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The June 1999 Response magazine explored the
issues of prison ministry and restorative
justice. In it were included accounts of the
involvement of United Methodist Women in prison
ministry. MOTHER AND CHILD REUNIONS is reprinted
by permission of the author, Andrea Allard. The
other three are summaries of articles which can
be found in the magazine.
Date posted:Dec 30, 1999
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Although crime is down, more and more persons are
imprisoned each year, criminal justice consumes
ever growing percentages of our tax dollars and
yet we do not feel safe.
Date posted:Dec 30, 1999
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Vieques: Lucha y Esperanza
Del 17 al 21 de diciembre estuve acampando en el
área donde la marina de guerra de los Estados
Unidos realiza prácticas de bombardeo, desembarco
y otros tipos de adiestramientos. Como es de
conocimiento de todos, dichas prácticas han
estado suspendidas desde abril de 1999, cuando
dos bombas mataron a David Sanes Rodríguez e
hirieron a otras cuatro personas.
Date posted:Dec 28, 1999
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Churches throughout Africa and around the world
are being invited to recite the following prayer
on Christmas Day. The prayer was composed by an
ecumenical delegation which visited Sierra Leone
in November. It is being sent to African churches
by the All Africa Conference of Churches, which
hopes thereby to stimulate "a response to the
Sierra Leone situation by the Church in Africa"
and "international action for peace and
reconciliation" there.
Date posted:Dec 22, 1999
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Beginning in 2001, United Methodists in Sweden
will have the option of paying a church tax
collected through the government's regular
taxation system. That action will be granted
under Sweden's new "Religious Communities Act"
which provides all churches and religious
communities with the right to establish their own
identities, as well as the option to use the
income tax system to collect membership fees.
Date posted:Dec 21, 1999
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The first of a series of delegations from the
United Methodist Board of Global Ministries
visited the Puerto Rican island of Vieques Dec.
17-20 to express support for the people there.
Date posted:Dec 21, 1999
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Tears poured down Dixie Carter's cheeks as she
read Once Upon a Christmas to the aged residents
of Wesley Fountain Place, an assisted living
facility in Milan, a small West Tennessee town
near Dixie's own childhood home of
McLemoresville.
Date posted:Dec 21, 1999
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Six young adults recently completed participation
in the Global Mission Volunteers pilot program of
the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries.
The Global Justice Volunteer Program is now
moving out of its pilot phase and accepting
applications for placement on three sets of teams
in 2000.
Date posted:Dec 20, 1999
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Twenty-four persons assigned to United Methodist-
related ministries from Tonga to Macedonia,
Liberia to Chile, were commissioned in Atlanta,
GA, Dec. 12, 1999 by the General Board of Global
Ministries.
Date posted:Dec 20, 1999
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"I arrived around noon today at the 'Christian
campsite of evangelical obedience' located in the
restricted zone on Vieques." Thus UMC missionary
Don Reasoner begins his account of plans for a
weekend of UMC participation with the Methodist
Church of Puerto Rico in the political protest
movement currently taking place in Vieques,
Puerto Rico.
Date posted:Dec 17, 1999
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Responsively Yours, March 2000 Headlines To Cheer
History -- women's history -- is being made each
day by women around the world as they step out in
solidarity and support of their sisters and the
causes that give justice to women and children.
Read these headlines and the brief stories behind
them and celebrate the women who are taking risks
to make the world a better place for all.
Date posted:Dec 17, 1999
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"Bible Study: For Such a Time As This" by Joseph
A. Agne To begin this Bible study, the reader
must review the book of Esther and ask
him/herself some questions about the characters
involved in this story. Isn't there a bit of
each
of these characters in us? This Bible study then
takes an in-depth look at the characters in this
story and how the Biblical figures apply to us
today.
Date posted:Dec 17, 1999
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"Build the field and they will come..." So was
the message of the movie classic "Field of
Dreams." But does it really work?
Date posted:Dec 17, 1999
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Acting on a resolution passed at its fall meeting
last October, the General Board of Global
Ministries (GBGM), has embarked on a campaign of
support for the Methodist Church of Puerto Rico
over the U.S. Navy's use of Vieques island for
training with live ammunition.
Date posted:Dec 16, 1999
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The temporary suspension of United Methodist
funding to the National Council of Churches (NCC)
has been lifted.
Date posted:Dec 16, 1999
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More than 20 years ago, the surplus of good food,
particularly potatoes, gone to waste led Rev.
Horne and Rev. Ray Buchanan, two United Methodist
ministers, to begin a small local hunger relief
program from an unused sheep shed in Big Island,
VA. Seed money to begin this ministry came from
World Service and Conference Benevolence
apportionment of the Virginia Conference.
Date posted:Dec 16, 1999
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The United Methodist lay pastor recently elected
as president of Macedonia invoked the "healing
words" of Abraham Lincoln at the end of his Dec.
15 inaugural address. Boris Trajkovski noted
that Lincoln "paid the ultimate price" to bring
the United States back together after its civil
war.
Date posted:Dec 15, 1999
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Delegates to the U. S. Conference of the World
Council of Churches' annual meeting Dec. 9-11
paid tribute to a martyr, the Rev. Martin Luther
King Jr., and heard from a living legend,
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, as they examined the
role of churches in bringing reconciliation to a
divided world.
Date posted:Dec 15, 1999
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When the Rev. Kathryn Bannister told her Kansas
parishioners she would be attending the annual
meeting of the U.S. Conference of the World
Council of Churches, one church member advised
her, "You need to talk about us."
Date posted:Dec 15, 1999
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The compassion and concern for individuals,
families and communities with mental illnesses
led the General Board of Global Ministries to the
1992 General Conference Resolution: "We reaffirm
our confidence that God's unqualified love for
all persons beckons us to reach out with fully
accepting love to all, but particularly to those
with disabling inability to relate to themselves
or others due to mental illness."
Date posted:Dec 15, 1999
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East Timorese resistance leaders who have been in
exile are returning to East Timor to help
establish what is expected to become the newest
nation in the year 2000.
Date posted:Dec 14, 1999
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Two hundred religious and human rights leaders
have appealed to President Clinton to help stop
the "genocide now taking place in Sudan."
Date posted:Dec 10, 1999
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Ceremony marks lighting of World Peace Globe
A smaller version of a World Peace Globe to be
installed in Manger Square in Bethlehem was
unveiled during a Dec. 7 ceremony at the Church
Center for the United Nations.
Date posted:Dec 08, 1999
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God's grace is needed for healing in this
community, according to the pastor of the teen-
ager who is being held for shooting and wounding
five classmates.
Date posted:Dec 08, 1999
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Speaking to a group of United Methodist
deaconesses and home missionaries in Washington,
D.C. on November 11, Mr. Whitner also shared
about his experiences in Vietnam where he served
as a combat medic and behavioral specialist.
Date posted:Dec 07, 1999
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A recent court interpretation of Russia's 1997
religion law should help local United Methodist
congregations as they register or re-register
with the government, according to Bishop Ruediger
Minor.
Date posted:Dec 06, 1999
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A satellite teleconference, set for April
25,2000, will explore "beginning of life"
decisions in the context of recent medical
advances and new scientific technology.
Date posted:Dec 06, 1999
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The head of the nation's Children's Defense Fund
(CDF) called on leaders of United Methodist-
supported mission institutions to help forge
partnerships with the CDF and other advocacy
organizations on behalf of young people.
Date posted:Dec 03, 1999
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The Leadership Training Event (UMW) November 19-21, 1999
Conference United Methodist Women members from
around the United States participated in an event
on November 19-21, 1999 that will help continue
mission for women and children in the next
millennium while continuing more than a century
of mission work.
Date posted:Dec 03, 1999
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Two United Methodist congregations have played
different roles during the events surrounding the
World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting.
The meeting drew both delegates and a wide
variety of protesters and activists during the
week of Nov. 28.
Date posted:Dec 02, 1999
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The Women's Division, United Methodist Board of
Global Ministries, is applauding a Nov. 29 U.S.
Supreme Court decision to review the
Massachusetts Myanmar Law.
Date posted:Dec 01, 1999
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