Dear Friends, Day 4: It’s actually happening. The harmful language that has targeted our LGBTQ siblings for the past 52 years is being voted out in| Mainstream UMC
Friends, The Board of Mainstream UMC is thrilled with the outcomes of General Conference! We have taken the summer to reflect and review and we believe| Mainstream UMC
Friends, Mainstream UMC was founded in 2018 by clergy in the Great Plains Annual Conference to work for unity in Christ and inclusion in the| Mainstream UMC
Dear Friends, Day 11 brought the 2024 General Conference to a close. Mainstream UMC reached all our goals. If you missed any of the daily recaps, they are| Mainstream UMC
Note: The Author of this letter is Rev. Ande I. Emmanuel, a Delegate from Nigeria. Rev. Emmanuel is the Coordinator of Africa Voice of Unity and one of| Mainstream UMC
Dear Friends, Day 10: Human Sexuality Still Front & Center. Reinstating Excluded Clergy. The first item of the day was a motion to spell out how| Mainstream UMC
Dear Friends, Day 9 Mainstream UMC Agenda (almost) Complete Bishop Harvey of Texas said from the chair at the close of tonight’s session, “This is an| Mainstream UMC
Dear Friends, Day 8 was a full day of legislation and we addressed the elephant in the room: Money. One Big Victory for Inclusion. Today we ended the| Mainstream UMC
Dear Friends, Day 7 was a Monday and acted like it. GMC Called Out…Again People are not playing. The shenanigans of the Global Methodist Church (GMC) are| Mainstream UMC
Dear Friends, Day 6: A Day of Rest I don’t remember which year it was, but the General Conference finally realized it was killing people. We used to come| Mainstream UMC
Dear Friends, Day 5: Committee Work Ends Saturday is a major milestone for General Conference. This marks the end of the line for the 14 committees. The| Mainstream UMC
Dear Friends, Day 3: Consensus is prevailing in a way most of us have never seen at General Conference. Nothing is unanimous, and honestly, should not be.| Mainstream UMC
Dear Friends, Day 1 of General Conference 2020 has finally convened after 4 years of delays. There were a couple of hours of orientation for delegates,| Mainstream UMC
Dear Friends, To be clear, no one at Mainstream UMC, nor in our coalition, believes there is malice involved in the absence of delegates from Africa. We| Mainstream UMC
Dear Friends, The Wesleyan Covenant Association (WCA) may have hit rock bottom. They just issued a video that equates General Conference delegates who| Mainstream UMC
Dear Friends, Rev. Rob Renfroe, the longtime President of Good News Magazine, chose Holy Week to issue his latest threats to the Delegates of the upcoming| Mainstream UMC
Dear Friends, We are eleven (11) weeks out from perhaps the most momentous General Conference in our lifetimes. I have heard from many delegates| Mainstream UMC
Dear Friends, The most uncomfortable conversation in the United Methodist Church is the stark reality that 99.4% of the global budget comes from the US| Mainstream UMC
From Big Tent to Big Table. By Rev. Edlen Cowley District Superintendent, Metro District, North Texas Conference Board Member, Mainstream UMC I am writing| Mainstream UMC
Dear Friends, Prior to the 1990s, the United Methodist Church was governed entirely by regional bodies. The short-lived experiment with global| Mainstream UMC
Dear friends, Breaking News: On Tuesday of this week, the Wesleyan Covenant Association (WCA) officially launched their new fundraising campaign to extend| Mainstream UMC
Dear Friends, There have been very few disaffiliations in Africa for one reason: Because Africa does not want them. That line really could be the| Mainstream UMC
Dear Friends and Delegates, Mainstream does not typically respond to statements made about us. We are making an exception in this case because the| Mainstream UMC
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Dear Friends, The trio of far-right advocacy groups continues to divide Africa like it has the US church. Tom Lambrecht of Good News just insulted| Mainstream UMC
Dear Friends, The Mainstream UMC Board voted unanimously this week to strongly advocate for an end to disaffiliations through paragraph 2553. As you| Mainstream UMC