The Reverend Paul Shew from the West Ohio Annual Conference has been planting seeds of hope and promise for more than ten years in Japan. "I cannot imagine a place with more opportunity for student ministry than in Japan. We are in a unique position to point young people to a loving God through word and deed." Serving as a long-term mission volunteer through Global Ministries in Japan, Shew is a professor and university chaplain at Aoyama Gakuin, in Tokyo.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Nov 30, 2011

The assembly hall at the Asian Rural Institute in Tochigi, Japan, was filled with a spirit of celebration as graduating students anticipated bringing the fruits of their labor back to their home countries. In a commencement message to the 2011 class on November 19, 2011, Thomas Kemper, the head of Global Ministries, said:
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Nov 23, 2011

New York, NY, March 22, 2011--Despite extensive earthquake damage, a rural mission training center in Japan plans to welcome its new class as soon as possible, perhaps only a month late.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Mar 22, 2011

The situation in Japan at present is not conducive to relief volunteers coming in from other countries. Neither UMCOR nor the General Board of Global Ministries facilitates volunteers in disaster zones unless they are requested by local partners or government agencies. No such requests have been received to date from Japan.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Mar 15, 2011

The China News Summary is compiled monthly by the United Methodist China Program, Room 319, General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church, 475 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10115.
Source: Mission Contexts and Relationships
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Date posted: Aug 17, 2010

For untold years, women and children in Las Mesas, Nicaragua, walked two miles each way to get water. Grandmothers, mothers, and children made this trip several times a day, every day-- walking in flimsy flip-flops across sharp rocks and hard-baked soil. They were going to fetch 5- gallon buckets of water, each filled bucket weighing 40 pounds.
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: Aug 02, 2010

God's creation is in crisis. We, the Bishops of The United Methodist Church, cannot remain silent while God's people and God's planet suffer. This beautiful natural world is a loving gift from God, the Creator of all things seen and unseen. God has entrusted its care to all of us, but we have turned our backs on God and on our responsibilities.
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Date posted: Jul 21, 2010

It used to be that Native Americans cared for the earth like no others. Not only did we believe that we came from the earth, but we literally believed that the earth was our mother. Then, as time passed on and human technology abounded, we began to get careless and reckless in our way of life. Now our caring for the earth seems to have dropped by the wayside.
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: Jun 24, 2010

It was Tuesday morning. Since Palm Sunday I have been experiencing Holy Week in a different way from previous years. I have been preparing for my first trip to Haiti, which is also my first trip as Deputy General Secretary nominated to lead the Mission and Evangelism Program of Global Ministries. The trip to Haiti gave me a special insight into Jesus' walk to the cross. I saw His experience of death and resurrection re- lived by the people of Haiti. I felt I was about to meet Him again in the suffering of that people.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Apr 07, 2010

Today's gospel text is Jesus' lament over Jerusalem. "How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!" Lent is a time for all of us to examine our willingness to be disciples of Jesus Christ.
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Date posted: Feb 27, 2010

New York, NY, December 22, 2009--Was the Copenhagen summit on climate change a moral and diplomatic failure?
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Dec 22, 2009

United Methodists are "going green" at levels far beyond recycling church bulletins and eliminating Styrofoam cups at coffee hour.
Source: United Methodist News Service
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Date posted: Nov 25, 2009

New York, NY, October 6, 2009--Environmental protection, Methodism in Latin America, music in Jamaica, and justice issues along the US-Mexican border are among the week-long educational forums available to United Methodist older adults in 2010 and early 2011 through the Primetimers mission volunteer program.
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Date posted: Oct 06, 2009

I remember the painstaking way in which sinew and fat were removed from the "goat parts" and laid out in the solar ovens on a barren field in preparation for cooking.
Source: Mission Education
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Date posted: Jun 25, 2009

New York, NY, April 3, 2009--The head of the United Methodist Church's mission agency has thanked the Methodist Church of Great Britain for its role in keeping the concerns of poverty and environmental protection in the public eye as representatives of the world's 20 strongest economies met in London.
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Date posted: Apr 03, 2009

Turtle Rock Farm is a 1,600-acre farm in the mixed-grass prairie of north-central Oklahoma, where the same family has grown wheat and cattle for more than 100 years. It is also a retreat center where guests come to connect with their Creator, their own deepest selves, and all of creation.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Mar 23, 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
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Date posted: Mar 16, 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
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Date posted: Sep 02, 2008