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With the new structuring of the United Methodist Church comes legislation to overhaul the Book of Discipline that describes the mission, structure, policies, and procedures of the church at all levels (local church, annual conference, and denominational). See the proposed legislation in volume 2, Section 2 of the Daily Christian Advocate (PDF). Scroll down to page 731 for the start of the proposed draft of the new Book of Discipline.
Although the 2024 General Conference passed several amendments to the UMC Constitution, the amendments only become official if they are ratified by at least a two-thirds affirmative vote of the aggregate of members to the annual conferences. This means that each annual conference acts like a polling station. The vote from all 127 annual conferences around the world are added together and if two-thirds (or more) of the total combined vote in favor, the amendments become accepted by the denomination. The amendment topics are:
Our Annual Conference Session is where clergy and lay representatives from United Methodist churches from the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley to the Oregon border and all of Nevada except for the Las Vegas area (over 1000 delegates) gather together for the annual meeting. It is held in central CA (usually Sacramento) in mid-June (before or after Father's Day) from Friday to Monday. Nick Strobel and Bill Blair are the lay delegates and our pastor is the clergy delegate for our church. You can also see the first part of the ACS 2010 report for a photo-journal that gives you an idea of what an Annual Conference Session is like.
2025 Annual Conference Session: June 27-30, 2025 in Sacramento with the theme “Thriving in Community”.
Annual Conference Session links: Annual Conference Session links: 2025 -- 2024 -- 2022 -- 2021 -- 2019 -- 2018 -- 2017 -- 2016 -- 2015
The "Journal" from the most recent Annual Conference Session is on the Resources / Journals page of the Cal-Nevada UMC website. The Journal gives a complete record of what happened at an Annual Conference Session. See the "Previous Journals" page for the records of previous AC sessions.
Zoom discussion on supporting immigrants on February 4 with Bishop Olewine, clergy, laity across Cal-Nevada Annual Conference.
Called to Thrive in Community! with D.S. Mary Maaga on February 1, March 1 and April 1 over Zoom.
As a connectional church, ten percent of our offering (donations) go to the larger United Methodist Church (called “apportionments”). Our Conference Tithe helps pay for:
In addition to the Conference Tithe, we give an additional one percent for ministries within our district (the Central Valley District). All of the second mile giving works its way back into our district with 24% of the total second-mile giving is managed by District committees and the remaining 76% is managed by Conference committees and the Cabinet.
Here is how the money is portioned out:
Powered by the Holy Spirit, 'Rethink Church' serves as a catalyst that moves the denomination, and those we hope to reach, into dialogue -- and ultimately, into transformative, collaborative action. What if church were a verb? What would it look like? Go to "RethinkChurch.org" for more about changes underway in the United Methodist Church.
Every four years representatives from the United Methodist churches in Alaska, California, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, Montana, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and Hawaii gather to plan programs for the next four years and elect bishops for the annual conferences in the western United States.
Every four years representatives from United Methodist churches all over the world gather to set direction for the entire denomination for the following four years. General Conference is the only body that officially speaks for the denomination.
The 2020 session was postponed to 2024 because of the COVID pandemic and disaffiliation movements of a significant proportion of U.S. churches. The postponed 2020 General Conference will be held in Charlotte, North Carolina April 23 - May 3, 2024 with the theme "...and Know that I am God." It will be livestreamed (select the link to bring up the livestream). The California-Nevada Conference delegation discuss their preparations for the General Conference session (archived on YouTube).
To find out more about General Conferences in general, see the Exploring General Conference course or see the materials in our website about the UMC organization from our link below.
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