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2010 Virginia Annual Conference
The Virginia Annual Conference will be held from 13-16 June 2010 at the Scope Arena, Norfolk, VA.  Each year all clergy members and an equal number of lay members selected from the local churches attend their conference’s Annual Conference sessionmeet together to worship, fellowship, and conduct the business of the conference. During these sessions, members of the conference hear reports of past and ongoing work; adopt future goals, programs and budgets; ordain clergy members as deacons and elders; and elect delegates to Jurisdictional and General Conferences (every 4 years). Bishop Charlene P. Kammerer will preside over these meetings.
 
The team of Virginia Conference authors who have written the book Does Your Church Have a Prayer? The Reverends Marc Brown, Kathy Merry and John Briggs will lead Annual Conference Bible Study on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, and a plenary teaching session on Tuesday afternoon.  Their sessions will focus on leadership development through the theme “Leading By Following Jesus.”
Annual Conference Information
Book of Reports, click here to view or print.
Annual Conference Donations, click here for more information.
The Virginia Conference Board of Global Ministries (BOGM) and the Society of St. Andrew (SoSA) are co-sponsoring the 13th Annual Conference Potato Drop during this year’s Annual Conference. The “drop” will take place on Tuesday, June 15, at 5:30 AM in the parking lot of Ghent United Methodist Church, 531 Raleigh Avenue in Norfolk.
The Rev. Jim Gulley, a United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) consultant who was trapped with colleagues in the rubble of the Hotel Montana after the Haiti earthquake, will address the Annual Conference evening session Tuesday, June 15.
Annual Conference Extra's
Redistricting Task Force
 
The 2009 Annual Conference authorized the commission of a task force to look at reducing the number of districts in the conference.  Click here to view the video
Annual Conference Donations.

Each year members of local churches are encouraged to help raise money for global mission projects designated by the bishop. The pastor or lay representative of each church will take that money to Annual Conference where it will be collected during a special time of the session.  Bishop Charlene Kammerer has announced that the 2010 Annual Conference offering goal is $300,000.  Click here for more information.
Annual Conference Kits
Birthing Kits
An urgent appeal has been sent out from UMCOR for Birthing Kits for Haiti to be used by hospitals and clinics finding their resources depleted due to the devastating earthquake.  Click here for more information. 
UMCOR Kits
The 2010 Virginia Conference kit collection is being conducted to replenish the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) supply. UMCOR’s Sager Brown Depot reports there is a need for health, school, baby and sewing kits. Click here for more information.
 
 
 
 
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