Jurisdictional Conference
The Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference will take place July 18-20, 2012, at Lake Junaluska, NC. Below you will find helpful notes and links. E-mail updates will be sent during the conference.
Ballot Results
www.sejumc.org/episcopal-elections
LIve Streaming
The live streaming schedule can be found here. To view the live stream, go to www.lakejunaluska.com/streaming.
Stay Connected During SEJ
Facebook - www.facebook.com/sejumc
Twitter - www.twitter.com/sejumc (hash tag #SEJUMC)
Flickr - www.flickr.com/lakejunaluska
SEJ website - www.sejumc.org.
Advance Daily Christian Advocate - click here
Agenda
The agenda to the 2012 SEJ Jurisdictional Conference can be downloaded here.
What is Jurisdictional Conference?
Like the worldwide legislative meeting known as General Conference, jurisdictional conferences meet once every four years. However, while General Conference handles denominational matters across the globe, each jurisdictional gathering covers business related to one of the church's five regional jurisdictions in the United States. The primary business of jurisdictional conferences is the election and assignment of bishops.
Equal numbers of laity and clergy, elected by each annual conference, will be delegates. This year the Southeastern Jurisdiction will elect five new bishops from 15 candidates. Any United Methodist ordained elder may be elected bishop by any jurisdictional conference. Each jurisdiction establishes the percentage of votes needed for election. Voting by ballot continues until someone receives the required number of votes. This year the balloting will be electronic.
The five clergy and lay delegates to general conference as well as five additional lay and clergy jurisdictional delegates along with alternates from our conference will be representing you at Lake Junaluska.
Clergy
Robert Beckum
Bob Moon
Ben Martin
Jim Cowart
Denise Walton
Buddy Cooper
Don Adams
Hal Brady
Marcia Cochran
Brad Brady
Alternate Delegates
Shane Green
Laity
Larry Price
Carl Childs
Bill Hatcher
Kelly Roberson
Allison Eastin
Miriam Hagan
Sunshine Bird
Richard Shinhoster
Marianne Wright
Alternate Delegate
Charlene Black
From United Methodist News Service
July conferences to elect 11 U.S. bishops
The attention of the denomination will be focused beginning July 18 on the jurisdictional conferences, where 11 new U.S. bishops are expected to be elected in three jurisdictions. Like General Conference, the worldwide legislative gathering that met April 24 to May 4 in Tampa, Fla., jurisdictional conferences meet once every four years. Half the delegates will be lay people, and half will be clergy. The Book of Discipline, the denomination’s lawbook, stipulates that each annual conference is entitled to send twice the number of delegates to jurisdictional conferences that it sent to General Conference. There were 606 delegates from U.S. annual conferences at the 2012 General Conference. Full story here.
14 Bishops Retiring This Year
There are now 44 candidates for the episcopacy across the five jurisdictions, 15 from the Southeastern Jurisdiction. Learn who they are. Click here for list.
SEJ Episcopal Candidates
There are 15 Southeastern Jurisdictional candidates for the episcopacy. Two of the candidates are from South Georgia: Rev. Robert Beckum and Dr. Ivelisse Quiñones. Rev. Beckum, pastor of St. Luke United Methodist Church, Columbus, has been endorsed by the South Georgia Annual Conference. Dr. Quiñones, associate pastor and lead pastor for the Hispanic ministry, St. Luke United Methodist Church, Columbus, has been affirmed by Methodists Associated to Represent the Cause of Hispanic Americans (MARCHA).
To learn more about all 15 candidates, visit http://www.sejumc.org/2012nominees/.
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