Hope UMC petitioned the 2024 General Conference to change the Mission Statement in The 2016 Book of Discipline. The petition did not pass and was probably not discussed due to a very busy agenda.
Hope then petitioned the Annual Conference of the Mountain Sky Conference in June 2024 to create a Task Force to consider changing the UMC Mission Statement and create wording more appropriate for our denomination. This petition passed with over 70% of the vote and the Task Force is being assembled by The Rev. Annie Arnoldy, Superintendent of Vitality and Director of Connectional Ministry, for the Mountain Sky Conference. Many of you will remember her as Annie Rigo, who along with her husband, Eric Arnoldy, was an active member of Hope UMC throughout their youth.
Hope UMC will continue to be involved with this Task Force.
Please check out the link below to review some of the history of the petition process and to see a justification on why and how the Mission Statement needs to change. This is the collective wisdom of many current and past Hope UMC members and others related to our church.
Motivation and process for changing the UMC Mission Statement