Advent is the season in the Christian year when we hear and participate in the time of waiting for the birth of the Messiah. We look with thankfulness and hope for the second coming of Christ. We hear the voice of God in Scripture. We hear the voices of God's people around the earth as we pray together for the joy and peace of Christ's love to warm the hearts and lives of all humankind.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Advent | Christmas | Evangelism | Music | Prayers | United Methodist Church | Focus on Congregational Development |
Date posted: Nov 07, 2011

The Global Praise ministry of the General Board of Global Ministries traveled to Chiang Mai, Thailand, in January 2011 to lead a two-week Worship and Music Training with the leaders of Global Ministries' Mission Initiative in Laos and Thailand. The participants took "core" classes in worship, music theory, and piano or guitar every day.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Education | Evangelism | GBGM events | Mission opportunities | Music | Focus on Congregational Development | Focus on Leadership Development | Thailand |
Date posted: Aug 18, 2011

Zachary Ferguson has enjoyed being a part of this class of missionaries for the last three weeks as they have prepared for their next two to three years as US-2s or Mission Interns. Zach felt safe, comfortable, and challenged.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Civil rights | Communities | Human rights | Justice | Music | Race | United Methodist Church | Focus on Leadership Development |
Date posted: Aug 17, 2011

New York, NY, March 28, 2011--A live, interactive webcast on April 12 will put the spotlight on United Methodist evangelism and new church development in more than a dozen countries around the world.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Global connections | Missionaries | Music | United Methodist Church | Mission studies | Focus on Congregational Development | Africa | Asia and the Pacific Islands | Cameroon | Central America | Europe | Honduras | Russia | Thailand | Vietnam |
Date posted: Mar 29, 2011

Chiang Mai, Thailand, February 1, 2011--"I'm here because I'm part of the Discipleship in Training program in Cambodia. My three churches in Cambodia are working to provide training to both pastors and laity," said the Rev. Sophy Lun after his travel from Cambodia to Thailand for one of two United Methodist trainings offered by the General Board of Global Ministries in Southeast Asia.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Communities | Education | Evangelization | GBGM events | Global connections | Music | United Methodist Church | Focus on Congregational Development | Asia and the Pacific Islands | Cambodia | Laos | Thailand |
Date posted: Feb 01, 2011

Have you ever heard a song and thought, "I'd love my choir to learn that song?" Bill Rose, Director of Music at St. Luke-Simpson United Methodist Church, Lake Charles, Louisiana, was participating in a Global Praise reading session when he had that thought. After a discussion with Global Praise staff, he decided to arrange the song "Yo sé que estás aquí" [#2, Global Praise 3, ©2004, GBGMusik] for his choir.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Music | Focus on Congregational Development | Honduras |
Date posted: Sep 23, 2010

This summer a team from the United Methodist Church in Côte d'Ivoire, L'Eglise Méthodiste Unie en Côte d' Ivoire, visited Global Ministries as they stopped in New York on their way back from Texas, where they were ambassadors to the annual conference meeting.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Children | Communities | Education | Global connections | Music | Focus on Congregational Development | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Cote d´Ivoire |
Date posted: Aug 26, 2010

From late July through early August 2010, heavier than usual monsoon rains drenched Pakistan. These heavy rains provoked flash floods that have taken the lives of at least 1,200 Pakistanis. The rains have chased millions from their homes and left thousands stranded and awaiting rescue. As we respond to the disaster through our gifts to UMCOR, we also pray for the communities impacted by these floods.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Global connections | Music | Focus on Congregational Development | Pakistan |
Date posted: Aug 17, 2010

This month, the more than 1,000 United Methodists of the Cameroon mission have one more reason to celebrate, praise, and sing--the release of the hymnbook, O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing/Mille Voix Pour Chanter Tes Louanges. This useful and creative hymnal was made, printed, and published by and for Cameroonian United Methodist worshipers. The hymnal contains hundreds of hymns, some from the African and Wesleyan traditions, some in French and English.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Communities | Global connections | John Wesley | Music | Focus on Congregational Development | Cameroon |
Date posted: Jun 15, 2010

We are often asked how Global Praise collects the songs of the world. Sometimes they are literally "under our nose." In this case, we discovered "Jezu de Nazaret" in the offices of the Church Center for the United Nations (CCUN.) Jorge Lockward, Director of Global Praise, was meeting with several colleagues as a part of planning for a Global Ministries staff worship service focused on praying for Haiti.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Evangelism | Global connections | Music | Focus on Congregational Development | Haiti |
Date posted: May 26, 2010

Every church musician wants to involve more children in their ministry. We find it hard to believe someone wouldn't want to be in choir. Sometimes it is the fear of doing something different that keeps a child from saying, "I want to join choir."
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Children | Evangelism | Global connections | International affairs | Music | United Methodist Church | Youth | Focus on Congregational Development |
Date posted: Apr 28, 2010

Nashville, Tennessee, March 23, 2010--A United Methodist study committee is documenting the worship practices and liturgical needs of black Methodists in North America and seeks the involvement of a broad range of people.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Civil rights | Music | Race | United Methodist Church | Focus on Congregational Development |
Date posted: Mar 23, 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

Singing the Haitian hymn "Béjè mouin, sè you Roua d'amou / Adonai's my loving Shepherd" is one way we can pray with the people of Haiti.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Emergencies | Global connections | Hunger | Music | Natural disasters | Prayers | Water | Welfare | Focus on Congregational Development | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Haiti |
Date posted: Jan 25, 2010

What makes for community? How can I create community? Is there a path to becoming more communal and more loving? I looked for answers in Taizé, a monastery in France.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Christian love | Communities | Ecumenical | Evangelism | Global connections | Music | Prayers | Focus on Congregational Development | France |
Date posted: Dec 30, 2009

When I hear Mary's song, I hear the voice of Glenda singing by the river. Keeping rhythm with her busy hands, she washes her family's clothes, taking this opportunity for an expression of praise: "One day at a time sweet Jesus, that's all I'm asking of you…"
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Music |
Date posted: Dec 16, 2009

Standing in a ger (a white rounded dwelling tent) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, there was much about my surroundings in that moment that pointed to the fact that a little over a week prior I had literally moved to the other side of the world.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Advent | Christmas | Global connections | Music | Mongolia |
Date posted: Dec 08, 2009

New York, NY, December 1, 2009--In an unprecedented event, a total of 113 Methodist leaders--pastors and laity--from Central America took part in a two-week experience that, in the words of participant Angie Mejia equipped "more people to serve God and sing God's song."
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Christian love | Communities | Evangelism | Family | GBGM events | Global connections | Music | United Methodist Church | Youth | Partners/partnerships | Focus on Congregational Development | Caribbean Islands | Central America | Costa Rica | El Salvador | Guatemala | Latin America | Nicaragua |
Date posted: Dec 01, 2009

London, August 14, 2009--The Methodist Church in Britain reported that nine Methodist Church leaders earlier arrested in Fiji have appeared in court on charges of violating public emergency regulations and were released pending a second hearing on September 24.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
More about: Civil rights | GBGM events | Global connections | Human rights | Music | Prison | United Methodist Church | Fiji |
Date posted: Aug 14, 2009

New York, NY, July 6, 2009--The United Methodist Church in Albania observed two important "firsts" in the late spring and early summer of 2009. It received its first indigenous Albanian pastor and the first hymnal in the Albanian language.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
More about: Evangelism | Global connections | Music | United Methodist Church | Focus on Leadership Development | Albania |
Date posted: Jul 06, 2009

New York, NY, April 24, 2008--In the age of Shrek and Bart Simpson, how does the church teach children about Christian mission and the Christian message?
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Children | Global connections | Globalization | Music | United Methodist Church | Youth |
Date posted: Apr 24, 2009

New York, NY, March 24, 2009--A new inter- ethnic, multicultural United Methodist congregation is off to a strong start in the Bronx, the northern-most borough of the City of New York, offering "solid ground for shaky times."
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Communities | Music | Race | United Methodist Church | Volunteers | Urban | North Eastern U.S. |
Date posted: Mar 24, 2009