"There is none holy like the LORD; there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God."

The Czech and Slovak Republics Annual Conference met from May 31 to June 2, 2013, in Prague. Several times the 60 participants broached the “Characters of a Methodist.”

Nearly 1,000 annual conference attendees opened with celebrations of church and ministry outreach efforts on each of the six districts.

More than 1,700 United Methodists from 637 area churches in the Baltimore-Washington Conference gathered May 29-31 to sow seeds of worship, learning, mission, stewardship and holy conferencing in their continuing efforts to grow disciples for the transformation of the world.

Bishop Bruce R. Ough, Dakotas-Minnesota Area, called for more than 600 Dakotas Annual Conference members and visitors to listen and feel the “whoosh” of the Pentecostal spirit.

The Indiana Annual (regional) Conference theme, “Transforming the World: Be a World Changer,” was based on Romans 12:1-2 from The Message. Bishop Michael J. Coyner presided over his ninth conference in Indiana.