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arrow icon. Primetimers Mission Study and Activity Cover Broad Range of Topics and Locales 
Primetimers group poses in front of Lovely Lane Chapel at Epworth By The Sea on St Simons Island, GA, the home base for the event

New York, NY, October 6, 2009--Environmental protection, Methodism in Latin America, music in Jamaica, and justice issues along the US-Mexican border are among the week-long educational forums available to United Methodist older adults in 2010 and early 2011 through the Primetimers mission volunteer program.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
More about: Environment | GBGM events | Justice | Volunteers | Costa Rica | Jamaica | Mexico |
Date posted: Oct 06, 2009

arrow icon. Mission: Cameroon 
Rev. Nkemba Ndjungu (right), is the Cameroon Mission superintendent; his wife Mbwizu is a fellow missionary.

New York, NY, September 17, 2009--The United Methodist Church in Cameroon, West Africa, has a bright future, but just how bright depends upon the strength of the network of mission partnerships required to sustain a young Christian community. This is especially true in a multilingual country with a great variety of religious options.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Communities | GBGM news | Global connections | International affairs | Mission opportunities | Missionaries | United Methodist Church | Volunteers | Partners/partnerships | Focus on Congregational Development | Cameroon |
Date posted: Sep 17, 2009

arrow icon. Bulgaria-North Carolina Mission Partnership Flourishes 
The West Market team introduced a prayer shawl ministry to serve pastoral and outreach objectives; prayer shawls are given to neighbors and friends experiencing difficult times.

New York, NY, July 20, 2009--A two-year-old mission partnership is bringing new energy for Jesus Christ to three small United Methodist congregations in Bulgaria and the West Market Street United Methodist Church in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Communities | Evangelism | Global connections | Mission opportunities | United Methodist Church | Volunteers | Partners/partnerships | Focus on Congregational Development | Bulgaria |
Date posted: Jul 20, 2009

arrow icon. Mississippi Youth Drowns While on Mission Volunteer Trip 
Marshuan Braxton, a 17-year-old from the New Albany United Methodist Church, was drowned on Sunday, June 21, while on a mission volunteer trip to Costa Rica
Source: GBGM Press Releases
More about: GBGM news | United Methodist Church | Volunteers | Youth | Focus on Leadership Development | Costa Rica | United States |
Date posted: Jun 26, 2009
arrow icon. Director of Southeastern Mission Volunteer Program Retires 
Rev. Nick Elliott enjoys time with family; his wife Judy and their grandchildren will be happy to have him back in South Carolina. The Rev. Nick Elliott, executive director of the Southeastern Jurisdiction of United Methodist Volunteers in Mission (UMVIM) since 1999, is retiring after ten years of service to the organization.
Source: Mission Volunteers
More about: GBGM programs | United Methodist Church | Volunteers | Focus on Congregational Development | Focus on Leadership Development | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | South Eastern U.S. | United States |
Date posted: Jun 24, 2009
arrow icon. Nashville to Malawi: An Expanding Mission Partnership
The hymn says, blessed be the tie that binds, but ties in Christian mission can also expand. Growing stronger is perhaps the best way to describe a mission partnership between a United Methodist congregation in Nashville, Tennessee, and the denomination’s Malawi Missionary Conference in central Africa.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: United Methodist Church | Volunteers | Focus on Congregational Development | Africa | Malawi |
Date posted: May 22, 2009
arrow icon. My First 100 Days as an Individual Missionary Volunteer 
Individual Volunteer Holly Heyroth sees God at work in the children at the orphanage in Tarime, Tanzania. As news organizations marked the first 100 days of a new president in the United States, Individual Volunteer Holly Heyroth of Kansas marked her first 100 days in Tanzania. Holly has been working at Methodist Angel House Orphanage, a children's home that opened five years ago to assist with the care of 40 "amazingly strong and beautiful children."
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Children | Education | Health | Hunger | Volunteers | Welfare | Youth | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Focus on Global Health | Tanzania |
Date posted: May 11, 2009
arrow icon. A Town in Darfur, Sudan, Dubbed “Ohio Village” 
A woman returns to Deriga, Sudan, with a child. Deriga, Sudan, is a small village in the southern part of the Darfur region. It was destroyed during a brutal scorched-earth attack by the "Janjaweed," a proxy militia group unleashed by the Sudanese government to fight Darfuri rebel groups and control villages after conflict broke out in the region in 2003.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: Agriculture | Children | Christian love | Communities | GBGM programs | Health | International affairs | Refugees | UMCOR | United Methodist Church | Volunteers | Water | Mission studies | Partners/partnerships | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Africa | Sudan |
Date posted: May 01, 2009
arrow icon. A Journey’s Reflection 
A child directs a donkey in Dondona, an Arab village in Southern Darfur, that has received families displaced by fighting between Arab communities. Sudan is a place of contrasts: dusty and dry, lush and green; Muslim and Christian; peaceful and hostile. It is also a place where one can see Easter hope springing up in corners where once all hope was lost. You can see it on the faces of children who attend school -- be it under mango trees or in thatch-roofed classrooms.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: Children | Christian love | Communities | Education | GBGM programs | Hunger | International affairs | Refugees | UMCOR | United Methodist Church | Volunteers | Partners/partnerships | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Africa | Sudan |
Date posted: May 01, 2009
arrow icon. The Holston Conference's First Fact-finding Mission to Yei in Southern Sudan 
Patients wait to be examined and treated by medical volunteers at the first medical clinic in Yei, set up by the Holston and East Africa conferences. In 2006, the Holston Annual Conference, having decided to send a team to Yei in Southern Sudan, requested assistance from Global Ministries' Africa office staff. The idea for this trip sprang from a chance meeting between Holston Conference members and the "Lost Boys of Sudan."
Source: New World Outlook
More about: Christian love | Education | GBGM programs | Poverty | Refugees | UMCOR | United Methodist Church | Volunteers | Partners/partnerships | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Africa | Sudan |
Date posted: May 01, 2009
arrow icon. An American-African Partnership in Southern Sudan 
Children, who are cared for by widows on the Yei UMC compound, improvise play activities. Driving home down Interstate 81 toward Knoxville, Tennessee, we witnessed a beautiful sunset behind the mountains of East Tennessee. Having just attended an all-day "packing party" with those who would leave in just nine days for Southern Sudan, we had thoughts of Sudan on our minds.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: Communities | GBGM programs | International affairs | United Methodist Church | Volunteers | Partners/partnerships | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Africa | Sudan |
Date posted: May 01, 2009
arrow icon. Hallelujah Moment from USA: "There Is Water Everywhere" 
This canoe shed at Wesley Acres Camp in North Dakota was destroyed by an onslaught of ice and water when the nearby creek flooded.

In the space of 10 minutes, a torrent of water and ice rushed through the grounds of Wesley Acres (United Methodist) Camp near Valley City, North Dakota, destroying the canoe shed and overflowing much of the property.
Source: Mission Education
More about: Communities | Natural disasters | Volunteers | United States |
Date posted: Apr 03, 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. Border Health Partnership Builds on Local Initiative 
Pharr Better: Mission teams repair 8-10 homes each year for families that live in substandard conditions.

Pharr, Texas, March 20, 2009--A new United Methodist Border Health Partnership in South Texas is building on the work of a small membership congregation in the city of Pharr, near McAllen and just across the Rio Grande from the Mexican city of Reynosa.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
More about: Communities | Education | Evangelization | Health | Human rights | Hunger | Immigration | Justice | Mission opportunities | Race | Volunteers | Youth | Mexico |
Date posted: Mar 20, 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. Youth Fast Today to Change Tomorrow 
New York, NY, February 4--A campaign to link United Methodist youth to the realities of local and global poverty is being expanded into pilot areas across the United States after a successful launch in New Jersey.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
More about: Children | Easter | GBGM events | Global connections | Health | Hunger | Justice | Lent | Poverty | United Methodist Church | Volunteers | Youth | Advance | North Eastern U.S. |
Date posted: Feb 06, 2009
arrow icon. Applications Still Open for 2009 Global Justice Volunteers Program 

There is still time for young adults between the ages of 20 and 30 to apply for short-term, volunteer mission service in the 2009 Global Justice Volunteers program of The United Methodist Church. The 2009 areas of service are Asia and Africa.
Source: Mission Volunteers
More about: GBGM programs | Global connections | Globalization | Mission opportunities | United Methodist Church | Volunteers | Youth |
Date posted: Jan 21, 2009

arrow icon. Doris Hess, Retired Mission Leader, Dies at Age 84 
Doris Hess

New York, January 16, 2009--Dr. Doris Hess, 84, a retired United Methodist missionary and long-time mission agency executive, died on January 13 following a long illness.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
More about: Education | Volunteers | Women | Australia | Philippines | Russia |
Date posted: Jan 16, 2009

arrow icon. Brooklyn Church Offers a Warm Welcome to Hundreds of Immigrants 
Maudelyn (left), shown with Alston (right), from Tobago, found JFON at Wesley UMC after she lost thousands of dollars to an unscrupulous lawyer. When Pastor Pauline Wardell-Sankoh came to John Wesley United Methodist Church in 2000, she did not realize the extent of passion for immigration justice that had begun to take root a year earlier. The church, with a membership of about 200, is located in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: Advocacy | Education | GBGM programs | Immigration | Justice | Refugees | UMCOR | United Methodist Church | Volunteers | North Eastern U.S. | United States |
Date posted: Jan 05, 2009
arrow icon. Celebrating the Volunteer Experience 
Dr. Betty Whitehurst and Rev. Walter Whitehurst led the group in songs from several countries, followed by readings from volunteers quoted in their book. Following God's Call: Individual Volunteers in Mission is a challenge to United Methodists to use all of their abilities and talents in the cause of God's mission in the world.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Christian love | Communities | GBGM events | GBGM programs | Mission opportunities | Missionaries | United Methodist Church | Volunteers | North Eastern U.S. | United States |
Date posted: Nov 18, 2008
arrow icon. Mission Volunteers 
A young child in prayer. The ministry of the laity has always been at the core of the Wesleyan movement. From its beginnings in the late 18th century, as today, the laity of the predecessors of The United Methodist Church (UMC) have been active in ministries with the poor, higher education, church planting, health care, advocating for the rights of women and children, organizing against slavery, advocating for those in prison, and seeking justice. Laypeople have taken the lead in building hospitals, institutions of higher learning, and community centers.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: Christian love | Communities | GBGM programs | International affairs | John Wesley | Mission opportunities | United Methodist Church | Volunteers | World |
Date posted: Nov 01, 2008
arrow icon. Methodist Churches Thrive in Indonesia Despite Uncertainties 
Undu-undu: A tithe of the rice harvests is used for Christmas, to help fund church building, and as a gift to the pastor's family. Stories of hope and courage abound among the congregations of the autonomous Methodist Church of Indonesia, a mission partner of The United Methodist Church. Here are some recent accounts of the power of grace and faith.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Children | Education | GBGM news | Global connections | International affairs | United Methodist Church | Volunteers | Youth | Advance | Methodism | Indonesia |
Date posted: Oct 28, 2008
arrow icon. Hallelujah Moment from Mongolia:
 "A Bright Future"
These Sunday School teachers in Mongolia won't be leading boring classes!

The teachers were excited! And I could see that there is a bright future for Mongolia!

On one clear Saturday, nearly 100 teachers and prospective teachers from the three United Methodist congregations in Ulaanbaatar (Gerelt, Chingeltei, and Damba) gathered for a Sunday school teachers' seminar led by Jodi Cataldo, a Global Ministries staff member.
Source: Mission Education
More about: Children | Christian love | Education | Global connections | United Methodist Church | Volunteers | Youth | Mongolia |
Date posted: Oct 17, 2008

arrow icon. Announcement: New E-Newsletter from The Advance 
In a few days, The Advance is launching a free monthly email newsletter. Advancing Hope will give you the updates on United Methodist missionaries and projects that can be supported through The Advance.
Source: Advance
More about: Advocacy | Finance | GBGM programs | Health | Missionaries | Newsletters | United Methodist Church | Volunteers | Women | Youth | Advance | Mission updates |
Date posted: Oct 07, 2008
arrow icon. Global Justice Volunteers: The Program 
Global Justice Volunteers 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
More about: Global connections | Volunteers | Youth | Ghana | Sierra Leone | Zambia |
Date posted: Oct 07, 2008

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