Every now and then I come across an attention-grabbing story in the bound volumes of World Outlook or The Missionary Voice--both predecessors of New World Outlook magazine. Such a story helps me understand that history is never quite what I supposed it was. Martha Drummer's story was captured in World Outlook in 1952 by Florence Hooper, a mission secretary who had been responsible for sending Miss Drummer her monthly pension.
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: Mar 08, 2012

Missionary service in the 21st century follows the New Testament's mission mandate to move outward from Judea into all parts of the world. Strongly influenced by the 19th century Protestant mission initiative that originated in Europe and North America, missionary service--especially in the Methodist tradition--combined spiritual piety with social ministry. In the 19th century, parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America were considered to be suitable areas for mission.
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: Mar 01, 2012

The concept of the roundtable is finding a fresh application in the global mission of The United Methodist Church. Although "round table" may conjure the image of King Arthur and his knights sitting in a circle symbolizing their equal standing and unity of purpose, the roundtable is also a process.
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: Feb 15, 2012

Tola Seng lives in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia in Southeast Asia. As a child, she experienced the aftermath of a harsh and violent regime that killed much of Cambodia's population. "Twenty-four years ago," Seng says, "I was born to a single mother in a refugee camp on the Thai border. By God's grace, my mother was able to raise my sisters and me on her own. Yet, watching her struggle to support us, I wanted to grow up faster so I could find a job and help her."
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: Jan 30, 2012

To introduce this issue of New World Outlook--which features a number of Global Ministries' staff members and their offices--I sat down with members of the Mission Initiatives team for a conversation about gospel and culture.
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: Nov 04, 2011

I have two small children--a five-year-old daughter and a son, age two. When my daughter was only a few months old, I joined the Henderson Settlement's Maternal Infant Health Outreach program (MIHOW). I usually visit the settlement once a month to get diapers, wipes, and other baby things. It means a lot to have a helping hand these days. I don't think the outreach workers realize just how much they help others and how greatly appreciated they are.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: Children | Communities | Education | Family | Poverty | Women | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | United States |
Date posted: Oct 27, 2011

New York, NY, October 12, 2011--The 100th anniversary of The United Methodist Church's mission magazine was marked on October 11 with a retrospective of mission highlights from each decade of the last century.
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: Oct 14, 2011

On a recent visit to Susanna Wesley House in Baltimore, Maryland, three of the house's nine housing units were found to be empty. This was a positive sign. It meant that three families had recently made a successful transition from supportive housing to their own residences in the community.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: Children | Christian love | Communities | Education | John Wesley | United Methodist Church | Welfare | Wesley | Women | Methodism | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | United States |
Date posted: Sep 13, 2011

I first met Dan Terry in 2004 in Afghanistan. One day he offered to help me get to a meeting on the other side of Kabul--by bicycle. We took a "shortcut" up to a steep ridge, following a rocky path where we had to push or carry our bicycles. At the top, while I caught my breath and admired the view, we encountered a family of returned refugees. This steep ridge--far from roads, water, and the city proper--was the only place this family could find to live.
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: Aug 24, 2011

Coming from many rural villages in the same district of Laghman Province in eastern Afghanistan, members of the district shura, or council of community leaders, gathered for a meeting. Together, they considered a handwritten list of 14 urgent concerns in their communities--including drought in remote mountain villages, flooding that destroyed crops near the river, a lack of jobs, and insecurity stemming from armed conflict in their area.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: Children | Communities | Education | Human rights | Rural | Women | Youth | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Afghanistan |
Date posted: Aug 19, 2011

Rose, a 14-year-old orphan in the DR Congo, never had the opportunity to attend school. When her parents died, she went to live with her widowed grandmother. When her grandmother proved unable to support her, Rose had to marry young.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: Bioethics | Children | Conflict | Education | Family | Health | War | Women | Youth | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Focus on Global Health | Congo DR |
Date posted: Aug 18, 2011

As part of the Healthy Families, Healthy Planet initiative, maternal health advocates from the Global South visit the United States to share their experiences with United Methodists and government policymakers. Their purpose is to urge congregations to support increased funding for international family planning.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: Bioethics | Children | Communities | Ethics | Family | Health | Human rights | Missionaries | Welfare | Women | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Focus on Global Health | Sierra Leone |
Date posted: Aug 05, 2011

Even as you read these words, the people of Southern Sudan are opening their eyes to a new reality: independence. This July, we welcome them as citizens of the world's newest nation and as partners in the pursuit of global peace and development. On July 9, 2011, the independent government of Southern Sudan is to be formally constituted. Earlier this year, the Southern electorate voted overwhelmingly to secede from the Republic of the Sudan.
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: Jul 22, 2011

Gaza is like a prison in many ways, surrounded by high walls on three sides. Gun towers oversee the free-fire stretch of scorched earth and rubble, warning anyone--including farmers who once tilled the land--against getting close. On the fourth side, the west, the Mediterranean inexorably draws the eye to the horizon; but it, too, is forbidden.
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: Jul 07, 2011

Near the end of the 20th century, a decade of planning, summits, and conferences involving member governments of the United Nations culminated in the UN Millennium Document. This document, adopted by UN member nations at the 2000 Millennium Summit, serves as a multinational commitment to reduce extreme poverty around the world.
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: Jun 23, 2011

Before the January 12, 2010, earthquake, the people of Haiti had not had a major seismic event for decades--though they had endured countless social and political upheavals, along with natural catastrophes, throughout their history.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: Agriculture | Communities | Emergencies | Health | Natural disasters | Poverty | United Methodist Church | Welfare | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Haiti |
Date posted: Jun 08, 2011

Late in the afternoon of Tuesday, January 12, 2010, having just finished eating their usual dinner of beans and rice, the young patients at Grace Children's Hospital returned to the main area of the inpatient ward. There, the infants rested in their cribs, their bellies full of milk, while the older children gathered in front of the television set. It was 4:53 p.m., and winter darkness had begun to fall on the city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: May 24, 2011

Melissa Crutchfield, assistant general secretary for International Disaster Response at the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), and Thomas Dwyer, executive director of UMCOR NGO, answered some of the more difficult questions and concerns about earthquake relief in Haiti during an information session in January.
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: May 12, 2011

The Holy Spirit is definitely moving in Cameroon to gather God's church in this nation. The last two years, 2009 and 2010, have been very rewarding for The United Methodist Church in Cameroon. In spite of all the hardships and challenges caused by the world financial crisis that began in 2008, many good things have happened in this young mission.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: Health | Natural disasters | Women | Focus on Congregational Development | Focus on Leadership Development | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Focus on Global Health | Cameroon |
Date posted: Apr 29, 2011

Eight and a half years have passed since I came to Mongolia. It was not abilities or skills or special gifts that brought me here, to this north Asian country between Russia and China. It was a calling born out of the knowledge of who I am in Christ--a sinner saved by grace.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: Children | Communities | Education | Global connections | Poverty | Women | Focus on Congregational Development | Mongolia |
Date posted: Apr 06, 2011

Twenty years ago, Karen and I had a dream that has now become reality. The Lord laid on our hearts a vision of bringing The United Methodist Church to Vietnam. Having experienced Methodism in the United States, we wanted to take The United Methodist Church to the Vietnamese people in our homeland.
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: Mar 24, 2011

Last year, two Cambodian pastors--Svay Youthearoath and Sok Sovandy--left for Singapore to pursue Master of Divinity degrees at Trinity Theological College. This was a milestone in the history of the Methodist Mission in Cambodia (MMC).
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: Mar 24, 2011

Lucie Harrison Girls High School was established by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1912, thanks to the devoted efforts of the Rev. Dr. John C. Butcher. At that time, residents of Methodism's Northern India area, where Dr. Butcher was missionary in charge, considered the education of girls to be unnecessary.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: Children | Education | International affairs | Missionaries | Youth | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | India |
Date posted: Jan 20, 2011

This month--January 2011--New World Outlook marks its 100th year of continuous publication. Since January 1911, the magazine has been published by various US boards of mission, culminating in the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church.
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: Dec 29, 2010