Montevideo, July 17th to 20th, 2008: The Iglesia Metodista en el Uruguay gathered at the 20th General Assembly of the Methodist Church in the Crandon Institute (Methodist educational school) under the motto: "Faithful to Jesus Christ in a lay State". Through different instances, the members of the assembly reflected, once again, on the meaning and implications of this motto.
During the Assembly, we remembered more than 130 years of the Methodist presence in the country. This has become visible in the formation of culture, citizenship, values, through the Methodist participation of the communities of faith, the educational institutions, and involvement of the women and men in different areas of the Uruguayan society. Watching the past and projecting into the future, the General Assembly invited its members to continue the faithful road of work.
Rev. Inés Simeone, Pastor of the Central Methodist Church of Montevideo and National Coordinator of the Committee for Children, Women and Family, was elected as new President of the Iglesia Metodista en al Uruguay. Elected Vice-President was lay member Gladys Cuña, from the "El Camino" Methodist Church of Malvín in, in Montevideo.
"In the middle of the plurality of our society, as the Methodist Church, we are called to live as responsible citizens. Like Christians, the Gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to continue in this path. Like Christians, the Gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to be sensitive to the pain, solitude, injustice, violence and everything that goes against the "abundant life" of the human being; simultaneously that it impels us to work to change all of these signals of death by life's realities and hope to us."
"If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples" (John 8:31b, Today's New International Version)
During the Assembly, we remembered more than 130 years of the Methodist presence in the country. This has become visible in the formation of culture, citizenship, values, through the Methodist participation of the communities of faith, the educational institutions, and involvement of the women and men in different areas of the Uruguayan society. Watching the past and projecting into the future, the General Assembly invited its members to continue the faithful road of work.
Rev. Inés Simeone, Pastor of the Central Methodist Church of Montevideo and National Coordinator of the Committee for Children, Women and Family, was elected as new President of the Iglesia Metodista en al Uruguay. Elected Vice-President was lay member Gladys Cuña, from the "El Camino" Methodist Church of Malvín in, in Montevideo.
"In the middle of the plurality of our society, as the Methodist Church, we are called to live as responsible citizens. Like Christians, the Gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to continue in this path. Like Christians, the Gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to be sensitive to the pain, solitude, injustice, violence and everything that goes against the "abundant life" of the human being; simultaneously that it impels us to work to change all of these signals of death by life's realities and hope to us."
"If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples" (John 8:31b, Today's New International Version)
