The 177th Session of the California-Nevada Annual Conference is taking place later this week from June 27 – 30, 2025 at the SAFE Credit Union Convention Center in Sacramento, California.
Note: ACS = Annual Conference Session.
On this webpage is some helpful information about ACS for those attending and also for those who will not be in attendance.
Conference Website
Click on the button for the page on the Conference website where all ACS news and documents are located.
Guests and Livestream
Those who are not clergy or lay delegates to ACS are welcome to attend any or all sessions as a Guest or watch the Livestream. Mealtime events, for which you must register in advance, are also open to all who wish to attend.
To attend as a guest, enter the doors at the West Lobby of the Convention Center on 13th Street. Proceed up the stairs, escalator or lift to the Second Level and find the “Oasis” Table in the Lobby area. You will then be able to register as a guest and sit in the guest section of the Plenary, Laity and Legislative Sessions.
The Plenaries and Worship services will be Livestreamed on the Conference YouTube and will also be viewable from the conference website.
Pre-Conference Journal
The Pre-Conference Journal is available on the conference website.
Section 2 contains all the Legislation, including the four items that our Climate Justice Ministries Task Force has submitted. They are items 12, 13, 15, and 17 on pages 51-62 of the journal (also numbered as pages 40-51 in the Section 2 numbering scheme).
Section 3 contains all the Reports, including the report submitted by our Climate Justice Ministries Task Force. It is on pages 87-88 of the journal (also numbered as pages 18-19 in the Section 3 numbering scheme).
For your convenience, here are two documents containing only our legislation and report.
The text of the legislation is also viewable on our website.
Sustainable ACS
- Water Bottles and Travel Cups
Bring your reusable water bottle and your travel coffee cup to ACS!! Help us reduce what’s getting tossed out. The water fountains at the convention center have filtered water and they will be well identified for you to find. Starbucks, located in the Convention Center, will give you a discount for using your own cup. If you have an extra water bottle and would like to donate it for someone else to use, please, bring it along. There will be a place for them at the Oasis table in the Lobby. Bottled water will not be available. - Ride Sharing
If you are traveling to ACS, then please try to ride share or use public transport as much is feasible. - Avoiding Paper
Please consider how much you are printing and use your electronic devices as much as possible.
DiGital Displays
On the Conference Digital Display page, there is a 6-minute Task Force video and a 3-minute Sacred Ground video.
Display Table & Handouts
We have a Display Table in the Display area. Stop by to take a look at the information there. During the breaks, you should find one of us there to talk to you.
We have a limited number of printed handouts at the display table, so please consider going paperless and download them from here:
Advocacy & Justice
Lunch
Join the Conference Advocacy & Justice Lunch on Friday June 27 at 12.30 p.m. at Sacrament First UMC (2100 J St, Sacramento, CA 95816) to explore and engage the powerful, effective, and faithful tools of boycott and divestment in our collective work for justice.
- Special Guest: Dov Baum, Director of Corporate Accountability and Research (American Friends Service Committee)
- Respondents from Advocacy & Justice’s key Task Forces: Climate Justice, Philippines Solidarity, and Palestine.
Cost: $15 (includes vegetarian salad buffet lunch)
You can also attend via Zoom – please register to receive the link.
panel
In the Sunday morning Plenary Session from about 11.15 a.m. to 11.55 a.m. there will be a Panel discussion about justice. The panelists are:
- Nathan Sam Whistler – Native American Ministries
- Joan Pell – Climate Justice Ministries
- Ella Luna-Garza – Immigration
- Michael Yoshi – Palestine
- Myrna Bernadel-Huey – Reparations
- Hubert Ivery – White Christian Nationalism