"Christmas is not your birthday, kids. It's Jesus' birthday! For Christmas, do you really think God wants you to have the Warhammer Xbox 360 game? Does God want you to accumulate more toys that just get dusty? Maybe God wants our family to help others this Christmas; to feed the hungry; to welcome the stranger; to volunteer at church; to love one another."
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Advent | Children | Christian love | Jesus Christ | Poverty | Focus on Ministry with the Poor |
Date posted: Nov 20, 2009

Disheveled children of every age and size crowded around our vehicle as it ground to a stop in front of the United Methodist Mpasa Reference Health Center in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was in this sprawling suburb of Kinshasa, DR Congo, that I was to assess health facilities for the Central Congo Conference. Dr. Rebecca Yohadi, the conference's Chief Medical Officer, told me that the Mpasa suburb sprang up in 1998 near a military installation as a camp for displaced persons and refugees.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: AIDS/HIV | Children | Conflict | Health | Hunger | Poverty | Violence | Women | Youth | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Focus on Global Health | Congo DR |
Date posted: Nov 01, 2009

HIV/AIDS affects people in all nations at all strata of society. Thanks to the United Methodist Global AIDS Fund, United Methodists and their partners can fight this disease in various countries through church, community, and hospital-based projects.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: AIDS/HIV | Children | Global connections | Poverty | Welfare | Women | Youth | Focus on Global Health | India | Zambia | Zimbabwe |
Date posted: Nov 01, 2009

New York, NY, October 29, 2009--The fifth classroom at Wesley Primary School, Morogoro, Tanzania, has a foundation; now it needs only a floor, walls, windows, a ceiling, a roof, and equipment--in the next few months.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Children | Education | Poverty | Youth | Tanzania |
Date posted: Oct 29, 2009

Columbia, South Carolina, October 23, 2009-- Major portions of the seventh national "summit" of Communities of Shalom, a movement of faith- inspired community development, will be broadcast live from its meeting site in Columbia, South Carolina, October 31.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Christian love | Health | Immigration | Poverty | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Focus on Global Health |
Date posted: Oct 26, 2009

“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

Each year 18,000 people in the United States die prematurely from preventable disease. Poverty and unequal access to life-saving drugs and medical care have made death itself a social disease in the country. Our health-care system is broken; many proposals for fixing it are being put forth. Citizens are rallying at the state level and meeting with legislators to demand change.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Children | Health | Poverty | United Methodist Church | Women | Focus on Global Health | United States |
Date posted: Aug 20, 2009

On Aug. 19, President Obama will participate in a live webcast call-in aimed at the faith community. Faith leaders in the 40-minute discussion will include three United Methodist pastors.
Source: United Methodist News Service
More about: Health | Justice | Poverty | Focus on Global Health | United States |
Date posted: Aug 20, 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

Evanston, Illinois, August 1, 2009--A renewed emphasis on evangelism and new church development is taking place across the global United Methodist Church.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Conflict | Education | Evangelism | GBGM events | Global connections | Poverty | United Methodist Church | Women | Focus on Congregational Development | Cote d´Ivoire | Sierra Leone |
Date posted: Aug 01, 2009

New York, NY, July 23, 2009--The Rev. Leslie Casupanan de la Cruz is both a shepherd and a farmer. She watches over the flock of the Camachile United Methodist Church in Luzon, the northern island of the Philippines, and helps villagers to cultivate a cash crop of mushrooms.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
More about: Children | Education | Global connections | Mission opportunities | Poverty | Rural | Women | Youth | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Philippines |
Date posted: Jul 23, 2009

New York, NY, July 10, 2009--The chief mission executive of The United Methodist Church welcomed a pledge by the world's eight richest nations to provide $20 billion of agricultural production and food security to the poorest countries over the next three years.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
More about: Donations | Economy | Ethics | Global connections | Poverty | United Methodist Church | Statements | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Africa | Canada | France | Italy | Japan | Russia | United Kingdom | United States |
Date posted: Jul 10, 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

June 25, 2009 | NEW YORK (UMNS)--Bishop Joaquina Filipe Nhanala says it is too soon to tell whether more women in Mozambique have decided to enter the ministry because of her leadership.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
More about: Global connections | Globalization | Poverty | Race | United Methodist Church | War | Women | Focus on Leadership Development | Mozambique |
Date posted: Jun 25, 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

MUTARE, Zimbabwe (UMNS)--When cholera struck Harare, Zimbabwe, during the past year, one of the worst-affected areas was the high-density suburb of Budiriro. Donwell Dube, 39, a graduate student at United Methodist-related Africa University, wanted to study how effective humanitarian aid was in the response to the cholera outbreak and chose Budiriro as a case study.
Source: United Methodist News Service
More about: Education | Health | Hunger | Poverty | Water | Welfare | Focus on Global Health | Zimbabwe |
Date posted: Jun 24, 2009

Nashville, Tennessee, June 5, 2009--In Senegal, a land where 95 percent of the population is Muslim, The United Methodist Church has been welcomed and is growing through good relations with neighbors and partnerships across borders.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Children | Economy | Health | Hunger | Poverty | Water | Women | Youth | Focus on Congregational Development | Focus on Leadership Development | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Focus on Global Health | Senegal |
Date posted: Jun 05, 2009