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June
26 articles found for June, 2003.
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Sometimes you look at yourself and can’t imagine
how or why you landed in a particular moment –
but you absolutely wouldn’t be anywhere else.
That’s the situation I find myself in as I dodge
cars and motorized bikes in the bustling city of
Kampala, capital of Uganda.
Date posted:Jun 30, 2003
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Radio Africa International in collaboration with
the General Board of Global Ministries web team
has launched its new web site. The new home page
allows visitors have access to the dynamic and
perceptive programming offered daily to
listeners the world over. Whether you speak
English or French, you will find a wealth of
information, music, interviews and more.
Radio Africa International is one way that The
United Methodist Church reaches out to Africa
and the world to share God’s healing love and
grace.
Date posted:Jun 26, 2003
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Justice for Our Neighbors: Offering Hospitality to the Immigrant in our Midst
JFON is a network in mission of the United
Methodist Committee on Relief, Annual
Conferences, local congregations, and ecumenical
partners. The General Board of Global Ministries
of The United Methodist Church initiated Justice
for Our Neighbors (JFON) in 1999 as a response to
increasingly complex immigration regulations
stemming from the far-reaching immigration law of
1996.
Date posted:Jun 25, 2003
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The Methodist Church in Brazil is the result of
the mission endeavors of the two Methodist
Episcopal Churches in the U.S. in the nineteenth
century. By the 1930s, the Methodist Church of
Brazil had attained its autonomy and embarked on
a process of self-determination and discovery of
its contextual identity as Methodists in a Latin
American country.
Date posted:Jun 25, 2003
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Sara Simmon is missionary of the General Board
of Global Ministries of The United Methodist
Church serving as a Church and Community Worker
with Housing and Neighborhood Developers (HANDS)
in Nebraska. HANDS is a community development
agency offering direct services, employment and
housing renewal. Sara describes some of her work
in Omaha.
Date posted:Jun 25, 2003
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Most United Methodist mission personnel
evacuated from war torn Liberia in early June
are being temporarily assigned to other
ministries in West Africa, primarily in refugee
camps.
Date posted:Jun 25, 2003
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Chet and Jodi Cataldo, missionaries of The
United Methodist Church assigned to Lithuania,
offer glimpses of their missionary journey in
newsletters called “Kodak Moments”. Read how
church growth continues in the region where they
serve-- even under difficult circumstances.
Date posted:Jun 24, 2003
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It's the life of a rock band. They take the
stage, pour out their hearts through their
music, greet the fans, and then head back to the
tour bus with the promoters to do the same thing
in another town, on another day, day after day.
But this group is different. First, its venues
aren't stadiums but United Methodist churches.
Second, when the group members greet their fans,
they are not speaking a common language. But the
biggest difference is that the relationship they
have with their fans is symbolic of a much
larger bond that goes beyond their music.
Date posted:Jun 23, 2003
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Two United Methodists are among a dozen
Christian leaders calling on President George W.
Bush to ask Congress to restore child tax credit
provisions that were dropped from the tax bill
he signed in May.
The leaders, who wrote to Bush on June 19,
represent denominations affiliated with the
National Council of Churches of Christ in the
U.S.A. They include the Rev. Robert Edgar, the
NCC's top staff executive and a United
Methodist, and Bishop Melvin G. Talbert,
ecumenical officer for the United Methodist
Council of Bishops.
Date posted:Jun 23, 2003
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For twelve years there has been a National
Observance of Children’s Sabbath. Sponsored by
the Children’s Defense Fund, this annual
opportunity has provided congregations, temples,
mosques and more with resources for recognizing
the special place children have in our society
and our role as a faith community to nurture
them. Over 200 denominations and faith groups
have endorsed this observance. The United
Methodist Church recognizes it officially by
placing it on the United Methodist Church
calendar.
Date posted:Jun 20, 2003
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Lazarus Gets a Second Chance through Chicuque Rural Hospital
This is the story of Lazarus, a survivor of civil
war, who suffered from an unknown sickness when
he was a teenager that left him paralyzed, blind
and mute. Because of the care he received at
Chicuque Rural Hospital, Lazarus, whose very name
has Biblical significance, was given a second
chance at life.
Date posted:Jun 19, 2003
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“I have trusted the words of Apostle Paul in
Hebrews 10:23 [as] I have experienced and
nurtured the dream of a future with more
dignity, which is more just, for my nation and
for the world. ‘Let us hold unswerving to the
hope we profess, for he who promised is
faithful,’” Diana Fernandes dos Santos reflected
in her application to participate in the Global
Justice Volunteers program.
Date posted:Jun 18, 2003
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The well known quote from Emil Brunner,
that… “The church exists by mission as a fire
exists by burning,” is an apt definition of the
missional work of the General Board of Global
Ministries, as the whole church also. What then
is mission education? It is sitting around that
fire, experiencing the warmth and light, and
telling the stories of how it was built and why
and all the people whose lives have been changed
by that fire.
Date posted:Jun 18, 2003
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Regional Schools of Christian Mission in June
and annual conference schools of mission in July
and August introduce two new United Methodist
Church studies of global missions and continue a
third. Resource material for each is now
available from the General Board of Global
Ministries, the international mission agency of
the denomination.
Date posted:Jun 17, 2003
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“You know, it seems like I’ve been sick off and
on since my husband died.”
“I started gaining weight right around the time
of my divorce.”
“I’m in such a good mood today; my arthritis
doesn’t even hurt!”
“My son’s suicide really overwhelmed me. I’m
not sleeping well, and I have a lot of headaches…
my blood pressure’s been kind of out of control,
too.”
Date posted:Jun 16, 2003
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After a recent VIM trip to Troy Annual
Conference in Vermont and Northeastern New York,
Rev. Morais G. Quissico sent the following
message. He and several others United
Methodists from Mozambique participated in the
second Volunteers in Mission trip from
Mozambique to the US. This has been an
inspiring experience for the hosting Annual
Conference as well as the VIM team.
Date posted:Jun 16, 2003
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Chicuque Rural Hospital Helps a United Methodist Woman Beat Tuberculosis
Adelina Nhantumbo, 36, is gentle and unassuming.
An United Methodist, Adelina currently lives next
door to the United Methodist Church's guesthouse
in the rural fishing village of Chicuque,
Mozambique. One warm day in March, while living
in Maputo, Mozambique's capital, Adelina began to
feel ill.
Date posted:Jun 13, 2003
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On Pentecost Sunday we celebrate the birth of
the church, but
more importantly, the day we celebrate the
coming of the Holy Spirit and
the day the disciples got their "marching
orders."
Date posted:Jun 11, 2003
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Twenty-four employees of the General Board of
Global Ministries, who collectively represent
450 years of service, are retiring at the end of
June as a result of new pension policies of The
United Methodist Church.
Date posted:Jun 10, 2003
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The pastor, Rev Henry Frueh is a gentle, quiet
spoken pastor who invites the children to join
him near the front pews of the sancutary. The
children almost run to join him. They gather on
the floor in anticipation of another great story.
Date posted:Jun 09, 2003
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Chicuque Rural Hospital Saves Woman from Ectopic Pregnancy
At 35, Suzana is married and two months pregnant
with her third child. While very excited about
having another baby, Suzana is not without fear.
At this stage in her previous pregnancy Suzana
had developed complications due to an ecotopic
pregnancy which resulted in the death of her
child. Following this traumatic experience, she
did not have another baby for nine years.
Date posted:Jun 09, 2003
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A gathering of Iraq’s religious leaders and
meetings with heads of government in Lebanon and
Iraq have led executives of the U.S. National
Council of Churches to renew their call for
nonviolent solutions to the Middle East’s
problems and for more humanitarian aid.
Date posted:Jun 05, 2003
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A United Methodist returning from three months
in the Middle East is troubled by Israel’s
construction of a wall to separate its citizens
from the Palestinians, but he also came away
with hope.
Date posted:Jun 05, 2003
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ACTION ALERT Côte d’Ivoire: A Country in Distress, An Opportunity to Act
June 2003
From: UNITED METHODIST WOMEN’S ACTION NETWORK
Women’s Division – General Board of Global
Ministries
100 Maryland Avenue, NE Suite 530 – Washington,
DC 20002
Tel. (202) 488-5660 * Fax (202) 488-5681
Date posted:Jun 01, 2003
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Women's work is never done, especially for women
living in poverty, raising children alone,
stretching pennies in an era when it takes
hundreds of them to buy a simple meal. Women's
work goes undervalued, unpaid, unrecognized as
work because it does not generate income.
Date posted:Jun 01, 2003
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The first Father's Day service was observed July
5, 1908, in the Williams Memorial Methodist
Episcopal Church in Fairmont.
Date posted:Jun 01, 2003
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