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July 8, 2003 Volunteer pages, marshals sought for General Conference
The application deadline is fast approaching for people interested in serving as volunteer marshals or pages for the 2004 General Conference.

May 9, 2003 Committee proposes bishops as legislative chairs
The committee that establishes rules for the United Methodist Church’s lawmaking assembly has recommended that bishops – rather than elected laity or clergy – lead the assembly’s legislative committees, beginning in 2004.

March 10, 2003 Elections of delegates top 2004 annual conference agendas
Election of clergy and lay delegates to the 2004 General and jurisdictional conferences will be a major agenda item for the United Methodist annual (regional) conference sessions this year.

February 26, 2003 Alabama laywoman to give General Conference Laity Address
Gloria Holt, president of the United Methodist Association of Annual Conference Lay Leaders, has been chosen to deliver the Laity Address at the 2004 General Conference.

February 3, 2003 Non-U.S. delegates will increase at ’04 General Conference
When United Methodists gather in Pittsburgh next year for their top legislative assembly, their number will include more delegates from outside the United States than ever before.

December 9, 2002 Commentary: Who is 'right' General Conference delegate?
At the 2003 annual conferences of the United Methodist Church, we will be electing from among ourselves delegates to the 2004 General Conference. There will be around 1,000 delegates (half lay and half clergy) elected from around the world to gather in Pittsburgh April 27-May 7, 2004, to open up our United Methodist Book of Discipline and begin to fine-tune it again.

November 14, 2002 Petitions deadline for 2004 General Conference set
Individuals and groups wanting to change policies, procedures and practices of the United Methodist Church have until Nov. 29, 2003, to submit petitions to the General Conference, the denomination’s top lawmaking body.

April 12, 2002 Panel chooses theme for 2004 General Conference
FORT WORTH, Texas (UMNS) — Combining the biblical imagery of baptism and Pentecost with the three rivers that converge at the site of the 2004 General Conference, planners for the top legislative assembly of the United Methodist Church chose as the conference theme, "Water Washed and Spirit Born."

April 11, 2002 Atlanta professor to direct music at ’04 General Conference
FORT WORTH, Texas (UMNS) — The Rev. Barbara Day Miller, assistant dean of worship at Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, has been named music director for the 2004 General Conference.

January 22, 2002 Church agencies’ leaders pledge cooperation on budget, work
The top staff executives of the United Methodist Church’s 14 general agencies have pledged to work together in new ways and to avoid a "fight over the dollars" at the 2004 General Conference.

September 25, 2000 Commission looks at improving 2004 General Conference
ROSEMONT, Ill. (UMNS) -- "It’s broken. Fix it!"

That’s the advice of a United Methodist who was quoted during a recent meeting of the group planning the next General Conference in 2004.

July 10, 2000 Plans already under way for 2004 General Conference
Before the dust has completely settled after the United Methodist General Conference in Cleveland last May, plans are already under way for the next conference in Pittsburgh April 27-May 7, 2004.

August 3, 1998 Pittsburgh chosen for 2004 United Methodist General Conference
Pittsburgh has been selected as the meeting site for the 2004 United Methodist General Conference, the top legislative body of the 10 million-member denomination.