General Conference 2024

General Conference 2024

General Conference is April 23 – May 3. The new Guide to the Postponed 2020 General Conference is now available for download at umcgc.org. This UM News resource is packed with information on how General Conference works, its history and major legislative issues,...
Scholarship Opportunity!

Scholarship Opportunity!

Any Saint Paul Benson members who graduated from high school in the years 2021-2024 and intend to continue their education at an accredited two- or four-year college and/or technical school, are eligible for the Saint Paul United Methodist Scholarship! You can access...
Weekly Devotion–The Old Man’s Contemplation

Weekly Devotion–The Old Man’s Contemplation

The Old Man’s Contemplation The old one wanders around the trees wondering aloud how others perceive him. Perhaps observed like a burr oak sturdy enough but hanging on to leaves far too long? He hates to think that there are some who see him as prickly as a...

Weekly Devotion–Rejuvenation

Rejuvenation Cloistered in the quiet cold of winter may may be curative. Still, we welcome bright sun transmitting warmth and rejuvenation. I hope you sensed it, too, when the Light of Peace replaced fears and tears With smiles and hearty laughter. Early hope of...
Weekly Devotion–Welcoming the Companion

Weekly Devotion–Welcoming the Companion

Welcoming the Companion As snow buries everything in sight and the bright white sparkles are blinding when I cannot leave the house for the arctic cold, I find myself deep in the Womb of Winter. Alone. Creative mind concocting bizarre sagas building anxiety and body...
Weekly Devotion–Welcoming the Companion

Weekly Devotion–Winter Creations

Winter’s Creations Watching youngsters build a snow fort on a Sunday afternoon I wonder what can I build? Instead of feeling trapped in the house when snow packed roads could lead one into a drift of despair work a long-forgotten puzzle, play a tune stitch...
Weekly Devotion–Welcoming the Companion

Weekly devotion–Epiphany Season Blessings

Epiphany Season Blessings As if on cue the precious toddler dressed in sparkly gold escapes the arms of her mother causing waves of giggles in the pews just as this preacher spoke of another adored and ornery toddler named Jesus testing the limits of his world ages...