General Conference has taken off. We are earnestly requesting regular intercession and prayer. We will keep you informed with regular reports from Fort Worth on what is happening and will share with you prayer concerns each day. This link will take you to a Prayer Guide that has been prepared by Beth Ann Cook and we commend it to you for your use these next eleven days. It will be helpful in giving directions as you pray, along with items we will be sending each day.

GC Update 1 - April 24
GC Update 2 - April 25
GC Update 3 - April 26
GC Update 4 - April 27
GC Update 5 - April 28
GC Update 6 - April 29
GC Update 7 - April 30

The 2008 United Methodist General Conference in Ft. Worth, Texas, provides our denomination with an opportunity to take another major step forward toward reform, renewal, and revitalization! The Renewal and Reform Coalition desires to build on the momentum of the significant gains made at Pittsburgh in 2004 and Cleveland in 2000 and we plan on working to see the progress extended into the next quadrennium.

This is a critical time for our church. And frankly, one of the greatest dangers we face is complacency. We need greater wisdom now than ever before, and much prayer as we seek a renewed and reformed denomination.

Coalition Priorities
• Membership standards
• The Critical Role of the Judicial Council
• Empowering the Central Conferences
• Advocacy for Women and Children
• The General Conference in the Context of a World-wide Church
• Doctrine, Accountability, Leadership and the Council of Bishops

Issues
Some Background on the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice -Lifewatch

General Conference Issue Briefs by Riley Case of the Confessing Movement within the United Methodist Church

Recipe for Renewal and Transformation of Global United Methodism in the New Quadrennium by Jerry P. Kulah, District Superintendent of the Monrovia District of the Liberia Conference

The Renewal and Reform Coalition and the Issues Before Us by Tom Lambrecht

A Worldwide Church, the proposed U.S. Central Conference, and Doctrinal Issues by Tom Lambrecht

Leadership Success, Leadership Shortcomings, and Social Issues by Tom Lambrecht

The General Conference as I See It by Maxie Dunnam

An Open Letter from Lifewatch by Cindy Evans and Paul T. Stallsworth

Church opposes cloning humans to produce babies

United Methodists explore divestment proposals

Methodists to consider divestment plans: Jews decry 'anti-Israel' path

No future for Methodists unless change occurs, say leaders

Have we lost something foundational?