A familiar site will greet visitors to the new United Methodist Center. The hand-carved "Christ Doors" that served as the entrance to the main building at Simpsonwood, have been installed in the reception area of the Century Center building.  The late Arnold and Lucille Hughey had the doors commissioned and presented as a gift to Simpsonwood in 1987. The Hugheys were long-time members of Decatur First United Methodist Church.  After a great deal of research to find the right artist for the ...

Note: Originally posted July 30. Updated September 24, 2015. The United Methodist Center has relocated to the 1700 Century Center building in Atlanta. Phone lines have been restored and numbers have not changed. The mailing address is: North Georgia Conference 1700 Century Circle NE, Suite 100 Atlanta, GA 30345  The PO Boxes for Apportionment and Benefits payments will remain the same. Please continue to use those addresses.  Read more about the new location at http://www.ngumc.org/newsdetai...

Even as a young girl, Mercy Lineberry was drawn to the Word of God. “I’ve always been interested in the Bible and scripture and studying,” says Lineberry. “Very early on, around 14 or 15 years old, I was studying a text in my dad’s concordance, and I got really excited about it. I thought, ‘I feel like I need to share this. I feel like I have some insight.’ My parents and I had a great discussion about what the text was saying and how God was speaking through it, and I thought, ‘I think this ...

Note: Updated 7/14 to reflect the decision of the 2015 Annual Conference to allow Gwinnett County to keep the Simpson chapel in its current location. As the United Methodist Center offices prepare to relocate, many of the artifacts, furniture, and supplies from the Simpsonwood Retreat Center have already been moved off property and are being used in ministry settings around the North Georgia Conference. Soon after the close of the retreat center last year, a committee was established to plan ...

NOTE: Article updated September 2, 2015. The North Georgia Conference Board of Trustees and the Relocation Subcommittee have announced that the United Methodist Center will relocate to the 1700 Century Center building on Century Circle near Clairmont Road and I-85 in Atlanta.  Conference officials signed a 7.5 year lease for the building on March 31. The building will accommodate the entire United Methodist Center on one ground-level floor that is fully accessible. A basement is included in ...

Conference to be held in Atlanta, home of the Civil Rights Movement   Rev. Pat Watkins, missionary for the General Board of Global Ministries who heads up the Ministry of God’s Renewed Creation, has announced the theme for the 2015 National Creation Care Conference. The theme will be environmental justice, and the conference will be hosted in the birthplace of the Civil Rights movement. The "Environmental Resurrection: Let Justice Roll Down Like Waters" Creation Care conference will be held on ...

On January 11, Dunwoody UMC in the Atlanta-Roswell District presented Bishop Mike Watson with a check for $67,894.75 for Imagine No Malaria. And they are just one of the AROS churches that have made great strides in supporting Imagine No Malaria. (Pictured above are senior pastor Rev. Dan Brown, Bishop Watson, co-lay leader Denise Chastain, and AROS District Superintendent Dr. Doug Thrasher.) Mt. Carmel UMC recently presented Dr. Jamie Jenkins, North Georgia's Imagine No Malaria Field ...

The Atlanta College Park District Office is relocating to the Woodruff Volunteer Center in Atlanta as of Dec. 18, 2014.  New address will be: Atlanta College Park District The United Methodist Church Woodruff Volunteer Center 100 Edgewood Avenue NE, Suite 1690 Atlanta, GA 30303 New phone number as of December 19, 2014 tel:404-335-0321 tel:404-209-7794 (fax)

The Conference Board of Trustees and Simpsonwood Board of Directors have named a four-person committee of Lowell Kirkman, JM Rawlinson, Sid Linton and John Lawrence to plan for the preservation of valuable and meaningful artifacts on the Simpsonwood property. This committee will soon begin taking an inventory of items on the property. If there is an item or artifact that was given in honor of you or a loved one, or in memory of a loved one, and you would like to provide input on how the item is...

By Ansley Brackin Communications Specialist In February of 2015, Bahamas Methodist Habitat will host the first overseas mission trip taken by provisional minister teams. The two groups, who began working towards their ordination in 2013, were so moved by the conference’s global connections highlighted during that year's Annual Conference that they decided to choose a Conference mission "Bridge" as their required provisional mission assignment. Each provisional team must complete at least three...