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Annual Conference is described by the church’s Constitution as the “basic unit” of the church. That unit typically gathers every June to celebrate, learn together and conduct a little bit of business. To get the most out...

On May 17, leaders of the Missouri Conference gathered in Columbia to honor United Methodists from across Missouri for their exceptional achievements in ministry. These are their stories.

Holden United Methodist Church in Missouri has successfully focused on meeting the needs of senior citizens in the community. The church had been working on addressing the need for a gathering place for seniors after the...

What should you expect to experience while at Annual Conference? While there, we will worship with Methodists from across the state of Missouri, connect with other Methodists, do some business - like voting - as needed, ...

Church and community came together on April 29 in the warehouse at the Missouri Conference office in Columbia to pack Menstrual Hygiene Kits for the United Methodist Committee On Relief (UMCOR). The kits? were designed, ...

The Missouri Conference NextGen team recently embarked on a tour of Missouri to establish stronger connections with local churches and gain insights on how they can better support children, youth, and college-age ...

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warns that America is facing an epidemic of loneliness, with one out of every two Americans experiencing measurable levels of loneliness at any given time. This has grave consequences for ...

Husch Blackwell is pleased to announce that partner Jordan Ault has been named president-elect of the United Methodist Church Conference Chancellors Association (UMC3), a national organization of attorneys who serve as ...

For many of us, estate planning is right up there with eating your broccoli and filing your taxes. You know it’s a good thing to do, but not right now – please.

Jesus uses a metaphor of a vine and branches to emphasize the importance of staying connected to Him and each other. Just as branches cannot bear fruit unless they remain attached to the vine, Jesus teaches that ...

Four Missouri Conference students graduate from Saint Paul School of Theology.

The Missouri Conference of the United Methodist Church is committed to providing safe places of worship and fellowship to everyone we serve. To that end, it is the Conference’s expectation that: Every clergy appointed ...

Much can be learned from Zilpha Elaw, Julia Foote and Sojourner Truth. How to learn it is a bit challenging, though. These Black women preachers had a theology that was not taught in seminaries. That drove Rev. Dr. Kate ...

What is Connectionalism and why is it foundational to the DNA of the United Methodists? In this month's column, Rev Sandra Nenadal discusses that "vital web of interactive relationships."

In this month's Laity Voice column, Jai Vaughn helps us prepare for the upcoming annual conference with important details and tips.

The United Methodist denomination has a rich history of connection. With the connectional system, the collaboration also becomes an opportunity. In the Northland of Kansas City, Missouri, one such collaboration has been ...

What does it look like when churches look beyond the borders of their congregation and even their denomination partner together in worship? For the past two years, three churches in the Laze Ozark area have been ...

If you’ve heard about Juneteenth, the common telling is that while President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation pronounced freedom for all enslaved people in states that had seceded from the Union, Black ...

Kay McCoy’s faith had guided her through life’s challenges, and when she felt called to create 200 prayer shawls for Francis Street First Church’s congregation with many homebound women, she embraced the task ...

There are a wide variety of reasons that people move on to a different church. But what do you do when your church leaves you? Disaffiliations from the United Methodist Church in the past year have left some devout ...

One aspect of the Mozambique Initiative’s work with its partners in sub-Saharan Africa is to improve access to healthcare, especially for remote and rural communities. Through mobile clinics, Mozambicans in remote ...

The Missouri Conference of the United Methodist Church is excited to announce the release of the companion curriculum for season three of the Faith and Race Podcast, which highlighted the legacies of five of Missouri’s ...

By Rev. Mona Candea When I stepped into the role as Associate Director of NextGen Ministries, I brought my passion for local church ministry with me. My aim in this role is to help the Missouri Conference be the best ...

Early this morning, widespread severe storms impacted many areas of Missouri. A tornado touched down in Bollinger County, in the Glenallen area, in southeast Missouri and caused significant damage and loss of life. ...

On Friday, March 31, severe storms and tornadoes hit in the Little Rock, Arkansas, area and caused significant damage and loss of life. The most severe damage occurred in the Jacksonville, Little Rock, North Little Rock,...

Last weekend, severe storms and tornadoes hit in Mississippi over the weekend and caused significant damage and loss of life. The most severe damage occurred in the Rolling Fork and Silver City communities. At current ...

Each summer, the Missouri Conference works together with local churches to hire summer interns to serve in various ministry roles. Nine young people will receive hands-on experience this summer through the Crossroads ...

The Conference Lay Ministry team has been making changes lately. What started as a need to provide lay education courses during the pandemic led us to take a hard look at laity education and how to meet the unique needs ...

In this months column, Bishop Bob Farr reflects on what the sudden death of his father 40 years ago taught him about faith. "My dad’s death changed my view of death and resurrection, from the abstract to the personal, ...

In his sermon “God’s Love to Fallen Man,” John Wesley says this: Beloved, what manner of love is this, wherewith God has loved us! To give his only Son! In glory equal to the Father; in majesty co-eternal. What manner of...

Around El Paso, you can see the border between the United States and Mexico is, in places, a wall, a fence, a river, an invisible line in the sand. Still, when Dr. Victor Manjarrez thinks about the border, which he often...

Rev. Jeff Fugitt did not think that ministering to those struggling with substance abuse was something he was geared for. But when he was appointed to Cassville UMC and he began to notice thee number of adults just ...

St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church in DeSoto again served as a host of Night to Shine, sponsored by the Tim Tebow Foundation. The unforgettable prom night experience, centered on God’s love and celebrating people with ...

For more than 100 years, the Lydia Patterson Institute has been enhancing educational opportunities at the Texas-Mexico border, serving as a high school for students in Juarez, Mexico, who may not have otherwise had ...

From his office window in Jefferson City, Judge Cotton Walker can look across the street at First UMC, his church home. On occasion, the two institutions come together physically, like when First UMC hosted the ...

Registration for the 2023 Annual Conference Session is now open! This email includes all the details you'll need to know before you register. WHERE TO REGISTER Registration is online. To register quickly and efficiently ...

The Missouri Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church is excited to rollout Absorb, a new learning management system featuring asynchronous online learning opportunities. Absorb is an on-demand learning platform ...

Beginning January 1, 2021, all candidates entering into ministry in the Missouri Conference of the United Methodist Church have been required to take the implicit bias course as part of their complete file. In spring ...

Conference Disaster Response Coordinator Scott Burdin announced that the Missouri Disaster Kit Hub Network is up and running around the state. “I am excited to expand our disaster response efforts and help the Missouri ...

Midwest Mission is working to respond to Ukraine and Turkey with some basic needs. United Methodists who would like to help, may donate the following items to Midwest Mission for inclusion in a container headed overseas....

In the Missouri Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church, we recognize that God is doing new and fresh things through local churches in Missouri to reach new people, collaborate beyond denomination bounds and ...

Downtown Harrisonville is also a great place to be. The historic Cass County Courthouse square is wrapped in a brick street surrounded by various cafés and shops, picturesque to a level that most towns hope to achieve ...

Church was not always done the way we do it. There was a time when Christians gathered around tables, including strangers and the poor, ate together, and talked about Jesus. This form of the church mainly occurred during...

Evelyn Ezell bridged the watershed date of 1956 when women gained full clergy rights. She began pastoral ministry when women only had partial clergy rights, which meant women could attend school, attain degrees, and be ...

This month, Randy Biggerstaff talks about Lent and drawing close to Jesus. "I started giving things up again when I was older because my friends were all doing it during Lent. We would take the money we saved and give it...

If you’ve been attending a United Methodist Church in Missouri for the past four years, you’ll know there’s that one special Sunday when everyone wears red. No, not Pentecost. You only get the most devout on the ball on ...

Conservative United Methodist Leaders share why they are not disaffiliating. The United Methodist Church is not splitting, which would mean churches need to choose a side. Instead, some individual churches choose to ...

Jeremiah Slater, had been harboring an ambition to open his own coffee shop. But rather than going into it as an enterprise, he put his knowledge to work as a ministry.

In this month's Wesley in the World, Dr. Hal Knight discusses the cultural pursuit of happiness. Without this new life, none “can be happy even in this world. For it is not possible like things” that a person “should be ...