Greetings in the name of our Crucified and Risen Lord, Jesus Christ! I trust that you had a wonderful Easter and that your watches have been reset after the equinox.  Seasonal changes whether Spring (in the northern hemisphere) or Autumn (in the southern hemisphere) are a reminder that time moves on and that we have […]

On the 21st of May, World Methodist Council General Secretary Ivan Abrahams participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open a new exhibit at the Epworth Old Rectory, birthplace of John and Charles Wesley. The exhibit called ‘Over the Rainbow’ relates to the national event held in London in June 1990 organised by British Methodist Women (then […]

This article appeared in the Methodist Church in Britain’s March 2018 World Church News. The Methodist Church of Upper Myanmar (MCUM) and the Myanmar Council of Churches worked under hostile restrictions for many years, and the Church has suffered more than its fair share of splits. There are currently five Methodist denominations, the latest split coming when the ‘Wesleyan’ Methodists formed their own […]

World Methodist Evangelism’s Order of the FLAME (Faithful Leaders as Mission Evangelists) is a covenant community within the Methodist Wesleyan family that exists to form, nurture, and encourage young clergy and their spouses. Each year members of the Order of the FLAME gather for four days of inspiration, sharing, learning, and fellowship, and welcome a newly invited class into membership. […]

Representatives of the Baptist World Alliance and the World Methodist Council met March 14–21, 2018 at Sarum College, Salisbury, England. The meeting was the last of the rounds of conversations of the international dialogue between Methodists and Baptists which started in 2014. The overall theme of the dialogue has been faith working through love. The […]

by the Revd Dr Laurence Graham, President of the Methodist Church in Ireland “It’s a real expression of love that you can share in the work we are doing to welcome others,” said Mariela Correa Montecinos, at the beginning of our meeting on the first day of my visit to the Methodist Church in Chile. I was quickly […]

By Rev. Lucinda V. Burgess The 187th Session of the Ohio-South Ohio Annual Conference saw a shift in the leadership team when senior bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and presiding prelate of the 3rd Episcopal District, Bishop McKinley Young, made history when he reorganized the district and its leadership. It was during the […]

Communique for “International Conference in Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the 88 Declaration” Cultivating Peace, Proclaiming Hope “For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us.” (Ephesians 2:14) God’s vision for this world sees swords being […]

The President and Vice-President of the Methodist Conference, the Revd Loraine N Mellor and Jill Baker, have released the following statement following the recent violence on the Gaza-Israel border. We are horrified by the violence that has taken place on the eastern border of Gaza in the past days, and deeply troubled by what appears […]

On Thursday, March 8th, a commemorative blue plaque was unveiled by the Ulster History Circle on the front wall of Shankill Road Methodist Church, Belfast, Northern Ireland in honour of Ms Saidie Patterson. Ms Patterson was the first recipient of the World Methodist Peace Award in 1977, and a faithful member of the congregation. Blue plaques […]