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Women Who Shaped The United Methodist Church | UMC.org

“In our own Methodist story here in Colorado, we carry the weight of hardened soil. Many of you know the history of the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864, where over 200 Cheyenne and Arapaho people—mostly women and children—were slaughtered by Colorado militia. The general who gave the order was an ordained Methodist preacher by the name of John Chivington. The governor at the time, John Evans, was very active in his Methodist church. That part of our history is the trampled ground of distrust, pain,