By Loretta Fulton United Women in Faith, a national organization with regional chapters, will meet in Abilene Nov. 8-9. The unifying conference will be held in two parts, Friday and Saturday. The Friday portion of the meeting, scheduled for 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at St. James United Methodist Church, will be the last for the Northwest Texas Annual Conference chapter of
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By Loretta Fulton By the end of the day Saturday, a prayer offered by Bishop Ruben Saenz had been answered. He opened a United Methodist Unifying Conference Saturday morning at the Abilene Convention Center with a prayer that included thanksgivings and petitions. “We pray for unity in our purpose,” he said in the opening prayer. That prayer apparently was answered
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By Loretta Fulton Delegates from three United Methodist Church conferences will convene in Abilene Sept. 27-28 to vote on melding into one new conference. Delegates to the Unifying Conference are expected to approve forming the Horizon Texas Conference from the former Northwest Texas Conference, Central Texas Conference, and North Texas Conference. If delegates vote in the affirmative, the new conference
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By Loretta Fulton If all goes as planned, United Methodists in the Northwest Texas Annual Conference, which includes Abilene, will become part of a new unified conference that will reflect changes in membership following the departure of many conservative congregations for the new Global Methodist Church. The majority of former United Methodist Churches in Northwest Texas have left for the
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