Forms for charge conferences which will be held in the fall are now available through your Church Portal Page.

To access the documents, click on Church Portal on the IGRC Homepage or go to: https://www.igrc.org/churchportal to find the log-in page. Select your District from the dropdown menu. This will trigger a second drop-down menu where you select your Church. The passcode is the church's six-digit GCFA number which can be found on the monthly remittance form for apportionment payments.

In preparation for charge conferences in the fall, the Finance Office has prepared two pages of information that will assist you in your budget building for 2023.

A document outlining the Clergy Benefits and Costs for 2023 includes action taken by the 2022 Annual Conference with regard to minimum salaries for full-time elders and full-time local pastors.

A second document Important Numbers for Charge Conference provides additional information and background. The Apportionment calculations and the Charge Conference forms will be published in the next few weeks.

If you DO NOT place an order by July 31, you will receive your free copy of the Journal Yearbook in CD form rather than in printed form, unless you've opted out of receiving the Journal in the past in which case you will receive neither.

With today being the first day of the 2022-23 Conference Year a new updated Appointment list has replaced an older version that was available for the 2022 Annual Conference.

Several have contacted us with "corrections" in what really is just a snapshot in time. The information was accurate as of June 6 but that changes have occurred since that time.

The July 1 version includes all Appointment notifications that have been filed by District offices. Certainly, as is the case with any paper form, the first change will make the form "out of date"; but we endeavor to keep the information accurate.

The Foundation for Evangelism announced that 31 grants have been awarded in its inaugural Equipping the Local Church Grants 2022 cycle. The grants total $230,000, with each of the 31 recipients receiving either $5,000, $7,500 or $10,000 depending on the proposed initiatives.

Due to a change in phone carriers, there is a new phone number for the Embarras River district office in Effingham.

The direct phone line to Embarras River District office in Effingham is (217) 503-4503.

The number in the LaMoine River District, in which a change was announced, remains (217) 245-9946. The phone carriers were able to work it out so that this number did not change as previously announced.

The addresses, email addresses and other contact information remains unchanged.

Applications are being sought for the vacant IGRC Director of Congregational Development position have been extended through July 31.

The position became vacant due to the appointment of the Rev. Mike Crawford as Spoon River District Superintendent July 1.

The congregation was represented by an attorney who has claimed that he has been successful in breaking the denomination's trust clause when soliciting new clients to represent. In actuality, all the attorney has done is negotiate with the Conference which is no different than what local church leadership can do.

Dr. Pamela K. Hammond-McDavid, lay member to annual conference from Springfield Grace and a member of the IGRC General Conference delegation offers this Prayer for Social Justice. The prayer was published Thursday by the General Commission on Religion and Race on Day 12 of the agency's #prayforracialjustice campaign.