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Kansas Wesleyan will host the 2025 session of the Great Plains Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church on June 4-7 on campus. KWU is the first higher education institution to host the event since the formation of the conference in 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cKWU is proud of our nearly 140-year relationship with the United Methodist Church. Each day, we are committed to the spiritual development of our students, faculty, staff, and this community,\u201d said Dr. Matt Thompson, KWU president. \u201cHosting the Great Plains Annual Conference is a chance to connect and\u00a0share who we are and what sets Kansas Wesleyan apart in this region. We\u2019re excited and look forward to welcoming 1,300 UMC members to campus in June.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Great Plains Annual Conference is comprised of more than 700 churches across Kansas and Nebraska. Each member church can send its pastor or pastors and one lay person for each pastor who attends.<\/p>\n

More information will be available on the Kansas Wesleyan website as well as the Great Plains Conference site \u2014\u00a0www.greatplainsumc.org<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 in the spring.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nKWU to Host 2025 Great Plains Annual Conference - Kansas Wesleyan University<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kwu.edu\/about\/news\/kwu-to-host-2025-great-plains-annual-conference\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"KWU to Host 2025 Great Plains Annual Conference - 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