Nashville, Tenn.: The Rules Committee of the Commission on the General Conference has announced their recommendations for changes to the Plan of Organization and Rules of Order which provides the governance structure for the 2012 General Conference. The changes will be presented to delegates for consideration at the opening session.

Dear United Methodist Sisters and Brothers in Christ:

Grace and peace to you from Jesus Christ who calls us to faithfulness during a time of great and unsettling change around the world that God loves so deeply and also within the Body of Christ where Jesus is both head and redeemer.

NASHVILLE, Tenn./GBOD/ Oct. 25, 2011—When delegates to General Conference 2012 meet in Tampa next April, United Methodists around the world will be able to join them in an unprecedented concert of prayer, seeking God’s will for their decisions.

The New Mexico Conference delegation to the General and Jurisdictional Conferences in 2012 recently announced its endorsement of the Rev. Jeff Lust, Albuquerque District Superintendent, for election as a bishop by the South Central Jurisdictional Conference. 

The endorsement came after a time of prayerful discernment involving discussion, reading, interviews and conversations by the delegation, said Donna TeBrink, chairperson of the delegation.

At the 2011 New Mexico Annual Conference, members voted to endorse Dr. Beverly Jones, Chaplain at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, for election.