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arrow icon. United Methodist Leader Calls for Confident and Bold Mission 
Thomas Kemper, Global Ministries general secretary, at Spring 2011 Board of Directors meeting. In the background: Bishop John Innis of Liberia, vice-president of Global Ministries; and Women’s Division president Inelda González.

Stamford, Connecticut, April 12, 2011--A call for United Methodist confidence and boldness in mission was issued on April 12 in the semi-annual report of the denominations' chief mission executive.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Christian love | Evangelism | GBGM events | GBGM news | GBGM programs | General Conference | Global connections | International affairs | Jesus Christ | John Wesley | Mission opportunities | Missionaries | Natural disasters | Peace | Resolutions of the UMC | UMCOR | United Methodist Church | Advance | Partners/partnerships | Methodism | Statements | Focus on Congregational Development | Focus on Ministry with the Poor |
Date posted: Apr 12, 2011

arrow icon. Designated Relief Giving Soars in 2010: Missionary Support Holds Even
2009-2012 Giving Resource Guide of The Advance, Strength In Numbers

New York, NY, March 1, 2011--Total United Methodist designated mission giving soared in 2010 as a result of response to the earthquake in Haiti. Designated gifts for missionary support held steady from 2009 to 2010.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Economy | Finance | Grants | Loans | United Methodist Church | Advance | Focus on Ministry with the Poor |
Date posted: Mar 01, 2011

arrow icon. Former Head of Mission Giving Program Dies at 68 
Rev. William T. Carter

Little Rock, Arkansas, November 23, 2010--The Rev. William T. Carter, who led the designated mission-giving program of The United Methodist Church for 27 years, died in Little Rock, Arkansas on November 22. He was 68 years of age and had retired in 2006 after having headed the Advance for Christ and His Church since 1979.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Donations | Advance | Methodism | Focus on Ministry with the Poor |
Date posted: Nov 23, 2010

arrow icon. 10-Fold Schedule of Live Events 
10-Fold Schedule of Live Events
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: GBGM events | Mission opportunities | Missionaries | Youth | Advance | Focus on Leadership Development | Africa | Asia and the Pacific Islands |
Date posted: Oct 05, 2010
arrow icon. Advancing Hope to Combine with Other Mission Newsletters 
ConnectNMission, Global Ministries' new eNewsletter

Since its inception in 2008, Advancing Hope has fulfilled the goal of providing engaging stories of mission and helpful information on resources and opportunities that celebrate success and meet the challenges of people in need. Subscription to this monthly e-newsletter has climbed steadily, doubling within the past nine months.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Internet | Newsletters | Advance | Focus on Ministry with the Poor |
Date posted: Sep 30, 2010

arrow icon. Excitement Builds as 10-Fold Nears 
Excitement continues to build as the 10-Fold campaign draws closer. 10-Fold, a 10-day interactive campaign to promote increased awareness, knowledge, and advocacy of mission, begins October 10. In addition to the educational element of 10-Fold, project sponsors have pledged to give $1 for each person who signs up as an advocate of a project during the campaign, up to a maximum of $10,000.
Source: Advance
More about: GBGM events | United Methodist Church | Advance | Focus on Congregational Development | Focus on Leadership Development | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Focus on Global Health | United States |
Date posted: Sep 02, 2010
arrow icon. Plymouth First United Methodist Youth Fast for Change 
Youth form a circle of hands to create a map with the lines on their hands demonstrating that they can B1.

March 26, 2010, Plymouth, Michigan--Instead of breaking yolks, they decided to break yokes. Using materials provided by The Advance's B1 campaign, the youth of First United Methodist Church in Plymouth, Michigan, raised over $5,400 to give to the Kiev Street Children Ministry, Advance #14054A and to the Haiti Emergency Fund, Advance # 418325 in response to the January earthquake.
Source: Advance
More about: Hunger | Lent | Mission opportunities | Poverty | Youth | Advance | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Ukraine | United States |
Date posted: Mar 26, 2010

arrow icon. Advancing Hope: February 2010 
In this issue: Missionary Helps Life Rise from the Ashes; Did You Know?; Advocate of the Month: Youth of First UMC in Grand Prairie, Texas ; Featured Resource: B1 Campaign.
Source: Advance
More about: AIDS/HIV | Emergencies | Missionaries | United Methodist Church | Advance | Mission studies | Mission updates | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Focus on Global Health | Caribbean Islands | Latin America | Peru |
Date posted: Feb 16, 2010
arrow icon. Super Bowl Excellent Occasion to Help the Hungry 

In terms of single-event viewership, it's the biggest sporting event of the year in the US. It's so big, the US government refers to it as an unofficial American holiday. It generates billions of dollars in economic activity. It's a 60-minute game that becomes a several-hours-long telecast. It's the Super Bowl.
Source: Advance
More about: Donations | Economy | Emergencies | Health | Hunger | Poverty | Advance | Focus on Ministry with the Poor |
Date posted: Feb 01, 2010

arrow icon. Seminary Reaches Out to Heal Others 
The campus of the Gbarnga School of Theology in Liberia. Despite devastation from civil war on the campus of the Gbarnga School of Theology in Monrovia, Liberia, the faculty immediately added counseling to its class offerings after peace was restored. "This is what sacred theology is all about. We are equipping church workers with clinical pastoral education to let them be able to assist their traumatized members...."
Source: None
More about: Christian love | Conflict | Education | GBGM programs | Jesus Christ | John Wesley | United Methodist Church | War | Advance | Methodism | Focus on Leadership Development | Liberia |
Date posted: Dec 09, 2009
arrow icon. Fast Today and Change Tomorrow 
B1 participants at a Salvation Army facility pray with a man. In 2007, Bishop Sudarshana Devadhar of the Greater New Jersey Annual Conference contacted The Advance office looking for a new way to connect the youth of Greater New Jersey Annual Conference to The Advance, the denomination's giving channel dedicated to mission. Two years later, the response to the bishop's request can be symbolized by a letter and number, "B1."
Source: New World Outlook
More about: Advocacy | Christian love | GBGM programs | Health | Hunger | United Methodist Church | Youth | Advance | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Focus on Global Health | North Eastern U.S. | United States | World |
Date posted: Jul 01, 2009
arrow icon. Pakistani Christians Appeal for Prayer for City Under Siege 

Peshawar, Pakistan, May 29, 2009--Christian leaders in the province of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan are appealing to fellow believers worldwide to join them in prayer for the "innocent" and "vulnerable" people victimized by conflicts in their region and across the country.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
More about: Emergencies | Global connections | Hate | Prayers | UMCOR | Violence | Advance | Pakistan |
Date posted: May 29, 2009

arrow icon. Call Issued for More Covenant Relationships
Between Congregations and Missionaries  
Emmanuel Barte in Cambodia working with the Faith Engine Ministry, an Advance project that provides vocational skills for the youth/young adults that can enable them to become self-reliant and self-sustainable and also help their families. "Missionaries feel they are in mission with local churches rather than for churches," says the Rev. Lynn DeMoss of the West Michigan Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church.
Source: GBGM Administration
More about: Communities | Missionaries | United Methodist Church | Advance | United States |
Date posted: Feb 27, 2009
arrow icon. Youth Fast Today to Change Tomorrow 
New York, NY, February 4--A campaign to link United Methodist youth to the realities of local and global poverty is being expanded into pilot areas across the United States after a successful launch in New Jersey.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
More about: Children | Easter | GBGM events | Global connections | Health | Hunger | Justice | Lent | Poverty | United Methodist Church | Volunteers | Youth | Advance | North Eastern U.S. |
Date posted: Feb 06, 2009
arrow icon. Hallelujah Moment from Liberia: "The First to Suffer Were the Children" 
Albert Willicor

January 23, 2009--The first of ten children born to rubber plantation workers, I was brought up in very modest circumstances.
Source: Mission Education
More about: Children | Conflict | Education | Global connections | Globalization | Health | Hunger | Newsletters | Peace | Poverty | Violence | War | Water | Youth | Advance | Liberia |
Date posted: Jan 22, 2009

arrow icon. The Advance Issues New Resource Guide for Designated Mission Giving 

New York, NY, January 16, 2009--Almost a thousand projects and programs in 100 countries are included in the new Giving Resource Guide from The Advance, the United Methodist designated mission giving channel.
Source: Advance
More about: GBGM programs | Global connections | International affairs | United Methodist Church | Advance |
Date posted: Jan 15, 2009

arrow icon. Ministries in Panama: Bridges Being Built 
Walter Reitz Child Development Center, Panama Almost everyone asks when the bridge will be built. Washed out years ago in a torrent of rain, not uncommon in the Caribbean, the indigenous people must bring their wares to market by pulling themselves by rope in a basket, one or two at a time across the Rio San Juan.
Source: Advance
More about: Education | Mission opportunities | Missionaries | Advance | Mission studies | Mission updates | Panama |
Date posted: Jan 14, 2009
arrow icon. Focus on Global Ministries:  An Interview with The Rev. Edward W. Paup
Residents of the Orphan Light orphanage, a Methodist mission project in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The Rev. Edward W. Paup announced to the directors of Global Ministries that he would realign the board's staff and organize the agency's work around the Four Areas of Focus adopted by the delegates of the 2008 General Conference: Developing principled Christian leaders for the church and the world; Creating new places for new people and renewing existing congregations; Engaging in ministry with the poor; and Stamping out the killer diseases of poverty by improving health globally.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: Advocacy | Communities | Education | Evangelization | GBGM news | General Conference | Missionaries | Poverty | UMCOR | United Methodist Church | Advance | World |
Date posted: Jan 05, 2009
arrow icon. China News Summary: December 2008 

The China News Summary is compiled monthly by the United Methodist China Program, Room 1335, General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church, 475 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10115
Source: Mission Contexts and Relationships
More about: Agriculture | Conflict | Economy | Ecumenical | GBGM programs | Global connections | Globalization | International affairs | Natural disasters | Newsletters | Research | Advance | Partners/partnerships | Mission updates | China | Hong Kong | Macau | Taiwan | Tibet | Asia and the Pacific Islands |
Date posted: Dec 09, 2008

arrow icon. Hallelujah Moment from USA:  "Happy Birthday, Caleb!"
Caleb (on left with arm in cast) and his AIDS Walk Team.

November 28, 2008--Caleb didn't ask for a new bicycle or even a trip to the local Chuck E. Cheese to celebrate his tenth birthday. No, Caleb decided to organize a team for the AIDS Walk in Albany, New York.
Source: Mission Education
More about: AIDS/HIV | Children | Christian love | Communities | GBGM programs | Health | UMCOR | United Methodist Church | Welfare | Advance | United States |
Date posted: Nov 26, 2008

arrow icon. United Methodist Missionary Receives Award from China's Sichuan Province 
Connie Wieck teaches English at the Luzhou Vocational and Technical College. November 25, 2008--A Global Ministries missionary serving in China received the Sichuan Province's highest honor for foreign experts.
Source: Advance
More about: Education | Global connections | International affairs | Youth | Advance | China |
Date posted: Nov 26, 2008
arrow icon. Methodist Churches Thrive in Indonesia Despite Uncertainties 
Undu-undu: A tithe of the rice harvests is used for Christmas, to help fund church building, and as a gift to the pastor's family. Stories of hope and courage abound among the congregations of the autonomous Methodist Church of Indonesia, a mission partner of The United Methodist Church. Here are some recent accounts of the power of grace and faith.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Children | Education | GBGM news | Global connections | International affairs | United Methodist Church | Volunteers | Youth | Advance | Methodism | Indonesia |
Date posted: Oct 28, 2008
arrow icon. The Advance Launches New E-Newsletter on Designated Mission Giving 
The Advance--has a new monthly electronic and online newsletter to encourage United Methodist designated mission giving and to report to church members on projects they may already be supporting.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
More about: Newsletters | Advance | World |
Date posted: Oct 14, 2008
arrow icon. Announcement: New E-Newsletter from The Advance 
In a few days, The Advance is launching a free monthly email newsletter. Advancing Hope will give you the updates on United Methodist missionaries and projects that can be supported through The Advance.
Source: Advance
More about: Advocacy | Finance | GBGM programs | Health | Missionaries | Newsletters | United Methodist Church | Volunteers | Women | Youth | Advance | Mission updates |
Date posted: Oct 07, 2008
arrow icon. Church Boarding School for Andean Youth to Reopen in Chile after Two-Year Hiatus 
Church Boarding School for Andean Youth to Reopen in Chile after Two-Year Hiatus. Kusayapu Graduates 2006 Iquique, Chile, September 18, 2008--The board of directors of Methodist Extension to Andean Youth (EMANA) in Chile is reopening Instituto Kusayapu, a boarding school in the Pueblo of Pachica. The institution was closed for two years while options for its future were considered.
Source: Mission Stories
More about: Advance | Chile |
Date posted: Sep 22, 2008
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