Volunteers/Co-Sponsors needed for Longest Hug Relay

On Thursday, August 8 at 6pm, Asbury First is hosting a world record attempt for the longest hug relay. Everyone gets in one long line and a hug is passed from one person to the next all the way down the line (so each participant hugs two people: the person in front of them and the person behind them). Given all of the division in the world right now, we thought this might be a fun way to bring people together-one hug at a time.

 

While Asbury First is planning to host this event, we would love for this to be a co-sponsored community event. Co-sponsoring does not cost anything. We would put your group's name/logo on our sponsors page, your name in our press releases, and ask that you help us recruit members of your community for the event. We will need 1300 people to set the record!

 

Here's the preliminary schedule for the evening:

6:00 - Parking, Registration, Arrival (food trucks and such will be present)

6:30 - Taking our place

6:45 - Relay Start

7:45 - Anticipated Relay End

 

If you are interested in being a co-sponsor with us, please send an email to  [email protected]or visit our website:  www.Asburyfirst.org/hugrelayfor more information.

 

Thanks for your consideration-and even if you can't organize a group, we would still love to have you join us :)!

 

#rocthehug  

 

Thanks

Mike Mullin

Minister for Youth and Discipleship

Asbury First United Methodist Church

Bishop's Retreat

The 2019 Bishop's Retreat is October 22-24, 2019 at the RIT Inn and Conference Center in Rochester NY.  The theme is "Biblical Risk Takers" and the keynote speaker is the Rev. Grace Imathiu.

On July 1, 2018, Bishop Sally Dyck appointed the Rev. Grace Imathiu as senior pastor at First United Methodist Church in Evanston, Illinois. Rev. Grace Imathiu was appointed Senior Pastor of Community UMC in July 2012 after serving eight years as Lead Pastor in Brown Deer, Wisconsin and earlier as Senior Pastor at Green Bay UMC, a position which included season tickets to Packers games. Go Pack Go!  Rev. Imathiu has also served churches in Kenya as a church planter; a superintendent minister overseeing 68 rural churches in Nkubu; and an urban minister to an ecumenical congregation in Nairobi with strong outreach to the neighboring slums of Kawangware. Pastor Grace is intimately familiar with the Church in its many theological expressions and social locations.

Click here for more information about the retreat

Click here to register for the retreat

General Conference 2020 Petition Submission Process Opens 

Petitions for consideration by the 2020 General Conference 

may be submitted to the Petitions Secretary now through 

September 18, 2019.

 

According to church law, "Any organization, clergy member, or lay member of The United Methodist Church may petition the General Conference...."

 

Detailed instructions for submitting a petition are available on the General Conference website at umc.org/gcpetition. Petitions must be typed and may be submitted through the General Conference website, by postal mail or fax, or via e-mail to [email protected]. This e-mail address should be used for petition submission only. All other correspondence should be directed to [email protected].

When you get a call from the District Office . . 

The phone at the District Office now goes through the Conference Office system. So, when DS Vonda or Betsy calls from the Genesee Valley district office, your caller ID will display 315-898-2000 (conference office main number). 

We will leave a message for you, 

but please call the "regular" 585-340-9525 back. 

(So you don't have to go through the switchboard in Liverpool.)