Open Directory - Society: Religion and Spirituality: Christianity: Denominations: Methodist: United Methodist
See also: - Highest legislative body in The United Methodist Church. Includes overview, articles, journey, directory and news. - Official online ministry includes a news service, articles on beliefs, mission updates, ministry tools, and topics. Locate churches, ministries, and offices. - Offers an overview and a list, with contacts, of all their churches. - Sunday school curricula and church resources with a United Methodist perspective. Includes books, tapes, and gifts for Christians of all denominations. - Chelsea, Michigan. Offers resident care for all religious and cultural backgrounds with accommodations from independent apartments to specialized nursing care services. - Lectionary sermons and text exegesis, prayers, meditations, poems, liturgies, stories and administration aids. - The primary book and resource stores for the United Methodist Church. Also serves a variety of other denominations with an ecumenical orientation. - Resources and services for conference communicators and other church officials. - Online bookstore from the publishing unit of the General Board of Discipleship includes product list. - Offers help to those who are in a ministry with families. Has newsletters, articles, events, and a resource center. - A locator for churches, ministries, schools, and other UM organizations. - Reminding the church to practice evangelism and seeking "to make evangelism more visible and practicable." An affiliate of the UMC General Board of Discipleship. - The official website for the quadrennial world legislative meeting of the whole denomination. - The official page for the 2004 meeting of the entire denomination. - Promotes study, preservation, and dissemination of the history of the United Methodist Church and its antecedent bodies. Officers, sections, genealogy, publications and membership. - Offers overview, school and child care programs conducted at the facilities in Greeneville, Tennessee, adoption and foster care, adventure programs available, and online donations. - Features over 300 MIDI files and lyrics from the United Methodist Hymnal. - The television and welcoming ministry providing advertisements and tools for promoting the church. - Dedicated to helping people decide if God is calling them into ministry. - Includes links to important UM groups, churches, and districts, contact information, news, historical background, theology, and doctrine. - Affiliated with the UMC General Board of Discipleship. Promotes guided weekends away from home to help married and engaged couples learn how to communicate and shared together more fully and openly. - News and information about the effort to establish covenant relationships between churches in the United States and in the African nation. - A Joint Committee of the General Board of Discipleship and the General Board of Global Ministries. - Bob May's missionary service work in Bethlehem. Photos, reports, stories, journal entries, and technology help, from his mission service. - Information, events, newsletter and networking. - Powered by the Holy Spirit, 'Rethink Church' serves as a catalyst that moves the denomination, and those we hope to reach, into dialogue -- and ultimately, into transformative, collaborative action. What if church were a verb? What would it look like? - National mission institution of the General Board of Global Ministries based in Osage, West Virginia. Includes child development, food pantry, housing rehabilitation and senior citizens programs. Calendar, staff, programs and funding. - Telling stories of stewardship, giving, and the funds of the church. - An event to introduce the supplement to the United Methodist Hymnal. - Four models for saving the small United Methodist Church using blended ministry to create a new United Methodist Church without the construction of buildings. Adaptable to any denominations. - Mission organization based in Norcross, Georgia, recruits, trains, and sends missionaries around the world. Features short-term, intern, and career opportunities. - Providing a welcome for those seeking a church or looking for more information about the denomination. - Developed by the United Methodist General Commission on Archives and History. - Information for and about the United Methodist Church. News and forums. - Telling stories and sharing with news agencies. - A voluntary professional association providing recognition, training, fellowship, dialogue, standards and other information. - Nonprofit organization, owned by their Annual Conference, which acts as trustee for endowment funds, charitable trusts and planned giving for its churches, institutions and individuals. Services, programs, news and overview. - Based in New York and provides institutions and individuals with investment management, planned giving and financial stewardship services. Offers services, staff, board and a newsletter. - Links to many original John Wesley documents from the General Board of Global Ministries and other historical materials. - Official news agency. Offers daily news and weekly summaries. Gathers news of The United Methodist Church for dissemination to the religious and secular media, the church's web site, and e-mail subscribers. - The United Methodist Union works to strengthen and revitalize our congregations and mission agencies to serve their communities in metropolitan Detroit, Michigan.