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Conference votes for more research on online church and online communion
01 July 2024
The Methodist Conference, currently taking place in Leeds, requested a report for the 2026 Conference on online churches and the framework that would be needed to facilitate them.
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President and Vice-President elected and inducted for 2024/2025
30 June 2024
The new President is Revd Helen Cameron and the new Vice-President is Carolyn Godfrey.
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Highlights of the Methodist Conference
25 June 2024
The Methodist Conference 2024 will occur at the Royal Armouries and New Dock Hall, Armouries Way in Leeds from 27 June until 3 July 2024.
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The Methodist Church in Great Britain celebrates 50 years of women’s ordination as presbyters
25 June 2024
The Methodist Church in Britain is proud to mark the 50th anniversary of the ordination of women as ministers (presbyters). Although women were permitted to become deacons in the Methodist Church from 1890, they were not ordained as presbyters until 2 July 1974 at the Methodist Conference in Bristol.
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Statement by the Methodist Church in Britain on the Conflict in Sudan
18 June 2024
The Methodist Church in Britain is profoundly concerned by the ongoing violence and the worsening situation in Sudan. It is causing unimaginable suffering to millions of people.
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Church of North India: First Woman Bishop
10 June 2024
The Church of North India (CNI), a partner church of the Methodist Church in Britain, has celebrated an historic milestone by welcoming its first female bishop, the Right Reverend Violet Nayak, who will serve the Diocese of Phulbani.
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Poverty must be at the heart of this election campaign
05 June 2024
Church communities, including Methodists, are joining forces ahead of the General Election to call for an end to poverty.
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Showing up at the RHS Flower Show in Tatton Park
05 June 2024
‘This Garden Isn’t Finished Without You’ will be open to the public at RHS Flower Show Tatton Park from 17 to 21 July 2024. The garden illustrates the Methodist Church in Great Britain’s commitment to diversity, inclusion and sustainability.
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Wesley Day with the President and Vice-President of the Methodist Conference
30 May 2024
Revd Gill Newton and Deacon Kerry Scarlett, President and Vice-President of the Methodist Conference, were in the London District for the 286th Wesley Day on Friday 24 May 2024.
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Methodist leaders issue election call to love, pray and vote
23 May 2024
A General Election is a significant event in the life of the country. As choices about the future are debated and decisions made, let us choose to love, to pray, and to vote.
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First Eco Fair in Whalley Methodist Church
16 May 2024
In the Lancashire Methodist District, the rural church of Whalley organised its first Eco Spring Fair on Saturday 11 May 2024. Two rooms were needed to host all the stands promoting a more sustainable way to shop with limited environmental impact.
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The Yorkshire North & East District finalist of the Ashden Awards for climate justice
15 May 2024
The Yorkshire North & East Methodist District is one of the five finalists in the category for the People’s Energy in the 2024 Ashden Awards for Climate Solutions for its Tea & PV project and work on climate justice.
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