by Sam Duenckel | Oct 25, 2023 | Obituaries
BARCLAY, Rebecca Watson, 66, of Midlothian went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, October 24, 2023. She is the daughter of the late Dan Cabel Watson and Patricia Jamison Watson. Rebecca is survived by her loving husband of 43 years, Rev. Richard Barclay; daughter,...
by Sam Duenckel | Oct 17, 2023 | News
Global Ministries EarthKeepers is a program to train and support United Methodist laity and clergy in addressing local environmental concerns and the systemic structures that give rise to those concerns. It is a response to the call to practice social and...
by Sam Duenckel | Oct 17, 2023 | Disaffiliation, News
The Virginia Annual Conference held four Special Called sessions from 2022 to 2023 for churches who followed the disaffiliation process outlined in Paragraph 2553 from the Book of Discipline to be considered for ratification by the Annual Conference body. As a result,...
by Sam Duenckel | Oct 10, 2023 | News
By: Brian Christoffersen In response to the growing evidence of climate change’s harm to the most vulnerable and creation, our dependence on dirty energy sources, and unjust energy burdens, we are called through God’s love to the transformative work of a Just Energy...
by Sam Duenckel | Oct 9, 2023 | News
October 9, 2023 At the Special Called Annual Conference on October 7, 2023, Bishop Sue shared the following regarding the erupting war in the Holy Land, “We awoke this morning to news from Israel and our own divisions seem minor compared to the huge strife that...