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• There Is Strength In Preparation
• There Is Strength In Serving
• There Is Strength In Love
• There Is Strength In Witnessing
• There Is Strength In Prayer
• There Is Strength In Believing
• There Is Strength In Words
• There Is Strength In Numbers
• There Is Strength In Listening
• There Is Strength In Reconciliation
• There Is Strength In Reading
• There Is Strength In Learning

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• A Time For Welcoming
• A Time For Work
• A Time For Change
• A Time For Song
• A Time For Preparation
• A Time For Love
• A Time For Silence
• A Time For Solidarity
• A Time For Learning

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• Love Your Neighbor Tabernacle
• Love Your Neighbor Worship
• Daily Tasks and Opportunities for Volunteers
• Street Theater!
• Action: Send Your Prayers to General Conference
• Action: Young People
• Action: Marriage Equality and an Altar for All
• Action: Support RMN

Love Your Neighbor (34 Days and Counting)  

It’s been four years since the worldwide United Methodist Church gathered for General Conference.

Some of us have been preparing for this General Conference since the closing day in Fort Worth almost four years ago. With Tampa site visits, grassroots campaigns, fundraising, building relationships, expanding coalition, adopting inclusive legislation, creating websites, finding translators, resourcing delegates, and engaging denominational leadership, we have been preparing. [For more on legislation: MFSA Plumblines; Daily Christian Advocate (DCA)]

The structure of this General Conference is different because of annual meetings throughout this quadrennium between RMN, MFSA, and Affirmation leaders with the Bishop’s Unity Team. One outcome of these annual meetings is the creation of three nonvoting sessions for delegates. The first two sessions occur on Day One of General Conference. The second of these, as recommended by our team, will be on human sexuality and clearly addresses homosexuality. Some of us remember the three-day silence finally broken by the young adults in their address to the plenary in Fort Worth.

In 2008, we proclaimed our faith, our hope, and our challenge to our denomination from the plenary floor urging United Methodists to take action for justice ahead of policy change. Our United Methodist Christian teaching includes 36 bishops calling for ending discrimination in ordination, 13 annual conferences and 1200 clergy acting to end discrimination in marriage, and a trial court ending a history of “defrocking” those who act.

Now, preparation for those headed to Tampa includes travel plans, raising a tabernacle, and coordinating volunteers of an expanding coalition with growing work teams for Witness, Legislation, Central Conferences, and Media. Preparation for the multitudes staying at home includes planning to gather together locally, to use the devotion guide, to watch the daily Love Your Neighbor news reports, to experience the Sunday worship streamed and posted via the web, to send your love offerings, and to pray, pray for our coalition, for our church and for our world.

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• Who Is My Neighbor?
• Welcome BMCR to the Love Your Neighbor Coalition!
• Journey to Hope
• RUM Reflections
• Mission Trip: Tampa
• See You at the River
• New RCs
• In the News
• Resources
• Upcoming Events

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• Ash Wednesday
• Smoke and Fire
• Using Ashes to Kindle a New Fire
• New RCs
• RUM Profile
• Mission Trip: Tampa
• In the News
• Resources
• Upcoming Events

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• Walking in Truth
• Extension Ministries Highlight: UMOC
• In the News
• Mission Trip: Tampa
• Love Your Neighbor
• RUM Profile
• New RCs
• Resources & Reviews

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Last Chance for 2011! Donate to RMN Today

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