The "speed" at which a virus can appear to spread is astounding. Take the H1N1 (Swine Flu) virus as an example. We heard about it in reports from Mexico and soon we saw the first confirmed case in New York City. In the same week, five more cases were announced, then 21 cases, then a whole school was shut down, and then five schools in New York were closed, all in the same month.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: AIDS/HIV | Children | Communities | Health | Welfare | Women | Youth | Focus on Global Health |
Date posted: Nov 17, 2009

For more than 12 years, the Comprehensive Health Program of the Council of Evangelical Methodist Churches in Latin America and the Caribbean (CIEMAL) has been focusing on the church's response to health issues confronting Latin American and Caribbean communities.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: AIDS/HIV | Children | Education | Health | Women | Youth | Focus on Global Health | Caribbean Islands | Latin America |
Date posted: Nov 01, 2009

"What we need is not more words, but action!" proclaimed Bishop Kainda Katembo, episcopal leader for the South Congo Episcopal Area, as he spoke some years ago about the AIDS crisis in Africa. Thankfully, United Methodists heard that plea and have been responding in profound ways.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: AIDS/HIV | Children | Health | Women | Youth | Focus on Global Health | Africa | Congo DR |
Date posted: Nov 01, 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

“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

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

Evanston, Illinois, August 1, 2009--A number of Protestant women celebrated for their social ministries across the past two centuries understood themselves to be primarily evangelists, although they were rarely allowed to preach.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Evangelism | Evangelization | GBGM events | John Wesley | United Methodist Church | Women | Methodism | Focus on Congregational Development |
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

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

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
More about: Children | Health | United Methodist Church | Women | Focus on Global Health | Sierra Leone |
Date posted: Jun 12, 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

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