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
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Date posted: Aug 05, 2011

March, Women's History Month, is full of special days, such as the World Day of Prayer, Ash Wednesday, St. Patrick's Day, the first day of Spring, and this weekend, Ecumenical Advocacy Days.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Advocacy | Children | Education | Ethics | Family | Health | Human rights | Justice | Missionaries | Poverty | Welfare | Women | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Sierra Leone |
Date posted: Mar 24, 2011

Freetown, Sierra Leone, October 6, 2009--From a site overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and Freetown, Sierra Leone, a new series of United Methodist Academies for Evangelization and Church Growth in Africa got under way in early October. Twenty pastors and lay leaders from Sierra Leone and Liberia took part.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Oct 07, 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
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Date posted: Aug 01, 2009

New York, NY, June 12, 2009--For the price of a lunch, you could save the life of a child in Sierra Leone. Each day, some 3,000 children die of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
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Date posted: Jun 12, 2009

Monrovia, Liberia, June 2, 2009—Twenty-six voices rang out amidst clapping, dancing, and celebration: "We are one in Jesus. We are together. We are one."
Source: Women's Division
More about: Global connections | International affairs | Women | Cote d´Ivoire | Liberia | Niger | Sierra Leone |
Date posted: Jun 03, 2009

MONROVIA, Liberia (UMNS), December 22, 2008-- The Rev. John K. Yambasu, 52, has been elected bishop of The United Methodist Church in Sierra Leone by delegates of the denomination's West Africa Central Conference.
Source: United Methodist News Service
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Date posted: Dec 22, 2008

New York, NY, October 7, 2008--"The most important and challenging part of the program is the cross-cultural experience," said Beth Buchanan, Program Coordinator for Mission Volunteers, Global Ministries. "It is the building of these relationships that develop you as leaders and help you decide what you believe. That's what we're about. Challenge and be challenged. Change and be changed."
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Oct 07, 2008

New York, NY, October 7, 2008--"The experience has been amazing." Anthony Cruz, 25, a youth director from Las Vegas, Nevada, emailed these words home from Accra, Ghana, as a Global Justice Volunteer (GJV) at the West Africa AIDS Foundation this summer.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Oct 07, 2008