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Urgent Announcement on Imagine No Malaria
The United Methodist Church
Los Angeles Episcopal Area
Minerva G. Carcaño
Resident Bishop
Cal-Pac Clergy and Lay Leaders,
I greet you in the powerful and faithful name of Christ Jesus. As we continue to work together to fulfill our $3 million commitment to save the lives of 300,000 of our brothers and sisters who run the risk of dying on this day because of Malaria, I wanted to make sure you had the most recent report (1/31/16).
As I have prayerfully studied our INM giving report I was moved by the many churches who have clearly given sacrificially. Thank you. I need to also say, however, how disappointed I was to see that over 70 of our churches have given not even a penny. Perhaps some of you just haven’t sent in your contribution or you are working on it right now. Please do your very best to help us fight Malaria and save precious lives.
I did some quick calculating and find that if each church raised an additional $4,500, we would meet our commitment. Surely some of our larger churches could take on a slightly larger goal so that smaller churches can be helped so we all contribute to this sacred cause.
Remember that May 1, 2016 is the target end date of our INM effort. Did you know that May 1is also the day designated to our California-Pacific Conference to pray for General Conference? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if on that day we would come before God with the fullness of our INM gift. I know God would be pleased and many would be blessed!
Your sister in Christ,
Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño
Los Angeles Area Resident Bishop
The United Methodist Church
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Remember that May 1, 2016 is the target end date of our INM effort. Did you know that May 1is also the day designated to our California-Pacific Conference to pray for General Conference? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if on that day we would come before God with the fullness of our INM gift. I know God would be pleased and many would be blessed!
Your sister in Christ,
Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño
Los Angeles Area Resident Bishop
The United Methodist Church
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Bishop Carcaño's Introduction to the 32nd Annual Session of the California-Pacific Conference of The United Methodist Church of Pasadena, California, United States for Wednesday, 16 March 2016
I am so looking forward to greeting you at our 2016 Annual Conference Session!
Introduction to the 32nd Annual Session of the California-Pacific Conference
The United Methodist Church
Los Angeles Episcopal Area
Minerva G. Carcaño
Resident Bishop
Brothers and Sisters,
Grace and peace to you in the name of Christ Jesus! I am so looking forward to greeting you at our 2016 Annual Conference Session! We will be gathering just a few weeks after our United Methodist General Conference and just a few weeks before our Western Jurisdictional Conference. We are a connectional people!
What happens at both of these connectional conferences will impact our life and ministry in Cal-Pac so your Sessions team decided to work to help us bring General Conference 2016 home and prepare for Jurisdictional Conference. So we will carry the General Conference theme of "Therefore Go... Proclaim, Lead, Nurture, Send” ...from Portland to Redlands!
Your delegation to General Conference will serve as key leaders at Annual Conference helping us to understand the decisions that will have been made in Portland. It is our hope that they will also guide us in Christian Conferencing around our Methodist identity and beliefs as well as our world-wide nature as a denomination, both of which are to be considered at General Conference.
As your delegation, volunteers and observers from our conference, and I return from General Conference, we will be accompanied by Bishop Gabriel Unda, the episcopal leader of the East Congo Conference, our youngest annual conference in the connection. Bishop Unda will be itinerating among our churches in Southern California and will be preaching at the opening service of the annual conference session. I am praying that we will find a way to be mission partners with Bishop Unda and his conference for the years to come.
At our annual conference session we will also begin to pray for our Western Jurisdictional Conference. With the retirement of Bishop Warner Brown, we will be electing one new bishop for our jurisdiction. Annual Conference will be a time for us to discern whether Cal-Pac is being called to lift up one of its own Elders for consideration for the episcopacy of The United Methodist Church.
Please join me in praying for the many persons who are helping to prepare for our upcoming annual conference session. And pray for our General and Western Jurisdictional Conferences. All of United Methodism is being asked to pray for General Conference and we in Cal-Pac have been asked to pray throughout the entire day of May 1, 2016 that God may bless our General Conference.
We know that God goes ahead of us.
Your sister in Christ,
Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño
Los Angeles Area Resident Bishop
The United Methodist Church
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Bishop Carcaño's Introduction to the 32nd Annual Session of the California-Pacific Conference of The United Methodist Church of Pasadena, California, United States for Wednesday, 16 March 2016
I am so looking forward to greeting you at our 2016 Annual Conference Session!
Introduction to the 32nd Annual Session of the California-Pacific Conference
The United Methodist Church
Los Angeles Episcopal Area
Minerva G. Carcaño
Resident Bishop
Brothers and Sisters,
Grace and peace to you in the name of Christ Jesus! I am so looking forward to greeting you at our 2016 Annual Conference Session! We will be gathering just a few weeks after our United Methodist General Conference and just a few weeks before our Western Jurisdictional Conference. We are a connectional people!
What happens at both of these connectional conferences will impact our life and ministry in Cal-Pac so your Sessions team decided to work to help us bring General Conference 2016 home and prepare for Jurisdictional Conference. So we will carry the General Conference theme of "Therefore Go... Proclaim, Lead, Nurture, Send” ...from Portland to Redlands!
Your delegation to General Conference will serve as key leaders at Annual Conference helping us to understand the decisions that will have been made in Portland. It is our hope that they will also guide us in Christian Conferencing around our Methodist identity and beliefs as well as our world-wide nature as a denomination, both of which are to be considered at General Conference.
As your delegation, volunteers and observers from our conference, and I return from General Conference, we will be accompanied by Bishop Gabriel Unda, the episcopal leader of the East Congo Conference, our youngest annual conference in the connection. Bishop Unda will be itinerating among our churches in Southern California and will be preaching at the opening service of the annual conference session. I am praying that we will find a way to be mission partners with Bishop Unda and his conference for the years to come.
At our annual conference session we will also begin to pray for our Western Jurisdictional Conference. With the retirement of Bishop Warner Brown, we will be electing one new bishop for our jurisdiction. Annual Conference will be a time for us to discern whether Cal-Pac is being called to lift up one of its own Elders for consideration for the episcopacy of The United Methodist Church.
Please join me in praying for the many persons who are helping to prepare for our upcoming annual conference session. And pray for our General and Western Jurisdictional Conferences. All of United Methodism is being asked to pray for General Conference and we in Cal-Pac have been asked to pray throughout the entire day of May 1, 2016 that God may bless our General Conference.
We know that God goes ahead of us.
Your sister in Christ,
Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño
Los Angeles Area Resident Bishop
The United Methodist Church
CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE AT CALPACUMC.ORG/AC2016
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Inspiring the world as passionate followers of Jesus Christ so all may experience God's life-giving love...
Our mailing address is:
The California-Pacific Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church
110 South Euclid Avenue
Pasadena, California 91101, United States
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