Ministry Links- United Methodist Church

Evangelical United Methodist Groups

• Asbury Theological Seminary (Wilmore, KY and Orlando, FL- An approved UMC Seminary)
• American Family Association (Methodist pastors in charge and UMC oriented)
• The Confessing Movement Within the UMC (Pastors for traditional Wesleyan faith)

  We are United Methodists who love our church and who are centered on Christ. We believe in the historic Christian faith and are especially grateful for our Wesleyan understanding of God’s grace and his call for personal and social holiness. We are committed to renewing the United Methodist Church by promoting biblical truth and by praying for God’s Spirit to unite his people around our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

• Foundation for Evangelism (Funds Professors of Evangelism at UMC Seminaries)

  The Foundation for Evangelism is an affiliate of the General Board of Discipleship of the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1949, by the late Dr. Harry Denman, who served as the General Secretary of the Board of Evangelism of the Methodist Church. The mission of The Foundation is to promote, encourage, and provide resources for responsible evangelism, enabling the United Methodist Church to bring persons into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and help them grow as His disciples. Our focus is to provide support, primarily through funding, to organizations that develop leaders who will have a multiplying evangelistic impact on the United Methodist Church.

• A Foundation for Theological Education (Funds ThD Wesleyan candidates)
• Four Corners Native American Ministry - Rev. Paul West revpwest@aol.com (Navajo Nation indigineous pastors)
• Good News Magazine (Conservative theological forum of the UMC)
• Holy Spirit Conference (was at Hope UMC in Sacramento in 1999)
• The Methodist Church - A conservative On-Line forum for United Methodist laity and clergy
• The Mission Society

  The Mission Society was founded in 1984 with an emphasis on sending missionaries to areas where the Gospel had been least heard so they could introduce individuals to Christ, disciple new believers, plant churches, and come alongside national leaders to help them reach their own nations for Christ. More than 20 years later, this focus continues to guide us. Over the years, we have grown to recruit, train, and support more than 400 cross-cultural witnesses. Currently, more than 200 work alongside nationals in more than 30 nations around the world. As they serve in a wide variety of ministries, they share the love and message of Christ, equip and empower national churches and their leaders, and further community development and relief efforts where needed.

• Transforming Congregations (Be Ye transformed by the renewing of your mind)

  Unlike the majority of Exodus member ministries, our national ministry does very little one-on-one work with individuals. (Although we do offer referral and prayer to anyone that contacts us.) Several members of our Board of Directors lead such ministries, but our overarching goal is to help local churches achieve the education, understanding and tools to do so themselves. As long as ex-gay ministry remains a primarily parachurch concern and effort, the Body of Christ as a whole will fail to meet the needs of confused, trapped and hurting people.

• UMC Board of Discipleship
• "United Methodist Action" is a committee of The Institute of Religion and Democracy (Mark Tooley, Director United Methodist Committee)

  UMAction defends traditional Christian beliefs and practices in the spirit of the father of Methodism, John Wesley. UMAction goes to church agency meetings, studies church publications, and interviews church officials. UMAction publishes its findings in news publications as well as in its own UMAction Briefing. The Briefing not only provides reports of activities that affect the Methodist Church and its members but also specific action items individuals may take to affect positive change and reform. The UMAction Reform Agenda for United Methodists outlines specific proposals for the reform of the United Methodist Church.

Other affiliated groups worth knowing about

• Ed Robb Evangelistic Association (Retired June 2002 after 35 years. Ed wrote significant books on the UMC)
• Evangelical Renewal Fellowship (Moderate California UMC Pastors group - Many young theologically conservative founding pastors left denomination in 2000 and 2001 under pressure from a purge by the liberal conference.)
• Redwood Christian Park (Boulder Creek, CA - Wesleyan Conference Grounds that was strongly linked to the Asbury Revival of the 1970's. I felt a boding loss in June 2002 as the Cal-Nevada pastors who made this their post-conference annual renewal event have left the denomination. It made the camp feel anemic and the prayer chapel went unused. The June camp has not hosted Asbury alumni for years. Without a change in the Cal-Nevada conference, there will be no evangelical UMC pastor families left to attend.)

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