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TOP STORY: Are you ready for Annual Conference?

As the 2007 session of the Holston Annual Conference approaches on June 10-13 at Lake Junaluska, church leaders will make these final preparations:

• Collect two offerings. Bring your church's Brazil offering and Change for Children offering to Annual Conference.
• Complete hands-on missions kits. This week and next, churches will complete and deliver kits to a designated drop-off point in each district. (See link below for more information.)
• Read your "Book of Reports." Mailed to all Annual Conference members earlier this month, the "Book of Reports" contains vital information about this year's election process.
• Bring peanut butter. The Young Adult Ministry Team will be collecting peanut butter for distribution to area food pantries. Bring the peanut butter to Sunday registration; a collection table will be provided there at Harrell Center.

Where to deliver hands-on mission kits?

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Coming this Sunday: Peace With Justice

The United Methodist Church will observe Peace With Justice Sunday with an offering on June 3. The Annual Conference keeps 50 percent of the receipts within the conference. The remaining 50 percent is used for ministries related to the General Board of Church and Society.

Learn more and download resources

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Reminder: Applications for senior grants due today

The Holston Conference Foundation offers grants from the Margaret Grizzell Loving Trust to Holston groups pursuing ministries for senior adults. Grant applications are due today (May 30). For information, e-mail Rita Broderick or call (865) 690-8124.

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License to take lives: Who said that?

"A couple came because of their having had to kill and just the terrible thought that they were responsible for taking another life. I told them that was their mission, that they were working for the government, which has license to do this sort of thing for the protection of others."

— Retired Air Force Reserve Col. Paul Milliken, now pastor at Trinity Tower UMC, in Penn Hills, Pa., in an article concerning the U.S. Army's recent call for chaplains.

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