“Ministry to the Marginalized” ruled out of order at conference

Legislative votes, MIND lunch part of packed day

 

The third day of annual conference had everything, from moving testimony to parliamentary wrangling, legislative victories and defeat and more. Our witness and challenge to the conference took many forms – t-shirts, armbands, speaking and singing.

The highlight of the day was Mark Miller’s address to a packed room at the MIND lunch. “My God-given gayness is not up for a vote by some misguided Methodist,” said Miller, who is not only the best […]

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LGBT resolutions move forward on day two of conference

"Friday is MIND t-shirt day!" volunteers reminded everyone, and they did a brisk business selling shirts. The MIND table continued to be a place of contant activity and ministry.

The main order of business on the second day of annual conference, Thursday, June 10, was discussion and debate of resolutions in legislative sections, and LGBT issues took center stage for most of the four hours that Section 3 met. The four resolutions that MIND had initiated and drafted were all […]

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Annual conference underway; the body of Christ ‘needs all its members’

Shirley Gerrow MINDed the table on the opening day of annual conferece. She and her partner Robin Burkhardt signed up new members, sold t-shirts for Friday's "t-shirt day" and let people know about upcoming events.

The 211th session of the New York Annual Conference began Wednesday, June 9, 2010, under the theme of “building up a healthy body of Christ,” with MIND’s witness there to remind all that “the body of Christ needs the gifts of all its members to […]

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Take a stand against prejudice and discrimination at annual conference

There are four days every year when we have a unique opportunity to be in ministry with the entire New York Annual Conference at its annual conference session, which this year will be June 9-12 at Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island. MIND’s annual conference witness puts the inconvenient fact of the church’s discrimination before the entire conference and seeks to move people to action in response.

Join us in our witness by attending the MIND lunch, with guest speaker Mark Miller; […]

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