The General Commission on Communications (United Methodist Communications) is charged with the task of meeting the communication, public relations, and marketing needs of the entire Church, reflecting the cultural and racial diversity within The United Methodist Church. United Methodist Communications provides resources and services to local churches and annual conferences and has a consultative relationship with all general agencies of the church and with any structure for communication and public relations at the jurisdictional, Episcopal area, annual conference, district, or local church level.
This governing body consists of members selected from each of the jurisdictional conferences and from the central conferences, so that its members represent the diversity of our global church. The commission meets at least once each year to review the work of the agency as well as make decisions about the direction of the agency's work for the coming year.
Council of Bishops Members:
- Bishop Robert (Bob) Farr, Missouri Episcopal Area
- Bishop John Yohanna, Nigeria Episcopal Area
Commission Members:
- Cathy Bruce-Alfonso — Kentucky Annual Conference
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Pacifico Aniag — Bulacan Annual Conference
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April Marie Casperson — West Ohio Annual Conference
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Annie Grace Chingonzo — East Zimbabwe Annual Conference
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Randall Todd Cox — Tennessee Annual Conference
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Tracy J. Cox — Western Pennsylvania Annual Conference
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Timothy Crouch — North Texas Annual Conference
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Alyce Weaver Dunn — Western Pennsylvania Annual Conference
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Karl Ellingsen — Nordic/Baltic Annual Conference
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Cashar W. Evans, Jr. — North Carolina Annual Conference
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Courtney Fowler — Great Plains Annual Conference
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Doreen Gosmire — Dakotas Annual Conference
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Melissa Lauber — Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference
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Don Mowery — Missouri Annual Conference
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Betty Kazadi Musau — North Katanga Annual Conference
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Reiner Puno — Philippines Annual Conference
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Beth Rambikur — Desert Southwest Annual Conference
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Kelly Haggerty Roberson — South Georgia Annual Conference
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Alice Rogers — North Georgia Annual Conference
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Gwendolyn Sales — Tennessee Annual Conference
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Philip Daniel Schroeder — North Georgia Annual Conference
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Urs Schweizer — Central Conference of Central and Southern Europe
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Rodney Steele — Arkansas Annual Conference
- Dominique Regine Tayoro Thalmas — Côte d'Ivoire Annual Conference
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Rick Wolcott — East Ohio Annual Conference