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  • Exploration 2024: Discover Your Calling

    Exploration 2024: Discover Your Calling

    Published On: November 13, 2023

    Exploration is empowering event created for young adults to experience a sacred space to discern God’s call on their lives. The General Board of Higher Education and Ministry (GBHEM) hosts the biennial event to help participants ages 18-26 discern if God is calling them to ordained ministry in the United...

  • Empowering UMC Ministry Through Financial Assistance

    Empowering UMC Ministry Through Financial Assistance

    Published On: November 8, 2023

    UMC Partnerships Help to Strengthen Theological Education What could a newlywed from Alabama and a grandfather of two living in Washington, D.C., possibly have in common? Well as seminary students striving towards their ministerial calling, they may have more in common than meets the eye. Both John Bruce and Leslie...

  • GBHEM and GBGM Move Toward Greater Missional Alignment as Rev. Greg Bergquist Announces His Retirement

    GBHEM and GBGM Move Toward Greater Missional Alignment as Rev. Greg Bergquist Announces His Retirement

    Published On: October 24, 2023

    Roland Fernandes Named as Successor to Lead Both Agencies Rev. Greg Bergquist, general secretary of the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry (GBHEM), has requested a retired relationship from the California-Nevada Annual Conference, effective June 30, 2024, after serving as GBHEM’s chief executive for more than five years. Roland...