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6/29/2023

Rev. Kristin Lee welcomes the Cobb County faith community to a time of Prayer & Action East Cobb UMC in Marietta hosted people of faith from across their community to support Jewish neighbors following a hateful demonstration in front of an East Cobb synagogue during services Saturday. Participants in the Time of Prayer and Action on Wednesday, June 28, filled the East Cobb UMC sanctuary to overflowing. Organized by Rev. Kristin Lee of East Cobb UMC, Mechel McKinley-Hoffman of Marietta First ...

5/10/2023

On April 29, the North Georgia Committee on Native American Ministries hosted its annual Native American Gathering at the Pine Log UMC Campground. This year’s guest speaker was Rev Larry Jent, pastor at Grace Hartwood UMC in Hartwood, Virginia. Rev. Jent is a teacher, musician, storyteller, and Native American advocate.  The event included a message from recipients of the North Georgia United Methodist Native American Scholarship. This year's recipients were Samantha Kent who is graduating ...

4/19/2023

Formed in response to thoughtful discussion at Annual Conference 2022, the Task Force will bring a report to the 2023 Annual Conference session By Latoya Damon   The Reparations Taskforce gathered on March 10 and 11 at Central UMC in Atlanta to continue their discussion on actionable steps toward restoring our beloved communities through racial healing and reconciliation. Curtis Paul DeYoung, a co-facilitator of the taskforce and the co-author of Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism ...

3/29/2023

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN FOR THE 2024 TOUR! CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS AND REGISTRATION. By Rev. Karen Elaine Webster Parks For the last 36 years, SCLC WOMEN Inc. has led a group of sojourners on a tour of several historical sites dedicated to the Civil and Voters Rights movements. The tour is designed to expose the participants to many unknown or rarely shared facts about some of the s/heroes of the 1960s Voting Rights Movement. The tour ends with a commemorative march across the Edmund Pettus ...

2/6/2023

Formed in response to thoughtful discussion at Annual Conference 2022, the Task Force will bring a report to the 2023 Annual Conference session By Latoya Damon   On January 21, 2023, the Reparations Taskforce assembled for the third time to discuss pathways toward a healed and beloved community freed from the divisive injustices of the past.   During this meeting the group was debriefed by its historical subcommittee on ongoing projects and future plans to excavate the historical narratives of ...

1/24/2023

Youth and Adult Leadership Opportunity Begins This Month January 2023   “Faith in Action is an intentional, intergenerational program to engage young leaders and equip mentors with the skills and competencies to transform the world,” says Rev. Nathalie Nelson Parker, the new Team Chair for Black Congregational Development Committee of the North Georgia Conference. “By participating in Faith and Action, young leaders will be prepared with critical conversations, spiritual formation, social ...

6/13/2022

Racial Justice and Healing Academy Launching Soon ngumc.org/racial-justice-and-healing-academy By Rev. Brian Tillman I was in the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta one day. In the bottom level the King papers are held on a rotating display. On this occasion there was a pamphlet that Dr. King contributed to. He wrote about the aims of his resistance efforts and the strategy behind them. In it, he wrote something like, “We aim to resist in such a way that when we are ...

10/29/2019

By REBECCA WALLACE   It is an expectation of the church to never turn away anyone, particularly those who are already marginalized, but that’s exactly what happened to Stephen Taylor.   Raised in the United Methodist Church, Stephen was born with profound hearing loss. At age 12, he had already experienced being segregated at school, yet had never been told he was “different.” When he entered the confirmation process at his church, however, and he was told to leave one of the first meetings.   “...

8/20/2017

The SEJ College of Bishops met in Atlanta for three days. They released the following message at the close of their gathering. Witness and invitation from the Southeastern Jurisdiction College of Bishops meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, August 17, 2017   "The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us grace to labor for." - Thomas More, UMH, 408 Serving with you in the Southeastern Jurisdiction, we grieve the violence in Charlottesville. We renew our baptismal covenant to trust and serve ...

7/20/2016

Dr. Raphael Warnock, Rev. Eric Lee,and Jovita Moore Rev. Eric Lee of Roswell UMC's Chapel Roswell was part of a discussion panel for a Channel 2 News special last night, "Atlanta Unite!"  The panel, which included Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, Police Chief George Turner and Al Vivian of Basic Diversity, was held at Atlanta's Center for Civil and Human Rights and was an open conversation on issues surrounding race. Lee credits Roswell UMC's senior pastor Rev. Mike Long for launching the vision for...

3/14/2016

Tonya Murphy, Alice Rogers and Denise Wilson Take Home the Night's Top Prizes Editor's Note: We received an update March 18 on the People's Choice Award. "Because of the tremendous effort of the LaGrange District on behalf of Denise Wilson, we decided to audit the votes and have discovered that the difference between Denise Wilson and Alice Rogers was fewer than 50 votes.  Therefore we have decided that this year the People's Choice Award is a tie and Alice and Denise will share the award." By ...

2/29/2016

The ninth annual national Caring for Creation Conference, scheduled for April 8-9 at Decatur First UMC, will focus on food, food systems and faith. The conference is designed to help United Methodists think and pray deeply about food: the way we produce it, the way we consume it, and its importance in our faith. Early-bird reduced registration continues until March 15. Learn More  

2/18/2016

Dr. Betty Jones, senior pastor of County Line UMC in Ellenwood, reports that the church's GED program has been approved and is now listed on the National Literacy Directory. The program officially began on January 13, 2016, and will run in 18-week increments. Classes are currently offered on Wednesday and Thursday evenings from 6-9 p.m. led by professional committed staff and dedicated church members. Registration for the program is ongoing. The GED program is “free” to students except for a ...

2/16/2016

The North Georgia Conference hosted a meeting of the Southeastern Jurisdictional Association on Native American Ministries (SEJANAM) et on February 13 in Conyers. In a spirit of cooperation, leadership from Native American ministries across our Jurisdiction finalized the critical issues that will be topics of Awareness and Dialogue at the Lake Junaluska Summer Conference June 24-26, 2016. SEJANAM serves the 15 annual conferences of the SEJ, 23 Native American churches, three ministries of the ...

12/17/2015

On Sunday, February 5, the Super Bowl will take place at Levi's® Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Like any large sporting event, there is an increase in opportunity for human trafficking to occur. Thousands will travel to the San Francisco Bay Area to take part in Super Bowl festivities, and among the travelers will be those arriving by force, fraud, or coercion—they will not be there of their own free will but as victims of human trafficking. That's why the United Methodist Women have asked...

11/12/2015

A group of North Georgia United Methodists interested in providing resources to families with a child with Aspberger's Syndrome asks for you to take a brief survey on the topic.  The survey is anonymous and can be found at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/aspergersNGUMC. 

9/9/2015

Migrants form a crowd at the Keleti pályaudvar train station Sept. 2 in Budapest while waiting passage to Germany, Austria and other wealthier countries within the European Union where the laws on refugee protection are better. Photo by Daniel Peters for United Methodist News Service. Updated 9/12/2015 The General Board of Global Ministries has shared an update and information on the ways The United Methodist Church in Europe and at the international level is responding to the migration ...

9/3/2015

By Ansley Brackin Communications Specialist Barbara Bruce invited North Georgia United Methodists to join her in discussing the Baby Boomer generation, hosted at two United Methodist Churches: Peachtree Road UMC in Atlanta on Saturday, and Marvin UMC in Augusta on Sunday. Bruce was chosen as the featured speaker for “Are You Ready?” to encourage those in the Baby Boomer generation to maintain a healthy mind, body, and spirit. The events also encouraged attendees to utilize this healthy trifecta...

7/30/2015

Crime Victims Advocacy Council (CVAC) will celebrate its 25th year in ministry with a dinner on Saturday, September 19, at North Druid Hills Country Club in Decatur. The event will highlight the faith-based nonprofit's efforts to help crime victims to heal. CVAC was founded by United Methodist clergy Rev. Bruce Cook, Rev. Melinda Jones and Rev. Frank Windom in 1989 and incorporated in 1990. Since then, the organization has provided support and advocacy for crime victims in metro Atlanta. ...

6/25/2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ten persons, ages 18 to 23, including 20-year-old Emory University student Savannah Gross, began work recently in the Ethnic Minority Young Adult (EYA) Summer Internship program of the United Methodist General Board of Church & Society (GBCS). They are working in nonprofit and nongovernmental social-justice organizations in the U.S. capital for two months. Savannah is native american, Echota Cherokee tribe, and a member of the North Alabama Conference. She is studying ...