“An Essential Role, An Essential Site”: A Palm Sunday Meditation
By Senior Bishop Lawrence Reddick “Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me.” – Matthew 21:2 (NIV) What I saw this week I didn’t remember seeing before: a donkey and a colt. I’m…
CED Sunday School VIRTUAL Lesson for Palm Sunday
Dr. Carmichael Crutchfield, General Secretary Department of Christian Education P.O. Box 16507 – Memphis, TN 38186-6507 For additional information contact: Charles L. Coney, Technology Consultant (901) 264-9116 charles.coney@thecmechurchced.org “CME CED Sunday School VIRTUAL Lesson Available for Palm Sunday” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsRr0Ah84C4 As we enter Holy Week, this week’s Virtual Sunday School Lesson “God’s Just…
Creative Thinking for Crisis Times By Senior Bishop Lawrence Reddick
Dear CME Family, In response to coronavirus challenges, the President and the CDC are asking people to not assemble in groups larger than 10. Many of us, in response, are working diligently to ramp up our streaming services, but also, many of us are simply cancelling services. My question to you is: how creative are…
Special Message From the College of Bishops Regarding Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Dear CME Church Family: The College of Bishops is aware of the serious nature of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and we seek to provide some guidance to you as you make decisions about your day-to-day life and about congregational life at the local level: Follow any restrictions and limitations imposed by local, state and federal…
21st One Church One School Partnership Conference
21st One Church One School Partnership Conference Wednesday, October 21 – Friday, October 23, 2020 Hilton Chicago/Oak Lawn 9333 South Cicero Avenue Oak Lawn, IL 60453 (708) 425-7800 Registration $150.00 (Includes Luncheon) Banquet $100.00 (Thursday night 10/22/2010) Hotel Conference Rate $129.00 (+taxes) per night Dates available: Oct 20-Oct 24 2020 Online: oaklawn.hilton.com …
Apply Now for 2020-2021 Connectional CPE Program
Applications are being accepted for the Connectional Clinical Pastoral Education Program, an educational experience for ministers and laypersons of all denominations to enhance their professional pastoral skills and personal development but are unable to be in a traditional CPE program due to time or other restrictions. It also enables probationary ministers in the Christian Methodist…
Coronavirus Guidelines, Emergency and Pandemic Preparedness
Dear CME Family: We are blessed that the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, Inc. (SDPC) has facilitated compilation of information as a congregational resource to address the evolving coronavirus risks. Please do not hesitate to share other resources we can pass along.. We are pleased to share the thoughtful guidelines with everyone. Note, this is not presented…
