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Discussion on the United Media Resource Center's Future |
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The IGRC United Media Resource Center will host an online discussion about its future ministries on November 17 at 6:00 pm. With planned changes in staffing and finance, the UMRC will need to significantly alter and adapt its current operations. All of the UMRC’s users are invited to this important discussion to talk about how we might be able to support and provide for the UMRC. As part of the discussion, we’ll also invite participants to help form a Friends of the UMRC leadership group to provide ongoing support and guidance for the UMRC.
The meeting will be hosted on video conference at this link:
If you have questions, please contact Curtis Brown, Director of Connectional Ministries at cbrown@igrc.org.
Curtis Brown
Director of Connectional Ministries
Illinois Great Rivers Conference of the United Methodist Church
217-529-2442
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#108076
This 10-session DVD study is a how-to guide for pursuing racial justice. By providing a series of hands-on suggestions for practice bolstered by real-world examples of change, Jemar Tisby offers viewers an array of actionable items to help them become proactive initiators of racial justice. Sessions: 1) How to fight racism (15 min.); 2) How to explain race and the image of God (30 min.); 3) How to explore your racial identity (19 min.); 4) How to study the history of race (18 min.); 5) How to do reconciliation right (20 min.); 6) How to make friends (17 min.); 7) How to build diverse communities (16 min.); 8) How to work for racial justice (16 min.); 9) How to fight systemic racism (26 min.); 10) How to orient your life to racial justice (17 min.); 11) Conclusion (4 min.). Includes guide and hardback book. CLOSED CAPTIONED.
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#125017
In this five-session DVD study, Max Lucado explores the story of Esther. The promise for God’s people in the book of Esther is the same promise that we have today. Our God triumphs in troubled times. Will you, like Mordacai and Esther, realize you are a position “for such a time as this” (Esther 4:14)? God is calling you to rise up in these chaotic times. Sessions: 1) Cozy in the culture, Esther 1:1–2:18 (17 min.); 2) A moment of decision, Esther 2:19–4:14 (17 min.); 3) Heaven set in motion, Esther 4:15–6:14 (16 min.); 4) The God of great turnarounds, Esther 7:1–8:17 (17 min.); 5) Remembering God’s faithfulness, Esther 9:1–10:3 (16 min.). Includes study guide and hardback book. CLOSED CAPTIONED.
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#821073
In this book, the authors have re-written and updated their best-selling resource for local churches to better assist congregations seeking to use the simplified, accountable leadership structure, often called the one-board model. They remind the reader that meetings are not ministry. The idea of the simplified, accountable leadership structure is to focus on ministry while making meetings fewer in number but larger in meaning. In this third edition of the bestselling book aimed at congregational leaders, particularly United Methodists, the authors provide practical, field-tested steps to simplify your church structure, practice accountable leadership, and unleash more people into ministry. Too often churches try to simplify their structures by just having less meetings and having fewer people at the meeting table. But real simplification and accountable leadership means that meetings – and leaders – are transformed. Kay Kotan and Blake Bradford walk you through the three distinct phases: discern the right path, equip participants for accountable leadership, and implement both the technical and adaptive changes to simplify your structure and align your resources for missional effectiveness. This expanded and updated version also includes two new sections: a section chock full of 26 indispensable resources and an exclusive nearly 40-page brand-new, judicatory section. This expansive resource is packed with invaluable tools for leadership board members, pastors, nominating committee members, and judicatory leaders. The authors share the latest best practices from working with hundreds of congregations of all sizes and thousands of leaders from across the nation.
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#119185
As believers in Christ, many of us today fall into the trap of thinking we have to approach God in a certain way. This one-size-fits-all mentality typically leaves us feeling frustrated and distant from God. But the truth is that not every person will engage with God in the same way. In this five-session DVD study, Gary Thomas explores nine spiritual temperaments and encourages you to investigate the ways you most naturally express yourself in your relationship with God. He will help you discover the traits, strengths, and tendencies in your devotional approach so you can eliminate the barriers that keep you locked into rigid methods of worship and praise. Sessions: 1) The journey of the soul – introduction (22 min.); 2) Pathways of wonder – naturalist, sensate, and traditionalist (22 min.); 3) Pathways of contemplation – intellectual, ascetic, and contemplative (21 min.); 4) Pathways of action – caregiver, activist, and enthusiast (23 min.); 5) Tending the garden of the soul – how the pathways apply to your life (23 min.). Includes guide and paperback book. CLOSED CAPTIONED.
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The UMRC is here to help support your church in its various ministries!
Please forward this newsletter to leaders in your church.
Now is a good time to receive resources
. . . for the personal spiritual growth of yourself and your family
. . . to use with a small group
. . . to preview for future use
Items can be mailed to a church or home address!
There is no rental fee to borrow these items; the only cost to churches is to mail resources back to me.
If you have questions or comments or wish to request resources, please contact me at umrc@igrc.org.
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I can mail resources to either your church or home address.
Blessings! Jill Stone, UMRC director
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The United Media Resource Center will be closed the following dates:
November 11
November 25
November 26
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If you have questions or wish to request resources, please contact me at umrc@igrc.org.
Jill Stone, Director
United Media Resource Center
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