BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Brick River Technologies//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120424T040000Z DTEND:20120505T035900Z SUMMARY:General Conference 2012 DESCRIPTION:The United Methodist Church’s top legislative body, the Gene ral Conference, will gather April 24-May 4 in Tampa, Florid a. Nine hundred and eighty-eight delegates from around the world will set policy and direction for the church, as well as handle other business. General Conference is the only e ntity that speaks for The United Methodist Church. The 2012 conference has been planned by the 25 -member Commission on the General Conference, led by Randall Miller of Emeryvill e, Calif. . A local committee from the Florida Annual Confe rence under the leadership of Bishop Timothy Whitaker , is hosting the event. Marilyn Swanson is chairperson of the Ho st Committee. Some 4,000 people will serve in a variety of volunteer roles such as greeters, registration officials, m arshals, pages, translators, hosts and hostesses, guides, dr ivers, musicians, technicians, reporters and emergency-resp onse volunteers. Follow updates, track legislature and view online live streaming of worship services & more at www.gc20 12.umc.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120505T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:Laity Council Conference Call meeting DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120508T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:Nominations DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120508T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:Nominations Committee DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120510T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120512T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:Ministries Team Meeting - canceled DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120514T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:Board of Trustees meeting DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120516T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:GNJ UM Camping Ministries DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120517T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:Bishop's Dinner with Candidates DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120519T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:CFA Meeting DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120519T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:CLM Class DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120519T040000Z DTEND:20120520T035900Z SUMMARY:Hispanic Leadership Awards Dinner DESCRIPTION:A gathering of Hispanic/Latino churches of the Greater New J ersey Annual Conference in which there will be dinner follow ed by awards given for outstanding lay service at the local church. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120519T040000Z DTEND:20120520T035900Z SUMMARY:UMW Mission Team Mtg. DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120520T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:Aldersgate Celebration with Commission on Archives & History DESCRIPTION:The Greater New Jersey Annual Conference's Commission on Arc hives and History is celebrating this year's Conference wid e Aldersgate Celebration on Sunday, May  20 at the Chews Un ited Methodist Church in Glendora.  The worship service wil l start at 4:00 P.M. with the Reverend Doctor Bill Wilson p reaching the sermon.  We will be celebrating the 175th Anni versary of the first annual New Jersey conference session of the Methodist Episcopal Church held at the Halsey Street C hurch, Newark, in 1837.  Directions to the church can be fo und at http://www.chewsumc.com/info.htm.  Please plan to at tend the event in order to celebrate your place in the "End less Line of Splendor" that is Greater New Jersey United Met hodism! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120520T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:Delaware Bay District Transtition Training DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120531T040000Z DTEND:20120603T035900Z SUMMARY:Annual Conference at Valley Forge Convention Center DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120609T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:Church & Society DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120609T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:Come & Celebrate - Conference Day of Learning DESCRIPTION:COME AND CELEBRATE – CONFERENCE DAY OF LEARNING JUNE 9, 2012 Greetings in the precious and mighty name of our Lord Jesus the Christ!I would like to invite all conference-wide leader ship to gather for a “Conference Day of Learning: Our Celebr ation of God’s Call to Serve” event at Calvary Korean United Methodist Church in East Brunswick on Saturday, June 9th, 2 012.  In our celebration, there will be worship with an “ins tallation” of all newly elected committee members of the Ann ual Conference, panel discussion with representatives from v arious General Boards and Agencies, and group workshops.The schedule of the day will look like:Worship          9:00 am – 10:15 amPanel Discussion    10:15 am – 11:15 amGroup Works hop    11:15 am – 12:30 pm More detailed information will be provided soon.The main speakers for our worship and panel d iscussion will be Ms. Erin Hawkins (General Commission on Re ligion and Race) and Mr. Thomas Kemper (General Board of Glo bal Ministry).  Let us come, celebrate, and be equipped so t hat we can serve the people of God, that have been entrusted with our service and leadership, more faithfully and effect ively.Jesus said, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.” (Mt. 9:37) However, with God’s grace, we have hun dreds and hundreds of “workers” who are willing to work in G od’s vineyard to bear many fruits in this Annual Conference. Thanks be to God!Rev. Sung H. Ahn, Director of Connectional MinistryGreater New Jersey Annual Conference  END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120609T040000Z DTEND:20120610T035900Z SUMMARY:CUMAC Benefit Concert DESCRIPTION:BENEFIT CONCERT FOR CUMACFEATURING:The Gospel Project& Samhi ll RdAdmission $10ea or Two for $15refreshmens available for purchaseAll proceeds to benfit the mission work of CUMAC(Ce nter of United Methodist Aid to the Community) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120609T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:Scholarship Dinner DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120609T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:TAIZE ORIENTATION MEETING DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120613T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:CFPA meeting in Highstown DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120618T040000Z DTEND:20120619T035900Z SUMMARY:Resource Day for Clergy DESCRIPTION: For ClergyPastors Rudy and Juanita Rasmus have led the St. Johns United Methodist Church for 19 years. In this brief sp an of time the couple has transformed the spiritual landscap e and the face of poverty in Downtown Houston. Beginning wit h 9 existing members in 1992, St. Johns has grown to over 9, 000 members (3,000 of the total either are or were formerly homeless) in seventeen years into one of the most culturally diverse congregations in the country. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120623T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:Commission on Archives and History Conference Call DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120625T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:21st Century Leadership Academy Orientation DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120625T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:Board of Trustees meeting DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120710T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120727T040000Z DTEND:20120807T035900Z SUMMARY:Youth to Taize, France DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120907T040000Z DTEND:20120910T035900Z SUMMARY:Ocean City Youth Weekend DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120910T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:Board of Trustees meeting DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120915T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:Church and Society DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120915T040000Z DTEND:20120916T035900Z SUMMARY:UMW Mission Team Mtg. DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120922T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:Primary Task Team Mtg. DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121004T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:Cape Atlantic District Resource Day DESCRIPTION:Thursday, October 4, 2012Speaker: Rev. Jim WalkerGathering: 8:30 - 9 AMClergy Session: 9 AM - 2 PMLaity Session: 7 - 9 P M Rev. Jim Walker is a United Methodist Pastor at the Hot Me tal Bridge Faith Community, Pittsburg, PA (look at the video at the website).  Hot Metal Bridge is an "emerging" or "mis sional church."  Jesus taught the people that followed Him b y telling stories about the world around Him.  In the same w ay Hot Metal Bridge uses drama as a way of sharing the stori es of the Bible in new and relevant ways.  Hot Metal Bridge has a weekly homeless ministry, hosting a twice weekly free meal that is provided by various volunteer groups and church es from the Pittsburgh area.  They have youth and children's minnstry every Sunday.  Hot Metal has also built an ongoing relationship with a church in Mexico.  The trips not only p rovide a set of working hands, but they also help financiall y support the minstry as a whole.Pastor Jim is an Ordained E lder in the United Methodist Church who works with the Weste rn Pennsylvania Conference of the UMC doing congregational d evelopment. He is a graduate of Pittsburgh Theological Semin ary (2003) and received his undergraduate degree from Point Park College in Pittsburgh (1991). He lives in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh with his wife Brenda and their tw o children, Carlisle and Daniel. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121011T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:Delaware Bay District Resource Day DESCRIPTION:District Resource Day with Rev. Jorge Acevedo Day Session:  8:30AM to 3:00PMEvening Session: 700PM to 9:00PM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121013T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:The Educational Society of GNJAC DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121025T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:NS District Resource Day DESCRIPTION:Rev. David Hood, Ginghamsburg UMC to speak on the subject of revitalizing declining congregations.Clergy & laity, 8:30 a m (gathering) to 3 pm (light lunch included)Laity: 7 to 9 pm (light refreshments)Place: West Grove UMC/Neptune END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121027T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:UMVIM Mission Trip to Haiti DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121027T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:UMW Fall Meeting DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121027T040000Z DTEND:20121028T035900Z SUMMARY:UMW Mission Team Mtg. DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121108T050000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:Cape Atlantic District Resource Day DESCRIPTION:Rev. James Kay, PhD.Gathering: 8:30-9AMClergy Session: 9AM-2 PMLaity Session: 7-9PM  Rev. Dr. James F. Kay is Princeton T heological Seminary’s Dean of Academic Affairs and Joe R. En gle Professor of Homiletics and Liturgics and director of th e Joe R. Engle Institute of Preaching. An ordained Presbyter ian minister, Rev. Kay specializes in the history, theology, and practice of preaching and worship. His courses cover wo rship in the Reformed tradition, theology and proclamation, and homiletical theory. Rev. Kay holds an M.Div. from Harvar d University and an M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary in New York. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121112T050000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:Board of Trustees meeting DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121112T050000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:Delaware Bay District Resource Day DESCRIPTION:District Resource Day with Rev. Dr. Anna Carter Florence Day Session:  8:30AM to 3:00PMEvening Session:  7:00PM to 9:00P M END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121115T050000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:Northern Shore District Resource Day DESCRIPTION:Rev. Jasmine Smothers, presenter, is Director of Connectiona l Ministries for the North Georgia Annual Conference.  Theme of her presentation: How we use social media to connect the church/multi-ethnic church.Clergy & laity:  8:30 am (gather ing) to 1 pm  /Light breakfast foods & beverages providedLai ty: 7 to 9 pm/ Light refreshments & beverages END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20121117T050000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:Church and Sciety DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130212T050000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:All Clergy Lenten Gathering DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20130316T040000Z DTEND:00010102T045900Z SUMMARY:UMVIM Mission Trip to Haiti DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR