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General Church Religion and Race
General Agency: General Commission on Religion and Race
General Commission on Religion and Race Challenging and equipping the people of The United Methodist Church to be an intentionally diverse body of Christ, the General Commission on Religion and Race offers tools to guide ...
COSROW General Church
General Agency: General Commission on Status and Role of Women
General Commission on Status and Role of Women The General Commission on the Status and Role of Women advocates for full participation of women in the total life of The United Methodist Church. We’re helping the church recognize ...
General Church United Methodist Men
General Agency: General Commission on United Methodist Men
General Commission on United Methodist Men The General Commission on United Methodist Men (UMMen) involves men in a growing relationship to Jesus Christ and his church and provides resources and support for programs of evangelism,...
Finance and Administration General Church Statistics Trustees
General Agency: General Council on Finance and Administration
General Council on Finance and Administration The General Council on Finance and Administration (GCFA) ministry includes protecting the legal interests of the denomination, collecting and analyzing statistics, serving as the ...
Adult Discipleship General Church Worship
General Agency: United Methodist Publishing House
United Methodist Publishing House The oldest and largest of the denomination’s general agencies, the United Methodist Publishing House traces its beginnings to the late 1700s. As the official publisher of The United Methodist ...
General Church United Methodist Women
General Agency: United Methodist Women
United Methodist Women As it fosters spiritual growth and develops leaders, United Methodist Women (UMW) seek to improve the lives of women, children and youth in the United States and internationally. United Methodist Women (UMW)...
Clergy Pension and Health Benefits General Church
General Agency: Wespath Benefits and Investments
Wespath (General Board of Pension and Health Benefits) The mission of Wespath (formerly the General Board of Pension and Health Benefits) is “to care for those who serve by providing investment and benefit services according to ...
Statistics
Guidelines for counting Online Worship Attendance on the Weekly Benchmark Report
The North Alabama Conference Cabinet has provided some guidelines to help churches struggling to determine how to count their online attendance.
Information Technology
IT HELP: Microsoft 365 Outlook Web Access - Creating Rules
With Microsoft Exchange now in the Cloud as Microsoft 365, the question becomes should I manage rules and junk mail through my desktop or through the web using Outlook Web Access (OWA)?  The answer isn't as easy as it may seem.  ...
Information Technology
IT Help: Microsoft 365 Outlook Web Access - Junk Email
Did you check your email over the weekend on your mobile device and find your inbox littered with junk email?  Odds are your client-side, desktop Outlook will see these junk emails for what they are and move them to the junk email...
Information Technology
IT Help: Microsoft 365 Outlook Web Access - Vacation Responder
If you find you'll be out of the office, you will need to enable an Automatic Reply.  An Automatic Reply is like the vacation responder or out of the office notification you'll find in other email clients.  However, because ...
Lay Ministry
Lay Ministry Resources
Lay Ministry Resources from Discipleship Ministries. 
Lay Ministry
Lay Servant Ministries Forms & Certificates
From evaluations to checklists, find the forms and certificates you need for Lay Servant Ministries.
Ordained Ministry
List of University Senate Approved Seminaries
A list of the seminaries approved by the United Methodist University Senate for students pursuing ordination in The United Methodist Church.
Finance and Administration
Local Church Audit Guide
The Local Church Audit Guide will help you understand what independent audits are, and help you prepare your church for an audit. It shares tips and tools to help your church manage the audit process. This booklet is offered to ...
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Local Church Forms
Downloadable forms to be completed by North Alabama congregations. 
Ministry with the Poor
Lupton Center
The Lupton Center are transformation consultants—offering tools and services to change the way organizations respond to poverty. In a world discontent with ineffective poverty-alleviation tactics, clients engage the Lupton Center ...
Ministry with the Poor
Ministry with the Poor Books
Making Neighborhoods Whole: A Handbook for Christian Community Development by Wayne Gordon & John Perkins   Neighborhood Mapping: How to Make Your Church Invaluable to the Community by Dr. John Fuder   The Working Poor:  ...
New and Renewing Churches
MissionInsite - how to register and start using MissionInsite
MissionInsite is an effective and free tool churches can use to get quantitative demographic data about the community where your church is located. How many people live there? What are their ages? How do they feel about church? ...
Missions
Missions Forms
Downloadable forms related to missions, missionaries and Advance Specials. 
Journal
North Alabama Annual Conference Journal Library
North Alabama Conference Journals (2003 until most recent) are available for download in PDF format. North Alabama Conference Journal 2021 Vol. I (PreConference Book) North Alabama Conference Journal 2021 Vol. II   North ...
Children's Discipleship Ministry with the Poor
Pan-Methodist Campaign for Children in Poverty
The Pan-Methodist Campaign for Children in Poverty seeks to serve and engage with all of God's children, without boundary or border. Two primary Campaign objectives are: (1) to renew and empower the efforts of congregations ...
Safe Sanctuaries
Safe Sanctuaries - Background Check Negative Occurrence Example Letters
Form Letters for Various Situations to be Sent When There Is a Negative Occurrence On a Criminal Background Check Examples of documentation to be sent: Rejection of Application to Work with Children and/or Youth Date Dear ...
Safe Sanctuaries
Safe Sanctuaries - Background Checks
Safe Sanctuaries
Safe Sanctuaries - Reporting An Incident
Do not speak with any media representatives! NOTE: Reporting an incident must be a part of your congregations Child Protection Policy Determine if the allegation is serious or frivolous. In most cases, any allegation is ...
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Safe Sanctuaries Forms
Downloadable forms related to Safe Sanctuaries screening and incident reporting. 
Adult Discipleship New and Renewing Churches
Spiritual Gifts Inventory
Spiritual gifts are qualities given to Christian believers for the building up of the whole body of Christ. They are not given for personal gain, but for ministry in the world. Learning about the spiritual gifts we have, as well ...
Evangelism
The Foundation for Evangelism
The Foundation for Evangelism is a Methodist-related grant-making organization located at Lake Junaluska, North Carolina. Chartered in 1949 by Dr. Harry Denman, then the General Secretary of the Board of Evangelism of the ...
Finance and Administration
The Local Church Financial Handbook
The Local Church Financial Handbook is a compilation of articles written by Scott Selman. Selman has served as Treasurer of the North Alabama Conference since 1993.  The Handbook is general in content and includes basic financial ...
Advocacy for Social Justice
The United Methodist Social Principles
To help guide our thinking and acting about how we live and are engaged in ministry in the world, The United Methodist Church has created statements to guide the church in its efforts to create a world of justice.   The United ...
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