The United Methodist center’s opening described as “a call to us today and in the future to build a church where all people are seen, heard and valued.”
Church leaders and Sand Creek representatives from the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes gathered at Iliff School of Theology to identify concrete ways the denomination can continue to work toward repentance.
Born to German immigrants in Colonial Pennsylvania, Jacob Albright (Jakob Albrecht) would go on to found the Evangelical Association, one of The United Methodist Church’s predecessor denominations. Albright’s early life was marked by tragedy and hardship, which directly led him into ministry.
The first native Filipino to be elected bishop of the Methodist Church in the Philippines, Dionisio Deista Alejandro served as an editor and educator and was well known as a gifted evangelist and leader.