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GC2016 Video Wrap: May 18

General Conference is a huge event, with thousands of attendees and complicated conversations and demonstrations. United Methodist communicators Skyler Nimmons of the Indiana Conference and the Rev. Dr. Sheron Patterson of the North Texas Conference have an overview of what happened on May 18 at the denomination's gathering in Portland, Oregon. 

Read full transcript. 

Follow all the coverage of General Conference. Join the conversation. And watch for more video wrap-ups each day until General Conference 2016 concludes on May 20.

This video was produced by Skyler Nimmons of the Indiana Conference in partnership with United Methodist Communications in Nashville, TN. Media contact is Fran Walsh.

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