JOY Weekly

"What do you believe? Why do you believe it?"  As United Methodists, we live in a time of uncertainty. We are invited to ponder an...

  Peace to you.  After taking a day of rest on Sunday, General Conference delegates resumed their second-week session.  They approved a plan...

  Family.  The Korean word for family, "식구" ( shikgu ) roughly means “mouths that eat.” The word originally meant people who live ...

April 26 was a rather quiet day in terms of making decisions. However, Bishop Lewis challenged delegates during morning worship in this way:...

The plenary session on Day 3 of General Conference produced two historic moments: Eurasia's departure and Regionalization. First, Genera...

Legislative committee work began.  Due to the disaffiliation reality, a proposed denomination-wide budget was the United Methodist Church’s ...

General Conference began with Charles Wesely's "O for Thousand Tongues to Sing."  Bishop Thomas J. Bickerton gave the message ...