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Bishop Sally Dyck
Bishop Sally Dyck exhorts General Conference to "go forth and learn mercy" during opening worship on Friday, May 13
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Photo by Mike DuBose, UMNS
Laity Address 1
Brian Hammons of the Missouri Conference helps deliver the laity address during the 2016 United Methodist General Conference in Portland, Ore.
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Photo by Mike DuBose, UMNS
Laity Address 2
Holly Neal of the Tennessee Conference helps deliver the laity address during the 2016 United Methodist General Conference in Portland, Ore.
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Photo by Mike DuBose, UMNS
Moses Kumar
Moses Kumar reports on the work of the General Council on Finance and Administration at the 2016 United Methodist General Conference in Portland, Ore.
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Global Mission
Jeeye Park with the United Methodist Commission on Religion and Race studies a painting titled, "Global Migration" by artist Jesse Martinez at the 2016 United Methodist General Conference in Portland, Ore. Photo by Kathleen Barry, UMNS
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Photo by Kathleen Barry, UMNS
Signed Communion
Bishop Peggy Johnson leads a communion service in American Sign Language during the 2016 United Methodist General Conference in Portland, Ore. The service focused on providing access for people with disabilities.
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey, UMNS
Immigration Rally
Participants in a May 13 immigration rally outside the 2016 United Methodist General Conference in Portland, Ore.
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Photo by Kathleen Barry, UMNS
Bishop Selfies
Yenifer Posadas uses her selfie stick to take a photo of Bishop Minerva Carcaño and other Hispanic/Latino young adults in a lobby of the Portland Convention Center during the 2016 United Methodist General Conference.
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Photo by Kathleen Barry, UMNS
Tent Night
The Rev. Mike Tupper (left) and the Rev. Frank Schaefer hold a press conference to speak about their call for sleeping outside on May 13 as part of National Tent Night "to symbolize how the present policies of The United Methodist Church are pushing LGBTQ people outside." Tupper and Schaefer plan to sleep in a tent outside the Oregon Convention Center along with other supporters.