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The rain kept coming and coming
Bill Rhan had his eye on the Myakka River weeks before meteorologists zeroed in on the area east of Sarasota.
As Florida Conference disaster response coordinator, Rhan was monitoring the area because he knew the two weeks of constant rain there was eventually going to cause the river to hit its flood stage-which it did. Homes, farmland, businesses and roads within one mile of the river had significant flood damage, and many outlying areas remained inaccessible. Rhan and the Sarasota District's disaster response coordinator sprang into action.
"I wish this was the worst of it, but the worst is ahead," Rhan said. "Hurricane season just started. There's depressions and tropical storms still to come."
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Young adults search for their place conference
There's a murmur in the Florida Conference, and if Kirkland Reynolds has his way it's going to develop into a roar.
Reynolds, a divinity student at Candler School of Theology, is questioning the role of young adults in the conference after the conference's Young Adult Ministry team voluntarily surrendered its 2004 funding of $10,000 at the 2003 Florida Annual Conference Event last May.
Mike Standifer, director of Youth, Young Adult and Summer Camp ministries, said there isn't an active group of young adults in the conference, but if one does become active, the funding could be replaced in the future.
Reynolds spoke from the floor during the conference event and questioned the cut. He said his was the lone voice, and he vows to continue speaking up for the younger generation.
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Church plants second campus
The Rev. Christopher Schmidt is excited because he's the first to start a new church in the Florida Conference using a first-time model. He also has some fear because it's never been done.
When the new church starts next year it will be a separate extension, a north campus, of New Port Richey's Hope United Methodist Church, which itself is only eight years old.
The north campus church doesn't have a name or even a site on which to build, but it does have the heart of Schmidt and a core group of people willing to step out on faith.
Conference leaders hope starting churches from existing churches is a model that's going to catch on.
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Grant helps mission connect with kids
The Rev. Montreuil Milord refuses to lose a generation of young people to drugs, gangs or violence.
Milord, pastor of South Dade Haitian United Methodist Mission in Homestead, is excited about the mission implementing "Empowering and Building Young People-21st Century." The program was developed by the mission's youth and is funded by a $5,000 grant from the General Board of Church and Society
(GBCS). It provides after-school programs, workshops and spiritual instruction.
"The grant is also…a way to keep them off the streets that are filled with drugs and crime after school," Milord said. "We must not lose our young people."
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