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Charge Conference 2022
Home Events Growing in Faith Charge Conference 2022

Charge Conference 2022

  • December 3, 2022
  • 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
  • 5265 H Street
    Sacramento, CA 95819
  • Fireside Room
  • Growing in Faith
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We gathered in person in the Fireside Room for our Charge Conference at 3:30pm on Saturday, December 3. The charge conference is an annual meeting required for all United Methodist Churches. We will look back in celebration on our ministries in 2022 and also look ahead to our vision for 2023.

Agenda

  • Welcome & Introductions – Ansel Lundberg
  • Opening Prayer – District Superintendent Shinya Goto
  • Looking Back on 2022 & Looking Ahead to 2023 — Derek Kirk
  • Amendment to Articles of Incorporation as Required by Board of Equalization — Debbie Edgar
  • 2023 Budget Overview — Debbie Edgar
  • Approval of 2023 Clergy Compensation — Bob Loessberg-Zahl
  • Reports from Retired Clergy and Affiliated Deacons & Elders:
    • Rev. Penny Adams, Retired Elder
    • Rev. Greg Bergquist, General Secretary of the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry (GBHEM)
    • Rev. Linda Loessberg-Zahl, Retired Elder
    • Rev. Kim Montenegro, Director of Religious and Spiritual Life at University of the Pacific
    • Rev. Mallory Naake, Chaplain with Dignity Health
    • Rev. Lisa Nordlander, Retired Elder
    • Rev. David Schlager, Retired Elder
  • Benediction

 

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Being A Blessing / Being Blessed

  • Yesterday
  • Come Alive!
Being awake to God, learning to be comfortable in our own skin, leaning into our pain, being open to the journey, and embracing restfulness are some of the ways we’ve explored…

Being Restful

  • May 10, 2026
  • Come Alive!
Barbara Brown Taylor says, “In a world of too much information about almost everything, bodily practices can provide great relief. … In a world where faith is often construed as a…

Being On The Journey

  • May 3, 2026
  • Come Alive!
In our scripture reading for this Sunday, we find Abram setting out on a journey, heading into an unknown land. This is just one of many journeys we find throughout scripture –…

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"Messianic Secret"
FROM THE ARTIST:
“Messianic Secret”
Inspired by John 2:1-11
14″x18″ Acrylic on canvas

The Wedding at Cana is my favorite text because there is a lot of humor in it. There’s humor in a mother approaching her son and telling him to do something without ever actually telling him to do it. There’s his pouty resistance to his mother’s non-demand while she completely ignores him and paints him in a corner. There is humor in a raucous wedding reception where the people are so “lit” that the wine has run out. And, for me, it’s particularly humorous that there’s this huge, beautiful secret of which only a few people are aware.

Those people include Jesus’ mother and the select servants who help him pull off the miracle that inaugurates his ministry. Servants are normally meant to be inconspicuous, so I wanted to focus on the servant who goes to the chief steward with a cup full of what, as far as he’s concerned, is water.

If Jesus—whose ministry has not started, so there haven’t been any wonders associated with him yet—tells you to fill jars with water and draw from the jar to give to the chief steward, what is going through your mind at that moment? I invite the viewer to focus on this servant and all his curiosity and expectation, and think of a time when you were surprised by something God did. What actions preceded the miracle? Did it make sense? What did you know, and what was hidden from you? What “secrets” might God be keeping from you now as God works clandestinely on your behalf?

—Rev. T. Denise Anderson