As I reflect on my years serving as a Rural Worker, Town and Country Worker, and most recently Church and Community Worker, I think of a line from a hymn that has meaning to me, "The Summons."
Source: Mission Education
More about: Missionaries | Focus on Leadership Development | United States |
Date posted: Oct 13, 2010

I don't know how this happened. I only know that when I prayed with a young girl in Cambodia, the prayer was answered.
Source: Mission Education
More about: Children | Disabilities | Health | Poverty | Focus on Global Health | Cambodia |
Date posted: May 04, 2010

The first words the Hongtuling Church students, almost all between 50 and 80 years of age, learn to write are: “God loves me. God loves you. God loves him and her.”
Source: Mission Education
More about: Education | Older adults | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | China |
Date posted: Mar 03, 2010

“The Bee Hive Project” will purchase beehives, train local people as beekeepers, and sell honey so that needy families in Wadi Foquin will have incomes.
Source: Mission Education
More about: Agriculture | Children | Global connections | Peace | Poverty | Women | Youth | Partners/partnerships | Focus on Congregational Development | Israel | Palestine |
Date posted: Sep 18, 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

The cry of a baby was heard in the village of Ilha Inamisengo, Mozambique. A new life was born. The joy of childbirth, however, soon gave way to heartbreak. Both mother and baby were very sick and the baby was not expected to survive.
Source: Mission Education
More about: Children | Economy | Family | Health | Hunger | Poverty | Women | Focus on Global Health | Mozambique |
Date posted: Jul 09, 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
More about: Agriculture | Communities | Environment | Hunger | Poverty | Rural | United Methodist Church | Women | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Haiti |
Date posted: Jun 25, 2009

The two little girls were entertaining themselves in the church during a teacher- training seminar. During this brief interlude, they provided a poignant lesson that summed up for me what it means to be the global church.
Source: Mission Education
More about: Children | Donations | Focus on Congregational Development | El Salvador |
Date posted: May 13, 2009

"To learn to embroider was very important in my life," says Meire. "Now that I have a new job, I understand that I got this job because of what I have learned in the embroidery workshops."
Source: Mission Education
More about: Economy | Global connections | Poverty | Race | Women | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Brazil |
Date posted: May 01, 2009

"Would you be able to help us with some gas?" asked a young Choctaw woman. "My mother has terminal cancer and we need gasoline so we can make several medical appointments over the next week." She and her family had arrived for her mother's appointment at Choctaw Health Services (next door to our complex) and decided to seek help.
Source: Mission Education
More about: Children | Christian love | Communities | Economy | Family | Health | Hunger | Justice | Race | Rural | Welfare | Women | Youth | South Eastern U.S. |
Date posted: Apr 14, 2009

In the space of 10 minutes, a torrent of water and ice rushed through the grounds of Wesley Acres (United Methodist) Camp near Valley City, North Dakota, destroying the canoe shed and overflowing much of the property.
Source: Mission Education
More about: Communities | Natural disasters | Volunteers | United States |
Date posted: Apr 03, 2009

February 20, 2009--As the faltering economy grips even the remotest parts of the earth, Nepal does not emerge unscathed. Politically, socially and economically, life is unstable. Even the ability to have a work day often revolves around the presence or absence of electricity. Crime has risen, the inflation rate is soaring, and it seems there is no solution in sight.
Source: Mission Education
More about: Communities | Economy | Evangelization | Global connections | Globalization | International affairs | Prayers | United Methodist Church | Nepal |
Date posted: Feb 20, 2009

February 6, 2009--Kinew's little fingers worked ambitiously to unravel the knot securing the brightly wrapped shoebox. At last, the knot was free and Kinew, filled with anticipation, opened up the box. Just then a huge smile spread across her face as she lifted out a colorful, cuddly pair of slipper socks.
Source: Mission Education
More about: Children | Christmas | Communities | Donations | Family | Race | Welfare | Youth | United States |
Date posted: Feb 05, 2009

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

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

The United Methodist Church celebrates Human Relations Day on the Sunday before the observance of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday.
Source: Mission Education
More about: Communities | Evangelization | Global connections | Globalization | Martin Luther King Day | Music | Special Sundays | Partners/partnerships |
Date posted: Jan 13, 2009

January 9, 2009--“Cosa?!” [What?!] “Che e successo!?” [What happened?!] One of the teenagers from Ghana got a call on his cellphone on the way home from a church confirmation trip. His 19-year-old friend, Abdul, had been killed in Milan. Over the course of several phone calls and articles in the morning’s paper, the details began to emerge.
Source: Mission Education
More about: Children | Communities | Conflict | Global connections | Globalization | Hate | Justice | Peace | Race | Violence | Youth | Urban | Italy |
Date posted: Jan 09, 2009