PNW Delegation

By Rev. Kay C. Barckley May 25, 2016 From numerous vantage points, the impressive glass spires of the Oregon Convention Center appear to rise unattached into the...

It's Saturday night and the legislative committee portion of General Conference 2012 has ended. The Western jurisdiction took a major hit late this afternoon....

By David Reinholz May 12, 2016 | Portland, Oregon After a morning spent discussing and ultimately rejecting Rule 44, the 2016 General Conference of The United Methodist...

By Rev. David Nieda May 16, 2016 | Portland, Oregon Going into the second week of my first General Conference, I have several observations, from the first...

By Rev. Monica Corsaro May 11, 2016 | Portland, Oregon Breweries, vegan pizza, hipsters, public transportation with the wafting scent of pot in the air; that is the...

Gail Grossman & the Rev. Craig Parrish talk as Peter Masundire works to stay connected. Photo by the Rev. David Valera. Thursday The day was long. I...

How can we get ready for General Conference when so many things are up in the air? Rev. Elizabeth Ingram Schindler shares how the PNW delegation has been preparing itself for the special session of General Conference later this month and offers suggestions on how United Methodists can do the same.

First-elected PNW Clergy Delegate to General Conference 2019, Rev. Mary Kohlstaedt Huycke, shares this short message expressing her hopes for the time next month in February. One hope is that delegates will engage not in "decision-making" but in real discernment that is open to the Holy Spirit.

“Love is bigger than our structures and our fraught attempts to follow the Way of Jesus.” As she looks forward toward the 2019 General Conference in less than a month, Skylar Marston-Bihl finds herself considering the history of the denomination, and the tension that has always existed between grace and structure. Skylar is a member of the 2019 PNW delegation to General Conference and the first-elected lay delegate for 2020.

Delegation members Marie Kuch, the Rev. Gloria Kymn, Amory Peck and the Rev. Craig Parrish share a light moment with their 'voting keypads' on...