Annual Conference - Day 2

Morning worship

Instructions for the Red Cross crew

One more smoke detector installed

The business of the clergy session begins

Congrats!

The second day of Annual Conference 2018 began with a rousing worship service before the morning's activity: Ministry Immersion into the Ogden community. Pastor Charles was assigned to "Help Red Cross Sound the Alarm (installing smoke detectors in residential homes)."

The afternoon was given over to separate sessions for the clergy and for the laity. In the clergy session, votes were taken concerning ordination and retirements among several issues needing to be discussed. Four candidates were elected for commissioning as elders and one for elder in full connection by the clergy of the Yellowstone Conference.

Annual Conference - Memorial Service

Adding water to the bowls

We gather together

Rev. Skip Strickland preaches

Tonight's offering

Remember and be thankful

The conclusion of the first day of Annual Conference is the memorial service. In this moving service, clergy and their spouses who had died and churches which have closed since the last annual conference are remembered.

Remembering Clergy: Rev. Guy Botkin, Rev. William Bruce, Rev. Loy Estes, Rev. Henry Everding, Jr., Rev. Russell Hawkins, Rev. Douglas Lathrop, Rev. John Lewis, Rev. Alice Riemer-McKee, Rev. Keith Spahr, Rev. Sandra Stephens, and Rev. Wilbur Whanger.

Remembering Clergy Spouses: Betty Ely, Karon Franz, Lois Gilbert, Patricia Klingman, Elias Martinez, Sarah Mason, Lucille Wheatley, and Jane Winterheld.

Remembering Churches:
Blue Cliff UMC - Karval, CO (130 years) 
Midwest UMC - Midwest, WY (44 years)

We remembered our baptism by bringing water from across the Mountain Sky Area to be combined and then shared through flicks of water among the congregation. Pastor Charles contributed a vial of water from the Bitterroot River.

Annual Conference - Prayer Room

The prayer room at Annual Conference is an oasis in the midst of a hectic Eccles Conference Center.

Along with other churches from both conferences, Stevi UMC had a picture of our church on display.

Present in the tent were examples of some of the languages into which the Bible has been translated, aromas from spices and some of the minerals that are mentioned in the Bible.

Annual Conference - Day 1

And we're off!

UMW members are on the move!

Bishop Oliveto brings the Word alive!

Lay Leaders bring a word to the assembly

Montana District supper

The joint session of the Yellowstone Conference and Rocky Mountain Conference got underway today with nearly 700 in attendance! United Methodists from Colorado, (Salmon) Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming gathered at the Eccles Conference center for a time of worship, business, and relationship-building.

Live stream of Annual Conference

Watch the live stream of the 2018 Joint Annual Conference Session of the Rocky Mountain and Yellowstone conferences from June 7-10, 2018 at the Eccles Conference Center in Ogden, Utah. 

This week @ SUMC

Monday:
1:00 pm, Bible study @ The Living Center
3:30 pm, Girl Scouts
7:00 pm, Living Clean
 

Wednesday-Sunday: Annual Conference - Ogden, UT

Wednesday: 

8:00 am, WIC 

Friday:
10:00 am, Drop-in Bible Study @ Doris T.
Noon, UMW Board
1:00 pm, UMW Friday Circle 

Saturday:
8:00 am, UMM

Sunday:

10:15 am, Praise music  
10:30 am, Worship  
11:30 am, Fellowship

The Season of Ordinary Time begins at Stevi UM

Ollie & Rollie at work

Arlene Halfhide shares a poem

Selecting plants for the garden

A lively time!

Hazel enjoys Shirley's hospitality

We are underway in the time of the church year known as the Season after Pentecost or Ordinary Time. These numbered Sundays continue to Christ the King Sunday (November 25), the Sunday before Advent begins.

Our special summer offerings began this morning with a poem shared by Arlene Halfhide. Pastor Charles' sermon was "Do we really need the sabbath" was based on Mark 2:23-26. 

Thanks this morning to: Amanda Hermes (Nursery), Bill & Carol Gragg and Sharon Brown (Greeters/ushers), Rollie & Ollie (Acolytes), Hazel Smith (Organist), Tom Bishop (Video), Bev Schneider (Liturgist), Cammie Edgar (power point), Sara Malo (Communion), Bill Gragg & Chuck Petty (offering counters), and Diane Bailey, Judy Fraser, & Shirley McKelvey (Fellowship).