United Methodist General News

Good afternoon: The bull market is alive and well as the S&P 500 posted its strongest first-half-year gains since 1998. However, last winter’s optimism over the development of effective vaccines and an economic reopening has given way to anxiety over inflation, employment, and decelerating growth. In the latest Market Perspectives, our Colony Investment Leadership Team [...]

Good afternoon, Trading in investment markets over the past twelve-plus months has been extraordinary. Aggressive monetary and fiscal policy responses and the medical community's rapid development of effective vaccines marked the fastest recovery from a bear market in history. In the latest Market Perspectives, our Colony Investment Leadership Team focuses on: How the secular changes [...]

The United Methodist Foundation for the Memphis and Tennessee Annual Conferences is pleased to announce that it was recently awarded a grant from the UMC Clergy Well-Being Initiative. This award is funded by a grant to the General Board of Pensions and Health Benefits of the UMC by the Lilly Endowment Inc. Working in conjunction with the Memphis and Tennessee Annual Conferences, the grant will [...]

"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to [...]

“Therefore do not worry, saying, “What will we eat?” or “What will we drink?” or “What will we wear?” For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be [...]

Dear Friends, At this time of change in the denomination, we want to assure all of our investors in the United Methodist Foundation for the Memphis and Tennessee Conferences and UM Development Fund of TN/KY, Inc. that we are well prepared to continue to serve you. Any proposed changes currently under discussion in the United [...]