Baypines District Office
Thursday, September 09, 2010

For some of the links provided below, simply click on the name of the item.  These links are not maintained by the Baypines District, and the Baypines District is not responsible for the content. 

Appointments of Clergy in the Alabama-West Florida Conference:  

Click HERE for 2008-2009.

Click HERE for 2007-2008.

Click HERE for 2006-2007.

Archives and History, United Methodist: Click HERE.

Bible / Scripture:

Click HERE to learn about the Bible.

Click HERE for a Bible encyclopedia.

Click HERE for a Bible summary.  

Lookup a word or passage in the Bible


BibleGateway.com

 Bishops of the Southeastern Jurisdiction: Click HERE.

 Blue Lake: Click HERE.

Candler School of Theology, Emory University:  Click HERE.

Children's Home, United Methodist - AWFC:  Click HERE.

Christian Classics - Online Library: Click here.

Churches - Filter Search:

Click here to find churches by attendance, ethnicity, location, name, etc.

Click here for a directory of International United Methodist Churches.

Click here for driving directions to a particular United Methodist Church.

Other:  Click here for a directory of United Methodist Ministries.

Click here for census of membership in churches by denomination and county

Churches - Websites - Alabama-West Florida Conference (All Churches): Click  HERE.

Clip Art:   

Click HERE for Microsoft graphics page.

Click HERE for free Methodist graphics.

Click HERE for E-zekiel's list of website resources (free for those with an E-zekiel site).

Cokesbury Publishing House: Click HERE (for literature, church supplies, gifts, etc.).

Composition and Writing (Principles, Guidelines): Click HERE  for Webster.

Computer:

Tech Shop (United Methodist) 

Counseling - Pastoral Care, Counseling, and Training (PCCT)  

[01/18/08]  The Alabama-West Florida Conference Office of Pastoral Care, Counseling, and Training (PCCT) office has a new email address: umc@pcctawf.org and a new mailing address: 175 Belmont Dr., Suite 4, Dothan, AL 36305.

Devotionals:

Click HERE for Upper Room devotionals.

Directories:

Bellsouth - Find People, Businesses, Area Codes, Addresses, etc.

Switchboard - Find People, Businesses, Addresses, Search by Phone, Search for Zip Codes

USPS - Find Zip Codes

Disaster Response:

See also Emergency Management.

See also Hurricanes/Hurricane Relief

See also UMCOR, United Methodist Committee on Relief

Click HERE for Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD).

Click HERE for Volunteers of America (The message board may offer some great ideas and training info. For instance, the message board has shown a sample Disaster Response card for churches, suggested by an Alabama United Methodist Church.)

Discipleship, United Methodist Church General Board: Click HERE.
 

Districts of the Alabama-West Florida Conference:

Click HERE for the Districts page on the Conference website. This lists all the districts with full contact information, maps to the offices, pictures of the superintendents and assistants, etc.

Baypines District

Demopolis District

Dothan District

Marianna-Panama City District

Mobile District

Montgomery-Opelika not available

Montgomery-Prattville District

Pensacola District

Emergency Management:

Click on the name of the county for information about hurricane preparedness, flood zones, evacuation routes, shelter info, etc.  The District is not responsible for information posted on these websites.

Baldwin County, Alabama

Escambia County, Florida 

Okaloosa County, Florida

Santa Rosa County, Florida

FloridaDisaster.org

Mold and Mildew

Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster

See also Hurricanes/Hurricane Relief

See also Disaster Response

Encounter Weekends:

www.encounter.org

www.wwmegulfcoast.org

E-zekiel.TV - Christian Web Videos:

Have you heard about the new E-zekiel.TV?  You will really want to check this out!  Even if you don't have an E-zekiel website, you can upload and view Christian videos - FREE!  >>>

Food Ministries:

Angel Food Ministries

Foundation, United Methodist: Click HERE.

GCFA - General Council on Finance and Administration: Click HERE for Index Page.

Grammar/Writing Reference:  Click HERE for Webster. 

(The Pensacola District is not responsible for anything posted on the website.)

Homes for the Aging: Click HERE.

Hurricanes / Hurricane Relief:

National Hurricane Center 

Click HERE for the Alabama-West Florida Conference Hurricane Relief webpage.

Click HERE for the UMCOR Hurricane Relief webpage.

Click HERE for the UMC Mississippi Conference website.

Click HERE for the UMC Louisiana Conference website. 

Click HERE for Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD).

Hymns:

Click here for hundreds of FREE music downloads for United Methodists. 

Igniting Ministry: Click HERE.

InfoServ -  The United Methodist Information Service:

InfoServ, the official information service of The United Methodist Church, responds to over 200 questions a day by e-mail, phone, and fax. Located in Nashville, Tennessee, InfoServ is here to respond to not only your questions, but point you in the right direction to locate people and necessary resources. 

Internal Revenue Service:

IRS Website

Publications

Tax Guide for Churches and Religious Organizations

Interpreter Magazine: Click HERE.

Jesus Christ / Your Relationship with God:

God's Story: A Summary of the Bible - click HERE.

Do NOT click HERE. (Have a problem with "No"? Adam & Eve did.)

Click HERE for Messianic prophecies fulfilled.

Journal of the Alabama-West Florida Conference:

Click HERE for the 2006 Journal. (Note: This is a big file.)

Click HERE for the 2007 Journal. (Note:  This  is a big file.) 

Kairos Prison Ministry: Click HERE. 

Lake Junaluska: Click HERE.

Lay Speaking:

Click HERE for Conference Lay Speaking Ministries. 

Legal Manual / Risk Management, United Methodist (GCFA): Click HERE.

Licenses - Video: Click HERE.

Loans and Scholarships Program: Click HERE.

Mail - USPS Guidelines for Mailing:

United States Postal Service 

Meeting and Retreat Places:

http://www.bethlehemcamp.com/  (Bethlehem Family Camp president is Rev. Mike Roberts)

http://www.bluelakecamp.com

http://www.lakejunaluska.com/ 

Mentors and Mentoring:  

Ministry Process. GBHEM has a resource library of forms, materials, and other helps for mentors.

Stewardship Mentor Program -  Available from the Stewardship Division of the Conference Boad of Discipleship, this is a program for local congregations that utilize trained mentors who work one-on-one with pastors and congregations for a year.  Contact Rev. Robbin Sims at (334) 887-7003.

Ministry Process:

Interested in Ministry in The United Methodist Church?  Click HERE.  GBHEM has forms, materials, and other helps for Inquirers, Explorers, Candidates, etc.

Click HERE for the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry.

Click HERE to order The Christian As Minister (recommended reading for candidacy inquirers) from Cokesbury Publishing House. [When candidacy inquirers come to the district office to interview with the Superintendent, they can borrow a copy from the district office.]

Miscellaneous United Methodist Connections: 

About The United Methodist Church.  What we believe, social principles, history, constitution, etc.

Index of United Methodist Websites.  Agencies, news, history, theology, conferences, jurisdictions, etc.

InfoServ -  The United Methodist Information Service.  InfoServ, the official information service of The United Methodist Church, responds to over 200 questions a day by e-mail, phone, and fax. Located in Nashville, TN, InfoServ is here to respond to not only your questions, but point you in the right direction to locate people and necessary resources.

News Service, United Methodist

Structure of The United Methodist Church. An interactive feature about UMC structure.

United Methodist Websites (links from the Alabama-West Florida Conference website)

Missions - Forms

What forms are required?  http://www.umvim.org/forms.htm

Music:

Click HERE for hundreds of FREE music downloads for United Methodists.

News Service, United Methodist - Archived by Month:

United Methodist News Service

Newspapers:

Front Page News (newspapers from all over the US and the world)

Ordained Ministry, Conference Board of: Click HERE.

Our Amazing Connection:

Our Amazing Connection, a pdf booklet revised for 2008. It answers questions such as where your apportiortionments go and how they are figured.

PCCT - Pastoral Care, Counseling, and Training

[01/18/08]  The Alabama-West Florida Conference Office of Pastoral Care, Counseling, and Training (PCCT) office has a new email address: umc@pcctawf.org and a new mailing address: 175 Belmont Dr., Suite 4, Dothan, AL 36305.

Prayer Chain:

Click here for Conference birth announcements.

Click here for Conference obituaries. 

Redbird Missionary Conference:  Click HERE.

(The correct address for Redbird Missionary Conference is 54 Queendale Center, Beverly, KY 40913.)

Relief, United Methodist Committee on (UMCOR): Click HERE.

Response Magazine: Click HERE.

Risk Management: Click HERE for the manual.

Scouts/Scouting, United Methodist: Click HERE.

Society of St. Andrew: Click HERE.

Southeastern Jurisdiction: Click HERE.

Tax Guide  for Local Churches:

http://www.awfumc.org/page.asp?PKValue=87

[IRS] Tax Guide for Churches and Religious Organizations

http://www.gcfa.org/TaxPacket.html 

United Methodist Association of Communicators:  

http://www.umcommunicators.org/what.htm

United Methodist Church: 

About The United Methodist Church.  What we believe, social principles, history, constitution, etc.

Index of United Methodist Websites.  Agencies, news, history, theology, conferences, jurisdictions, etc.

InfoServ -  The United Methodist Information Service.  InfoServ, the official information service of The United Methodist Church, responds to over 200 questions a day by e-mail, phone, and fax. Located in Nashville, TN, InfoServ is here to respond to not only your questions, but point you in the right direction to locate people and necessary resources.

News Service, United Methodist

Structure of The United Methodist Church. An interactive feature about UMC structure.

United Methodist Websites (links from the Alabama-West Florida Conference website)

United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR):

http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor/ 

United Methodist Foundation:

http://alwfumf.org/

United Methodist Response after Hurricane Katrina

Click here for your best reference:  the Hurricane Response Webpage of the Alabama-West Florida Conference United Methodist Church. 

Click here for initial response by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).

Concerning donations for Hurricane Response:

  • If you are a United Methodist, we encourage you to please give generously through your local United Methodist Church.
  • A note to church treasurers:  When you send your donation using the remittance form, this runs the donation through Conference bookkeeping, enabling Conference to report your unapportioned donations on your apportionment statements.  Please designate the purpose/advance number of the offerings on the remittance form.

United Methodist Women:

http://www.gbgm-umc.org/awfconfumw/

Videos/TV (Christian):

Have you heard about the new E-zekiel.TV?  You will really want to check this out!  Even if you don't have an E-zekiel website, you can upload and view Christian videos - FREE!  >>>

Volunteers in Mission, SEJ:

http://www.umvim.org/

Weather Advisories, Tracking Charts, Etc.:

The Pensacola District is not responsible for information posted on these websites.

National Hurricane Center 

National Weather Service 

Wesley Foundation

Wesley Heirs / Wesley Heirs Newsletters: Click HERE.

Women in Ministry: Click HERE.

Youth - United Methodist: Click HERE.

Zip Codes:

USPS - Find Zip Codes

Bellsouth - Find Zip or Postal Code