2019 Service of Licensing, Commissioning, and Ordination Photo Gallery
Photos by Tennessee Conference Communications Intern Brennen Boose
Photos by Tennessee Conference Communications Intern Brennen Boose
Those presented in 2019 with Tennessee Conference awards were honored at the annual conference in June.
Members of annual conference and guests were called to remember – through Word, Water, & Witness – their identity as baptized Christians and the firm foundation becoming a disciple in the United Methodist church provides. There were worship services, baptismal water basins, and inspiring witness presentations that intertwined Word, water and witness throughout the conference […]
Volunteers from Murfreesboro Bicycle Club, St. Mark’s UMC, and Reeves Rogers Elementary School worked together to put on a unique community event – a Bike Rodeo – at the church. The Murfreesboro City School System loaned bikes for participants who didn’t own bikes. This was a wonderful opportunity for St Mark’s UMC to invite neighborhood […]
Bishop William T. McAlilly William T. (Bill) McAlilly is the bishop of the Nashville Episcopal Area of the United Methodist Church. The Area includes the Memphis and Tennessee Conferences that cover middle and western Tennessee and western Kentucky. He was elected to the episcopacy at the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference in 2012 and was assigned as the resident […]
United Methodist congregations are asked by General Conference to celebrate Older Adult Recognition Day on any Sunday or at any other time during the month of May. Dr. Richard H. Gentzler, Jr., Director of ENCORE Ministries, Golden Cross Foundation, has compiled helpful resources for celebrating Older Adult Recognition Day. Older Adult Recognition Day Resources
The UM Foundation for the Memphis and Tennessee Annual Conferences is offering a $500 scholarship to any clergy person in the Memphis or Tennessee Annual Conferences who registers and completes the course. For further information contact Phil Jamieson at 615-259-2008 orphil.jamieson@umfmtc.org. https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/369187https://umfmtc.org/blog/um-foundation-offers-scholarships-to-tn-memphis-conference-clergy-for-seminar/
When you think of your faith journey, who made an impact on you? Most likely there are others who would say those persons impacted their own faith journey. The Harry Denman Evangelism Awards are designed to recognize these faithful servants of God who continually nurture and empower disciples to be so changed by their relationship […]
PULASKI, Tenn.—The Martin Players at Martin Methodist College (MMC) will present Tom Stoppard’s “The Real Inspector Hound” this week. Serving as director of the play is MMC English Professor Dr. Kayla Wiggins. “I have seen two productions of “The Real Inspector Hound,” said Wiggins. “But this is the first time I have directed the play. […]
“We have our own personal ‘great cloud of witnesses’ as United Methodists in Tennessee,” says Gratia Strother, newly appointed Conference Archivist for the Tennessee United Methodist Conference. “The stories of those who have come before us, laying the foundations of Methodism in Tennessee, interweave with our own stories to make a beautiful tapestry of witness […]