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| First UMC is not the beautiful buildings and
facilities . . . it is people. People who come together to worship, to grow and
to serve.
The United Methodist Church is an even larger group of people who are a church. There are 8.3 million lay people and 44 thousand clergy. United Methodists are " connected" by
Our clergy are appointed to churches by the bishop and district superintendents each year. First UMC is in the Mississippi Annual Conference, Greenwood District. One of the benefits of being a connectional church is that we have great resources to help us become more effective churches and better disciples. Below are some of those resources: |
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Conference and District Offices |
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Mississippi Conference Office:
To find a United Methodist Church United
Methodist Mission Projects:: http://gbgm-umc.org/who_we_are/mp/
(also has biographies and letters)
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About the Mississippi ConferenceNumber of Churches: 1,159 Membership: 189,369 (as of Dec. 31, 2004) Number of Active Clergy: 843 Geographic Area: the State of Mississippi Chief Officer: Bishop Hope Morgan Ward, P.O. Box 931, Jackson, MS 39205; phone: 601-948-4561; e-mail: bishop@mississippi-umc.org Offices: The Episcopal Office (office of the bishop), Connectional Ministries, Finance & Administration, and Communications offices, and the Media Center are in the United Methodist Building, located at 321 Mississippi Street in Jackson. Districts: District offices are in Brookhaven, Greenwood, Gulfport, Hattiesburg, Jackson, Meridian, New Albany, Ridgeland, Senatobia, Starkville, and Tupelo.
Significant dates in the history of the Mississippi Conference: 1799 Rev. Tobias Gibson appointed by Bishop Francis Asbury to the Natchez Territory from the South Carolina Conference. 1813 First Mississippi annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church organized. 1844 Southern churches split from Methodist Episcopal Church, forming the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. 1845 Mississippi Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church continued as Mississippi Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. 1865 Northern Methodist Church established a Mississippi Conference for newly freed black Methodists. 1867 North Mississippi Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church instituted. 1870 North Mississippi Conference of the MEC, South, formed from churches in the Memphis, Mobile, and Mississippi conferences. 1891 Upper Mississippi Conference established for black churches in the northern half of the state. 1939 Three major branches of Methodism the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and the Methodist Protestant Church unite as The Methodist Church. 1968 The Methodist Church and Evangelical United Brethren merge denominations to form The United Methodist Church. (Although Mississippi had no EUB congregations) 1973 Merger of the black Upper Mississippi Conference of the Central Jurisdiction and the white North Mississippi Conference, forming the North Mississippi Conference, and merger of the black Mississippi Conference of the Central Jurisdiction and the white Mississippi Conference, UMC. 1989 Merger of the Mississippi Conference and North Mississippi Conference, forming the present Mississippi Conference of The United Methodist Church. Organization: The United Methodist Church, with more than 9.8 million members worldwide, is governed by a General Conference that meets every four years. The annual and central conferences elect delegates to the General Conference. The resident bishop is the presiding officer of the annual conference. The Mississippi Conference is divided into 11 districts, and each district is administered by a district superintendent in consultation with the bishop. The Mississippi Conference meets annually, usually in June, for its regular business session. An equal number of clergy delegates and lay delegates from the conference meet together to worship, celebrate the previous years ministries, and set a course for the coming year. At the conclusion of each conference, the bishop announces the clergy appointments, or assignments.
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