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Pre-Retirement Seminar for Pastors 55+
8/3/2009
Clergy considering retirement in the next few years are invited to a Pre-Retirement Seminar on Oct. 5-6 sponsored by the Conference Board of Pensions. The seminar, for pastors 55 and older, will cover the retirement process, as well as Social Security and Medicare issues.
One-on-one retirement meetings with General Board of Pension personnel will include individual pension projections.
Presenters include representatives of the:
• The United Methodist Foundation
•...Annual Conference 09 Ignites Passion for Ministry
6/17/2009
Bishop Thomas J. Bickerton challenged the 1,800 members of the Western PA Annual Conference meeting June 11-14 at Grove City College to “take the church out on the open road, give it the gas and see what the old baby can do.”
The old mainline denominational church of today needs to be set on fire like the First- Century church, he said. The conference theme was to ignite and sustain a passionate spiritual connection with Christ among all people. It’s also the WPAUMC...