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Taking The Call in-house: Readers speak out

Just read the new in-house Call. It looks great! I can’t wait for more.
Rev. Dennie D. Humphreys
District Superintendent
Big Stone Gap, VA

We received our new issue of The Call. We thought it was tremendously better than the national version. I’m also excited about The Sunday Call that can be downloaded for our weekly leaflet. Please pass on a “job well done” to those who worked so hard on the new format.
Barbara J. Heins
Bradburn Hill UMC
Greeneville, TN

The new version of The Call was the first one I have read from cover to cover in months. I enjoyed the story about Jerry Everly [‘Holston minister reaches out to suffering New Yorkers,’ 11/5/01] the most.
Rev. Brian Burch
Tyner UMC
Chattanooga, TN

I have mixed feelings about the change in the conference newspaper. I had become accustomed to the other. When we decided to go with the United Methodist Reporter nearly 30 years ago, we took it before the Annual Conference for approval. We don’t do things that way now. However, if given a chance to vote, I suppose the conference would approve the change. I suppose the new format will give the opportunity for more local church news.
Rev. Roy L. Howard
Chattanooga, TN

My first impression of the new The Call is that I had a hard time getting interested in reading it. My main interest in getting The Call is for the denomination-wide issues. The new issue had very little of this. I vote for the old method of generating The Call. If not that way, then we should somehow get hold of national writings of issues affecting Methodism and the Church in general.
Dr. W. Kelly Dagenhart
First UMC
Oak Ridge, TN

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