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Deaconesses are still here – let’s invest in them too!
A distinctly separate order from deacons, deaconesses and home missioners serve in a wide variety of full-time lay ministries for the church.
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Bishop Warner remembered for humility in exile
After a military coup forced him out of his native Liberia, United Methodist Bishop Bennie Warner began ministry anew in the U.S. He died at age 89 after serving in Oklahoma and Arkansas.
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Bishop Lee remembered as towering figure
Bishop Clay Foster Lee Jr., who led the Holston Conference from 1988 to 1996, died Nov. 11 at age 94. Some of his sermons gained national attention during the Civil Rights Movement.
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United Methodists killed in Congo shipwreck
Church member Pascaline Mulindwa and her baby are among those killed when a ferry boat sank on Lake Kivu in war-torn eastern Congo.