Weekly Updates         September 4, 2015
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Living the UM Connection

You must register TODAY (September 4th) for the Advanced Lay Servant Course  Living the UM Connection .  This course will be held on September 11-12 at Wesley Church of Hope.  The cost is $50.00, click HERE f or registration form and more information.
 
UM Community Ministries Grants 
2016 grant applications for  local outreach grants and  ministry partnership grants are available.  The deadline (October 1, 2015) will be here before you know it.  Click on Grants for more information.
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The time for Church Conferences will soon be upon us, and so the preparations are now beginning.  The pattern used in the last three years for church/charge conferences will continue this year.  District Superintendent Rev. Kathy Brown and Rev. David Cady, Assistant to the DS, will be presiding over individual Church Conferences of congregations in Fairfield County.  See the schedule HERE.  
Those congregations in Fayette, Franklin, Licking, Madison, and Pickaway counties will be responsible for caring for their own individual conference. For instructions please click on the county in which your church resides.
 
Plan to schedule your Charge/Church conference within a two month window of October 1 to November 30.  Forms are to be completed online this year either by the pastor or person(s) designated as Church Data Administrators.  Click HERE  for online instructions.
September 27, 7:00 pm at Grove City UMC

We are not of one mind when discussing human sexuality and the United Methodist Church. Specifically, the issues of ordination and homosexuality have proven to be particularly divisive.
   This September, all clergy and laity of the West Ohio Conference are invited to participate in a respectful, grace-filled conversation called Circles of Grace around these issues. We pray these conversations are the beginning of a way forward as we strive to minister together in unity rather than division.
    Please prayerfully consider being a part of these intentional opportunities for dialogue. Any learnings from this Circles of Grace process will become a resource to the Annual Conference's life, including the 2016 General and Jurisdictional Conference Delegates as well as the Extended Cabinet and the Board of Ordained Ministry. 
APPALACHIA: BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS & MINISTRIES THAT HELP OVERCOME POVERTY September 19, 2015 & October 31, 2015 9:00 am-4:00 pm both at Pleasant Grove UMC 400 Pleasant Grove Rd. Zanesville, OH 43701  See brochure for more information.
Vacation Bible School for Seniors

This workshop gives you hands-on lessons for leading Senior Adult Bible School in Nursing Homes. 

Saturday, September 19 from 10 am - 12 noon
Trinity UMC, 1581 Cambridge Blvd. 
Columbus, OH 43212
Register to:   [email protected]
                                       
Prayer Concerns

Prayer Concerns
Charles Rader (Retired Elder)
Carolyn Scott (Elder on Disability)
Gene Brundige (New Horizons UMC)
Don Wallick, (Church of the Good Shepherd) 
                    spouse of Linda  Wallick (Wagram UMC)
Barbara Stachowiak (former CAN Administrative Assistant)
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