The mission challenge for the 2018 Annual Conference is to provide cleaning kit items through the Midwest Mission Distribution Center (MMDC). MMDC, a 501c (3) organization, provides disaster relief kits and resources as well as educational and medical supplies to those in need locally and internationally.
Read MoreThe 2017 Northern Illinois Conference Journal is available online and to purchase through Amazon.com for $11.
Read MoreThe Northern Illinois Conference Reporter took 1st place in the Print Publication - Newspaper category at the annual United Methodist Association of Communicators annual meeting in Philadelphia on Mar. 9. The judges said in their comments that the newspaper had a "very attractive layout and good photography."
Read MoreRev. James F. Galuhn, clergy member of the Northern Illinois Conference, passed away on Monday, March 5, 2018. Rev. Galunh served at Blue Island: Grace, Lindenhurst: Trinity, and Chicago: East Side. He was 69 years old.
Read MoreWhat is Christ’s way forward for doing mission and ministry in the worldwide United Methodist Church? That is the question bishops pondered during their February meeting in Dallas this week as they received an updated report from the Commission on a Way Forward.
Read MoreAs 2018 rolled in we began to hear 50 year retrospectives. The year 1968 was a tumultuous, pivotal, and significant year in our nation’s recent history. It’s impossible to reflect on all of those semicentennial events and persons that have shaped us more than we may realize.
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