What do you know about the Northern Illinois Conference (N.I.C.) of The United Methodist Church? Our church is part of the N.I.C., but what else do you know about our district and our conference? Christ United Methodist Church is one of 65 churches in the Elgin District of the Northern Illinois Conference with churches located from Addison to Zion in both urban and rural communities. Our Conference encompasses 6 districts, which altogether have a total of 374 churches. The N.I.C. United Methodist Reporter is a bi-monthly publication which helps keep us all “connected”. If you’d like to know what’s happening in our “connection” of the Northern Illinois Conference, clck here for the online link to the December 2014/January 2015 issue