Conference Advances

The Advance is an accountable, designated-giving arm of The United Methodist Church that ensures 100 percent of each gift reaches its intended mission or ministry. You decide which program or ministry to support through The Advance.

Click here to view the list of approved General Church Advances, or visit www.advancinghope.org.

Note: Some of the Advances listed below have a "Link" behind them — clicking on the link will take you to a website or Web page with more information on that particular Advance.

Nebraska Conference Advances:

City and District Mission Societies

853 United Methodist Community Ministries — Blue River District (LINK)
855 Elkhorn Valley District Mission Society
856 Great West District Mission Society
854 United Methodist Ministries — Missouri River District (LINK)
859 Gateway District Mission Society
864 Prairie Rivers District Mission Society

District Programs

Paragraph 655.4 of the 2008 Book of Discipline provides for approved district programs to be designated as Conference Advances.

"With the approval of the Annual Conference, a district within the Conference may authorize and promote Advance Specials for church extension and missionary needs within the district, such funds to be administered by a district missionary society organized for that purpose or by a similar body set up by the district. Such special funds secured and administered on a district level shall be reported by each local church to the Annual Conference as Conference Advance Specials." The following programs have been approved in this process.

886 Prairie Rivers District Hispanic/Latino Ministries (LINK)
876 Great West District Hispanic/Latino Ministries (LINK)
887 Conference-owned Camping Ministries (LINK)
888 Camp Comeca — Cozad (LINK)
889 Camp Fontanelle — Nickerson (LINK)
890 Camp Norwesca — Chadron (LINK)

Community Mission Programs

Church and Community Workers (please specify)
861 Randy Hildebrant (LINK)
        Lisa Maupin (LINK)

873 Church-based Community Organizing in Nebraska

870 Conference Peace with Justice Ministry (LINK)

871 Hunger

867 Interchurch Ministries of Nebraska Rural Crisis Council (LINK)

895 Justice for Our Neighbors Immigration Ministry (Nebraska) (LINK)

892 National Hispanic/Latino Plan (LINK)

893 Local Campus Ministry (LINK)

851 Nigeria/Nebraska Partnership: Hope for Children of Africa (LINK)

872 Rural Crisis Response

875 Volunteers in Mission Teams (LINK)

860 Released and Restored (LINK)

Institutional Ministries

879 Danner Memorial Scholarship
852 Nebraska Wesleyan University (LINK)
878 Crowell Health Services — Blair (LINK)
881 Epworth Village — York (LINK)
883 Hester Home — Benkelman (LINK)
884 Regional West Medical Center (LINK)
899 Fairfield Orphanage Student Association (FOSA) (LINK)
877 Lydia Patterson Institute (LINK)

Click here to view a printable list of the 2012 approved Conference Advances.