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2024 Apportionments Are Now Posted!
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The 2024 General Church, Conference, and District Apportionments for all churches are posted to the Church Dashboards! These become effective January 1, 2024. Please advise Treasury Services of any errors or questions.
In 2024, we used a different method to calculate apportionment amounts. We took your 2023 apportionment amounts and applied a 2% reduction on both the Conference and General funds before rounding. This means that each church should expect a decrease of around 2% in their Conference and General fund apportionments. District apportionments remain frozen from 2023 to 2024.
Please note that due to rounding, the decrease may not be exactly 2%.
ACCESS 2024 APPORTIONMENTS
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Register for the Mandatory RISE! Antiracism Ethics Training
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Antiracism Ethics Training is the Clergy Ethics Training for the quadrennium through June 2024, and thus it is mandatory for all clergy in the Western North Carolina Conference. The training will be facilitated by RISE! (Race: an In-depth Spiritual Examination) trainers. Each clergy person is to have a lay leader participate in the training. This inclusion of laity will foster more effective change in congregational culture.
The remaining RISE! Workshops for 2023 and 2024 are listed at the link below.
ANTIRACISM TRAINING DATES & INFO
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First UMC Asheboro's #BeUMC Testimony
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Can You Tell the Story? With Bishop Sharma Lewis
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The last session of the preaching cohort is open to anyone interested in stimulating your boldness and imagination in order to offer congregants transformation versus just information.
Session will include:
-Highlights - cohort participants offering most significant learnings and tools drawn from previous sessions
-Insights from Bishop Lewis regarding her perspectives on the craft of preaching in the UMC in 2023, including how character, responsibility and accountability relate to preaching
-Question and Answer session with Bishop Lewis
-Lunch with Bishop Lewis and fellow cohort participants
Tuesday, July 18, 2023 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
In Person at Hood Theological Seminary Aymer Center - $20.00 registration (includes lunch)
Online Registration $10.00
LEARN MORE & REGISTER
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Treasury Services Letter to Retirees and Spouses on Duke Endowment Banking Information
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Dear Retired friends and Spouses,
You may have received a letter from me related to the annual Duke Endowment distributions and requesting permission from the United Methodist Foundation to receive banking information for Electronic Funds Delivery. This letter went out while I was at annual conference, without my final proof. I do apologize for the clumsy way it reads. But the intent is legitimate. We want to avoid sending out any paper checks for the Duke grant as much as possible. The card was simply to be checked that you would give permission for the UM Foundation to forward your information to use on a secured basis. You may return the enclosed card to the PO Box. If you choose not to want the foundation to forward, you may send to Treasury Services a voided check for the same purposes to PO Box 2757 Huntersville NC, 28070
This is not a scam. But if you prefer to handle a different way than these two options, please email or write to me what you prefer to do.
Mark
R. Mark King, CCA
Conference Treasurer/Director of Administrative Services
Conference Benefits Officer
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Save the Dates for AC2024!
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Save the Dates!!
The 2024 Western NC Annual Conference will be held on June 20-23, 2024 at Lake Junaluska, NC.
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Apply Now for the Renfro Trust Fund Grant
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The Renfro Trust Fund awards annual bricks-and-mortar grants to small rural United Methodist congregations in the Southeastern Jurisdiction. Completed applications should be emailed to Carol Bateman (cbateman@wnccumc.org) in the office of Missional Engagement by August 1, 2023.
LEARN MORE & APPLY
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Did you miss the last edition of E-News?
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3-Day Trauma Resilient Communities Engagement Training
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Crossnore Communities for Children is excited to partner with Lake Junaluska’s Theologian in Residence Program to bring its full 3-day Trauma Resilient Communities Engagement Training to Lake Junaluska this summer. Join us and learn how to become a more resilient and healing-centered faith community.
The workshop will be Monday-Wednesday, July 17-19, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.
LEARN MORE & REGISTER
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Voter Registration Information
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Due to a recent NC Supreme Court decision, a photo ID will now be required to vote in North Carolina beginning with the municipal elections in the Fall of 2023.
Valuable voter registration resources can be found on the Equity and Justice Ministries website. These resources include:
Voter Registration Kit
Voter Registration Form
Voter Registration Form Tip Sheet
Video: How to Start a Voter Registration Drive
Slide Show: Voter Registration Drive
VIEW RESOURCES
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Registration for Convocation & Pastors' School Opens July 10
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What does it mean to serve faithfully in your current community, vocation, and circumstance? 2023 Convocation & Pastors’ School, Growing Where You Are Planted, is intended to connect participants with experts who will share their stories and best practices for engaging neighbors as a way to encourage and equip clergy and laity to recognize places of opportunities in their current community. We want clergy and laity to be able to grow and bloom wherever they are planted be it rural, urban, or anywhere in between.
Early Bird registration will open on July 10. Online registration for the Early Bird rate is July 10 - August 31. Registration closes on September 25.
LEARN MORE & REGISTER
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Western North Carolina Conference
13924 Professional Center Dr, Ste 200
Huntersville, NC 28078
Mailing Address:
PO Box 2757
Huntersville, NC 28070
Phone: 704.535.2260
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