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September
14, 2001
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Common Table listens for vision
Members of the Florida Conference's Common Table have been
travelling around the conference asking lay and clergy leaders from each district about
the mission, primary tasks and priorities for the annual conference. From that feedback,
they hope to discern a vision for the conference.
The information gathered at the listening sessions will be added to
feedback collected from a survey of delegates taken at the Dare to Share Jesus 2001
Florida Annual Conference Event last June.
Once the information is gathered it will become part of the process
through which the bishop and Common Table members "listen for the Spirit to give
shape to a vision," said the Rev. Jim Harnish, one of the organizers of the Common
Table. Full Story
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Gold Rush
Nets Copper
 Michaela Etter (center) was one of more
than 100 children who raised $289.13 for the Bishop Cornelius L. and Dorothye Henderson
Secondary
School in Mozambique, Africa.
"The Gold Rush" was the theme of vacation Bible school
at Melbourne's Asbury United Methodist Church June 25-29. Full Story
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Conference finances improving
despite lower giving
Despite lower giving by local churches to the conference and
general apportionments, the Florida Conference is in better financial condition than it
has been the past two years, according to Dr. Randy Casey-Rutland, the conference's
treasurer.
As of June 30 the conference had received a little more than $6.5
million dollars or 38.28 percent of the total amount local churches are asked to give. In
the previous two years, churches had paid as much as 40 percent by this time.
Regardless, the conference's finances are stronger, according to
Casey-Rutland. "We've done a better job of managing our expenses, so our overall
financial situation is better than in 1999 or 2000." Full
Story
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New pastor leads church back
from the edge
 When the Rev. Georgia Gaston received her
first pastoral appointment a little more than a year ago, it was to a church that was
seriously considering closing its doors. Today, Trinity United Methodist Church in St.
Petersburg has a fresh coat of paint on the outside and a new attitude toward ministry on
the inside.
With fewer than 150 people on the rolls and approximately 45 people in
worship, members of Trinity told the new pastor they received in June 2000 that they had
considered closing because the size of the membership and the church's finances
"would not allow them to continue in ministry," Gaston said.
Today, the church holds a multicultural, intergenerational worship
service and is providing space for a school for 90 kindergarten and first-grade students.
Full Story
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Heritage church offers haven
for children
 For 12 years, 2,200-member Heritage United
Methodist Church in Clearwater has offered summertime recreation and spiritual guidance to
kids from the immediate area. This summer, the Student Life Summer Camp attracted 1,400
students over nine weeks.
The kindergarten through fifth-grade kids participate in baseball and
music camps; Camp Heritage, with classes, chapel, lunch and devotions; a vacation Bible
school; and local missions camps. Full Story
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Alfalit founder dies
The Rev. Eulalia Cook González, founder of Alfalit
International, died July 14 in her home in Costa Rica. González was a third generation
Methodist pastor from South Carolina and was the first woman ordained pastor in the
Methodist Church in the United States. She also served as a missionary to Cuba and worked
with refugee ministries in Miami. Full Story
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