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Common table begins deliberations over conference-wide vision
   Nearly 30 Florida Conference pastors and leaders representing various ministries of the conference met Nov. 4 at the Life Enrichment Center in Leesburg to begin discussing the process of leading the conference in developing a common vision all churches in the conference can support.
     "The mission is to make disciples of Jesus Christ," said the Rev. Jim Harnish, pastor of Hyde Park United Methodist Church in Tampa and chairman of the Florida Conference Council on Ministries. "We're here to discuss how we…can more effectively empower and energize the churches to fulfill that mission."
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Conference budget is balance of ministry, business
     At charge conference, each pastor is asked to report on how he or she has performed his or her pastoral duties and administered "the temporal affairs of the congregation," according to paragraph 331 of the "1996 United Methodist Book of Discipline."
     In the same way a local church must balance the call to ministry with the need to operate in the secular business world of bills and bank balances, the Florida Conference must also strike a balance between its ministry and business operations, according to Dr. Randy Casey-Rutland, the conference treasurer.   Full Story

Health care ministry involves community to reach needy

One out of every five residents of Orange County, Fla., has no health insurance, but a team of community organizations, businesses and churches are working to provide free health care to those who need it. Shepherd's Hope, a ministry of Orlando's St. Luke's United Methodist Church, has enlisted the aid of Orange County Public Schools, area hospitals and health care professionals, and companies like Walt Disney World, to help meet its goal of opening eight free clinics throughout Orange County. Full Story

Cooperative gives rural churches outreach options

For more than 30 years, seven churches in rural Madison County near Tallahassee have worked together "to be servants in their communities in ways they couldn't individually," said Jeannine Reynolds, a deaconess and Church and Community Worker with the General Board of Global Ministries (GBGM). Called the United Methodist Cooperative Ministries of Madison County, that cooperative effort is impacting not only the Madison community, but other parts of the world. Full Story

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