Thousands of Doors

This year Annual Conference will focus on the thousands of doors that Christ knocks on every day. There are also thousands of people knocking. They have questions, needs, and problems they don’t know how to handle. Some of them are sent by God to offer their gifts and graces.

Doors are such a powerful symbol and knocking is such an act of faith.

There are people who need us to knock on their doors.

There are congregations that need to knock down their doors and go outside.

There are doorways to opportunity everywhere!

What could we do with our doors?

Annual Conference will be June 12-14 in 2009 and we are getting our doors ready.

Annual conference is a gathering of leaders who have the incredible privilege of helping chart the course of the UMC in Mississippi. It is an unbelievable opportunity and challenge. At the heart of all we do is our mission.

We are to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world!

This year we will convene on the weekend to help more people be able to participate. We will meet in the new Jackson Convention Complex to help us serve more people. We will add a study day (Transformation, more later) to help us grow in our passion for our mission and learn from gifted and successful leaders.

Our goal is to ignite the hearts of the people called United Methodists in Mississippi. This will be a celebration of the ministry and mission of our Annual Conference and a challenge for us to open new and exciting doors of possibility.

This event will require much planning and preparation.

Joe May is the convener of our planning group and they have already gathered to begin the work.

This year the number of volunteers and leaders needed to lead our sessions will be huge. We are enlisting congregations and groups to help.

Please be in prayer for those planning and giving themselves in this service. It is easy to find reasons to criticize change and complain about those in charge. It is more helpful to volunteer to help of support those who are giving themselves to this. As we share planning details and information, please feel free to offer your help and to share concerns that will assist us in making this Annual Conference session the best ever. Wouldn’t it be cool if we were all saying,”I can’t wait till next year!” Together we will make this a year to remember!

Let the prayers and preparations begin.

June isn’t far away.

~Connectional Ministries; (601) 354-0515 ext. 14