{"id":7910,"date":"2020-01-29T12:17:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T17:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sthlibrary\/?page_id=7910"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:33:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:33:39","slug":"records-management-and-donations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sthlibrary\/archives\/records-management-and-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"Church Records Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"text-8\" class=\"widget widget_text widget-1\">\n<p>If your UMC church is closing, the <em>Book of Discipline<\/em> states that you must send your records to the Annual Conference Archives.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a video presentation on <strong>Records Management and Your Church<\/strong>. It is a guide for local churches to effectively protect and preserve their essential and useful records long-term. The handout slides can be found\u00a0by <span>clicking the slide image below<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"widgetTitle\">Records Management in Local Churches<\/h3>\n<div class=\"responsiveVideo responsive-vimeo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Records.Management at the Local Church: A Presentation for New England Annual Conference United Methodist Churches\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/164663175?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1JoVYiBdNQu2s_1xFL1dWrriQVzJjwDZ4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sthlibrary\/files\/2019\/06\/image-of-slides-408x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7507 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sthlibrary\/files\/2019\/06\/image-of-slides-408x300.jpg 408w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sthlibrary\/files\/2019\/06\/image-of-slides.jpg 666w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" width=\"408\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your UMC church is closing, the Book of Discipline states that you must send your records to the Annual Conference Archives. Below is a video presentation on Records Management and Your Church. It is a guide for local churches to effectively protect and preserve their essential and useful records long-term. The handout slides can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8710,"featured_media":0,"parent":810,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sthlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sthlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sthlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sthlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sthlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7910"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sthlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10268,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sthlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7910\/revisions\/10268"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sthlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sthlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}