Every day offers a chance to live into our mission and to strive to #BeUMC — to be the church our communities so desperately need. This grassroots effort, built upon powerful stories of congregations and people living their faith, celebrates what draws us to The United Methodist Church and what we aspire to be. Download a #BeUMC discussion guide or visit Resource UMC for Worship and Preaching resources. You can also watch #BeUMC videos
The United Methodist Church finds itself in a season of splintering. Following district gatherings in the Great Plains Conference, the cabinet and conference staff created a document to clarify the denomination’s core doctrines and to answer key questions arising around church disaffiliations.
Connection is at the core of our denomination. All churches are part of something larger than themselves. One of the ways to ensure people feel comfortable when they enter a United Methodist Church is the trust clause, which means local congregations own their building in trust for the use of the entire denomination.
If your church has chosen to disaffiliate from The United Methodist Church, but you would like to remain connected to the denomination, please fill out this simple form to start the process for either transferring your membership to another United Methodist Church in the Great Plains or transferring your membership directly to the Great Plains Conference. Looking for a congregation near you?
Backed by $500,000 from the Great Plains Conference's Council on Finance & Administration, grants are available to churches in Kansas and Nebraska dealing with the aftershocks of disaffiliation.
The grants are for both churches that survived disaffiliation votes, but lost members, and those communities whose churches have disaffiliated, but individuals and groups want to remain United Methodist.
Learn more: Our Available Grants
If you see others embodying the values of the United Methodist Church, let us know! Email [email protected]. Here are some of the ways we've seen #BeUMC in action:
Read: #BeUMC news or Watch: #BeUMC series
John Wesley urged all to hold "fast both the doctrine, spirit, and discipline" with which "the people called Methodists...first set out." And whether you're beginning again, continuing your journey after a season of disorientation, grief, and loss, or want to amplify your commitment to #BeUMC, Amplify Media (a streaming resource from Cokesbury) is pleased to offer group studies for learning and conversation by you and others exploring ways to grow and live as Jesus' disciples. Here, you’ll get free access to all of the video sessions in Three Simple Rules, Five Marks of a Methodist, and Five Means of Grace as well as free (and downloadable) access to the leader guides for each study.
Do you want to share your own #BeUMC video? You can record your own and send them to us!
What do we need? Please record your own video explaining what you love about The United Methodist Church and/or your local congregation. Focus on how each serves as the hands and feet of Christ as disciples in our world today.
Please keep your videos to 60 seconds or less, and please realize that sharing them with us means they will appear on our website and/or our social media channels, such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. We do reserve the right to edit or reject videos, especially any that fail to conform to the parameters shared above.
Then, as you come across disciples in action involving your church, share their stories on social media by using the #BeUMC hashtag.