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​The North Alabama Conference Connection to the Pan Methodist Campaign for Children in Poverty invites you and your congregation to celebrate Children’s Sabbath. Children’s Sabbath is different from a Children’s Sunday. Children’s...

Dear Friends, This past Sunday I preached in a church that was brimming over with children. I was introduced to a family whose six-week-old child was in attendance for the first time. I sat at a table with a lively six month old ...

The North Alabama Conference Connection to the Pan Methodist Campaign for Children in Poverty wants to engage every congregation in making an active difference in the lives of children in poverty.  One annual way churches are ...

8.9 million U.S. children will soon be without VITAL healthcare if CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Plan) is not restored to our nation's budget.  You know these vulnerable, God-given gifts to us; many of them have parents who ...

The North Alabama Conference Connection to the Pan-Methodist Campaign for Children in Poverty invites you and your congregation to Celebrate Children’s Sabbath on October 22, 2017. Children’s Sabbath is different from a Children’s...

By Sheila Freeman, Minister of Discipleship and Children at Gadsden First UMC   If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor. - John 12:26 ...

by Rev. Holly Woodall “Where’s the white van? “When’s the white van coming?” “Where is the lady in the white van?” These familiar questions have begun early every Friday at Haleyville Elementary School in Haleyville, Alabama, ...

Jesus said to let the children come to him, and Jesus gives us a command to show love and justice to his most vulnerable little ones. In North Alabama, our work is more than overwhelming when staring down these numbers. Each ...

By Melissa Betts, Director of Children & Serve Ministries Cullman First UMC Often times, our heart strings are pulled when we see the commercials for providing aid to children in third world countries. The children who are living ...

Our Pan-Methodist Campaign for Children in Poverty North Alabama Conference Team mission is to equip congregations to share in God’s mission by providing hope, compassion, justice, and radical hospitality to children who live in ...