ANNUAL
CONFERENCE WACUM DINNER HIGHLIGHTS ALPHA
This year, the WACUM Annual
Conference Luncheon has become a Dinner! We
will meet for dinner at Asbury UMC on Thursday, June 6, at 5:15 p.m.
Asbury is just ten minutes by car from the Annual Conference site.
We will adjourn by 6:45, to allow members to be present for the laity
address. This year’s program will
be a presentation by Rev. Karin Kaye from Racine: Evangelical UMC on the Alpha
Program. Alpha is a new evangelism
and Bible study program sweeping the country and very popular in United
Methodist churches. Rev. Kaye will
explain how Alpha can help you reach unchurched people and those coming from a
secular mindset with the basics of the Christian gospel. This relational, hospitality-style program fits very will
with our new emphasis of the Igniting Ministries advertising campaign.
It is an exciting and effective way of presenting the unchanging good
news of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ in a way that searching young
moderns can understand and respond to it. The
program originated in a downtown Anglican church in England and has proven very
effective there and in hundreds of other congregations.
Several UM congregations in Wisconsin (both small and large) are running
Alpha programs. Come learn more at
our WACUM dinner on June 6! Cost
for the meal and speaker is $20 per person.
You may make your reservations by calling toll-free at 1-888-255-2761 or
by emailing wacum@wisconsinumc.org.
Brochures will also be coming to all Annual Conference members.
