Mar 12, 2019 | Bishop Holston, Conference Updates, Front Page, GC2019, Upcoming Events
Rev. Rendle Rev. Dr. Gil Rendle, who worked as a consultant for the UMC’s Commission on a Way Forward – will be the keynote speaker of Bishop L. Jonathan Holston’s 2019 Leadership Conference – “What Next? Purposeful Mission in Uncertain Times.”...
Feb 27, 2019 | 2019 General Conference, Bishop Holston, Conference Updates, Front Page, GC2019
Bishop L. Jonathan Holston, resident bishop of the South Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church, released this statement following the UMC’s 2019 General Conference: “Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.Make every...
Feb 27, 2019 | 2019 General Conference, Bishop Holston, Conference Updates, Front Page, GC2019
Passage Tuesday of an amended Traditional Plan – along with a first-ever “exit plan” for churches unhappy with the now stricter church doctrine on homosexuality – left many delegates saddened, hurt and concerned for the future of a clearly divided United...
Feb 25, 2019 | 2019 General Conference, Bishop Holston, Conference Updates, Front Page, GC2019
Delegates to the 2019 General Conference on Monday advanced a plan that would strengthen restrictions on same-gender unions and “self-avowed practicing” gay clergy, rejecting proposals to remove language from the Book of Discipline declaring the practice of...
Feb 24, 2019 | 2019 General Conference, Bishop Holston, Conference Updates, Front Page, GC2019
Delegates to the 2019 General Conference on Sunday established the order in which they want their Legislative Committee to take up plans and petitions addressing parts of The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church involving human sexuality. That committee,...
Feb 23, 2019 | 2019 General Conference, Bishop Holston, Conference Updates, Front Page, GC2019
Bishop Holston and other bishops served communion to delegates and others who attended Saturday’s opening day of the 2019 General Conference. Photo by Matt Brodie The 2019 General Conference got off to a prayerful, joyful and unifying start Saturday, leading...