135-year-old church is really only 11 years old.

Billie Capehart and Lester Stone, both of Siloam Springs, Ark., were married on Aug.

About 3,000 Methodists will meet in Indianapolis tomorrow to work on joining the denomination's northern and southern Indiana conferences.

Members of the Sheldahl United Methodist Church are inviting the public to join them this Sunday in celebration of the church's 140th anniversary.

Bringing his "gifts and grace" to United Methodist Church of Newtown, Reverend Mel Kawakami began his ministry in Newtown in July.

LWC celebrates heritage, ties with United Methodist Church Lindsey Wilson College was founded 105 years ago by Methodist Episcopal Church, South, as training school for Vanderbilt University.

United Methodists call for stewardship over greed >Sep. 30, 2008 NOTE: Photographs are available at http://umns.umc.org . >A UMNS Report By Kathy L. Gilbert* Declaring that "the financial bubble has burst," ...

United Methodists organize for new ecumenical efforts Sep. 22, 2008 News media contact: Linda Bloom * 3693759* New York {393} NOTE: Photographs and a related story are at http://umns.umc.org >By Linda Bloom* ...

As a young boy at Lake Junaluska in the late 1920s, Brooks Patten remembers hundreds packing onto the dirt floor of Stuart Auditorium to hear cracker-jack revival-style sermons from some of the world's best ...

Pastor Barry Burdick is the new spiritual leader of Grace Methodist Church on Park Avenue in Westerly.

Texas United Methodists need help to rebuild after Ike >Sep. 25, 2008 NOTE: Photographs and related stories are available at http://umns.umc.org . >By Kathy L. Gilbert* HIGH ISLAND, Texas -Jerry Harrington has ...

Bill Goforth entered the Methodist Orphanage in Raleigh, N.C., at the age of 5 and lived there nine years.

Long before electric guitars began echoing through the sanctuary of Trinity United Methodist Church and video screens displayed song lyrics, New Albany Methodists gathered in a tiny two-room frame church and ...

SLOATSBURG - More will be celebrated in the village Saturday than the 100th birthday of United Methodist Church.

Jacksonville police arrested several people Thursday and charged each of them with a misdemeanor count of soliciting for prostitution.

MONTVILLE -- In 1858, a group of 36 Methodists were determined to form a church in the Whitehall section of town and within two years, a church structure built at the cost of $1,860.87 was dedicated.

The moving morning ceremony you gave this past August, 24 made an awakening impact on this particular Methodist sister.

Indiana was once so serious about banning alcohol that the legislature passed the 'Bone Dry Act,' which could send people to prison just for owning booze.