March 18, 2011
Written by Dr. Diane Davis, Dublin First UMC Members of two churches in downtown Dublin have joined hands in order to provide a Christian witness to the children and families of the Southside Community in the central city area. Partnership between the two churches, Howard Chapel United Methodist Church and Dublin First United Methodist Church, is nothing new, as the two churches have cooperated in a weekly soup kitchen for 16 years. Rev. Patricia Brown of Howard Chapel UMC and lay member Dr. ...
March 16, 2011
Americus First United Methodist Church’s Hispanic ministry is getting a new home … right next door to its old one. The ministry, which began with five people on Oct. 20, 2005, has outgrown its current location in Americus First UMC’s chapel. With worship attendance now nearing the chapel’s 100-person capacity, ministry leaders knew that expansion was necessary. Since its inception, weekly attendance has hovered near 75. Numerous baptisms and marriages have been performed, and the ministry ...
March 16, 2011
In the early 1990s, Savannah’s Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church had hit hard times. The once-thriving downtown church’s attendance had shrunk to about 25 and the average member’s age was 80. The church faced the very real possibility of closing its doors. Despite the bleak outlook, a group of women who had been meeting since the 1970s continued to gather together each Monday night to make colorful and cute clown dolls. A couple of husbands accompanied their wives and got involved, too....
March 01, 2011
Bishop James King has released the projected appointments of six new District Superintendents. They will begin serving in their new appointments following June’s Annual Conference session. Rev. Henry Bass will become the Valdosta District Superintendent, Rev. Mike Huling will be assigned as the Savannah District Superintendent, Rev. Thomas Martin, III will serve as Macon District Superintendent, Dr. Wayne Moseley will become the Americus District Superintendent, Rev. Benjy Varnell will be ...
February 26, 2011
Nearly 900 clergy, laity and youth from across the South Georgia Conference recently gathered in Macon for the inaugural Disciple Covenant Conference, held February 11-12. Held at the Macon Centreplex, the event was designed to help individuals and teams develop plans for disciple formation. “I expect every United Methodist – everyone who says they believe in God – to develop a disciple plan for themselves and for their team or congregation,” said South Georgia resident Bishop James R. King, ...
February 20, 2011
Savannah is known for moss-draped Live Oaks, slow Southern drawls and mysteries like “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” and “The Legend of Bagger Vance.” Retired United Methodist pastor Rev. W. Hamp Watson, Jr’s., latest book, “Experiencing Ineffable Mystery,” tells the story of an even greater mystery – the mystery of God. The English translation of Dr. Albert Schweitzer’s “The Quest of the Historical Jesus” was published in 1910, but the pursuit to try to understand this enigmatic ...
February 16, 2011
What started on Thanksgiving Day, 2003, with just a handful of people has grown into a ministry that serves more than 300 people each week. Every Thursday afternoon, volunteers with Richmond Hill United Methodist Church’s Food for the Soul ministry deliver more than 300 hot meals to needy Richmond Hill residents. Similar to the well-known “Meals on Wheels” program, Food for the Soul provides a hot meal to anyone who requests one – no questions asked. Begun as a traditional soup kitchen, ...
February 16, 2011
As a connectional church, the United Methodist Church is one without borders, an interlocking system of worldwide churches bound together with a common mission – to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world. During a recent trip to Uganda, five individuals from the South Georgia Annual Conference helped strengthen that connection between their conference and the East Africa Annual (regional) Conference. Revs. Christy Bandy, Earl James, Doreen Smalls, Denise Walton and ...
