Mississippi Annual Conference

Members of the 2024-2028 Judicial Council are (front row, from left) the Rev. Jonathan Ulanday; the Rev. Susan Henry-Crowe, president; the Rev. Angela Brown, secretary; and Molly Hlekani Mwayera; (back row, from left) Bill Waddell; Andrew Vorbrich; the Rev. Øyvind Helliesen; the Rev. Luan-Vu Tran; and Harriett Olson. The Judicial Council publicly released a decision on June 3 related to the Mississippi Conference’s process for allowing congregations to leave with property. Photo by Linda Bloom, UM News.

Ruling: Stop alternative church-exit plans

The United Methodist Church’s top court strikes down the Mississippi Conference’s process to let churches leave with property after the denomination’s disaffiliation policy expired.

General Conference

Bishop: Follow God’s lead at General Conference

op Sharma Lewis of the Mississippi Conference urged delegates to try to discern God’s plans before they settle on their own as United Methodism moves into uncharted territory.

Racism

The Rev. Cynthia Davis (at podium), a retired district superintendent in the Mississippi Conference and executive vice president and director of The Moore-West Center for Applied Theology in Memphis, Tenn., speaks March 2, 2024, at Rust College in Holly Springs, Miss., as part of the Mississippi Conference’s End Racism for Good campaign. The Rev. Zachary Beasley (right), pastor of Asbury and Calvin Chapel United Methodist churches in Holly Springs, Miss., welcomed the public to the event and ended it with a benediction. Photo by Jim Patterson, UM News.

Mississippi church services target racism

An ongoing effort to confront racism is producing five worship services in the Mississippi Conference this year to get people gathered and inspired to be change agents against racism.

Worship

Churches urged to relaunch, not just reopen

The spirit of innovation seen in the COVID-19 pandemic needs to continue and deepen, church leadership experts say.

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