HealthFlex Notes

Participants in HealthFlex can maximize their benefits by participating in the annual Health Check online health assessment by August 31. Participants who complete this brief assessment will: Avoid paying more for their 2024 HealthFlex deductible. (Both...

CONAM Partnerships Providing Relief From Indiana to the Dakotas 

There are over 40,000 Native American Indians in the state of Indiana. CONAM seeks to express tapalot (which means ‘love’ in the Miami language) from here in Indiana all the way to the Dakotas.  Linda Madagame (whose name means Motion Water in the Ottawa...

Recent Judicial Council Rulings

At Annual Conference 2022, two resolutions were passed by the Indiana Conference that were submitted to Judicial Council for a “rule of law” decision. They recently ruled on these resolutions. The first was a review of a Bishop’s Ruling on Questions of Law in the...

New Associate Lay Leader

We are pleased to announce that Shannon Priddy will serve as Associate Conference Lay Leader for the Indiana Conference of The United Methodist Church effective immediately. “Shannon brings much to the laity leadership team in terms of both her professional and...

Just Do It: How a pastor approaches her cross racial appointment

Rev. Leah Peksenak pastors two churches that are very different from one another. The city of Hobart has historically been a very white town. Not surprisingly, Hobart First UMC is a predominantly white church with no shortage of racial prejudice in its history. The...