Join us at the annual MIND picnic 7/24!

“It’s not what goes into the mouth that defiles you, but what comes out of the mouth that defiles.” –Matthew 15:11

Once a year in the summer MIND members and supporters gather without an agenda to not have a meeting. The goal is fellowship and fun, and of course, food! It’s a chance to restore our souls, get to know each other a little better and rejuvenate for the work we all do bring about the day that the UMC […]

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Annual conference 2010 photo gallery

MIND had a creative and colorful witness at Annual Conference 2010.

The MIND table was staffed by volunteers continually throughout annual conference; in this case: Julia Finn, Sylvia Wagner, Marylee Smyth and Brian Pendley.

Jodi Cross-Hansen and Dorothy Caldwell

From the minute we set up, people flocked to the MIND table to find out who we are, what we do and how to get involved.

Our friends from the Immigration Task Force organized this activity (a campaign promoted by the Anti-Violence Project and […]

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Celebrate God’s LGBT Children at Gay Pride 6/27

SPSA youth group members brought a truly creative take on the God's embrace of diverse families.
Morning worship at five churches, afternoon march in NYC

Gay Pride Sunday – the last Sunday in June, commemorating the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in 1969 that sparked the modern gay rights movement – is celebrated every year the world over by LGBT people. It is our chance to take pride in who we are, in what we have accomplished in our fight for […]

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MIND says “Welcome Home” on final day of conference

With cookies, conversation and a comfy couch, the MIND space at the Momentum of Ministries festival embodied the theme “Welcome Home.”

MIND participated in the “Momentum of Ministries” festival that was the highlight of the last day of the 2010 annual conference. The event, housed in three big circus tents outside the arena where the conference plenary sessions were held, drew thousands of new church members from throughout the New York Annual Conference. MIND’s theme for its space at the […]

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