View the current apportionment report which goes through November 2017.  You have one month left to pay 100% of your apportionments. 

We have two UMVIM teams that are primarily youth with adult supervision looking for locations to connect with next summer.  If your church or ministry has a project that would work for them, and are interested in hosting one or both teams, please contact UMVIM Coordinator Dan Wilcox, at danielpwilcox@gmail.com, or 907.414.7078.  Also, we still have a few college age and adult teams looking for placement.  If your congregation is interested in hosting a team but can't host youth, please also give Dan a call. 

Birchwood Camp is pleased to announce their 2018 Summer Camp brochure and Internship Applications are live!

 

Get the summer camp dates in your calendar now!

 

If you want to apply for one of the summer internships at the camp, or would like to learn more, fill out the internship application here. 

Jan Wachsmuth is organizing a group of women to make 50+ t-shirt pillows for AK Child & Family.  They will be gifts for the children.

The event will be on Friday, December 15 (DATE CHANGE) from 10 am - 3 pm at the Conference Center (1660 Patterson Street, Anchorage).

Lunch will be provided.  If you have questions or want to let Jan know you will be there, give her a call (862-0194) or send her an email! 

The secretary of the General Conference announced Dec. 1 the number of delegates assigned to each annual conference for the 2020 General Conference has been calculated. Of the 862 delegates, about 56 percent will come from the U.S. and about 32 percent will come from Africa. The remaining delegates will come from the Philippines, Europe and Concordat churches.

Read press release

A group of United Methodist bishops, agency staff and clergy joined more than 2,400 leaders of various faiths who signed a letter to the U.S. Senate opposing the Senate tax bill currently being considered for vote. "The United Methodist Church will continue to call for increased access to affordable, quality health care, no matter what vehicle is used to threaten it. To add measures that would dismantle health insurance for millions of people to pay for tax cuts that disproportionately benefit the wealthy is immoral," said the Rev. Susan Henry-Crowe, top executive of the United Methodist Board of Church and Society.

Read the full text of the letter

Women are still under-represented as clergy in The United Methodist Church, although the percentage varies by region. And, overall, clergywomen receive almost $4,000 less in annual salary than clergymen, according to the second half of a study conducted by Magaela C. Bethune on behalf of the United Methodist Commission on the Status and Role of Women.

See salary study
See first half of the salary study

December

3-7: GNW Cabinet Meetings in Seattle - Carlo attending

7-17: GBGM Round Table Conversation in the Philippines - Carlo attending

24: Christmas Eve

25: Christmas Day - Office Closed

31: New Year's Eve

January

7: Charge Conference - First UMC Ketchikan

8-10: GNW Cabinet Meeting - Carlo attending

11: Charge Conference - Christ First UMC

12: Charge Conference - Turnagain UMC

16: Charge Conference - St. John UMC

18: Charge Conference - Anchor Park UMC

26-28: UMW Leadership Team meetings at Conference Center

The Conference Office has new hours!

 

Monday - Thursday: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Friday: 9:00 am - 11:00 am 

Submissions - If you have an article or event that you would like to share with the rest of the conference, submit it to the conference office by Monday evening for consideration.

Mission Statement:

The mission of the United Methodist Church is to make disciples of Jesus Christ.  Held and supported by the transforming relationship with God through Christ, we of the Alaska United Methodist Conference seek to be a community that creates a home for all peoples, finds our hope through grace and journeys together into God's preferred future.