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A waypoint is the intersection of two coordinates. This course will utilize your CliftonStrengths assessment results to help you identify the intersection of your gifts, or strengths, and your call.

These questions are designed for small group discussion and mirror training sessions for group leaders. Throughout these questions you will see the word “mission.” Think of this word broadly in terms of both giving and receiving help and working alongside others. Fundamentally, United Methodists believe that we participate in God’s mission, God’s work in the world. “Mission,” as a result, can be everything from small acts of grace and kindness to international efforts aimed at structural injustice. God is in it all and may God also be in your conversation.”

This series is hosted by the Missouri Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church and designed to encourage you to think about how you and people you know may join hands and hearts together in service to God and neighbor throughout the world. This is the first and shortest of the four sessions, and our goal for this video is to show you an overview of what is to come.

This series is hosted by the Missouri Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church and designed to encourage you to think about how you and people you know may join hands and hearts together in service to God and neighbor throughout the world. Who is our neighbor? In a global world our neighbor is down the street, but is our neighbor also the person who helped make the clothes we wear, the food we eat?

This series is hosted by the Missouri Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church and designed to encourage you to think about how you and people you know may join hands and hearts together in service to God and neighbor throughout the world. In session three we explore, if you want to make a difference in the world with whom are you going to work?

This series is hosted by the Missouri Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church and designed to encourage you to think about how you and people you know may join hands and hearts together in service to God and neighbor throughout the world. In this final session we address a fundamental issue. What in the world can we do about the world?

The Mozambique Initiative supports access to sustainable solutions in Mozambican communities through its support of solar panels. Sixty-five percent of United Methodist pastors in Mozambique do not have electricity in their home. Poor or no access to power makes many daily tasks much more difficult. Solar panels can solve this problem. When installed on local church parsonage roofs, the panels provide clean and sustainable energy to the home below and are one of few options for providing power to isolated and rural areas. We’ve created resources, so you can share with your church group how solar panels are improving the lives of UMC pastors and their communities. Access a one-page info sheet, video, shareable infographics and more.

In this class, Rev. Mark Statler introduces the basic principles of biblical interpretation. Together we’ll explore how the Bible came together, methods for interpreting scripture and helpful tools for biblical interpretation.

This course focuses on preaching the gospel from the Old and New Testaments. Students will learn how to?articulate a theology of proclamation, exegete biblical passages for preaching, and develop plans for ordering and delivering sermons in their context. Additionally, students will learn to evaluate sermons for scriptural integrity, theological soundness, pastoral sensitivity, and apply appropriate illustrations as they engage the Bible.

This course introduces the basic tenets of the United Methodist Church, including the means of grace, Book of Discipline and Articles of Religion, affirming creeds, and the Wesleyan understanding of grace.