New York, NY, November 10, 2009--More than $1.8 million in "mission opportunity grants" were approved or confirmed by directors of the United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries at their annual meeting in Stamford, Connecticut, in mid-October.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Education | Finance | Health | Focus on Congregational Development | Focus on Leadership Development | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Focus on Global Health | Congo DR | Japan | Middle East | Pakistan | Palestine |
Date posted: Nov 10, 2009

For more than 12 years, the Comprehensive Health Program of the Council of Evangelical Methodist Churches in Latin America and the Caribbean (CIEMAL) has been focusing on the church's response to health issues confronting Latin American and Caribbean communities.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: AIDS/HIV | Children | Education | Health | Women | Youth | Focus on Global Health | Caribbean Islands | Latin America |
Date posted: Nov 01, 2009

New York, NY, October 29, 2009--The fifth classroom at Wesley Primary School, Morogoro, Tanzania, has a foundation; now it needs only a floor, walls, windows, a ceiling, a roof, and equipment--in the next few months.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Children | Education | Poverty | Youth | Tanzania |
Date posted: Oct 29, 2009

Winchester, Virginia, October 25, 2009-- A "Service of Life and Resurrection for The Rev. Dr. James C. Logan," 77, was held in Winchester, Virginia, on Saturday, October 24. The long-time professor at Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC, died on October 17 at a medical center in Winchester.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Education | Focus on Leadership Development |
Date posted: Oct 26, 2009

Freetown, Sierra Leone, October 6, 2009--From a site overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and Freetown, Sierra Leone, a new series of United Methodist Academies for Evangelization and Church Growth in Africa got under way in early October. Twenty pastors and lay leaders from Sierra Leone and Liberia took part.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Education | Evangelism | Missionaries | United Methodist Church | Focus on Leadership Development | Africa | Liberia | Nigeria | Sierra Leone |
Date posted: Oct 07, 2009

Presentation by Alyce Wellons, LCSW, for Faith Partners Addictions Ministry, January 20, 2009, Heritage Hall
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Communities | Education | Family | Health | Welfare | Focus on Global Health |
Date posted: Oct 06, 2009

July 14, 2008 | DALLAS (UMNS) The United Methodist North Texas Annual (regional) Conference has donated $500,000 to build a new student health center at Africa University, with plans to contribute another $500,000 to the Zimbabwe school.
Source: United Methodist News Service
More about: Education | Global connections | United Methodist Church | Focus on Leadership Development | Zimbabwe |
Date posted: Aug 19, 2009

Tallinn, Estonia--The 15th anniversary of the largest United Methodist theological seminary in Europe was marked by the installation of a new president and an espiscopal address linking the role of theological schools to the practice of Christian mission.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
More about: Education | Evangelism | Evangelization | GBGM news | International affairs | Mission opportunities | United Methodist Church | Focus on Leadership Development | Estonia | Finland | Latvia | Lithuania | Moldova | Russia | Ukraine |
Date posted: Aug 17, 2009

Harrell, now a missionary, came to realize that many persons who want to see only beauty and eat only delicacies have "holes" within that go unfilled. She says, "During my years in Chile, I have witnessed a filling of the 'hole' among many members of Volunteers in Mission (VIM) teams or individuals who have ventured to live and work with those living in poverty."
Source: Mission Education
More about: Children | Communities | Education | Global connections | Mission opportunities | Missionaries | Poverty | United Methodist Church | Women | Youth | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Chile |
Date posted: Aug 14, 2009

Evanston, Illinois, August 1, 2009--A renewed emphasis on evangelism and new church development is taking place across the global United Methodist Church.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Conflict | Education | Evangelism | GBGM events | Global connections | Poverty | United Methodist Church | Women | Focus on Congregational Development | Cote d´Ivoire | Sierra Leone |
Date posted: Aug 01, 2009

Evanston, Illinois, July 30, 2009--The 2009 United Methodist School of Congregational Development got under way with a rousing appeal to the denomination to greatly increase the number of ordained clergy under the age of 35.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Education | GBGM events | Globalization | United Methodist Church | Youth | Focus on Congregational Development | Focus on Leadership Development |
Date posted: Jul 30, 2009

New York, NY, July 23, 2009--The Rev. Leslie Casupanan de la Cruz is both a shepherd and a farmer. She watches over the flock of the Camachile United Methodist Church in Luzon, the northern island of the Philippines, and helps villagers to cultivate a cash crop of mushrooms.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
More about: Children | Education | Global connections | Mission opportunities | Poverty | Rural | Women | Youth | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Philippines |
Date posted: Jul 23, 2009

New York, NY, June 25, 2009--The Rev. Dr. John W. Johannaber, who once headed the mission personnel unit of the United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries, died at his home in Oxford, Georgia, on June 9, 2009. He was 86 years old.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
More about: Education | Mission opportunities | Missionaries | Russia | Zimbabwe |
Date posted: Jun 25, 2009

MUTARE, Zimbabwe (UMNS)--When cholera struck Harare, Zimbabwe, during the past year, one of the worst-affected areas was the high-density suburb of Budiriro. Donwell Dube, 39, a graduate student at United Methodist-related Africa University, wanted to study how effective humanitarian aid was in the response to the cholera outbreak and chose Budiriro as a case study.
Source: United Methodist News Service
More about: Education | Health | Hunger | Poverty | Water | Welfare | Focus on Global Health | Zimbabwe |
Date posted: Jun 24, 2009

Colegio Rio Colorado, a mission-founded school near Bolivia, Yucumo, is celebrating its 25th anniversary. The institution, which focuses on agricultural, technical, and general studies for middle and high school students, was started as a partnership between the Evangelical Methodist Church in Bolivia and the General Board of Global Ministries. Four missionary families have served Rio Colorado. Below is an account of the anniversary from John and Suzanne Funk, the current missionaries. It is from "The Vine," the Funk family's newsletter.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Agriculture | Children | Education | Youth | Bolivia |
Date posted: Jun 18, 2009

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: Children | Economy | Ecumenical | Education | GBGM programs | Global connections | Globalization | International affairs | Internet | Newsletters | Research | Mission updates | Asia and the Pacific Islands | China | Hong Kong | Macau | Taiwan | Tibet |
Date posted: Jun 08, 2009