2019 North Georgia Annual Conference

“And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another.” (Hebrews 10:24-25)

June 11-14, over 2800 delegates representing the 1000 churches and 350,000+ United Methodists in North Georgia will gather at the Classic Center in Athens, Georgia for the North Georgia Annual Conference with the theme “One With Each Other.”  Linda Kent, Danielle Neal, Ryan Miller, and myself are all attending as our church’s delegates, and several other McKendree members will also be attending as general delegates from our Atlanta-Emory District.

Each year's Annual Conference makes important decisions that affect every United Methodist church in our geographic area: approval and ordination of new clergy and retirement of older ones (we celebrate that a former Youth and Associate Minister, Joe Palmer, will be commissioned this year!); appointments of pastors to local churches are finalized (both Ryan and I celebrate that we will be re-appointed as your Pastors here at McKendree UMC); adoption of the conference budget; support for and reports from conference missions and ministries; exciting worship and bible study opportunities to enrich our spiritual lives; present our “Bishop’s Offering” (this year, it will support the pastoral care program of Wesley Woods Senior Centers); and more! And this year, we will also be electing clergy and laity delegates to represent us all at the regular session of the United Methodist Church’s General Conference in May 2020.

Upon our return, we’ll give a report on important decisions that were made, and how these might affect us as a congregation.  In the meantime, you can find more information about Annual Conference (as well as “real time” updates) on our North Georgia Conference website (HERE),  Also, thank you for your prayers, both for ourselves as your representatives, and for the Conference itself.  Always remember, God loves you and I do too!