Rev. Ross Reinhiller

Welcome back from General Conference! Thank you to all our delegates and members of Upper Midwest Churches that attended! I know we will hear from our delegation all that they experience and accomplished. There is so many reasons to rejoice. General Conference announced that we are a family of 7250 churches spread over 50 annual conferences. We continue to grow! The General Conference passed a unified Articles of Faith. We know who we are, what we believe and how we act in the world and...

In a few weeks our delegation from the Upper Midwest Conference will travel to South Africa for the first General Conference of the Global Methodist Church. The Global Methodists, at this Conference must answer an important question: Are we a Global movement of the Spirit of God or are we an institution symbolically global but a western institution whose main concern is self-perpetuation. The way this Conference conducts business and enacts legislation will answer the question. A movement...

In a world where people can choose their own reality, faith and truth must stand. The tools of Artificial Intelligence may enhance our abilities to share the gospel, or they may lead us into the oldest of sin. Like the fruit on the tree of good and evil, it can be used in the hands of evil to deceive us into believing truth is whatever we want to make it. Alan Campell, our Conference Lay Leader has wise words of advice and guidance. Let’s hear him in his own words. We live in a fast-paced...