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Register today and make space to grow as a preacher.If you preach every week, preach occasionally, lead worship, teach, ...
06/24/2026

Register today and make space to grow as a preacher.

If you preach every week, preach occasionally, lead worship, teach, or help shape the spiritual life of your congregation, this opportunity is for you. The Mountain Sky Conference Compelling Preaching Initiative is offering meaningful 2026 learning experiences for both laity and clergy — with the first summer retreat coming up July 12–14.

July 12–14, 2026
Rock Creek Resort — Red Lodge, Montana
Register Here: https://www.mtnskyumc.org/compelling-preaching-information

This retreat is an invitation to pause, reconnect with your calling, strengthen your preaching voice, and learn alongside others who are seeking to proclaim the good news with courage, creativity, and care. Participants will enjoy interactive training, shared reflection, practical skill-building, and continued connection through four monthly Zoom calls following the retreat.

Additional retreat dates:
August 16–18, 2026 — Highlands Camp & Retreat Center, Allenspark, Colorado
September 10–12, 2026 — Springhill Suites, Moab, Utah

Preaching is not meant to be done alone. These gatherings offer time to be renewed, encouraged, and equipped for the holy and shared work of proclaiming the gospel.

Whether you are a seasoned preacher, a lay speaker, a worship leader, or someone discerning how your voice may serve the church, there is a place for you.

Register today and choose the retreat that best fits your schedule. https://www.mtnskyumc.org/compelling-preaching-information

Come learn. Come rest. Come be renewed.

🌱 Plant your seeds and watch them grow with God’s grace.Register today: https://cst.edu/SummerCE2026/This summer, Mounta...
06/23/2026

🌱 Plant your seeds and watch them grow with God’s grace.

Register today: https://cst.edu/SummerCE2026/

This summer, Mountain Sky leaders have a powerful opportunity to learn, connect, and grow alongside others across the Western Jurisdiction of The United Methodist Church.

Continuing Education Online Courses are being offered in July and August through Claremont School of Theology, with options for laity, clergy, church staff, ministry teams, and anyone ready to deepen their leadership for the work God is calling us to do now.

We are especially excited to highlight courses led by Mountain Sky Conference voices and leaders connected to our wider Mountain Sky story:

🌱 Building Beloved Community: The Courage to Love in the Face of Tyranny
Led by Western Jurisdiction Bishops, including Bishop Kristin Stoneking
4 Tuesdays in July

🌱 Called to Proclaim: Foundations for Faithful Preaching
Led by Rev. Sherry Ferriman
July 18 & 25

🌱 Congregational Renewal: Leading Faithful Change in the Local Church
Led by Rev. Stephanie Moffitt
Thursdays, July 2–30
Individual and congregational team registration available

🌱 The Mission of God and the People Called Methodist
Led by Rev. Dr. Jeffrey Conklin-Miller, Rev. Melissa Roux MacKinnon, and Rev. Sherry Ferriman
Thursdays in August

🌱 Leading Faithfully: Pastoral Presence and Prophetic Imagination
Led by Bishop Karen Oliveto
3 Wednesdays beginning July 22

These courses are more than continuing education. They are opportunities to strengthen practical ministry skills, renew faithful imagination, build connection across the church, and return to your congregation with fresh tools for loving boldly in your community.

Register today: https://cst.edu/SummerCE2026/

Today, the Mountain Sky Conference joins communities across the country in honoring Juneteenth — a day of remembrance, c...
06/19/2026

Today, the Mountain Sky Conference joins communities across the country in honoring Juneteenth — a day of remembrance, celebration, and renewed commitment to freedom.

Juneteenth reminds us that the news of liberation did not reach all people at the same time, and that the work of justice has always required truth-telling, courage, persistence, and hope. As United Methodists, we confess that freedom is not simply a moment in history, but part of God’s ongoing call to love our neighbors, repair what has been broken, and seek justice for all God’s children.

Today, we give thanks for the resilience, faith, leadership, and witness of Black communities. We also lament the sin of racism and the ways it continues to wound lives, communities, and the Church.

May this day move us beyond remembrance into faithful action. May we listen deeply, love boldly, and walk together in the way of Jesus — working for a world where dignity, freedom, and beloved community are not delayed for anyone.

This summer, Mountain Sky Conference leaders are invited to learn, grow, and connect with others across the Western Juri...
06/18/2026

This summer, Mountain Sky Conference leaders are invited to learn, grow, and connect with others across the Western Jurisdiction through a series of online continuing education courses.
Lay members, clergy, church staff, and ministry teams can choose from 12 Zoom-based courses offered in July and August by leaders across the Western Jurisdiction of The United Methodist Church. Courses range from one to five weeks, with most meeting in the evenings to make participation more accessible.
Offerings include opportunities to explore beloved community, church administration, outreach, congregational vitality, and other practical areas of ministry. Highlighted courses include:
• Building Beloved Community: The Courage to Love in the Face of Tyranny
• The Fundamentals of Church Administration
• An Integrated System Approach to Outreach, designed for church teams of three to five people
For churches across the Mountain Sky Conference, these courses offer a meaningful way to strengthen ministry skills, learn alongside others across the connection, and bring fresh tools for faithful leadership back to local congregations and communities.
Learn more:
https://westernjurisdictionumc.org/wjcstce2026/
Register for courses:
https://cst.edu/summerce2026/

In a shifting and complicated world, the Church is called to bring a faithful, compassionate, and courageous voice into ...
06/16/2026

In a shifting and complicated world, the Church is called to bring a faithful, compassionate, and courageous voice into the public square.

Bishop Kristin G. Stoneking recently represented a United Methodist witness at the Council on Foreign Relations’ Religion and Foreign Policy Workshop, where faith leaders, policymakers, scholars, and nonprofit leaders gathered to discuss issues shaping real lives and communities — including immigration, artificial intelligence, humanitarian aid, and global response.

For the Mountain Sky Conference, these conversations are not distant or abstract. They connect directly to the ministries of our local churches, the needs of our neighbors, and our shared call to love boldly, serve joyfully, and lead courageously.

As Bishop Stoneking reminds us, faithful engagement is one way we live into our call as disciples of Jesus Christ — with humility, courage, compassion, and hope.

Read the full story on our website: https://tinyurl.com/ynfsuvv7

As Annual Conference 2026 comes to a close, our hearts are full.What a gift it has been to gather in one place — to wors...
06/14/2026

As Annual Conference 2026 comes to a close, our hearts are full.
What a gift it has been to gather in one place — to worship, pray, discern, celebrate, remember, laugh, reconnect, and be reminded once again that we belong to one another in Christ. This week has felt like a family reunion in the truest sense: full of joy, love, holy work, and the comfort of being together.

So as we leave Billings and begin the journey home, we do so with gratitude for every conversation, every prayer, every act of service, and every shared moment that made this gathering so meaningful.

Travel safely, friends. Please know you are held in our hearts.
This is not goodbye. It is only until we see each other again.
Until then, may God watch over you, bless your journey, and continue to lead us all in The Way of Loving Boldly.

Day Three brought Annual Conference 2026 to a joyful and meaningful close.On our final day together in Billings, we cele...
06/14/2026

Day Three brought Annual Conference 2026 to a joyful and meaningful close.

On our final day together in Billings, we celebrated faithful leadership, elected delegates and reserves, approved important conference decisions, supported future pastoral leaders through the Miracle Sunday offering, and gathered for a powerful Ordination and Commissioning Service.

We give thanks for all who were commissioned, ordained, and licensed for ministry, and for Bishop David Wilson’s inspiring message reminding us that Creator God continues to shape us again and again for the work ahead.

This final day was full of celebration, gratitude, and sending forth. We leave Annual Conference encouraged by what God is doing among us and ready to continue walking The Way of Loving Boldly in our churches, communities, and across the connection.

Read the full Day Three recap here:https://www.mtnskyumc.org/files/websites/mountain/MSC_Daily_News_Saturday_June13.pdf

What a joyful and Spirit-filled Ordination Service at the close of Annual Conference!Today, we celebrated those who have...
06/13/2026

What a joyful and Spirit-filled Ordination Service at the close of Annual Conference!

Today, we celebrated those who have answered God’s call to ministry and stepped into a new chapter of faithful leadership. We give thanks for those commissioned as Elders: Ross Janovec, Maggie Taylor, Tapiwa Manyonga, and Matthew Utley; for Jonathan Drummond, ordained as an Elder; and for our newly licensed Local Pastors: Carmen Benoit, Jeanyoun Kim, Phillip Spicer, Wanda Denton, and Amy Sell and Deaconess Julie Hewson.

We are deeply grateful to Bishop David Wilson of the Great Plains Conference for preaching a powerful and hope-filled message from Jeremiah 18, reminding us that we are clay in the hands of Creator God — shaped, reshaped, and made ready again and again for the work of love, justice, service, and transformation.
As we celebrate these leaders, we are also invited to help make space for future leaders through our Miracle Sunday offering. This offering supports theological education for those answering God’s call in Africa, Europe, and the Philippines. When we give, we help equip pastors who will preach, serve, lead, and transform communities for generations to come.

A gift to Miracle Sunday is a gift to the future of the Church. It is a way of saying yes to the leaders God is still calling, still forming, and still sending. Give here: https://tinyurl.com/44ht5tx2

Congratulations to all who were commissioned, ordained, and licensed today. May Creator God continue to shape you again and again for the ministry ahead.

Day Three of Annual Conference felt like harvest time.After days of worship, discernment, remembrance, holy conferencing...
06/13/2026

Day Three of Annual Conference felt like harvest time.
After days of worship, discernment, remembrance, holy conferencing, celebration, and prayer, we could see the fruit of the Spirit moving among us — in the joy of connection, in the courage of our decisions, in the blessing of new leaders, and in the shared commitment to keep walking The Way of Loving Boldly.

Like the song reminds us, the seeds of faith are still being planted, tended, and gathered. Across the Mountain Sky Conference, God is bringing forth a harvest of hope, justice, love, and new life.

Thanks be to God for the work of these days — and for the harvest still to come.

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