2008 Advance Specials
City and District Mission Societies853 United Methodist Community Ministries-Blue River District
855 Elkhorn Valley District Mission Society
856 Great West District Mission Society
854 United Methodist Ministries-Missouri River District
859 Gateway District Mission Society
864 Prairie River District Mission Society
District Programs
Paragraph 654.4 of the 2004 Book of Discipline provides for approved district programs to be designated as Conference Advance Specials.
"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 River District Hispanic Ministries
876 Great West District Hispanic Ministries
Conference Owned Camping Ministries
888 Camp Comeca - Cozad
889 Camp Fontanelle - Nickerson
890 Camp Norwesca - Chadron
Community Mission Programs
882 Crossroads Center of Hastings
866 Hispanic Ministries
865 Native American Ministries
880 Nebraska Habitats for Humanity
857 United Methodist Community Centers (Omaha)
868 Gateway District Hispanic Ministries (Kearney)
Church and Community Workers
861 Koni Purscell
862 Alison Brown
863 Robbie Lonewolf
873 Church based Community Organizing in Nebraska
870 Conference Peace with Justice Ministry
871 Hunger
867 Interchurch Ministries of Nebraska Rural Crisis Council
895 Justice for Our Neighbors (Immigration legal clinic project with the Iowa Conference)
892 National Hispanic Plan
893 Nebraska United Ministries in Higher Education
Campus Ministry Local Campus units
851 Nigeria Partnership:Hope for Children of Africa
872 Rural Crisis Response
875 Volunteers in Mission Teams
860 Released and Restored (This comes from Christian Social Witness, Restorative Justice, Ruth Karlsson)
Institutional Ministries
879 Danner Memorial Scholarship at Wesley House
852 Nebraska Wesleyan University
878 Crowell Memorial Home - Blair
881 Epworth Village - York
883 Hester Home - Benkelman
884 Regional West Medical Center
899 Fairfield Orphanage Student Association (FOSA)
877 Lydia Patterson Institute
These organizations and programs have been approved by the Board of Mission Outreach as Conference Advance Specials for 2008.