UM Men agency announces move to new building

United Methodist News Service
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.—Participants at the 9th National Gathering of United Methodist Men cheered last month when they heard the General Commission on United Methodist Men would be moving into its own building.
Gil Hanke of Nacogodoches, president of the men’s commission, announced the move during the national gathering’s final plenary session July 17.
“I am pleased to tell you that by the end of this year, the General Commission on United Methodist Men will have its own office, with its own building that will be financed in a way that will not interrupt one piece of the ministry that we do,” Hanke said.
The agency is taking over facilities in Nashville, Tenn., being vacated by the General Council on Finance and Administration. 
The men’s organization, once part of a division on men’s ministry at the General Board of Discipleship, became an independent agency in 1996. Nevertheless, it remained in the General Board of Discipleship building.