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July
36 articles found for July, 2003.
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The Church and Christians have a responsibility
to address politics and social issues.
This is the belief of around 250 United
Methodist Women from around the country as they
arrive in Nashville on Saturday to address
social justice issues and discern their
responsibility as Christians to be actively
involved in the issues affecting women and
children. The theme of the quadrennial
National Seminar of United Methodist Women
taking place in Nashville August 2-8,2003
is "If not now, when?... if not me... who?"
Date posted:Jul 30, 2003
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Summit challenges church to make urban poor a
priority
Date posted:Jul 29, 2003
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Marking the 50th anniversary of the Korean War
armistice, a United Methodist forum called on
congregations to support peacemaking efforts for
North and South Korea in the year ahead.
Date posted:Jul 28, 2003
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Esther Karimi Gitobu, a missionary of the
General Board of Global Ministries of The United
Methodist Church assigned to Cambodia, shares
her thoughts in a recent newsletter. Her
husband, Nicholas Gitobu, is also a GBGM
missionary based in Cambodia.
Date posted:Jul 27, 2003
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Tragic stories about people's difficulties
leaving or entering Palestine/Israel are common
among Palestinians. One such story of a
Palestinian being denied basic human rights
struck a particularly personal note with the
staff at the International Center of Bethlehem
(ICB) this week. Internationally-recognized
musician Marwan Abado, an Austrian national of
Palestinian origin, was denied entry upon his
arrival on Sunday, 20 July and he was
subsequently deported on the 21st.
Date posted:Jul 24, 2003
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The United Methodist General Board of Global
Ministries is deeply
concerned about the chaotic political and
military situation in Liberia,
a country in which our Church has been actively
involved in mission
since its founding in 1822.
Date posted:Jul 22, 2003
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The Wyoming Annual Conference is growing its
Shalom ministry in
significant ways, thanks to the leadership of
its conference
coordinator, J.P. Duncan. Since the summer of
1999, eleven Shalom sites
have received training. Following is J.P.'s
story:
Date posted:Jul 21, 2003
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Medicine Box Update, July 2003
Even though contributions have declined in recent
years, the response shown since the last update
on March 27, 2003 has been quite impressive.
While only 17 boxes were donated and received at
Interchurch Medical Assistance in the first
quarter of 2003, more than 111 were donated in
the second quarter. We thank very much all
participants for this very encouraging response.
Date posted:Jul 21, 2003
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Who Cares for This Kid? UMCOR Does (Liberian Child Soldiers)
This boy soldier with his "teddy bear" backpack
was recently photographed on the streets of
Monrovia, Liberia. His country is at war. Through
UMCOR, caring people like you have helped re-
train 70 child soldiers each year and enabled
them return to school and find civilian jobs.
However, as this photograph makes clear, we have
much more work to do.
Date posted:Jul 18, 2003
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The following letters come to us from The
Reverend Sandra K. Olewine who is a missionary
of the General Board of Global Ministries of The
United Methodist Church assigned to Catholic
Relief Services in Jerusalem, Israel/Palestine.
Date posted:Jul 16, 2003
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Top mission leaders of The United Methodist
Church have commended President George W. Bush
for making AIDS prevention and treatment a major
priority on his early July tour of Africa.
Date posted:Jul 15, 2003
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Holly Kendall, Deaconess serving as Director of
the Circle of Hope House in Ohio, shares
reflections from her participation with an
epiphany team at a pre-release center for women
in prison.
Date posted:Jul 14, 2003
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The World Hunger/Poverty Program has been an
integral part of the United Methodist Committee
on Relief’s (UMCOR) mission to enable United
Methodist congregations to put love into action.
More than 800 million people in the world go
hungry every day. This fact is difficult to
comprehend since we live in a world that has
unparalleled wealth and food production
capacity. It is not a question of whether there
is enough food but a
matter of accessibility and equal distribution
to all people, regardless of their class,
gender, geography, religion, earning power, or
status.
Date posted:Jul 14, 2003
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I enjoy coffee every day, including Sundays in
my home church, Bellaire United Methodist Church
in southwest Houston. Until recently, I did not
think about the men and women who labored to
grow the coffee in my cup. Now I see how a small
decision, like the brand of coffee I buy, can
make a difference in their lives.
Date posted:Jul 14, 2003
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Persistent famine is a theme throughout the
Bible, particularly in the Old Testament.
Abraham and Sarah suffered famine in their time
and had to move the whole family and all they
possessed into Egypt. Their son, Isaac, suffered
through another famine. Isaac’s son, Jacob,
endured yet another famine. Jacob’s son, Joseph,
saved his family and many thousands more from a
terrible famine that encompassed Egypt and
surrounding countries in the Middle East.
Date posted:Jul 14, 2003
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The Korean peninsula, with a 5000-year history
as one people and culture with common ethnic
origins, language, and traditions, was annexed
as a Japanese Protectorate in 1910. The
liberation of the peninsula from Japanese
occupation in 1945, after World War II, left a
geopolitical vacuum. Forces from the Soviet
Union, through the northern border, and from the
United States, through Japan in the south,
filled the vacuum. The country was divided along
the 38th parallel.
Date posted:Jul 14, 2003
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Vernon Sloan’s family has owned the Sloan Family
Farms for six generations. He has worked as a
farmer on his land all his life. He and his wife
Carol had been searching for a way to help
alleviate hunger in other countries, but they
weren’t sure how to get started.
Date posted:Jul 14, 2003
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A friend once said to me: “I don’t know how you
can do your job. You have to read devastating
stories about starving children, wars, and
people cheated out of their land. It would just
depress me.”
Date posted:Jul 14, 2003
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Camp Dogwood Mobilizes to Battle Hunger
The soil at Camp Dogwood is blooming again with
fresh vegetables and new hope-- the hope of
becoming a national model of hunger relief,
agricultural renewal and community uplift. Camp
Dogwood, a historic rural tract of 250 acres near
Nashville is being worked into farmland that will
serve as a fresh-food supply link to low-income
urban neighborhoods-- and a business opportunity
to youngsters.
Date posted:Jul 11, 2003
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David and Cynthia Ceballos are missionaries of
the General Board of Global Ministries of The
United Methodist Church assigned to the
Protestant Church of Spain and to the Presbytery
of Catalonia. In this newsletter, they describe
their welcome by the people of their new parish
and the beginnings of their work.
Date posted:Jul 11, 2003
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As war and starvation ravage her native Liberia,
Abbie Kla-Williams prays for U.S. intervention
and worries about the family she left behind
several years ago.
Liberia is a long way from Rockville, Md., where
the United Methodist woman has lived since
coming to America in 1996. The pain is evident
in her voice as she talks about her family -
five children, six grandchildren and a great-
grandchild. She fears for their safety and
worries about whether they have enough food. Two
grandchildren, ages 18 months and 7 years old,
died of starvation in 1990.
Date posted:Jul 11, 2003
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The United States and the United Methodist
Church must take immediate action to bring peace
to Liberia, says Bishop Felton Edwin May, who
has consulted with the White House on
humanitarian and economic issues in Africa.
Date posted:Jul 11, 2003
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UMCOR / Liberia Program Description
UMCOR-NGO began its operations in Liberia in
1996. Since its establishment, UMCOR/Liberia has
provided emergency-related and post-crisis
assistance to those most in need. UMCOR/Liberia's
programmes have included a wide range of
activities, including agriculture,
water/sanitations, education/training, and health
care. UMCOR/Liberia works in coordination with
its local partner, the Liberian United Methodist
Church (LUMC).
Date posted:Jul 08, 2003
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Liberia Emergency: UMCOR's Response
As the current civil war in Liberia brings fear,
destruction and death to the already displaced
people in Monrovia, The United Methodist
Committee on Relief (UMCOR) seeks to offer aid
and hope in partnership with The United Methodist
Church (UMC) in Liberia.
Date posted:Jul 08, 2003
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The Rev. Dr. Mark Abbott is a United Methodist
missionary with the General Board of Global
Ministries assigned with his wife, Diane—also a
GBGM missionary—to serve in Madrid, Spain. He
is professor of New Testament in the United
Evangelical Theological Seminary.
Date posted:Jul 07, 2003
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John Wesley: Holiness of Heart and Life
John Wesley started a movement of practical piety-
- a movement that continues today. Resources for
reading, inspiration, and group study, including
background on women and Wesley's times.
Date posted:Jul 07, 2003
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Cote d'Ivoire: A Country in Distress, An Opportunity to Act
For three decades following its independence
from France in 1960, Côte d’Ivoire, also known
as the Ivory Coast, had one of Africa’s
strongest economies and was politically a pillar
of stability in a region plagued by wars.
Date posted:Jul 07, 2003
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Action Alert: The Big Secret
A report by the Lawyers Committee for Human
rights has noted that “the right to have rights
is precious – and it is at risk in the United
States today.”[i] On October 26, 2001,
President Bush signed the USA PATRIOT Act
(“Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing
Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and
Obstruct Terrorism.”) This Act awarded the FBI
and CIA broad authority to wiretap phones,
monitor email and survey financial records, as
well as to deport or detain non-citizens
indefinitely.
Date posted:Jul 07, 2003
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Liberians Seek Refuge in Sierra Leone
UMCOR/Sierra Leone is currently implementing
water and sanitation programs in Tobanda refugee
camp; the eighth refugee camp to open in Sierra
Leone since the start of the newest Liberian
crisis.
Date posted:Jul 07, 2003
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In El Salvador, Volunteers Build Homes and Offer Vacation Bible School
Asbury United Methodist Church from Maitland,
Florida sent a mission team to Jayaque, El
Salvador from May 31 to June 7, 2003. Our
mission
was to build homes for victims of the 2001
earthquakes, offer Vacation Bible School for the
local children, and to build relationships with
the people of El Salvador. This was a return
trip
for our church as we sent a team to Jayaque in
2002. We were very excited to return and once
again serve in Jayaque.
Date posted:Jul 05, 2003
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Church World Service Sends $1.2 Million in Supplies to Iraq
Church World Service, one of the United Methodist
Committee on Relief's ecumenical partners, is
shipping $1.2 million in donated medical supplies
to Iraq. With the United States focused on law
and order and rebuilding efforts, "Church World
Service is keeping front and center the extreme
humanitarian and health conditions that many
Iraqi people are still experiencing -- especially
the children," said the Rev. John McCullough,
executive director of CWS and a United Methodist.
Date posted:Jul 03, 2003
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Rev Sandra Olewine, United methodist missionary
serving as United Methodist Liason sends her
thoughts on the recent changes in Bethlehem.
Date posted:Jul 02, 2003
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Assam Floods: Over 400,000 Displaced
In mid-June, the first phase of floods triggered
by heavy monsoon rains hit the north-eastern
state of Assam displacing over 400,000 persons.
UMCOR's ecumenical partner Churches Auxiliary for
Social Action (CASA) has taken up a small flood
relief program for 1,000 families in Karimganj
district.
Date posted:Jul 02, 2003
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United Methodist Women Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
During the April, 2002 Spring Board meeting; the
Women’s Division joined the Campaign for Tobacco-
Free Kids.
Date posted:Jul 01, 2003
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Information Sheet for “A Christian Call for Peace” A petition for peace in the Middle East
The petition’s purpose is to engage concerned
Christians and congregations in Middle East peace
advocacy.
Date posted:Jul 01, 2003
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The Gospel hymn primarily developed in the urban
revivals led by Dwight L. Moody, D.W. Whittle and
later, Billy Sunday. Each of these revival
preachers had as part of their team a song leader
who selected songs, sometimes wrote them and led
the singing for the services. Philip Bliss worked
with D.W. Whittle; Ira Sankey with Dwight Moody;
and Homer Rodeheaver with Billy Sunday.
Date posted:Jul 01, 2003
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