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May/June 2004 |
Annual conferences say goodbye to bishops, approve budgets
By United Methodist News Service
Some United Methodist annual conferences, like Indiana's meeting this spring and summer will say goodbye to retiring bishops and become better acquainted with the candidates they are endorsing for the episcopacy.
The 2004 annual conference sessions will be the last for 20 bishops in the United States. They will retire from active service after jurisdictional conferences in July elect their successors. Retiring are 12 white men, two white women, four African-American men including Bishop White, one Asian-American man and one Hispanic man. Four bishops in the central conferences - regional units outside the United States - are also retiring this year.
The Red Bird Missionary Conference, met May 14-15 in Frakes, Ky., and was the first of 63 U.S. conferences to conduct sessions this spring. The final U.S. conference gathering will be East Ohio, meeting June 21-25 in Lakeside.
Some annual conference sessions outside the United States were held in March, and other meetings will occur through December. Meeting dates for some conferences in Africa and Europe are incomplete.
Annual conference members, including lay and clergy representatives from every local church, will also approve budgets, receive reports from conference boards and agencies, adopt programs of mission and ministry, and pass resolutions. A bishop will preside over each conference session. One-year appointments of all clergy members of the conference will be announced, new deacons and elders will be ordained, and candidates for ordination will be approved.
Annual conferences of the North Central Jurisdiction meeting dates and places for 2004 are:
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Dakotas, June 2-5, Pierre, S.D.
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Detroit, May 21-24, Adrian, Mich.
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East Ohio, June 21-25, Lakeside, Ohio
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Illinois Great Rivers, June 10-13, Peoria, Ill.
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Iowa, June 10-13, Ames, Iowa
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Minnesota, June 1-4, Saint Cloud, Minn.
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North Indiana, June 3-5, West Lafayette, Ind.
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Northern Illinois, June 10-12, St. Charles, Ill.
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South Indiana, June 10-12, Bloomington, Ind.
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West Michigan, June 3-6, Grand Rapids, Mich.
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West Ohio, June 13-17, Lakeside, Ohio
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Wisconsin, June 13-16, Middleton, Wis.
Last updated on May 17, 2004