(24 November 2008) With just a couple of webcams and a lot of heart, UMYAF WebTeam forged on with live media streaming of the 2008 Philippines Central Conference recently held at Central UMC, Manila.
They met with various difficulties and physical obstructions: Minimal funding, negligible staff, unpredictable Internet connection and challenging viewers are just some of these trials. Despite multiple setbacks during the conference itself, UMCPhilippines.org had an all-time high of 827 visits.
(23 November 2008)As an overture to the gathering, over 30 church workers' children of various ages came together and sang before the PCC ’08 assembly yesterday.
Decamping to Perez Chapel afterwards, the meeting was presided over by Bing Canlas who was re-elected to the presidency. The three Episcopal areas were well represented
This coming November, from 18 to 23, the UnitedMethodistChurch in the Philippines will assemble as a legislative body. Individuals, both clergy and laity, representing the various Annual Conferences and Episcopal areas, will come together in Phils. Central Conference (PCC) and decide on our collective future as a Church.
As a poor man’s son from a remote farm, I’ve been to places which I had never dreamed of reaching in my childhood. From the country’s capital region, Manila; the summer capital, Baguio; the queen city of the south, Cebu; the durian republic, Davao; to the arid counties of Queensland in Australia; the domicile of the famous Opera House, Sydney; the country-continent’s stead of the Parliament House, Canberra; the capital of ‘little down under’, Wellington in New Zealand; the abode of giant silver bouquet, Christchurch; and to the site of ‘The Remarkables’, Queenstown. But still, there’s no place like home…
1. SINCE the name first came abroad into the world, many have been at a loss to know what a Methodist is; what are the principles and the practice of those who are commonly called by that name; and what the distinguishing marks of this sect, "which is everywhere spoken against."
