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April 2025

April 2025

Decisions have been made at the highest level of our government to eliminate many of the safety nets that help our most vulnerable. The programs that backstop hunger, homelessness, discrimination, abuse, deportation, and hate are programs that coincide exactly with Jesus’s ministry and his directive to us to “Love one another. ” In this moment, what is SUMC’s responsibility?

March 2025

March 2025

All kinds of church congregations throughout the United States are shrinking. According to Gallup, membership in America’s churches dropped below 50 percent in 2020 for the first time in the 80 years Gallup has been collecting such data. But guess who is succeeding despite those trends?