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Campers ask to be heard while learning to hear
As the school year winds down, the Florida Conference camping staff is preparing children and youth for another summer of vitally experiencing God's love and appreciating his relevancy.
Florida United Methodist Summer Camp launches June 2 and spans through Aug. 2 at the Warren W. Willis Youth Camp in Leesburg, as well as June 30 to July 12 at the South Florida Camp in LaBelle.
This year's theme is "Can You Hear Us?" Assistant Camp Director Heather Pancoast said the theme was chosen out of a sense that today's generation of children and youth are earnestly searching to be heard and understood.
"There seems to be a real need to be accepted," Pancoast said. "Kids are going to absolute extremes to get heard, from school shootings to violence to gangs. It seems like they're searching in a lot of the wrong places. At camp this summer the curriculum and the worship leaders will focus on how we can be in communication with God, sense that he is hearing us, and, in turn, how to listen and hear what he is saying to us."
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Haitians lobby for diversity in body of Christ
The time is now.
That's the sentiment of members of the Florida's Conference's Haitian Ministries as the conference prepares for the Florida Annual Conference Event May 27-31 here.
Haitian United Methodists are appealing to the event's voting members to elect delegates to the 2004 General Conference who reflect the United Methodists church's diverse membership.
The Rev. Montreuil F. Milord, pastor of the South Dade Haitian Mission, said it's time for the General Conference to have a voice from the Haitian community.
"We want to make an impact with our voices," said the minister of the 256-member congregation in Homestead. "We want the church to have a larger vision. As a minority, we have issues, and in a big crowd, sometimes people forget.".
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It's all about curb appeal
Either you have it or you don't.
It's that simple when it comes to making visitors feel welcome when they step on church property for the first time.
While most churches realize the importance of making a good first impression, several are going the extra mile to stick out in the minds of visitors who often visit many churches before joining one.
St. Paul United Methodist Church, Jacksonville, is one of them. Recognized by the national Igniting Ministry office as a Certified Welcoming Congregation for the second year in a row, the church has been working to turn visitors into members via an orchestrated effort to make visitors know their search for a church home has come to an end.
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Little choir with a big heart continues to grow
The children's choir at First United Methodist Church, Sarasota, has grown from four members four years ago to a whopping 26 children today.
While that may sound like normal growth for most churches, it's large for this church because only five of the children are members of the congregation.
Elizabeth Goldstein, director of the choir, said a $3,000 grant from the Florida Conference Council of Bishops' Initiative on Children and Poverty (BICAP) task force awarded in January has made it possible. The church is using the grant as an outreach to local children who have an interest in music, but who do not have the opportunity to utilize their talent.
"We are promoting diversity and connecting children to the love of God," Goldstein said. "We want these children to know they are special, they have unique gifts and whatever they do is good enough…"
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Nominees elected at annual conference event
Florida Conference nominees for delegates to the 2004 General and Jurisdictional conferences will be elected at the 2003 Florida Annual Conference Event May 27-31 in Lakeland.
Those elected to General Conference will gather April 27-May 7, 2004, in Pittsburgh, P.A., for the denomination's top legislative meeting, held every four years. The Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference takes place July 14-17 in Lake Junaluska, N.C.
The names of the nominees are listed in the Florida Annual Conference Event Workbook and on the Florida Conference Web site. To access the Web site list visit
http://www.flumc.org/ac2003.
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