Church Fires / Rebuilding Burned Churches

Resources

Current News About Church Arsons from Google News.

Mission Leader Sees Church Burnings as Attack on Religious Liberty, GBGM, February 8, 2005
The chief mission executive of The United Methodist Church sees a new outbreak of church burnings as an attack on religious liberty and a sign of the need for healing in the lives of the arsonists and society.

Burned Methodist Churches 1990-2000
Statistics from the National Church Arson Registry

Hate Crime Data Collection Project
United Methodists are making a difference by watching and listening for evidence of hate and violence-- year 2001 updated materials.

Rebuilding Burned Churches by Christie R. House
The complete article with pictures about the re-building of Gay's Hill Baptist Church.

The Church's Response to Hate-Group Violence by Joe Agne
This article, which was originally published in New World Outlook magazine, features 10 Essential Steps for dealing with hate groups before and after they come to town.

News Archives 1996-2001.

Original Black Church Fires Guide (1996) Mostly of historical interest, it includes:

Fact Sheet

A Letter from Dr. Randolph Nugent

What You and Your Local Church Can Do
(This section still has some good ideas you can use today!)

What the General Board of Global Ministries Is Doing

What the Women's Division/United Methodist Women Are Doing

How to Help

1. Participate in the Hate Crime Data Collection Project Monitoring hate and violence in the media. This document explains how you can help.

2. Help rebuild churches. South-Eastern Jurisdiction's United Methodist Volunteers in Mission (UMVIM) is working with GBGM. You need not be United Methodist to volunteer. Those seeking to assemble work teams should submit the Burned Churches Help Form.

3. Send financial assistance for the Black churches to the General Board of Global Ministries's Advance # 982700. Make your check payable to your local church or Advance GCFA.

Be sure to write the Advance code number and project name on the check. For local church and annual conference credit, give your gift to your local church treasurer, who will send it to your conference treasurer. You can also give by credit card.

Gifts are forwarded to Advance GCFA, P.O. Box 9068, GPO, New York, NY 10087-9068. (Please specify "Black Church Burnings" on your check.)

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