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	Giving Up Enemies for Lent When we pray for those who wrong us, we transform ourselves and become clearer channels for God's power, through which we can promote peace with justice in the world. Source: GBGM Mission News More about: Christian love \| Conflict \| Easter \| Ethics \| Hate \| Jesus Christ \| Lent \| Peace \| Violence \| Focus on Congregational Development \| Date posted: Apr 14, 2011
	The Need for Community: Lent 2011 From 2002 to 2007, I worked as a counselor with a program at East Tennessee State University called Upward Bound. Upward Bound is a federally-funded college-prep program for high school students from lower-income families and first-generation college students. Source: GBGM Mission News More about: Economy \| Education \| Family \| Justice \| Lent \| Poverty \| United Methodist Church \| Welfare \| Youth \| Focus on Ministry with the Poor \| United States \| Date posted: Apr 06, 2011
	Giving Christ to Everyone: Lent 2011 It took my daughter, who’s only 3, to help me understand a connection between God’s promise given in both the Old and New Testaments. Source: GBGM Mission News More about: Christian love \| Lent \| Focus on Congregational Development \| Date posted: Apr 04, 2011
	Reconciling Ministries Lenten Devotional 2011 I come from a large, highly connectional Pennsylvania Dutch family. I can't remember a vacation that didn't include five more people than the room could hold. My understanding of immediate family extended beyond my brother, mom, and dad to include aunts, cousins, great aunts, second and third cousins, and family friends. Source: GBGM Mission News More about: AIDS/HIV \| Civil rights \| Hate \| Human rights \| Justice \| Lent \| United Methodist Church \| Date posted: Mar 18, 2011
	Lent as a Journey Jesus is almost always on the road in the New Testament Gospels, first traveling around Galilee, preaching, healing, and teaching his disciples the lessons of faith; then in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, he makes a prolonged journey to Jerusalem. Source: GBGM Mission News More about: Bible \| Christian love \| Ethics \| Jesus Christ \| Lent \| Prayers \| Focus on Congregational Development \| Date posted: Mar 09, 2011
	Lenten Prayer Calendar from Latin American Biblical University San Jose, Costa Rica, March 7, 2011--An annual Lenten Prayer Calendar invites prayers for students at the Universidad Biblica Latinamerica (Latin American Biblical University) in San Jose, Costa Rica. Source: GBGM Mission News More about: Education \| Global connections \| Lent \| Loans \| Prayers \| Youth \| Focus on Leadership Development \| Caribbean Islands \| Central America \| Costa Rica \| Latin America \| South America \| Date posted: Mar 07, 2011
	Hope Is Here! On-Line Lenten Devotional for Families and Friends in Recovery This Lent, SPSARV, the Special Program on Substance Abuse and Related Violence, offers a 2011 devotional, Hope for the Transformation from Addiction to Abundance for the friends, families, and beloved children of God who are challenged by the disease of alcoholism and addiction. Source: GBGM Mission News More about: Advocacy \| Christian love \| Education \| Family \| Health \| Lent \| Mission opportunities \| Prayers \| Welfare \| Focus on Global Health \| Date posted: Feb 25, 2011
	Following from Afar Good Friday 2010 This past summer my wife, Ollie, and I, were blessed to have all five of our grandchildren with us here in Kansas. They range from ages four through twelve--three girls and two boys; what energetic ages! One Saturday morning we planned for a fun day at the new City Water Park. Source: GBGM Mission News More about: Bible \| GBGM news \| Lent \| United Methodist Church \| United States \| Date posted: Mar 31, 2010
	Plymouth First United Methodist Youth Fast for Change 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
	Maundy Thursday in Lent: Sacred Moments with God Thousands of years ago, Jesus earnestly desired to celebrate the Passover with his closest friends. During that last supper, he created the first Holy Communion, a sacrament of remembrance. Today, we remember God's love for us before we could love ourselves. We remember the struggle, the pain, the suffering of Christ before our captive souls were set free. We remember the peace of the Spirit entering our hearts--we really are children of God! Source: GBGM Mission News More about: Lent \| Missionaries \| United States \| Date posted: Mar 26, 2010
	Alive Forevermore: Ash Wednesday, February 17, 2010 "Alive, alive, alive forevermore! My Jesus is alive, alive forevermore." Each night I sit in my living room and listen to my 2 ½-year-old nephew sing this song at the top of his lungs. He has lived with me for 15 months now and has taught me so much about what it means to have childlike faith. Source: GBGM Mission News More about: Children \| Christian love \| Family \| Lent \| Missionaries \| Music \| Prayers \| Women \| Focus on Ministry with the Poor \| Date posted: Feb 10, 2010
	God's Temples: Third Sunday in Lent, Sunday, March 15, 2009 When Jesus went to Jerusalem to observe Passover, he found the temple being used as a place for monetary gain. Animals were being sold for sacrifice, and moneychangers were sitting at tables. Jesus drove out the animals and turned over the moneychangers' tables. Source: Mission Personnel More about: Bible \| Easter \| Jesus Christ \| Lent \| Prayers \| Africa \| Liberia \| Date posted: Mar 15, 2009
	A Deaconess Reflects on Lent and Childhood in the Philippines: Fifth Sunday in Lent, March 29, 2009 Growing up in a rural town in the Philippines, Lent had a meaningful impact on me. When the Lenten season arrived, the whole town, made up of Roman Catholics and Protestants, was in a reflective mood. In my young mind, there seemed to be a pall of gloom in our town during Lent. Source: Mission Personnel More about: Christian love \| Easter \| Lent \| Philippines \| United States \| Western U.S. \| Date posted: Mar 10, 2009
	The Wounded Healer: Good Friday: April 10, 2009 The Lenten season's remembrance of the crucifixion and resurrection are the essence of the Christian faith. For me, this time also represents the culmination of a life fulfilled in mission, reaching out to all humanity with a love beyond ourselves, and working for justice. The ministry of Jesus Christ was and is an incarnational ministry--a mission where content meets context. We have a God who became human and experienced the good and bad of humanity; the joys and temptations of the world; compassion; agony; and death. Source: Mission Personnel More about: Christian love \| Easter \| Jesus Christ \| Lent \| Missionaries \| Poverty \| North Eastern U.S. \| United States \| Date posted: Mar 10, 2009
	He Never Gives Up: Passion/Palm Sunday, April 5, 2009 A few weeks ago during lunchtime, my husband and I heard what sounded like a marching band. We literally jumped to our feet and ran to the compound fence, and there indeed was a band of twelve men and one woman playing trumpets, saxophones, tubas, and drums as they walked down the dusty dirt road. Behind them were two groups of traditionally dressed dancers moving to the beat of the music. In seven years of serving at Maua Methodist Hospital in Maua, Kenya, we had never seen or heard a band. Source: Mission Personnel More about: AIDS/HIV \| Christian love \| Easter \| GBGM programs \| Jesus Christ \| Lent \| Music \| Africa \| Kenya \| Date posted: Mar 10, 2009
	The Stone Moves Another Inch: Good Friday, April 10, 2009 I work in a United Methodist Mission Institute that houses a food pantry. One day in the lobby of our food pantry, I was handing out newsletters to people after they got their bag of groceries. I watched the clients talking with each other as they gathered up their belongings. One couple said, "We're living out of our car right now." Source: Mission Personnel More about: Advocacy \| Easter \| Hunger \| Lent \| Missionaries \| Poverty \| United States \| Western U.S. \| Date posted: Mar 10, 2009
	Taking Up the Cross: Holy Thursday: April 9, 2009 Peter, like so many of us, was trying to remain cautiously faithful. He wanted to protect Christ, he did not want him to be humiliated and killed. Often we want to stop moving forward and come up with a safe plan, risk the least, and be happy with the results. Source: GBGM Mission News More about: Bible \| Christian love \| Easter \| Jesus Christ \| Lent \| United Methodist Church \| World \| Date posted: Mar 10, 2009
	Debby and the Wrestler: Holy Thursday: April 9, 2009 I recently saw the new movie, "The Wrestler." In the movie, Mickey Rourke stars as Randy "The Ram" Robinson, a professional wrestler who was very successful and popular in the 1980s but whose glory days are now long gone. Randy seems to be unable to imagine a different kind of life for himself, and so he continues to wrestle, trying to live the kind of life he lived as a celebrity. Source: Mission Personnel More about: Christian love \| Easter \| Lent \| North Central U.S. \| United States \| Date posted: Mar 10, 2009
	Where Are My Eyes? Fourth Sunday in Lent, March 22, 2009 During their time wandering in the wilderness, the people of Israel became dissatisfied with God and Moses (Numbers 21:4-9). Though they had been rescued from slavery, were being fed manna and protected, it was still not enough for them. Source: Mission Personnel More about: Bible \| Easter \| GBGM programs \| Lent \| Missionaries \| South Eastern U.S. \| United States \| Date posted: Mar 10, 2009
	Love, Sacrifice, and Forgiveness: Easter, April 12, 2009 Away from my home country, I keep tuned to Pakistan news, since my parents, siblings and their children, many relatives, and friends live there. From childhood I observed the tensions between India and Pakistan, which were once a united nation where overall people lived peacefully and respectfully. Source: Mission Personnel More about: Bible \| Christian love \| Easter \| International affairs \| Jesus Christ \| Lent \| Pakistan \| World \| Date posted: Mar 10, 2009
	'We Know that God Still Goes that Road with Us' Second Sunday of Lent, March 8, 2009 The encounter with Christ radically changes someone's life. Nevertheless, there are certain conditions to following Jesus. Peter didn't understand Jesus' plan when He spoke to him about suffering on the cross. Peter had accepted Jesus as the Messiah, but he didn't accept him as a suffering Messiah. As a result of that, Jesus described his path to the cross and the meaning of it for the life of his disciples. Source: Mission Personnel More about: Bible \| Christian love \| Easter \| Jesus Christ \| Lent \| Prayers \| South America \| Uruguay \| Date posted: Mar 08, 2009
	God-Given Identity First Sunday of Lent, March 1, 2009 In Mark's account of Jesus' baptism, Jesus "saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit descending like a dove on him. And a voice came from heaven, 'You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.'" God poured God's self through the torn heavens--identifying Jesus as God's own. Source: Mission Personnel More about: Bible \| Christian love \| Easter \| Jesus Christ \| Lent \| Missionaries \| Prayers \| Argentina \| United States \| Western U.S. \| World \| Date posted: Mar 01, 2009
	Fasting as an Act of Hope Ash Wednesday, February 25, 2009 Ash Wednesday, Lent, and fasting often conjure up ideas of sorrow, rebellion, and repentance. But Jesus opens a new angle on fasting in Matthew, reminding us that pursuing God--and not merely the trappings of worship--remains an ever- changing, God-centered process. As Jesus addresses the crowd, he encourages holiness and challenges hubris, reminding them that they live in community and belong to a great story. Source: Mission Personnel More about: Bible \| Christian love \| Easter \| Lent \| Missionaries \| Latvia \| Date posted: Feb 23, 2009
	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
	Singing the Church Together: Black History Month As you consider ways to celebrate Black History Month in your worship services, explore the rich diversity of hymnody and song that has been born out of the African American experience. Consider the themes and scriptures that will be used during the month of February. Explore the many African American resources in your own denominational songbooks and hymnals that will enhance these themes and scriptures. Source: Mission Education More about: Civil rights \| Global connections \| Globalization \| Lent \| Martin Luther King Day \| Music \| United States \| Date posted: Jan 30, 2009
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