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arrow icon. SPSARV Podcast Features North Carolina Ministry that Teaches Youth Valuable Drug-Resistance Skills  
Two young men with a basketball

Today's youth are often confronted at every turn with peer pressure to take drugs and engage in destructive behaviors. The latest podcast from the United Methodist Special Program on Substance Abuse and Related Violence's "Speak About It!" series features a substance-abuse ministry in the North Carolina Annual Conference's Rockingham District that is empowering youth through positive activities and programs to stay away from behaviors that may lead to drug use.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Children | Communities | Health | Poverty | Youth | Urban | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Focus on Global Health | United States |
Date posted: Feb 13, 2012

arrow icon. Online Training for US-Based Missionaries 
Online webinar training with Global Ministries staff, Church and Community Workers, and National Plan for Hispanic/Latino Ministries missionaries September 17-20, 2011, at the Life Enrichment Center in Fruitland Park, Florida

You are invited and encouraged to join an online webinar with Global Ministries staff, Church and Community Workers, and National Plan for Hispanic/Latino Ministries missionaries as they meet from September 17 to 20, 2011 at the Life Enrichment Center in Fruitland Park, Florida, to learn about the new and transformative ways to serve as United Methodist missionaries in rural or urban settings around the United States.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Education | Evangelism | Internet | Mission opportunities | Missionaries | Rural | Urban | Focus on Leadership Development |
Date posted: Aug 30, 2011

arrow icon. William Wilson, Jr., US-2: Packing Lightly for the Journey 
Wil Wilson is one of 25 young adults who will become a General Board of Global Ministries missionary on August 18, 2011 at a commissioning service in New York City.

William Wilson, Jr., 23, likes to pack light. For his journey from Southern New Jersey to Stony Point, New York, he carried a small duffel bag. He also packed "trust, faith, and flexibility," his guiding principles for the upcoming journey as a young adult missionary.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Justice | Mission opportunities | Missionaries | Poverty | Youth | Urban | Focus on Leadership Development | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | United States |
Date posted: Aug 05, 2011

arrow icon. New Year's Lessons from Ted Williams and Doral Chenoweth--the Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan: A Reflection
The Return of the Prodigal Son, Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist (Charleston,South Carolina)

Ted Williams is the man with the golden voice who has been vaulted to global media attention this week after more than 13 million people saw him on a YouTube video.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Christian love | Economy | Ethics | Health | Human rights | Hunger | Missionaries | Poverty | United Methodist Church | Urban | Methodism | Focus on Ministry with the Poor |
Date posted: Jan 10, 2011

arrow icon. United Methodist Church Celebrates 17 New Missionaries 
Wonderfully Diverse: Thomas Kemper noted that among 17 new missionares some will go from Cote d’Ivoire going to Tunisia, from Brazil to Switzerland and the US, from China to Oklahoma, and US citizens from Laos will go to Thailand.

Stamford, Connecticut, October 13, 2010-- Seventeen new missionaries were commissioned for United Methodist service around the world on October 12 during the annual directors' meeting of the General Board of Global Ministries.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Urban | Laos | Switzerland | Thailand | Tunisia |
Date posted: Oct 13, 2010

arrow icon. Holy Saturday 
Charissa B. Shawcross is a Church and Community Worker serving as Director of Community and Health Services for the Joy-Southfield Health Clinic and the NOAH Project in Detroit, Michigan.

Remembering the lessons of Christ's death for our sins, and the promise of the resurrection, I look around the Detroit neighborhoods I serve and pray for the salvation and resurrection of our people.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Communities | Economy | Health | Poverty | Urban | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Focus on Global Health |
Date posted: Apr 01, 2010

arrow icon. Italian Methodists Elect New President, Focus Ministry on Immigrants 
Alessandra Trotta (center), the new president of the Methodist Church in Italy, with Pastors Kristin, right, and David Markay at the Synod of the Waldensian/Methodist Church. The Markays are United Methodist missionaries in northern Italy. Ms. Trotta, a deaconess, direct a children's ministry in Palermo.

New York, New York, October 22, 2009--The Methodist community of Italy now has its first woman president, who is assuming her duties at a time when the small church is seeking to increase it ministry among immigrants.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Communities | Global connections | Hate | Missionaries | United Methodist Church | Violence | Partners/partnerships | Urban | Focus on Congregational Development | Italy |
Date posted: Oct 22, 2009

arrow icon. Helping Families to Heal 
Rev. Cynthia Sloan serves as program associate for SPSARV, coordinating the delivery of training and resources for clergy and congregational ministry development. A personal testimony on providing support to families living with addictions For National Recovery Month, the second article in our five-part series on key issues related to substance abuse focuses on offering support to families living with addictions.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Family | Health | United Methodist Church | Violence | Urban | Focus on Global Health |
Date posted: Sep 09, 2009
arrow icon. Ministry with the Poor Project  Receives Major North Carolina Grant
Move the Mountain Leadership Center developed the Circles model which is now being utilized in 20 states. Raleigh, NC , May 6, 2009--A $300,000 grant will cover part of the start-up costs of a United Methodist three-year program to lift 75 families out of poverty and help communities to make strides toward eliminating poverty in three counties of western North Carolina.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
More about: Communities | GBGM programs | Grants | Poverty | Rural | United Methodist Church | Urban | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | South Eastern U.S. | United States |
Date posted: May 06, 2009
arrow icon. Rural and Urban Mission Offices to Be Linked on Trial Basis 

New York, April 30, 2009--Financial constraints have prompted the linking on a trial basis of two historic United Methodist mission offices--one on town-and-country (rural) and the other on urban ministry.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Rural | Urban | United States |
Date posted: Apr 30, 2009

arrow icon. New Day for Methodism in the Bronx 
The Rev. Doug Cummingham preaches at New Day United Methodist Church in Northwest Bronx, New York.

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

arrow icon. Arizona United Methodist Facility Receives Federal Job Stimulus Grant 
Medical assistant Rebecca Mijares checks the blood pressure of a young patient at the Centro de Saluad at United Methodist Women-supported Wesley Community Center in Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix, Arizona, March 10, 2009--Wesley Community Center, a Phoenix facility related to The United Methodist Church, is sharing in a $3.9 million federal economic stimulus grant aimed at increasing regional jobs in the health- care section.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
More about: Advocacy | Children | Communities | Economy | Education | Family | Immigration | John Wesley | Poverty | Refugees | United Methodist Church | Volunteers | Welfare | Wesley | Urban | United States |
Date posted: Mar 10, 2009
arrow icon. Hallelujah Moment from Italy: "Peace and Possibilities" 
Italians waiting for public transportation illustrate the racial tension in Milan. The graffiti behind them reads:

January 9, 2009--“Cosa?!” [What?!] “Che e successo!?” [What happened?!] One of the teenagers from Ghana got a call on his cellphone on the way home from a church confirmation trip. His 19-year-old friend, Abdul, had been killed in Milan. Over the course of several phone calls and articles in the morning’s paper, the details began to emerge.
Source: Mission Education
More about: Children | Communities | Conflict | Global connections | Globalization | Hate | Justice | Peace | Race | Violence | Youth | Urban | Italy |
Date posted: Jan 09, 2009

arrow icon. 100 Years of Kindness and Mercy at East St. Louis Community Center  
East St. Louis Mayor Alvin L. Parks, Jr., was a student at Lessie Bates in the early 1960’s.

East St. Louis, Illinois, Oct. 30, 2008--"100 Acts of Kindness, 100 Acts of Mercy" is the theme of the 100th anniversary of a United Methodist community center that is part of the social and religious bedrock of East St. Louis and surrounding St. Clair County.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Children | Communities | Education | GBGM programs | United Methodist Church | Women | Youth | Urban | United States |
Date posted: Oct 31, 2008

arrow icon. Older Adults Invited To Explore Urban and Rural Justice in Iowa 
"Primetimers is a great way to travel, and contribute to a place while expanding your understanding of the world and of God," said one Primetimers participant. From September 30 to October 5, 2007, older adults are invited to come together with other Primetimers in Indianola, Iowa to explore justice.
Source: Mission Volunteers
More about: GBGM programs | Justice | Mission opportunities | Rural | United Methodist Church | Volunteers | Urban | North Central U.S. | United States |
Date posted: Jun 01, 2007
arrow icon. Urban Ministry Survey Cites Need for Training, Support  
Missouri District Superintendent Nancye Dunlap in conversation with members of the Urban Academy Design Team, Monica Jefferson, Dean, Pat McQueen and Susan Sneed United Methodists are committed to urban ministry but want more training on how to provide that ministry. They also want more networking opportunities so that those ministering to urban neighborhoods can learn from and support one another. Such were key findings of a denominational survey conducted during the winter, with 808 local churches and 20 United Methodist bishops responding.
Source: United Methodist News Service
More about: Communities | GBGM programs | United Methodist Church | Urban | Methodism | United States |
Date posted: Apr 02, 2007
arrow icon. Pollination 
“Country Voices, Urban Voices” is New World Outlook’s tribute to several networks that bring people together to consider God’s purpose for their lives. Whether in the country or in the city, ministry conducted in isolation can stifle creativity, dampen the spirit, and use up resources quickly. Meeting with other people who share the love of Christ and seek to do God’s will in the world can energize church leaders and give them new ideas, new resources, and support for their mission ministry within their communities.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: Agriculture | GBGM programs | Rural | United Methodist Church | Urban | United States |
Date posted: Jan 09, 2007
arrow icon. Making Connections 
Commuters navigating the thruways of Detroit, Michigan. According to the 2000 US Census, there are 601 cities in the United States (defined as communities with populations of 50,000 or more). At the top end in size and location are New York, New York (8 million people); Los Angeles, California (3.7 million); Chicago, Illinois (2.9 million); and Houston, Texas (2 million). The smallest cities are Ames, Iowa; Biloxi, Mississippi; Sheboygan, Wisconsin; and Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: Communities | GBGM programs | Rural | United Methodist Church | Urban | Methodism | United States |
Date posted: Jan 09, 2007
arrow icon. Holy Boldness Urban Academy, St. Louis Gateway Central District 
Bishop Robert Schnase reads commissioning charge as members of Union Memorial UMC respond. The Gateway Central District of the Missouri Conference includes congregations in the city and the first ring of suburbs surrounding the urban core of the St. Louis metropolitan area. These congregations are in various stages of transition, with growing and declining neighborhoods, older buildings that are too small or too large, landlocked conditions, little or no parking, members who often drive in for worship, and communities in the midst of decline and renewal.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: GBGM programs | United Methodist Church | Partners/partnerships | Urban | Methodism | North Eastern U.S. | South Central U.S. | United States |
Date posted: Jan 09, 2007
arrow icon. Seeking Shalom in the City: Richmond, VA, Forms a Council for Creative Urban Ministry  
On a Saturday morning, August 26th 2006, over seventy-five people from across Richmond’s diverse communities gathered at Calvary United Methodist Church.
Source: Community and Institutional Ministries
More about: Communities | GBGM programs | Peace | United Methodist Church | Urban | United States |
Date posted: Oct 18, 2006
arrow icon. St. Louis Churches Put Strong Emphasis on Urban Ministry 
Bishop Robert Schnase reads commissioning charge as members of Union Memorial UMC respond. Tall-steepled Centenary United Methodist Church, a regal landmark in downtown St. Louis, MO, typically had about 20 people in worship when the Rev. Conway Briscoe arrived as pastor in July 2004. That was a far cry from its glory days as the city’s “Cathedral of Methodism,” housing 3,500 in worship in the early 1900s, vibrant outreach ministries and offices of the annual (regional) conference and area bishop.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Communities | United Methodist Church | Urban | Methodism | United States |
Date posted: May 05, 2006
arrow icon. 35 Years Trouble:  The End of a Phase in Northern Ireland
A woman wheels a stroller with a child past British soldiers near the Holy Cross Catholic Primary School in the North Belfst. Catholics must pass Protestant residential areas to get to school. The Methodist Church of Ireland is one church body that serves both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (a territory of the United Kingdom). In Belfast, Northern Ireland, the Methodist Church sponsors two projects that receive some support from the General Board of Global Ministries.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: Civil rights | Communities | Ecumenical | GBGM programs | Human rights | International affairs | Peace | United Methodist Church | Violence | Partners/partnerships | Urban | Methodism | Ireland |
Date posted: May 01, 2006
arrow icon. National Shalom Committee Meets and Affirms the Foundation of Communities of Shalom Training 
The National Shalom Committee of The United Methodist Church continues to emphasize the importance of living into the principles of Shalom that have been the foundation of the Communities of Shalom movement, which began 13 years ago. The committee gathered in Baltimore, Md. March 31-April 1. 
Source: Community and Institutional Ministries
More about: Communities | GBGM programs | Justice | Peace | United Methodist Church | Urban | Methodism | North Eastern U.S. | United States |
Date posted: May 01, 2006
arrow icon. The City of the Living 
The oldest African American cemetery in the city of Baltimore, Md. is located next to Mt. Winans United Methodist Church. The cemetery is often called “The City of the Dead.” Mt. Winans church and Community of Shalom can be called “The City of the Living.”
Source: Community and Institutional Ministries
More about: Christian love | Communities | Easter | GBGM programs | Peace | United Methodist Church | Urban | Methodism | North Eastern U.S. | United States |
Date posted: May 01, 2006
arrow icon. Asking the Tough Questions 
Heather Sevrens (center) serves as a Global Justice Volunteer in Brazil. For three months, Heather Sevrens of Rohnert Park, CA is serving with two other young adults as a “Global Justice Volunteer” with the Projeto Meninos e Meninas de Rua (“Street Children’s Project”) in Brazil. Below are some reflections from Heather on serving in mission.
Source: Mission Volunteers
More about: Children | Christian love | Communities | GBGM programs | Justice | Mission opportunities | Missionaries | Prayers | United Methodist Church | Volunteers | Youth | Urban | Methodism | Brazil |
Date posted: Nov 21, 2005
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