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	Summer Interns Video  This video shows nine young adults sharing their beliefs, stories, songs, and laughter during their orientation at Stony Point Retreat Center in Stony Point, New York. They were selected to participate in Global Ministries' Summer Intern program based on applications received in the spring. Source: Mission Personnel More about: GBGM programs | Missionaries | Youth | Focus on Leadership Development | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | United States | Date posted: Aug 07, 2009
	September 2009 'Discernment Event' Planned to Assist Laity in Finding God's Will for Their Lives New York, New York, May 15, 2009--The word "discern" means to recognize or identify. Discerning the will of God for life is a necessary responsibility of every Christian. United Methodist laity--women and men--seeking to discern God's will for their futures will have that opportunity in mid September, 2009. Source: Mission Personnel More about: Communities | GBGM programs | Mission opportunities | Missionaries | United Methodist Church | Women | Men | Focus on Congregational Development | North Eastern U.S. | United States | Date posted: May 15, 2009
	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
	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 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
	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
	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
	The Word that Breaks our Codes Christmas Day, December 25, 2008 I grew up in the US speaking English. At 56, I’ve now also been speaking Spanish for the past 20 years. I still find it magical. It isn’t that I believe what my Spanish teacher said about Spanish being God’s language. Nor does it feel magical because I learned to speak it as if by magic. I did not. Source: Mission Personnel More about: Advent | Christian love | Christmas | Central America | Honduras | Latin America | Date posted: Dec 18, 2008
	The Presence of Grace and Peace Christmas Eve, December 24, 2008 A man sat on a log at the edge of the washed-out hillside. A few hours earlier, heavy rains on the deforested hilltop had become a tidal wave of mud washing everything in its path into the river below. Hundreds of houses were lost. No one knew how many people had escaped and how many were buried in the mud. Source: Mission Personnel More about: Advent | Bible | Christian love | Christmas | Jesus Christ | Central America | Honduras | Latin America | Date posted: Dec 17, 2008
	Mary's Cradle: Advent Reflection on Ministry in Appalachia Third Sunday of Advent, December 14, 2008 The phone call from the physical therapist came hours before we were scheduled to open. She wanted to refer a grandmother who was caring for three special-needs grandsons under the age of four. Before I could finish with the case worker, my other line rang and it was the grandmother, searching for shoes and blankets for "her boys." Source: Mission Personnel More about: Advent | Children | Christian love | Christmas | Communities | GBGM programs | Missionaries | Women | Partners/partnerships | North Eastern U.S. | United States | World | Date posted: Nov 29, 2008
	A Chosen Vessel: Advent Reflection on God's Call Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 21, 2008 Of the women in the Bible, Mary captures my imagination. I find something very special about her for having been the woman who brought Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God, into the physical world. I often wonder what it was like to be the mother of Jesus. The mother of the most High God! Source: Mission Personnel More about: Advent | Bible | Christmas | Prayers | Women | World | Date posted: Nov 29, 2008
	Road Construction Ahead: Advent Reflections from Zambia Second Sunday of Advent, December 7, 2008 In Zambia, as in much of Africa, we are constantly dealing with simply getting from point A to point B. More than once, I have had our project's Toyota Land Cruiser break through a bridge deck and nearly roll over into a river. Our project workers and I have spent hours unloading cargo and hand carrying them up hills too slippery and rough to ascend with a loaded vehicle. Of course, most Africans don't even have motor vehicles and consider themselves lucky to have a bicycle. Source: Mission Personnel More about: Advent | Agriculture | Bible | Christian love | Christmas | GBGM programs | Jesus Christ | Missionaries | United Methodist Church | Africa | World | Zambia | Date posted: Nov 29, 2008
	God Sang: A Christmas Meditation from Latin America First Sunday of Christmas, December 28, 2008 On November 15, 2008, God sang in Costa Rica. God sang because more than 40 women from 11 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean were loudly rejoicing for what they've learned, shared and lived during a most amazing week together at the Universidad Bíblica Latinoamericana (Latin America Biblical University), an ecumenical institution. Source: Mission Personnel More about: Advent | Bible | Christmas | GBGM programs | Missionaries | United Methodist Church | Women | Partners/partnerships | Latin America | World | Date posted: Nov 29, 2008
	Remember Where Our Hope Truly Lies: Advent Reflection on Mark 13 First Sunday of Advent, November 30, 2008 As I am writing this, I am watching a news broadcast about the failing economy. Worries about banks failing, war, and environmental collapse seem to bubble up in many of my conversations. With such chaos around me, I have found it difficult to know how to hope, and in what to place my hope. Yet in Advent we are once again to hope and wait for the coming Messiah. Source: Mission Personnel More about: Advent | Bible | Christmas | Jesus Christ | United Methodist Church | Africa | World | Zambia | Date posted: Nov 28, 2008
	Young Adult Missionary Application Deadline Extended  The application deadline for the next classes of United Methodist short-term young adult missionaries has been extended for a month to January 1, 2009. Source: Mission Personnel More about: GBGM programs | Missionaries | United Methodist Church | Youth | Date posted: Nov 17, 2008
	A New Podcast: Larry and Jane Kies  Missionaries Larry and Jane Kies discuss how Africa University grows leaders amidst Zimbabwe's struggles. Africa University offers "a rich mix of peoples with different perspectives, beliefs, behaviors," says Jane Kies. Source: Mission Personnel More about: Missionaries | Mission updates | Africa | Date posted: Nov 14, 2008
	Sierra Leone Task Force on Substance Abuse and Related Violence  In 2005 I was appointed to be the chairperson of the SPSARV Task Force in the Sierra Leone Annual Conference. I was excited to work because it was a dream-come-true to work with young people to address some of the issues they face. Source: Mission Personnel More about: GBGM programs | Health | United Methodist Church | Africa | Sierra Leone | Date posted: Sep 26, 2008
	Mission Agency Seeks Financial Officer for Position in Moscow  New York, NY, Sept. 22, 2008--The United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries is seeking applicants for consideration as an area financial officer executive based in Moscow for work with the Russia Mission Initiative, which covers a large geographical region. Source: Mission Personnel More about: Finance | Global connections | United Methodist Church | Russia | Date posted: Sep 22, 2008
	Turning the World Upside Down Through Living Justice  In the theater of life, are we protagonists? Or are we spectators? This question was asked of the diverse group attending the Living Justice seminar, a five-day immersion experience offered by the Office of Deaconess and Home Missioner. The 12 young women and one man came from a variety of life experiences and hometowns to question themselves and one another at the Church Center for the United Nations in New York City. The overall topic, "Poverty: Community, Life and Land," focused on how poverty and land rights are connected. Source: Mission Personnel More about: Civil rights | Education | GBGM events | GBGM programs | Justice | North Eastern U.S. | United States | Date posted: Jul 10, 2008
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