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General Conference Updates December 7, 2022 Greetings Everyone! I wanted to drop by to give an update on General Conference 2024 and to answer a question we are hearing frequently. First of all, on Sunday, December 4, 2022, the Kentucky Annual Conference (KAC) of the United Methodist Church (UMC) held a Special Annual Conference for … Read more
General Conference Updates November 10, 2022 Greetings! The past two weeks have been eventful and we thought it would be helpful to update you. Jurisdictional Conferences met last week. The major news from this meeting of the Southeastern Jurisdiction in Lake Junalauska, NC. is that Bishop Leonard Fairley was re-appointed to Kentucky and Central Appalachia … Read more
General Conference Updates October 17, 2022 Greetings, We are seven weeks into our fall study time preparing for General Conference 2024. Thank you to everyone who has attended on Wednesday nights and those of you who are keeping up with the conversations on the podcast. Minds are being renewed. Socially constructed opinions are turning into … Read more
General Conference Updates August 17, 2022 Greetings First Church family! We are two weeks away from the beginning of phase two of our internal 2024 General Conference timeline. Wednesday, August 31, begins the fall focus on study as we offer several ways for you to be involved. The following is a description and overview of … Read more
General Conference Updates June 15, 2022 Greetings First Church family! With the Kentucky Annual Conference behind us for 2022, we wanted to share a few observations. The Annual Conference was a civil and non-anxious affair. As a matter of fact, the word non-anxious was mentioned by many of the speakers, as well as Bishop Fairley, … Read more
General Conference Updates June 1, 2022 This week’s General Conference update is a podcast with Todd Nelson and Taylor Zimmerman who dive into the “why” of our conversations, study, and listening period. It boils down to something Gordon T. Smith said in his book Listening to God in Times of Choice: “It takes time to nurture a … Read more
General Conference Updates May 26, 2022 For this week’s General Conference update let us encourage you to take a deep breath, enjoy this beautiful weather, and make sure you have propane for your grill this weekend! We aren’t going to hit you with any new information! It is a catch up week. Here is a … Read more
General Conference Updates May 18, 2022 Greetings everyone! A new episode of the First UMC Leadership podcast is now ready and available. Because you have expressed an interest to be kept up to date on General Conference 2024 news, we will alert you each time a new episode is available. It can be found here and … Read more
General Conference Updates May 11, 2022 As Todd mentions in the video, the Judicial Council just released their ruling about Annual Conferences voting to separate from the United Methodist Church. The news release from the Kentucky Annual Conference can be found here and the full decision from the Judicial Council can be found here. A written … Read more
General Conference Updates May 4, 2022 Greetings Everyone! The first episode of season four of the Leaders Podcast is now ready and available. Because you have expressed an interest to be kept up to date on General Conference 2024 news we will alert you each time a new episode is available. In this episode we … Read more
