Glossary

• Advance for Christ and His Church

• Africa University Fund

• Annual Conference

• Annual Conference

• Annual Conference Program Agencies and Institutions

• Apportioned Funds

• Apportionment

• Apportionment Formula

• Benevolences

• Bishop

• Bishops' Appeal

• Black College Fund

• Cabinet

• Central Conference

• Churches Uniting in Christ

• Churchwide Emergency Appeal

• Commission on Pan-Methodist Cooperation and Union

• Connection

• Connectional Giving

• Constitution

• Council of Bishops

• Deacon

• Designated gift

• District

• District superintendent

• Ecumenical movement

• el Intérprete

• Elder

• Episcopacy

• Episcopal area

• Episcopal Fund

• General Administration Fund

• General agency

• General benevolence funds

• General board

• General commission

• General Conference

• General council

• General funds

• Interdenominational

• Interdenominational Cooperation Fund

• Interpreter

• Judicial Council

• Jurisdiction

• Jurisdictional Conference

• Laity

• Local church

• Local pastor

• Ministerial Education Fund

• Missionary

• Missionary Conference

• National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA

• Petition (to General Conference)

• Quadrennium

• Regional Emergency Appeal

• Sharing God's Gifts

• Special Appeal

• Special Sundays

• Special Sundays with churchwide offerings

• Special Sundays without churchwide offerings

• Stewardship

• The Book of Discipline

• Tithe

• United Methodists in Service

• World Council of Churches

• World Methodist Council

• World Service and Conference Benevolences

• World Service Fund

• World Service Special Gifts