Apply To Give The Young People's Address At General Conference 2020

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* 1. Please enter your contact information

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* 2. Mailing Address (If Different Than Home Address)

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* 3. What is your gender?

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* 4. What is your ethnicity?

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* 5. What is your age?

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* 6. Social Media Accounts:

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* 7. Church Information

Name and address of your local church

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* 8. Do you have a current passport?

Yes

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* 9. Do you have the ability to travel between May 5 - May 15, 2020?

Yes

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* 10. Do you have travel restrictions or require special accomodations?

Yes

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* 11. Provide a summary of the idea for your talk (250 words or less)

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* 12. Why do the delegates to General Conference 2020 need to hear this message? (250 words or less)

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* 13. Share the details of some of your past experiences speaking or leading in the UMC (250 words or less)

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* 14. Tell us your best stories about redemption in your community. How has the church been a part of taking something broken and making it whole? (250 words or less)

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* 15. Tell us about a mentor, someone who has called you to be a better version of yourself, or helped you press on through hardship? (250 words or less)

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* 16. Who in your experience embodies and lives out the membership vows of the United Methodist Church? (250 words or less) See below:
According to The Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church, members make covenant to do the following:
1. To renounce the spiritual forces of wickedness, reject the evil powers of the world, and repent of their sin;
2. To accept the freedom and power God gives them to resist evil, injustice, and oppression;
3. To confess Jesus Christ as Savior, put their whole trust in his grace, and promise to serve him as their Lord;
4. To remain faithful members of Christ’s holy church and serve as Christ’s representatives in the world;
5. To be loyal to Christ through The United Methodist Church and do all in their power to strengthen its ministries;
6. To faithfully participate in its ministries by their prayers, their presence, their gifts, their service, and their witness;
7. To receive and profess the Christian faith as contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments.

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* 17. Please use this Link to Upload a short audio or video file (5 minute limit!) of you introducing yourself and the topic you’d like to speak about if you were selected to present the Young People’s Address at General Conference 2020. When you click Link to Upload, choose the file you’d like to send to us via dropbox and that will complete your application. You can ignore the text field below, unless you’re feeling funny, in which case, write us a joke.