Indiana Annual Conference

Faith Stories
More than 35 years ago, Cecelia Whitfield founded a transportation ministry to enable family members to visit their incarcerated loved ones. A United Methodist, Whitfield has helped 100,000 people visit relatives in dozens of Indiana prisons. Photo by Ichigo121212, courtesy of Pixabay; graphic by Laurens Glass, UM News.

Prison visits help inmates, families

Cecelia Whitfield was devastated when her son went to prison for armed robbery, but she rallied quickly and founded a ministry that has transported family members to visit their incarcerated loved ones for more than 35 years.
Jeremiah Bowden, a former addict, now lives at the Lucille Raines Residence in Indianapolis and counsels other addicts. Owned and operated by United Women in Faith of Indiana, the residence offers transitional housing and support for recovering addicts as they reenter society. Photo by Joey Butler, UM News.

Recovering addicts find place to heal at ‘three-quarter’ house

The people who live at the Lucille Raines Residence have all struggled with addiction but are doing their best to put that behind them. The former Indianapolis hotel offers a supportive, dorm-like atmosphere.
Disaster Relief
Amboy United Methodist Church in North Little Rock, Ark., is one of three Arkansas Conference churches badly damaged by tornado-spawning storms that hit March 31. Photo courtesy of the Arkansas Conference.

Churches hard hit by latest storms

Twister-spawning storms moved across the U.S., causing death and widespread destruction, including to three United Methodist churches in the Arkansas Conference.
Annual Conferences
Nyasha (with headset), a second grade student in the hard-of-hearing class at Nyadire Primary in Zimbabwe, tries out an auto-hearing machine machine donated to the school by the Northwest District of the Indiana Conference. Also pictured are David Czerwonky (left) with the Wesley Foundation of Purdue University; Janée LaFuze (center), Northwest District lay leader; Ruvarashe, another student; and teacher Everjoy Nyamukapa (far right). During a July 13-Aug. 4 mission trip, visitors from the Northwest District and the Wesley Foundation of Purdue connected with church members in the Zimbabwe Episcopal Area. Photo by Kudzai Chingwe, UM News.

Mission trip strengthens partnership, ministries

An idea that began with providing chickens for income generation has grown to new collaboration and shared dreams for the Indiana Conference, Wesley Foundation of Purdue University and the Zimbabwe Episcopal Area.

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