Here is the view from my seat at the California Nevada Conference of the United Methodist Church which I attended last week; June 17-20. My assigned seat was in section Q10, and the rows went all the way back to 'W.' The Bishop, Warner Brown, is seated up on the dais, and there are two large projection screens on either side to help those in the convention center follow what is going on. I think the thing that struck me most this time was how big and corporate this conference is, especially compared with my UCC conference in Illinois.
One night the body was voting on the constitutional amendments for the national church. Since there was a paper ballot that had to be recorded I got a good idea of how many participants we had. There were about 620 persons casting ballots. And this was at 10:30 pm when some had just run out of energy and gone back to their hotel to sleep for the night.
It was good to see old friends. I was appointed to the Church of Peace UCC for the 19th year by Bishop Brown.
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