Jesus Makes a Way in 2021
More than 600 participants of the 182nd session of the Northern Annual Illinois Conference, with the theme "Jesus Makes a Way," made their way onto Zoom to take part in two days of business, voting, r…
2021 Virtual Annual Conference
Theme: Jesus Makes a Way
Upcoming Dates:
Pre-Conference Briefings - Sept. 23 at 10 am and Sept. 27 at 7 pm. No registration required! If you are already registered for the Conference in July, a ZOOM link to both meetings will be emailed to you (choose date and time that's most convenient for you).
Oct. 1 - Ordination and Commissioning Service at 6 pm (limited in-person attendance, invitation only, and will be livestreamed). Bishop Tracy S. Malone, East Ohio Conference, will be the preacher. If you would like to give to the Ministerial Education Fund for the special offering, click here.
Oct. 1 at Noon - Refresher Tech Training from GNTV for voting and Zoom participation. Click here for Zoom link.
Oct. 2 - Business session 9 am until no later than 3 pm. Registration is closed but, if you registered for the July session, you are covered for the October session. If you need to change to an alternate, it must be done by Sept 20. For alternate requests and registration questions, contact Laura Lopez by email.
Resources for July 16 - 17 session:
AGENDA
Program Booklet
►Livestream (YouTube)
►Livestream (Facebook)
Videos to watch and download:
- Bible Study Session 1
- Bible Study Session 2
- CCFA presentation
- Deacon 25th Anniversary Celebration
- Episcopal Message - Pt. 1 (July 16)
- Episcopal Message - Pt. 2 (July 17)
- Laity Session
- Memorial Service
- NIC News Today - Friday (ACST Report)
- NIC News Today - Saturday (ACST Report)
- Retirement Service
- State of the Church (Connectional Table)
(please visit the program booklet for music copyright information and acknowledgments)
Important Updates:
- Clergy Session - June 28, 10 am - 12 noon via Zoom. Registration is closed. Download the Clergy Packet.
- Legislation and Historical Documents will be posted online by June 16.
- For an Agenda of the two days, click here.
- Laity Session kicked off Annual Conference the evening on Thursday, July 15 at 7 pm. Click for a recording.
- Pre-Conference Briefings: Two webinars were held July 8 & 12. To watch the recording with adjustments to volume on some of the presentations, click here. It's strongly recommended voting members watch the briefing to learn the standing rules and procedures as well as information on legislative documents.
- AC Tech Training: If you missed one of the two tech trainings, watch the recording here.
- 2021 Ordination Service - Oct. 1. Limited in-person service.
- Fall Session - Oct. 2
News and Updates
- Legislation and Historical Documents are uploaded and ready to download and preview. Click here.
- Call Letter from Bishop Hopkins
- Laity Call Letter
- AC Committee Announces Dates - Read latest
- Bible study leader will be Bishop Julius C. Trimble from the Indiana Conference. Session dates and details are still being determined.
- The Memorial Service preacher will be Bishop Hee-Soo Jung from the Wisconsin Conference. If you know of clergy or a lay member to Annual Conference who passed away after Sept. 1, 2020, please send the name and photo to communications@umcnic.org.
- Bishop Tracy S. Malone from the East Ohio Conference will be the preacher for the 2021 Ordination Service on Oct. 1.
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ALL historical documents and proposed legislation for the conference must be submitted by May 3, 2021, to Rev. Katie Voigt, Chair of Daily Proceedings, by Email. Please note that there are no exceptions to this deadline. If you have any questions about how to format your documents, please feel free to contact Rev. Voigt at the same email address during your writing process. *All legislative documents must be in the Action/Rationale format with a maximum of 500 words for the rationale, be submitted as a Microsoft Word document and able to be edited.