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Annual Conference final report: More than $1.13 million raised for Imagine No Malaria
6/14/2013Membership increases by 394; worship attendance drops 222 Church leaders representing 899 congregations roared in celebration June 11 on receiving the news that a $1 million goal for Imagine No Malaria had not only been met, but exceeded. Holston...
AC Monday: Busy schedule includes Vital Congregations training | 2014 budget
6/10/2013Download Monday newspaper, page 1 Download Monday newspaper, page 2 Good morning! We will begin this first full day of Annual Conference with morning worship and Holy Communion. Our celebrants will be the Rev. Jonathan Jonas of First Marion ...
AC Monday: Sunday's precipitation doesn't dampen expectation
6/10/2013Forty years ago on June 9, it rained in Decatur, Ga., just like it did last night outside Stuart Auditorium. Bishop Mary Virginia Taylor remembers that, because 40 years ago, she married the Rev. Rusty Taylor. At last night’s opening worship for ...
AC Monday: Three truckloads of mission supplies depart for Liberia, Zimbabwe
6/10/2013Danny Howe, chair of the Missions Ministry Team, announced total supplies collected by Holston churches in the past few weeks for the annual Hands-on Mission Project. "Grab on to your seats because you will be amazed," Howe said to the Holston ...
AC Sunday: Welcome, brothers and sisters to Lake Junaluska
6/9/2013Welcome to the 2013 session of the Holston Annual Conference, held today through Wednesday at Lake Junaluska Assembly. This year’s Annual Conference is comprised of nearly 2,000 clergy and lay members representing 889 churches and 12 districts in ...
Bishop Mary Virginia Taylor announces staff changes
6/7/2013Bishop Mary Virginia Taylor has announced changes in the 2012-2013 Holston Conference Extended Cabinet. The Rev. Stella Roberts will serve as director of connectional ministries effective June 26. Anne Travis, who held that position for 13 years, ...
10 things you need to know about Annual Conference
6/6/2013It's Holston Annual Conference time again. Imagine that. Are you going? If you aren't attending, skip down to #9 for information on live streaming and online news. If you are attending Holston's big yearly meeting -- held June 9-12 at Lake ...
'Buy a pizza, save a life': Teenager uses cooking skills to fight malaria
5/18/2013CHILHOWIE, Va. -- Avery Smith, age 14, appreciates good food. He also appreciates how his church is saving lives by fighting malaria. So when Smith and his pastor put their heads together to create an “Imagine No Malaria” fundraiser, it didn’t ...
Winding up for Annual Conference: Churches raise money to fight malaria, make other preparations
5/6/2013Imagine. Churches are taking this year’s Annual Conference theme seriously by doing whatever it takes to realize the “Imagine No Malaria” goal by June 9. While Bishop Mary Virginia Taylor and her staff make final preparations for the June 9-12 ...
Join the Key Club! Fight malaria
5/3/2013Got any old keys lying around? Keys that you haven't used in years and have no idea where they fit? Why not put them to good use saving lives? The Keys To No Malaria Club is a project of the Benton/Chestuee Youth Group, evolving from an idea ...
See video of pastor going bald for a good cause: Imagine No Malaria
4/15/2013To inspire his congregation at Oakland United Methodist Church to give $2,000 to Imagine No Malaria by Easter, the Rev. Stephen Yeaney at first proposed that he would jump from a silo into the nearby marina. However, when a parishioner suggested ...
Creative campaign: Churches find unique ways to raise money for 'Imagine No Malaria'
3/26/2013With only 10 weeks to go until June 9, the churches and people of Holston Conference are getting more creative in how they raise money for the denominational goal of eradicating malaria. The Rev. Stephen Yeaney, for example, will probably be bald ...
Malaria close-up: Boo and Phyllis Hankins recall sick children in Africa
2/27/2013Boo and Phyllis Hankins know more about malaria than most of their friends in Holston Conference. The two pastors not only helped treat people who suffered the disease during their 2009-2011 stay in South Sudan. Phyllis and daughter Rachel ...