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    United Methodists of Upper New YorkLiving the Gospel. Being God's Love.


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    UNY members serve Special Session as Pages and Marshal

    February 19, 2019 / By Shannon Hodson / .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

    Are you aware that beyond Upper New York delegates, we have members of our Conference who are serving as volunteers at the Special Session of General Conference (A Way Forward) on Feb. 23-26 in St. Louis, MO? For example, the Rev. Patience Kisakye and lay person Angela Neal will serve as Pages and the Rev. Bob Kolvik-Campbell will serve as a Marshal.

    Pages assist delegates, staff, Bishops, members of the Judicial Council, and official guests with communication and other needs. They distribute approved materials and deliver printed information.

    Marshals are part of the team that assists delegates, guests, and staff with seating, checking credentials, providing information, and other duties as assigned.

    All Marshals and Pages are required to attend an orientation session on Friday, Feb. 22 at the Americas Center in St. Louis. This orientation will be in addition to the training videos that facilitated their preparations prior to their arrival in St. Louis. 

    There were 750 applicants for the Special Session of General Conference Page position—Rev. Kisakye and Angela Neal were among the 80 selected. Rev. Kisakye has served as a Page at previous General Conference sessions. She said, “I am grateful to serve at this historic event in the life of our denomination and I trust that my role will be meaningful… I am prayerfully looking forward to assisting delegates, Bishops, visitors and members of the board, and agencies of our denomination at this Special Session of the General Conference.”

    Angela Neal, a lay member of First United Methodist Church of Delmar, will experience being a Page for the Church for the first time at Special Session. She said, “I'm excited to see and feel the global connectedness of our denomination.”

    The Rev. Bob Kolvik-Campbell began his service as a Marshal at the 2008 General Conference held in Ft. Worth, TX. Since then, he also served as a Marshal at the 2016 General Conference. He said, “I love serving as Marshal because I get to interact with the executives who make up our church in a macro sense:  The Council of Bishops, the Judicial Council, the Delegates, the Program agencies...and I am able to serve the whole church.”

    Beyond Pages and Marshals, there are many other volunteers that will make the Special Session of General Conference come together. If you or someone you know is serving as a volunteer at the Special Session you are invited to share your story by sending it to news@unyumc.org Please Keep the Pages, Marshals, and all the other volunteers who will make the Special Session happen in your prayers as this important time in the life of the United Methodist Church approaches.

    TAGGED / General Conference Special Session 2019


    With more than 100,000 members, United Methodists of Upper New York comprises of more than 675 local churches and New Faith Communities in 12 districts, covering 48,000 square miles in 49 of the 62 counties in New York state. Our vision is to “live the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to be God’s love with our neighbors in all places."