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Long-time IT Director to leave Conference in September

The Conference is exploring several options for managing its information technology requirements going forward.

August 24, 2023
Finance and Administration Information Technology
Local Church Report due by February 12, 2023

The information requested in this report is for the 2022 calendar year—January 1 through December 31.

January 10, 2023
Finance and Administration Information Technology
Local Church Report now open. Due by February 17, 2022

The information requested in this report is for the 2021 calendar year—January 1 through December 31.

January 04, 2022
Information Technology
Beware of spoofed emails targeting churches

Recently there has been an increase in fraudulent emails targeting church members and staff.

April 12, 2021
Finance and Administration Information Technology
Local Church Report due Feb. 17, 2020

The online Local Church Report for the Year Ending December 31, 2019, went live on Friday, Jan. 3, 2020. All Local Church Reports must be submitted online no later than Feb.17, 2020.

January 06, 2020
Information Technology
Beware of spoofed emails targeting churches
Recently there has been an increase in fraudulent emails targeting church members and staff. A common version of the scam seen in the North Alabama Conference is an email appearing to be from the Bishop sent to Conference staff ...
February 19, 2019
Information Technology
2016 Year-End Local Church Report now open; deadline is Feb. 13, 2017
The 2016 Year-End Local Church Report is now available for all churches to complete via the Local Church Dashboard at www.umcna.org/dashboard. Churches are asked to complete this annual report by February 13, 2017. Conference ...
January 09, 2017
Information Technology
2015 Year-End Local Church Report now open; deadline is Feb. 8, 2016
The 2015 Year-End Local Church Report is now available for all churches to complete via the Local Church Dashboard at www.umcna.org/dashboard.  "The Epiphany season means two things: First, and most importantly, the glory of God ...
January 07, 2016
Information Technology
Information regarding Weekly Benchmark Report emails
From our Information Technology Director: Recently, a number of domains have ceased delivery of the Weekly Benchmark Report (WBR) weekly email. The issue arose mid-May 2015. No changes were made on our side to cause this issue.   ...
June 02, 2015
Information Technology
2014 Charge Conference Forms now open
The 2014 North Alabama Conference Charge Conference forms are now live. On Thursday, August 14, 2014, emails with personalized links for each church’s forms were emailed to pastors’ umcna.org email addresses.  An email was also ...
August 14, 2014
Finance and Administration Information Technology
Local Church 2013 Statistical Report deadline is Feb. 3, 2014
The Statistical Report, formerly known as the Year-End Local Church Report, is collected annually each January.  One this report, local churches report their activity from the previous year. These numbers are reported to the ...
January 07, 2014
Information Technology Ordained Ministry
Conference launches @umcna.org email addresses for clergy to help strengthen the connection
Working in cooperation with the North Alabama Conference Board of Ordained Ministry (BOOM), the Conference Information Technology department is now providing an email address for each North Alabama Conference clergy person. This ...
June 12, 2013
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