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	Elaine Barnes, Former Mission Executive, Dies The Rev. Elaine Barnes, a retired pastor in the Eastern Pennsylvania Annual Conference and a former staff member of the General Board of Global Ministries, died on October 14 in Philadelphia. She retired from the conference in 2003 after a long ministry beginning in 1968 with her first pastoral appointment. Source: GBGM Administration More about: GBGM news \| United Methodist Church \| United States \| World \| Date posted: Oct 21, 2009
	Stepping into the World at Easter In preparing for Easter this year, I recalled my first journey to the Land of the Bible as a young pastor. Especially vivid is my experience at the Garden Tomb outside the Old City. Source: GBGM Administration More about: Christian love \| Easter \| Global connections \| Jesus Christ \| Mission opportunities \| United Methodist Church \| Statements \| Israel \| Middle East \| Palestine \| Date posted: Apr 08, 2009
	Call Issued for More Covenant Relationships Between Congregations and Missionaries "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
	Hope, Watch: A Meditation For a New Year Hope linked with peace was a prominent theme in the 2008 Christmas celebration at the General Board of Global Ministries. Hope linked with peace continues in our mission vision for 2009. Source: GBGM Administration More about: Christian love \| GBGM programs \| United Methodist Church \| Methodism \| World \| Date posted: Dec 29, 2008
	The Christmas Hope for Peace Hope for peace--the projection and possibility of peace--is integral to the Christmas celebration, and to the Christian life and mission. Source: GBGM Administration More about: Christmas \| Global connections \| Globalization \| Hate \| Human rights \| International affairs \| Peace \| Prayers \| United Methodist Church \| War \| Date posted: Dec 11, 2008
	Financial Rescue Bill Restores Tax-Free IRA Rollover Charitable Gifts December 11, 2008--In recent weeks, news media have focused almost exclusively on the United States' financial crisis. Anxious taxpayers and investors awaited passage of federal legislation that would provide relief for failing banks and restore stability to financial markets. The Treasury Department has announced that our nation is officially in an economic recession. Source: GBGM Administration More about: Donations \| Economy \| UMCOR \| United Methodist Church \| United States \| Date posted: Dec 10, 2008
	Global Ministries Annual Meeting Highlights Four Areas of Focus Stanford, CT, Oct. 16, 2008—Four new United Methodist areas of program focus were in the spotlight throughout the annual meeting of the directors of the General Board of Global Ministries. Source: GBGM Administration More about: GBGM events \| GBGM news \| GBGM programs \| United Methodist Church \| North Eastern U.S. \| United States \| Date posted: Oct 16, 2008
	United Methodist Church Now Legal in Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan The United Methodist Church is now officially registered in the Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan. Registration with the government is required in that country, as in many others, before a religious group can actively operate. Source: GBGM Administration More about: Evangelism \| Evangelization \| GBGM programs \| Kyrgyzstan \| Date posted: Oct 15, 2008
	Mary Watson: A Woman Whose Joy is Making Disciples of Jesus Christ Mary Watson is a United Methodist pastor’s wife, a mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and businesswoman whose life and witness embodies the Great Commission. To make disciples of Jesus Christ is her joy; may I say, her passion. She and her husband, the Rev. Ralph Watson, have assisted financially and as volunteers to our Mission Initiatives in Russia and the Baltic States. Mary sponsored the first United Methodist Church built in modern times in Russia, in the village of Otradna. Source: GBGM Administration More about: Christian love \| Evangelization \| GBGM events \| GBGM news \| GBGM programs \| United Methodist Church \| Women \| Methodism \| World \| Date posted: Oct 14, 2008
	Churches in China Prepare To Welcome the World July 9, 2008--Christians in China are busily preparing to welcome the world as China hosts the 29th Summer Olympic Games, August 8-24, 2008. The China Christian Council and Beijing churches are making available nearly 100,000 free bilingual Gospels, New Testaments, and complete Bible editions. They will be distributed within the Olympic Village and in churches throughout Beijing and other Olympic venue cities. Source: GBGM Administration More about: Bible \| Christian love \| Communities \| Ecumenical \| GBGM programs \| International affairs \| Partners/partnerships \| Asia and the Pacific Islands \| China \| Date posted: Jul 10, 2008
	Episcopal Report and Address 2008 Annual Conferences of The United Methodist Church in Eurasia Last time I gave a report to the annual conferences was in 2005, my first year as bishop in Eurasia. In 2006, I spoke to the conferences through a series of Bible studies about the Kingdom of God. Last year I led you in three teaching sessions about Sharing. This year it is time again for a report, where I will look back to the development, comment on our present situation, and say some words about the direction for the future. Source: GBGM Administration More about: Bible \| Christian love \| Education \| International affairs \| Jesus Christ \| John Wesley \| United Methodist Church \| Partners/partnerships \| Methodism \| Russia \| Date posted: Jul 09, 2008
	Statement of Bishop Felton E. May on the ICE Arrests of Immigrants in West Virginia and Iowa I am deeply concerned about the humanitarian implications of the recent arrests by federal authorities of migrant workers at their places of work in both Iowa and West Virginia. Church sources say that not only did the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency seize workers at a chicken processing plant near Romney, West Virginia, but also went into schools and took away children. Source: GBGM Administration More about: Advocacy \| Christian love \| Communities \| Human rights \| Immigration \| United Methodist Church \| North Eastern U.S. \| United States \| Date posted: May 19, 2008
	Unjust Immigration Policies a Hometown Issue for Women United Methodist Women participants in the April 24 lunch-break rally for immigration rights during General Conference see the impact of the unjust immigration policies each day in their local communities. While the women's opinions on the solution to immigration-related problems differed, they were united on the need to protect the human rights and dignity of new immigrant communities in the United States. Source: GBGM Administration More about: Civil rights \| Human rights \| Immigration \| Women \| United States \| World \| Date posted: Apr 25, 2008
	Nothing But Nets Supporters Attempt to Raise $100,000 for Life-saving Anti-Malarial Bed Nets Nothing But Sweat event takes supporters on 238- mile bike ride through Texas Montgomery, TX. Supporters of the grassroots campaign to prevent malaria in Africa will attempt to raise $100,000 for anti-malarial bed nets in a 4-day bike ride through Texas. Source: GBGM Administration More about: GBGM programs \| Health \| United Methodist Church \| Africa \| United States \| Date posted: Apr 18, 2008
	Lasting Legacies: Memories of Tracey Jones on His 90th Birthday General Secretary of the Board of Global Ministries Today, as I watch Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on television competing for the Democratic nomination, I cannot help but think about the many men and women, including my father Tracey K. Jones Jr., who helped create the world in which this new reality is possible. Source: GBGM Administration More about: Christian love \| Family \| GBGM news \| Missionaries \| United Methodist Church \| Methodism \| North Eastern U.S. \| United States \| Date posted: Apr 11, 2008
	Easter Greetings 2008 "Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples: 'I have seen the Lord'." (John 20:18) Source: GBGM Administration More about: Easter \| GBGM news \| Jesus Christ \| United Methodist Church \| World \| Date posted: Mar 20, 2008
	Re-clothed at Easter: Recollection and Promise Easter when I was a child growing up in a series of North Alabama parsonages was a thoroughly religious celebration centered in the church. One of few concessions to cultural practice was permission to dye, hide, and hunt eggs. My sister and I could display the eggs in small baskets held over from year to year but were expected to eat them, or return them for kitchen use, before they spoiled. We were never heard anything at home about the Easter Bunny and we received no stuffed Easter animals, colored chicks, or chocolate rabbits. Source: GBGM Administration More about: Easter \| Family \| Jesus Christ \| World \| Date posted: Mar 19, 2008
	Commentary on the US Religious Landscape Survey: John 3:16 vs. the American "Religious Marketplace" What we have is a growing religious marketplace, a supermarket of faith options and products. Many Americans seem to believe that they are each personally responsible for establishing Divine Truth based on personal needs and inclinations at any particular moment. It is much like the television ad that asserts that if one dislikes a car or a spouse “get a new one.” Faith traditions are coming to look suspiciously like replaceable brands. Source: GBGM Administration More about: Christian love \| United Methodist Church \| United States \| Date posted: Feb 28, 2008
	United Methodists Seek Resources for Malaria Campaign The United Methodist Church has been invited to apply for up to $5 million in support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Nations Foundation to underwrite a fund-raising, education and outreach campaign to strengthen its global health ministries, especially work related to malaria and other diseases of poverty in Africa. Source: GBGM Administration More about: Donations \| GBGM news \| Health \| International affairs \| Poverty \| United Methodist Church \| Africa \| Date posted: Feb 11, 2008
	Welcoming the Sick and the Stranger: A United Methodist Free Clinic Opens in New Orleans Connie Thomas, pastor of Mt. Zion United Methodist Church in New Orleans, stood with tears in her eyes as nurses and doctors treated patients during the opening of a free clinic housed in Mt. Zion’s Family Life Center in late November. Source: GBGM Administration More about: Communities \| GBGM programs \| Health \| United Methodist Church \| Volunteers \| United States \| Date posted: Dec 04, 2007
	Global Ministries' Director Shares the Stewardship Message Congress has revised the tax law to permit donors over age 70 1/2 to make charitable gifts through their IRAs without suffering a tax penalty. Your gift - ranging from as little as $10 to the legal maximum of $100,000 - can help support your favorite charities. Source: GBGM Administration More about: Donations \| Finance \| GBGM news \| United States \| Date posted: Nov 27, 2007
	Thanksgiving 2007 A message of hope and praise from The General Board of Global Ministries. Source: GBGM Administration More about: Prayers \| World \| Date posted: Nov 16, 2007
	United Methodists Assist in Dedication of New Pipe Organ in Interchurch Center Chapel "O God ... we praise you for the music which scales the heights and plumbs the depths," declared Lois M. Dauway, who is chair of the center's ecumenical affairs committee. She is also associate to the deputy general secretary of the Women's Division, a unit of the General Board of Global Ministries, which has offices in the ecumenical tower at 475 Riverside Drive. Source: GBGM Administration More about: Ecumenical \| GBGM news \| Music \| United Methodist Church \| United States \| Date posted: Oct 29, 2007
	Torture is Growing Concern Among Churches "Torture is wrong," read the sign that hung from the Rev. Steven Clunn's window at First United Methodist Church in Schenectady, NY. Source: GBGM Administration More about: Civil rights \| Conflict \| Ethics \| Human rights \| International affairs \| United Methodist Church \| Violence \| United States \| Date posted: Oct 25, 2007
	A Mission Letter from Bishop Felton May Greetings in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ. On October 9, I agreed to serve as interim general secretary of the agency while a search for a new chief executive takes place. This is both a challenge and an honor for me. My association with the board covers many decades and multiple kinds of mission. Especially close to my heart are ministries to families and children, and in the health field, including gospel work dealing with HIV/AIDS and substance abuse. Source: GBGM Administration More about: GBGM news \| GBGM programs \| United Methodist Church \| Mission updates \| Letters \| Statements \| World \| Date posted: Oct 25, 2007
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