by Brenda Capen | Oct 4, 2022 | Congregational Vitality, News, Virginia News
Dwayne Stinson and his lobster. By Dwayne Stinson, Associate Director of Influencing Ministries There’s a lobster in my office. He’s red, about two feet long, with large pinched claws and oh, by the way, he’s inflatable. I got him last week at the Hatchathon which the...
by Brenda Capen | Oct 3, 2022 | Bishop Lewis News, Congregational Vitality, News, Virginia News
Main Points: Hope UMC was one of two new church plants that was announced at the 2022 Virginia Annual Conference. The vision for Hope UMC is to be a multicultural and multigenerational church in Vienna, VA. By the Rev. Sammy Addo-Donkoh Hope United Methodist Church in...
by Brenda Capen | Sep 30, 2022 | Bishop Lewis News, From the Bishop, Missional Engagement, News, Virginia News
A Message from Bishop Lewis (Download image- right click and save image. Or click here to edit on Canva.) As we hear and see the catastrophic destruction caused by Hurricane Ian, I am asking the Virginia...
by Brenda Capen | Sep 26, 2022 | News, Scouting, Scouting Bankruptcy, Virginia News
September 26, 2022 Recently there was the unfortunate release of incorrect information by the General Commission on United Methodist Men about future agreements between the Boy Scouts and local United Methodist churches. While this information has been removed from a...
by Brenda Capen | Sep 9, 2022 | News, Scouting, Scouting Bankruptcy, Virginia News
Bishop John Schol, who leads the United Methodist Church’s BSA Leadership Team, shared with U.S. Bishops a September 8 Reuters article sharing that Judge Silverstein approved the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) settlement. Schol and the UMC BSA Leadership Team will...
by Brenda Capen | Sep 1, 2022 | Disaffiliation, News, Virginia News
In recent weeks, the Virginia Conference has received more than two dozen letters from an organization called the National Center for Life and Liberty (NCLL) demanding that 26 churches be able to promptly disaffiliate under Paragraph 2548.2 of the Book of Discipline...