"Prayer for Mission and Unity" for Sunday, 8 July 2018 from The United Methodist Church Prays in Nashville, Tennessee, United States

"Prayer for Mission and Unity" for Sunday, 8 July 2018 from The United Methodist Church Prays in Nashville, Tennessee, United States

SUNDAY, JULY 8, 2018
Today we enter this sixth week of prayer and fasting for the mission and unity of The United Methodist Church. We appreciate your ongoing prayer support for the special session of the General Conference to be held in St. Louis next February. Together we will pray for this discernment process.
Below you will find the names to be lifted in prayer this week. Please know that your prayer for each person will have a significant and positive spiritual impact. Thank you for joining this global prayer initiative.
A few of the delegates and alternates to the 2019 General Conference:

1. Jo Anne Kay Hayden, Lay, Alaska, Western USA
2. Carlo Axibal Rapanut, Clergy, Alaska, Western USA
3. Lisa Dromgold Bender, Lay, Susquehanna, Northeastern USA
4. Larry Lee Leland, Jr., Clergy, Susquehanna, Northeastern USA
5. Warren Alexander Heil, Jr., Lay, Susquehanna, Northeastern USA
6. Matthew Earl Lake, Clergy, Susquehanna, Northeastern USA
7. Milton W. Loyer, Lay, Susquehanna, Northeastern USA
8. Beth E. Jones, Clergy, Susquehanna, Northeastern USA
9. Layne Maree Miller, Lay, Susquehanna, Northeastern USA
10. Thomas L. Salsgiver, Clergy, Susquehanna, Northeastern USA
11. Margaret Anne Horton, Lay, Susquehanna, Northeastern USA
12. Anna Elizabeth Layman Knox, Clergy, Susquehanna, Northeastern USA
13. Sarah Cissy Namukose, Lay, East Africa, Africa CC
14. Carol Alois Ososo, Clergy, East Africa, Africa CC
15. Alex Jalan Oliver Ludoru, Lay, East Africa, Africa CC
16. Marc Baliyanga, Clergy, East Africa, Africa CC
17. Helene Bindl, Lay, Austria Provisional, Central & Southern Europe CC
18. Stefan Schroeckenfuchs, Clergy, Austria Provisional, Central & Southern Europe CC
19. Kai, Uwe Dannenberg, Lay, Germany North, Germany CC
20. Anne Marie Detjen, Clergy, Germany North, Germany CC

Member of the General Commission of the General Conference: Betty Katiyo
Member of the General Conference Staff: Susan Brumbaugh
Members of the Council of Bishops in the USA and around the world:

1. Bishop Thomas Bickerton, New York Annual Conference, USA, and spouse Sally Bickerton
2. Bishop Rodolfo Juan, Davao Episcopal Area, Philippines, and spouse Leigh Juan

Member of the Commission on a Way Forward: Rev. Helen Cunanan, Philippines, elder, female
General Secretary or Leader of a United Methodist Commission or Agency: Dan Krause was elected in 2015 to lead the General Commission on Communication (UMCOM). He is a seminary-educated, former corporate marketing leader with a combination of business savvy and a heart for meaningful work. To learn more about Dan, click here. http://www.umcom.org/about/a-new-leader-for-a-new-future
To learn more about how the work United Methodists do together transforms the world and provides local churches with tools, resources, and training to equip them for communications ministry, click here http://www.umc.org/who-we-are/united-methodist-communications and here http://www.umcom.org/

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