Attention Active Clergy!
This year, the bishop, cabinet and Board of Ministry will begin sharing correspondence with ordained clergy, associate members, deaconesses and home missioners using your assigned TWK email address. GNTV will send voting codes for clergy session and annual conference to this address as well. Please access and begin using this address now. (You are welcome to forward the address to a personal or church-related address if you prefer.)
One of the benefits of using this conference address is easier access to the email addresses of other pastors and paid conference staff. When you enter the first or last name in the “To” field, matching email addresses from the conference directory will appear. (Note: While retired ordained clergy can request a TWK address, many have let us know that they prefer not to do so, and they would not appear in this type of search.)
Below are instructions on how to login into your TWK email and forward emails. It is your responsibility to ensure you are utilizing the TWK email for future communication. Thank you!
RELATED: Who has a TWK email address?
How to login to your TWK email.
This is a Google email; therefore you can access this by going to Google.com and clicking on Gmail (top right of screen). Once you log in, please change your password to something you can easily remember.
If you do not have your login information, please reach out to Joanna Newberry to receive your email address (most are firstname.lastname@twkumc.org). You then can use Forgot Password to create a new password.
How to forward emails from GSuite to another email.
Click on the gear icon at the top right of the screen (if you hover over it, it says “settings”). Click “See all settings” > Click on the tab at the top that says “Forwarding and POP/MAP” > Click “Add a forwarding address.” Enter the email address you want your TWK emails to go to. Enable forwarding feature and click “Save Changes” at the bottom of the screen.
Feel free to contact Brandi Galbraith in the bishop’s office if you have any questions.
If you are a visual person, watch this VIDEO showing how to do the instructions above.
Please note: TWK Conference staff and clergy email will be discontinued once they no longer hold their conference position. Ordained clergy in good standing will keep this email for lifetime.
Who has a TWK Email Address?
The reason the conference shifted to assigning TWK email addresses to clergy is to ease keeping up with them in our itinerant system. That said, not all people who preach are provided with email addresses (see below).
Lay leaders (who frequently change) are not provided with conference addresses. PAID conference staff only have addresses while employed.
Below is how email addresses were distributed.
Ordained clergy (elders and deacons) and associate members should have access to conference email addresses. Both active and retired for the Ordained and associate groups.
Deaconesses and home missioners should also have access to conference email addresses.
Active local pastors can have access to conference emails—only when under appointment.
Laity will not have access to conference email addresses – except for paid staff during the period when they are employed by the conference.
Retired local pastors are lay members and should not have conference email addresses.
Laity in leadership do not have TWK email addresses.
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