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

New York, NY, October 29, 2009--The fifth classroom at Wesley Primary School, Morogoro, Tanzania, has a foundation; now it needs only a floor, walls, windows, a ceiling, a roof, and equipment--in the next few months.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Children | Education | Poverty | Youth | Tanzania |
Date posted: Oct 29, 2009

The General Board of Global Ministries cordially and joyfully invites all members of The United Methodist Church to take part in the commissioning of new missionaries, deaconesses, and home missionaries on the evening of October 13, 2009.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: GBGM events | Missionaries | Youth | Focus on Leadership Development |
Date posted: Oct 12, 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

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, July 30, 2009--The 2009 United Methodist School of Congregational Development got under way with a rousing appeal to the denomination to greatly increase the number of ordained clergy under the age of 35.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Education | GBGM events | Globalization | United Methodist Church | Youth | Focus on Congregational Development | Focus on Leadership Development |
Date posted: Jul 30, 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

Colegio Rio Colorado, a mission-founded school near Bolivia, Yucumo, is celebrating its 25th anniversary. The institution, which focuses on agricultural, technical, and general studies for middle and high school students, was started as a partnership between the Evangelical Methodist Church in Bolivia and the General Board of Global Ministries. Four missionary families have served Rio Colorado. Below is an account of the anniversary from John and Suzanne Funk, the current missionaries. It is from "The Vine," the Funk family's newsletter.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Agriculture | Children | Education | Youth | Bolivia |
Date posted: Jun 18, 2009

New York, New York, June 9, 2009--Six years after Brittany Brooks' father dropped her off at Pfeiffer University for her first year in college, he drove her back again last month. However, Ms. Brooks returned to the United Methodist University not to pick up her dorm- room keys but to give the keynote address for "Mission Awareness Week."
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Mission opportunities | Youth | North Eastern U.S. | South Africa |
Date posted: Jun 09, 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

New York, NY, June 2, 2009--"We as young people should be leaders in reaching out and serving others," Joe Riddle said. Mr. Riddle is one of nine Summer Interns going to work at United Methodist-related community centers. "I believe that love is the answer, love will find a way."
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Children | Education | GBGM news | Hunger | Mission opportunities | Poverty | Youth | Focus on Ministry with the Poor |
Date posted: Jun 02, 2009

New York, NY, May 5, 2009--"Justice through Service" is the theme of the 2009 conference of South Asian Youth (SAY), a domestic organization within The United Methodist Church. It will take place August 7-9 at a retreat center in Larkspur, Colorado.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
More about: Bible | GBGM events | GBGM programs | Human rights | International affairs | Justice | United Methodist Church | Youth | Asia and the Pacific Islands | Afghanistan | United States | Bangladesh | India | Nepal | Pakistan | Sri Lanka |
Date posted: May 05, 2009

New York, NY, May 1, 2009--Scholarships totaling $1,348,321 for advanced and college- level study in the 2009-2010 academic year were approved on April 29 by directors of the General Board of Global Ministries, meeting in Stamford, Connecticut.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Civil rights | Education | Global connections | Globalization | International affairs | Loans | Mission opportunities | Youth | Focus on Leadership Development |
Date posted: May 01, 2009

New York, NY, April 24, 2008--In the age of Shrek and Bart Simpson, how does the church teach children about Christian mission and the Christian message?
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Children | Global connections | Globalization | Music | United Methodist Church | Youth |
Date posted: Apr 24, 2009