Church News (Page 55)

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Cal-Pac Annual Conference 2016

Each year, representatives from every United Methodist Church in the California-Pacific Annual (regional) Conference gather in at the University of Redlands. The annual gathering is for the celebration of ministries, the commissioning and ordination of candidates and provisional clergy, a celebration of retiring clergy, and for the ordering and administration of our Annual Conference.

General Conference Wrap-Up

On May 22nd we took time to “decompress” or “wrap-up” the events of The United Methodist Church’s quadrennial (every four years) General Conference that took place in Portland, OR. The General Conference is the highest legislative gathering in The United Methodist Church with voting membership consisting of an equal number of clergy and lay delegates elected by the Annual Conferences. General Conference is the only body that can speak officially for The United Methodist Church. As one who has a…
LoL Labor of Love heart

Labor of Love Presentation

On Sunday, April 24th we were joined by Matthew Boomhower of Southern Cross Property Consultants to discuss a project that has been in the works for the past two years, beginning under Pastor April’s leadership and continuing today with Pastor Bob and the Labor of Love Committee. The Labor of Love project was presented with representative drawings of work to be done on the Sanctuary windows along Ingraham Street, the North and West sides of the same building, and the…

Self-Help Groups at PB UMC

Part of the core mission of PB UMC is our outreach to the community. Most of us are all aware of Project Grace (our Wednesday Night Ministry), which is one of our most visible outreaches. However what you may not know is that we also support several other self-help groups.

The Many Faces of Grace

Shoreline Community Services, the partnering agency for the Wednesday night ministries, is working diligently to take over the responsibilities financial and otherwise of this ministry. In this process we have worked side by side with our regular volunteers to learn all the details and tasks that are handled behind the scenes. We have brought in outreach from agencies such as Feeding America, the VA, and Veteran’s Village. These outreach efforts complement the existing outreach of Family Health Centers of San Diego…

Legacy

Some of you may have heard the news that my younger sister Lyz and her husband Braden recently had a baby! Little Ava was born on April 9th into a family filled with love and hope and joy. Beth and I are looking forward to meeting Ava when they come to Southern California this June! This has brought back so many memories for me! I remember when both of our boys were born, both under circumstances that were both similar…

Lifted Up

In a recent conversation with a clergy colleague, we were laughing a bit at how random the daily life and work of any clergy person can be. We began as this colleague spoke of having to address a minor plumbing issue in the church that he serves, and we continued with a long list of other jobs (i.e. copy machine operator, counter wiper, publications and social media guru, musician, bulletin/newsletter/projection editor, door un-locker, photo & historical item sorter, graphic designer,…