2013 Annual Conference

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Opening Worship at Annual Conference 2013

Bishop Ough opens Annual Conference 2013 with awesome worship!

Celebrating Ministry at Annual Conference

Rev. Doug Dehl and Bishop Ough honor retirees

$260,000 plus for the Bakken

Members of the 2013 Annual Conference dance, sing for joy for the Bakken READ THE FULL STORY HERE
Videos The Oil Rush Featured

Recent News

Over 100 Dakotas Conference youth head to the mission field in Kentucky

111 youth and adults loaded two buses and vans early Saturday morning, June 15 headed for Frakes, Kentucky to offer a helping hand to families in the Appalachian Mountains.
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Bakken Oil Rush ministry collects over $260,000

Joyful giving was abounding at the 20th Session of the Dakotas Annual Conference on June 6-8, 2013 in Bismarck, North Dakota. Over 600 United Methodist gathered to reach out and give over $260,000 to launch the Bakken Oil Rush Ministry.
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Welcome to the Dakotas Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church! Our Conference spans the states of North and South Dakota. Our church family includes more than 270 congregations. In 2011 the Dakotas Conference experienced a 4% growth in attendance. 

Thanks for stopping by to visit. We hope you'll explore our website and learn more about us and our ministries. If you are looking for a church home, we hope you'll visit your local United Methodist congregation.

A Message from the Bishop

Bishop
As we gather in Bismarck, we will participate in one of the historic, yet refreshingly relevant, means of grace identified by John Wesley when he urged the people called Methodist to “attend upon all the ordinances of God,” or as Bishop Rueben Job translates, “to stay in love with God.”
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