February 9, 2012, New York, NY--For the second year in a row, top leaders from the General Board of Global Ministries met with representatives of the Methodist Church of Great Britain to continue conversations with a goal of being more effective partners in mission. The two-day meeting took place in London at the British Methodist headquarters. The United Methodist group was led by Thomas Kemper, general secretary, who said it had been a useful meeting and "showed the growing collaboration between the UMC and British Church in its international mission work."
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Date posted: Feb 09, 2012

New York, NY, April 29, 2011--The 400th anniversary of the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible is a dramatic reminder of a central theme in the Protestant mission movement: the drive to translate Scripture into the everyday languages people use.
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Date posted: May 04, 2011

When the first edition of the weekly Methodist Recorder and General Christian Chronicle appeared in 1861, Queen Victoria was on the British throne, railway mania was in full swing, Charles Dickens was writing Great Expectations, and Abraham Lincoln had just been elected President of the United States.
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Date posted: Feb 08, 2011

Berlin, Germany, February 2, 2011--As in the Day of Pentecost in Acts 2, people who spoke different languages joined a symphony of prayers and praise to God: French, Italian, Twi, Shona, German, Russian, Estonia, and English.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Feb 04, 2011

December 21, 2010, New York, NY--"Our goal is to be more effective partners in mission," said the chief executive of the mission agency of The United Methodist Church following conversations among the top leaders of the denomination's General Board of Global Ministries and representatives of the Methodist Church of Great Britain.
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Date posted: Dec 21, 2010

Budapest, Hungary, August 23, 2010--Methodism on the European continent in the 20 years following World War II was the theme of a mid- August conference of the European Historical Commision of The United Methodist Church.
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Date posted: Aug 23, 2010

United Methodist Bishop Heinrich Bolleter, Geneva Secretary of the World Methodist Council, offers his observations on Edinburgh 2010, the ecumenical world mission conference held in Edinburgh, Scotland, on June 2-6. The event marked the one hundredth anniversary of a landmark missionary conference in 1910. Bishop Bolleter, who is retired from the Southern and Century Europe Central Conference, represented the World Methodist Council on a committee of "stakeholders" that assisted in planning the 2010 conference, which had the theme "Witnessing to Christ Today."
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Date posted: Jun 10, 2010

Edinburgh, Scotland, June 6, 2010--A broadly ecumenical world mission conference ended with a call to Christians to work together, not against one another, as they engage in God's mission of "love to the whole creation."
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Date posted: Jun 08, 2010

Edinburgh, June 4, 2010--Christian mission among people of other faiths was a complex, recurring theme at "Witnessing to Christ Today," the broadly ecumenical World Mission Conference held in Edinburgh, Scotland, June 2-6.
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Date posted: Jun 04, 2010

Edinburgh, Scotland, June 4, 2010--Strong Methodist commitment to the worldwide Christian mission was visible and clear at "Witnessing to Christ Today," the ecumenical World Mission Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland on June 2-6.
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Date posted: Jun 04, 2010

Edinburgh, Scotland, June 3, 2010--Is united Christian witness possible today, given the historical divisions within the church and the increasing cultural and political diversity within the Christian family?
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Date posted: Jun 03, 2010

Edinburgh, Scotland, June 3, 2010--In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus says that if his disciples stopped bearing witness to him, "the stones would shout out."
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Date posted: Jun 03, 2010

New York, NY, March 23, 2010--A hundred years ago this coming June, a Protestant ecumenical conference in Scotland provided major incentive for Christian mission in the 20th century. The centennial of that event is putting a spotlight on mission today and into the future. The theme is "Witnessing to Christ Today."
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Date posted: Mar 23, 2010

Dear Brother and Sisters in Christ, We write to express our condolence and sense of grief at the deaths of Revs Sam Dixon and Clinton Rabb.
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Date posted: Jan 19, 2010

This year, the Protestant Christian church marks the 100th anniversary of an extraordinary conference that took place in Edinburgh, Scotland, from June 14 to 23, 1910. "The World Missionary Conference to Consider Missionary Problems in Relation to the Non-Christian World," its full title, was quickly and thankfully shortened to "The World Missionary Conference."
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Date posted: Jan 05, 2010

They rode from Baltimore in the first few days of 1785, around 60 mostly young preachers infused with missionary zeal and moving confidently into the lifeblood of a new nation. Over the previous nine days, they had organized the first national Protestant denomination in what was becoming--but was not quite yet--the United States of America.
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Date posted: Jan 04, 2010

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.
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Date posted: Jul 10, 2009

New York, NY, April 3, 2009--The head of the United Methodist Church's mission agency has thanked the Methodist Church of Great Britain for its role in keeping the concerns of poverty and environmental protection in the public eye as representatives of the world's 20 strongest economies met in London.
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Date posted: Apr 03, 2009