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Wyoming Conference United Methodist Church
WELCOME
This is the Internet HomePage of the Wyoming Conference of
the United Methodist Church, which is located in the Southern
Tier of New York and Northeastern Pennsylvania. We went online
on Nov. 9, 1995 -- one of the first United Methodist Conferences
with a HomePage.
We've designed our HomePage as a resource for the clergy and
laity of the Wyoming Conference, but we also welcome United Methodists,
the people called "Methodist" around the world, and
"surfers."
We've carefully selected all links based upon their relevance
to our primary task of making disciples for Jesus Christ. We
do not list commercial sites. We're interested in quality, not
quantity.
FAQs
I thought the Wyoming Conference was located in the State
of Wyoming?
The word Wyoming is a corruption of the Native American word
Maughwauwame (maughwau which means large and wame which means
plains). The early settlers mispronounced the word Wauwaumie,
then Wiawumie, then Wiomie, and finally Wyoming.
The name originated from the beautiful Wyoming Valley within
the boundaries of the conference. The valley spans the Susquehanna
River for 21 miles between Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, Pa.
The area was originally populated by Native Americans who were
expelled from their homes along the Delaware River. It is likely
that the Toltecs, from the Mississippi Valley, preceded the settlements
by the Native Americans from the Delaware Nation.
The majority of the Wyoming Conference lies within the basin
of the East Branch of the Susquehanna River with its headwaters
in Cooperstown, N.Y., home of the Baseball Hall of Fame. The
land is mix of fertile valleys, pastures, rugged hills, mountains
and coal deposits, particularly in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
The people live today in country villages, county seats, urban
centers of commerce, industry and manufacturing and suburban
neighborhoods.
The Oneida (N.Y.) Annual Conference, at its July 28, 1851 meeting
in Ithaca, N.Y., approved a resolution calling for the formation
of a new conference, which they named the Wyoming Conference.
The General Conference of the United Methodist Church approved
the resolution in 1852.
The Wyoming Conference met on July 7, 1852 at Carbondale, Pa.
with 66 clergy members, 10,662 local church members and 2,015
probationers. The geographical territory at that time was primarily
in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Sixteen years later, in 1868, General Conference changed the
conference boundaries which expanded the Wyoming Conference northward
into the Southern Tier of New York.
What is the membership of the Wyoming Conference?
The 2000 Journal lists the following statistics:
- 67,675 lay members,
- 10,652 preparatory members,
- 19,201 average attendance at weekly worship service/s,
- 15,685 Sunday school members,
- 7,674 average attendance in Sunday school,
- 282 clergy members with 213 members in full connection.
How do I contact the Wyoming Conference Center?
See the Staff Directory
for E-Mail Addresses.
Call the Wyoming Conference Center at 607/757-0608
or 1-800/799-9664 (long distance in N.Y. & Pa.). Office
hours are: Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
FAX the Wyoming Conference Center at: 607/757-0608.
Send mail to:
- Wyoming Conference Center
P.O. Box 58
Endicott, NY 13761-0058
The address for UPS/FedEx deliveries is:
- Wyoming Conference Center
1700 Monroe St.
Endicott, NY 13760
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Updated: January 25, 2001
Created: October 15, 1996
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