Celebrating 25 years of Ministry to the United Methodist Church
No tree can flourish without its roots. African proverb
The year 2025 marks fifty-seven years since the 1968 Uniting Conference of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Methodist Church met to unite and become The United Methodist Church. An important aspect of the uniting agreement was the approval of a resolution that by 1972, the Central Jurisdiction structure of the Methodist Church would be eliminated and the previously all African American annual conferences would be merged with the appropriate geographical annual conferences. In retrospect there is much to learn about the process and the results of that momentous action. Such a “look-back” is essential if the denomination is not to forget the past struggles that gave birth to the present reality.
