I have just returned from almost seven months in mission in Haiti. It is a time of joyous homecoming, of sad separations, of rest and recovery, of reflection and thanksgiving. I have seen God at work in unmistakable ways. I have been blessed to participate in the miraculous and healing work of Christ. It has been amazing.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Nov 29, 2010

The Millennium Development Goals aimed at lifting the economic status of the world's poorest people are in the spotlight as the United Nations opens its new session September 20-22. This Summit is intended to measure progress toward the attainment of the goals and to serve as a recommitment during the next five years.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Sep 20, 2010

For untold years, women and children in Las Mesas, Nicaragua, walked two miles each way to get water. Grandmothers, mothers, and children made this trip several times a day, every day-- walking in flimsy flip-flops across sharp rocks and hard-baked soil. They were going to fetch 5- gallon buckets of water, each filled bucket weighing 40 pounds.
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: Aug 02, 2010

These are just some of the ways that teachers, parents, pastors, and kids in United Methodist churches can join in the 2010 Children's Fund for Christian Mission. This annual fund offers creative ways to capture and build on children's natural enthusiasm for learning about and caring for children in the world through mission.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Jun 04, 2010

Are you ever hungry during church? Regardless of whether I eat breakfast or skip it entirely before the service, I am always hungry. This is especially the case on Sundays when communion is offered. Oddly, though, on these Sundays I am never hungry after I take communion. There is something quite literally filling about the Eucharist--the Body of Christ--that sustains me.
Source: Advance
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Date posted: Apr 09, 2010

It was Tuesday morning. Since Palm Sunday I have been experiencing Holy Week in a different way from previous years. I have been preparing for my first trip to Haiti, which is also my first trip as Deputy General Secretary nominated to lead the Mission and Evangelism Program of Global Ministries. The trip to Haiti gave me a special insight into Jesus' walk to the cross. I saw His experience of death and resurrection re- lived by the people of Haiti. I felt I was about to meet Him again in the suffering of that people.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Apr 07, 2010

My husband and I have served as mission volunteers on La Gonave Island, Haiti, since 2007. Few in the United States know that La Gonave belongs to Haiti and is the most remote area of the country. Southern La Gonave is 40 miles from the Haitian mainland on the windward side--the area that gets hit by most of the hurricanes but receives little of the normal rainfall. Ground water there is deep or nonexistent, so water accessibility is a problem and food production is a challenge.
Source: New World Outlook
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Date posted: Apr 05, 2010

March 26, 2010, Plymouth, Michigan--Instead of breaking yolks, they decided to break yokes. Using materials provided by The Advance's B1 campaign, the youth of First United Methodist Church in Plymouth, Michigan, raised over $5,400 to give to the Kiev Street Children Ministry, Advance #14054A and to the Haiti Emergency Fund, Advance # 418325 in response to the January earthquake.
Source: Advance
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Date posted: Mar 26, 2010

On February 1, 2010, the First United Methodist Church of Flushing, Queens, gave $60,000 to UMCOR relief efforts in Haiti. Church parishioners gave about $45,000 through a special offering, and the church gave the rest.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Feb 08, 2010

In terms of single-event viewership, it's the biggest sporting event of the year in the US. It's so big, the US government refers to it as an unofficial American holiday. It generates billions of dollars in economic activity. It's a 60-minute game that becomes a several-hours-long telecast. It's the Super Bowl.
Source: Advance
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Date posted: Feb 01, 2010

Singing the Haitian hymn "Béjè mouin, sè you Roua d'amou / Adonai's my loving Shepherd" is one way we can pray with the people of Haiti.
Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Jan 25, 2010

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
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Date posted: Nov 01, 2009