Support UM News at General Conference: Your gift ensures that you and other visitors receive the latest updates, in-depth analysis, and diverse perspectives from General Conference.

Maybe Later Dismiss
Navigation Back Search

Church History

Church History
Ashley Boggan D. (left), top executive of the United Methodist Commission on Archives and History, and the Rev. Molly Vetter, senior pastor of Westwood United Methodist Church in Los Angeles, talk about the new United Methodist Stories app unveiled by the agency during a press conference April 29 at General Conference in Charlotte, N.C. Photo by Crystal Caviness, United Methodist Communications.

New app will preserve United Methodist history
An app to collect stories about United Methodism was introduced during General Conference. The United Methodist Stories app has been tested at some recent events, and plans call for it soon to be open to all.
Local Church
The Rev. Alfred T. Fred Day III gives a history of the founding of the African Methodist Episcopal Church May 17 during the 2016 United Methodist General Conference in Portland, Ore. Photo by Mike DuBose, UMNS

Weeping with grief, gratitude for closed church
Despite closing, a local church’s legacy will live on, thanks to the lives that it shaped through the years.
Church Leadership
The Rev. Charles Yrigoyen Jr. speaks during a meeting of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference Historical Society in 1983. Yrigoyen, who served as top staff executive of the United Methodist Commission on Archives and History, died May 9. He was 84. Photo courtesy of Archives and History.

Charles Yrigoyen remembered as pastor and scholar
The Rev. Charles Yrigoyen Jr., a leading United Methodist historian, oversaw the denomination’s Commission on Archives and History for nearly 24 years. He died at age 84.
Church History
The Rev. Zenro Hirota (second row from the top, third from the left) poses with other attendees of the 10th Annual Session of the Pacific Japanese Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church held in Seattle, Wash., in 1909. Hirota is listed as “pastor at San Francisco” on the original legend. Image courtesy of Archives and History of the California-Pacific Conference; graphic by Laurens Glass, United Methodist Communications.

Ask The UMC: Pioneers in Methodism - Zenro Hirota
Rev. Zenro Hirota was a pioneer among Japanese American Methodists, serving for 45 years, often facing great difficulties, alongside his colleagues in the California Conference in a variety of settings (mission, local church, school, publishing, mission society leadership).

Sign up for our newsletter!

UMNEWS-SUBSCRIPTION
Loading

United Methodist Communications is an agency of The United Methodist Church

©2024 United Methodist Communications. All Rights Reserved