12 Sep Revised Discipline Available Now
The Discipline revision work that began late in 2024 has been completed and the newly revised US Discipline is now available as a pdf to view online or download to your device (more on that in a moment).
The process started late in 2024 as a team of ministers and professors gathered to do some difficult work to help us more clearly define what we mean as United Brethren, when we talk about a church. That team took a deep dive into history, theology, and the bible to craft a definition of church that would be clear, while allowing freedom for new expressions of church. Their work yielded fourteen proposals which were presented to the national conference in July and voted upon after any amendements were made.
Since then, the document has been revised, reviewed and is now ready for download (and now we return to what I hinted at before).
If you have visited ub.org to read previous versions of the Discipline, you would have seen a table of contents page with each chapter listed as a clickable link that would take you directly to a separate page containing that one chapter. You would also have seen a version of the discipline that you could download directly to your device. Having both was extremely handy.
However, with this revision we have opted to provide the downloadable resource only. But this change is not forever. In fact, we just launched a project this week that will result in a brand new website and provide a fresh viewing experience for visitors looking for information about the United Brethren Church and ministers looking for next steps in their licensing process. In the meantime, we will be consolidating information on our current site which may result in changes similar to this one with the Discipline document.
Ralph Faber, passed away September 2, 2025, in Hoopeston, Ill. She was 90. Ruth and Ralph, who passed away in 2019, were married 64 years and spent 35 years pastoring UB churches in Illinois (Manlius, Quincy, Rockford, Leaf River, and Claytonville) and Kansas (Abilene). Ralph served some of those years as conference superintendent and General Conference delegate. Funeral services for Ruth were held Monday, September 8, in Princeton, Ill.