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October 2020 |Volume 166 | Issue 10 Oeod IL Homewood, O Pro Non Emt#130 Permit ..Postage U.S DO NOT DELAY. DATED MATERIAL. Chicago, IL 60602 77 W. Washington St. Suiteof 1820 The United Methodist Church Northern Illinois Conference www.umcnic.org REPORTER October 2020 |Volume 166 | Issue 10 Homewood, IL Non Pro Permit #130 U.S. Postage PAID f i t Org A“virtual”first for Annual Conference 2020 “When did I first start zooming?” I Ministries. He was invited to be with us in June and he done them in the past. We will begin with the Memorial wondered one day. I went back in my has graciously accepted our invitation to do a Bible study Service on Thursday evening, November 12, followed the virtual calendar and to the best of my on each of our strategic goals—discipleship, anti-racism, next afternoon by a carefully planned Commissioning knowledge, it was September 10, 2019. and vital congregations. As a result, he’ll have about twice and Ordination Service with all precautions (including a Almost to the day of writing this, it’s been a as long to teach than he would during an in-person very limited number of persons participating) on year of Zoom video conferencing. conference. These three webinars start in October and November 13. Our annual conference business session But not all days and weeks and months of zooming are they are all part of our annual conference experience! takes place Saturday, November 14, followed by the equal. Since mid-March, I have been zooming every day, Recordings of the session will be made available. online Retirement Service. We expect every clergy and sometimes for hours. My guess is that many of you have delegate to attend all of these services (virtually) over • We will have pre-conference briefings that are essential been zooming these last months (or using another other these three days in addition to the business session. for the virtual conference experience. We’re offering platform like Zoom). Even my 88-year-old mother zooms three of them—all the same, but at different times—with •Two identical training sessions will be held so that each (when her computer works), and she’s very proud to be the the expectation that you as a clergyperson or lay delegate clergy and delegate knows how to use the virtual only person in her senior facility to do so. Zooming is will participate in only one. These briefings will prepare platform with the ability to participate fully, especially to essential to living in pandemic times for both personal and us so that, during our four hours of virtual meetings on vote! You may choose the date and time convenient for work-related reasons. November 14, we will be empowered to conduct the you. Please note them and make sure that, even if you’ve And now zooming is essential in order to do the work of essential business for the NIC efficiently. been zooming for six months now, you will be able to the annual conference. Without the ability to meet in participate. person this past June, we will attempt the first virtual •In addition to a presentation regarding the 2021 budget annual conference meeting in the 181 years of the during the pre-conference briefing, the Conference So those are all components of a virtual annual Northern Illinois Annual Conference! Committee on Finance and Administration (CCFA) will conference session (preceded at the end of June by the All NIC Clergy and Lay Members to Annual Conference host a special, optional webinar on the financial health of annual Clergy Session). I encourage you to put the dates should have received my call letter for this historic annual our annual conference. and times on your calendar. conference session, which will be held on Saturday, •There will be ways to present questions before our annual Having said all that, I want to acknowledge the grief, November 14, 2020 via a Zoom webinar. The letter conference session and it’s very important that you sadness and loss that accompanies this year’s virtual annual provides all kinds of information about AC2020, but I want participate in these webinars so that your questions are conference. to highlight a few things about a virtual conference that I asked and answered. The presentations on November 14 The candidates for commissioning and ordination miss hope you will take into consideration as you prepare for it: will incorporate many of the questions with others out on all the “pomp and circumstance” (and I use that •Annual conference will be an extended experience. Yes, posted for further information. phrase in the utmost highest regard) that accompanies that really! We will begin with Bible study with Rev. Junius service. Only instrumental music will be played (no •We will have all the regular worship services that we Dotson, the General Secretary/CEO of Discipleship singing). Only one other person associated with a normally have; they will just be different from how we’ve Continued on page 2, see From the Cover From the Bishop: INSIDE THE ISSUE Follow the Rule of Christ. 2 Annual Conference Important Information . 2 Tanzania School Inspected ...2 Responding to Disasters ...3 Pop-up ministries in a pandemic . 8 The Reporter is published monthly by NIC Communications. Postmaster: Send address changes to: NIC, 77 W. Washington St. Suite 1820, Chicago, IL 60602 Bishop’s Appeal By Rev. Young Seon (Christina) Kim On Sept. 11 God’s miracle happened. conflict. The first building inspection on the I would like to encourage you to participate in God's Global Mission Secondary School school project with your persistent prayers and heartful (GMSS ) in Tanzania was successfully donations, knowing that God is at work and won't fail to completed because God made a way in an meet all needs. Our God is the Good Shepherd. impossible situation. When we failed to reach 75% of construction by August The GMSS won’t be a just small Christian school. But it will 2020 according to the Ministry of Education, a light of be a mission base to spread God’s Word and Love. HOPE to open the school in Jan. 2021 was almost dimmed. Together we can accomplish God’s project and God’s vision—to transform many lives and raise Christian leaders But God turned the situation around and used a district in Tanzania for God’s church and mission. education officer and a chief school inspector to give me one more chance to finish priority buildings and be ready Look for ways to donate through the Annual Conference for the second inspection on November 15, 2020. A new online registration. Or mail checks to: opportunity was a sign of God's grace, will, and power. Northern Illinois Conference Hallelujah!!! PO Box 5646 A lot of things need to be done until Nov. 15, 2020— Carol Stream, IL 60197-5646 constructing priority buildings (minimum requirements) Write "Bishop's Appeal" in the memo line. Bishop's Appeal as well as recruiting students, teachers, staff, etc. God's gifts postmarked by November 2, 2020, will be included in advice for me is, "One step at a time. One thing at a time." totals announced at AC2020. Rev. Young Seon (Christina) Kim (left) walks with local officials As you see a short video (below), construction resumed for the first inspection of the building and property for the recently after six months' stop and additional costs’ Learn more about how your church can support the Global Mission Secondary School in Tanzania. Bishop's Appeal at umcnic.org/bishopsappeal. From the Cover: Annual Conference Mark Your Calendar candidate may attend (no groups of family, The Memorial Service is always a touching Important Dates friends, colleagues and parishioners who time as we remember our clergy, clergy Oct. 1, 8, and 22 would normally attend). There will be no spouses, and lay members to Annual Thursdays at 10 a.m. Bible Study with General Secretary of Discipleship warm embraces before, during and after this Conference who have died over the last year. Ministries Rev. Junius Dotson via Zoom. Attend all three sessions. Recordings special service. The whole “cloud” (physical The worship team is working hard to make will be made available to watch afterwards. anyway) of clergy colleagues who will walk that service meaningful for all of us as we Oct. 12 with the candidates for years to come won’t lament in our grief and acclaim our hope in Registration opens for Nov. 14 session. Registration is required to receive a be in attendance. There will be no reception Christ Jesus. Contacts will be available for Zoom link to participate in the business of AC2020. complete with food, fellowship and photos. these families, too. Oct. 14 It’s a big loss but we really don’t know We will miss the breakfasts, lunches and Proposed legislation and historical documents available online. when a group our size will be able to meet in dinners with one another, as well as coffee Oct. 25 person again, and so we have taken the and other times of catching up with old AC2020 registration closes. precautions and limited part of the friends and meeting new people. Nov. 1 experience in order to complete this leg of Conversations outside the plenary hall, in Deadline for removal of legislation from Consent Calendar by sending an our candidates’ journey. Please do the restrooms and on early morning walks email to [email protected]. everything you can to support these all contribute to what we enjoy about annual Nov. 2 candidates—write them notes and be sure to conference. How will you find other ways to Bishop's Appeal gifts postmarked by this date will be included in totals participate in the livestream.
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