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Updates from Your NIC Delegation to General and Jurisdictional Conferences

The NIC delegation to General and Jurisdictional United Methodist Conferences is actively meeting to plan and listen for the upcoming conferences. All delegation meetings are open to visitors. Updates are added after monthly meetings.

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North Central Jurisdiction Confirms: Northern Illinois and Wisconsin Will Share a Bishop

It’s official: Wisconsin Conference and Northern Illinois Conference will start sharing a bishop on Sept. 1. The North Central Jurisdiction, meeting online in a special session on Jan. 23, passed two motions: to form a new episcopal area composed of Northern Illinois and Wisconsin Conferences and to form another composed of East Ohio and West Ohio Conferences.

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What does ‘regionalization’ mean for the UMC?

You may have heard over the past few years that the United Methodist General Conference will be voting on regionalization. What does that mean? What’s the United Methodist interest in this?

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A Message from the Bishop: Election of General Conference Delegates

Grace and peace to you in the name of Christ. I write today related to the composition of our delegation in light of a new ruling released by the United Methodist Judicial Council.

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We Press On: NCJ wrap-up

Clergy and lay delegates from conferences across the North Central Jurisdiction of The United Methodist Church convened November 2-5 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, for Jurisdictional Conference 2022. In his opening service message, “God Has Us Right Where God Wants Us,” retired Bishop Bruce Ough spoke from Ezekiel 37:1-14, The Valley of Dry Bones.

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Bishop Dan Schwerin Assigned to Northern Illinois

On the final day of the North Central Jurisdictional Conference (NCJ), the Committee on Episcopacy assigned Bishop Dan Schwerin to the Northern Illinois Conference, effective Jan. 1, 2023.

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