How to Count Webinar

Since the pandemic took church online, the worship counting landscape has changed and brought with it new questions. Join us at 1 p.m. on February 21 for a short webinar with Conference Treasurer Nate Berneking. Nate will share a revised set of worship counting protocols and address common questions. Local church leaders will learn best practices and how this data can evaluate the health of their congregation both now and in the future. Learn more→  

Other Upcoming Events

• February 11 - Ministry of All Believers (In-person Chillicothe)
• February 13 - Unite Info Session
• February 16 - Unite Info Session
• February 18 - Early Response Team Training
• February 25 - Ministry of All Believers (In-Person Warsaw)
• February 25 - Congregational Care (In-Person Warsaw)
• February 25 - Christian Leadership and Visioning (In-Person Warsaw)
• March 9 - RMC Collab
• March 18 - Early Response Team Training 

See the full events calendars at www.moumethodist.org/events 

MOAC Awards - Submission Deadline February 15

Every year we celebrate and honor the ministry of churches and United Methodists across the state through the MOAC Awards. You’re invited to nominate an individual or church for their work in mission, discipleship, evangelism, or inclusiveness, justice and worth. Deadline is February 15 Learn more at www.moumethodist.org/moac-awards

Conference Leadership Vacancies

We currently have openings on the following Conference boards, committees, councils and teams:

1. Annual Conference Sessions Team
2. Council on Finance and Administration
3. Clergy Support Team
4. Congregational Development Team
5. Mission, Service and Justice Team
6. Mozambique Initiative Team
7. NextGen Team
8. Nominations Committee
9. Rules & Procedures Committee
10. Board of Trustees
11. Values Team

These are volunteer committees made up of clergy and lay members of the annual conference to help support the shared work of the United Methodist connection. If you are a member of the Missouri Annual Conference and are interested in serving beyond the local church, please nominate yourself to our leadership pool here. Learn more about the nominations process and our committees at https://www.moumethodist.org/nominate. You may also contact Rev. Lynn Dyke, chair of the Nominations Committee for more information.

Featured Resources

Implicit Bias Course 

In Missouri, we are committed to understanding our own biases. Our work in race and culture exists to help us become a place for people from diverse cultures and generations so that, ultimately, we become a Church for all God’s people. The Conference worked with the General Commission on Race and Religion to develop a customized version of their online implicit bias training for Missouri lay and clergy. The FREE course is now available to all clergy and lay leaders of the Missouri Annual Conference. Conference leaders encourage leaders to voluntarily take the course before it is a requirement for you to learn about the unconscious bias we all experience. By July 1, 2024, we hope to have every leader serving at the district and Conference level trained with this module. Learn more here→ 

Vision and Execution in a New Setting Videos
Do you ever feel stuck? Sometimes it is easy to get bogged down by day-to-day tasks of the church, and before you know it, church attendance plateaus and burnout sinks in. In this short video series, Rev. Roger Ross shares how to reset the vision for your church and get out of the funk. 

What is White Privilege 
As humanity’s understanding and discussion of the concepts of race, racism and antiracism have evolved over generations, so have the words and phrases we use as we continue the work of obeying God and advancing racial justice. In this “What Is?” series, the General Commission on Religion and Race offers this compilation of concise definitions, examples, and Biblical/theological foundations to create common vocabulary for Christians as we engage in anti-racism work.