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January
32 articles found for January, 2004.
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UMCOR's One Great Hour of Sharing Art 2004 for Print and Web
Please use one or all of the three One Great Hour
of Sharing (OGHS) images on this page to promote
the OGHS offering for UMCOR and its ministries in
church newsletters and web sites. High resolution
versions are for printed media. Low resolution
versions are suitable for web pages.
Date posted:Jan 30, 2004
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Open dialogue can counteract the growth of
fundamentalism by providing people with an
opportunity to express their fears, discontents,
and frustrations. Community education that
opens people’s eyes to other religions,
political perspectives and cultures helps to
dispel stereotypes and break down barriers to
communication and cooperation between
communities.
Date posted:Jan 30, 2004
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Disability Concerns Resolutions: General Conference 2004
Dear Friends and Colleagues, I hope that you had
a meaningful Christmas/Epiphany and hope it is
not too late to wish you a happy new year. The
main focus of this letter to share with you the
petitions submitted to General Conference on
behalf of our caucus. The petitions were
formulated after receiving the feedback from
those who gave it.
Date posted:Jan 29, 2004
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UMCOR Hotline, January 27, 2004
The Souper Bowl of Caring is this Sunday. A
chronic food emergency grips Southern Africa,
with more than six million people at risk.
UMCOR's partners, the Middle East Council of
Churches has distributed health kits, food and
mattresses to Iran earthquake survivors. About
1,200 American Samoans remain in shelters in the
wake of tropical cyclone Heta, which ravaged the
island region earlier this month.
Date posted:Jan 27, 2004
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UMCOR Sager Brown: A Place of Mission for United Methodists
UMCOR Sager Brown serves the church by shipping
material resources throughout the world, offering
a low-cost meeting place, and providing many
volunteer opportunities. It is a joint effort of
the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR)
and the Women's Division, General Board of Global
Ministries, The United Methodist Church.
Date posted:Jan 26, 2004
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UMCOR Emergency Kits: Contents and Instructions
Be in mission by preparing emergency kits to be
distributed by UMCOR's Sager Brown Depot. Kits
include: Baby - Bedding - Cleaning Supplies -
Flood Bucket - Health Kit - Layette - Linens -
Miscellaneous - Paper Products - Personal Items -
School Kits - Sewing Kits.
Date posted:Jan 26, 2004
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UMCOR Sager Brown Urgently Needs Material Resources
UMCOR Sager Brown urgently needs material
resources," says Gwen E. Redding, executive
director of this vital United Methodist ministry
through the United Methodist Committee on Relief.
At this time, Sager Brown has enough volunteers
on site to process kits but, it may soon run out
of materials.
Date posted:Jan 26, 2004
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Taylor University’s 2003 homecoming celebrations
honored the recipient of the 2003 Distinguished
Alumnus for Professional Achievement Award, Dr.
William J. Humbane. Dr. Humbane is a recently
retired missionary of The General Board of
Global Ministries of The United Methodist
Church. The event took place in October, 2003 on
the Taylor University campus.
Date posted:Jan 26, 2004
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For 110 years, a United Methodist-related
ministry in the U.S.-Mexico border city of El
Paso, Texas, has been providing social services
to people among the least likely to succeed in
life.
Houchen Community Center operates in the city's
Segundo Barrio with the aim of enriching the
lives of its clients, who are about 98 percent
Hispanic/Latino. "We help needy people -
children, youth and senior citizens - survive in
a disadvantaged environment," says Executive
Director Elsie Connor.
Date posted:Jan 26, 2004
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God, You Give Us Recreation: A Hymn for Souper Bowl Sunday by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette
God, you give us recreation, rest and play when
work is through,
Game and sport and celebration, times that
challenge and renew.
In the days we spend together, in the feasts that
we prepare,
In the times of joy and laughter, may we know
your loving care.
Date posted:Jan 22, 2004
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UMCOR Hotline, January 20, 2004
Agricultural development in Bosnia & Herzegovina
receives a significant boost. In Iran, UMCOR is
assisting local partners in erecting tents and
distributing canned food to earthquake
survivors. In the northern India, residents face
the bone-chilling cold and heavy snow.
Floodwaters have inundated Trinidad, Bolivia.
Date posted:Jan 20, 2004
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The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, the
third week of each January, is a good time to
recognize and celebrate our ecumenical mission
partners. Fittingly, peace is the theme of the
2004 observance, recalling the fourth goal of
the General Board of Global Ministries, which is
to “seek justice, freedom and peace.”
Date posted:Jan 20, 2004
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Erlincy Rodriguez, a pastor and deaconess,
travels to five rural communities in Davao, the
Philippines, to teach about health issues and
also conducts three-day seminars on HIV/AIDS in
Western Visayas.
Date posted:Jan 20, 2004
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Last year, on the birthday of the Rev. Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., I was riding a New York
City bus when I overheard exchange between a
young white child and his parent on the reason
for the celebration of the day. In typical
curiosity of a child, the little boy (who
appeared to be age 4 or 5) questioned why time
was taken to recognize Dr. King. His mother, in
earnest effort to explain the late civil rights
leader's legacy, began with an example of racial
equality for which Dr. King stood.
Date posted:Jan 16, 2004
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For more than 30 years, United Methodist
churches have supported Red Bird Mission in
rural Kentucky by donating Campbell's Soup
labels.
Through the Campbell's Soup Co.'s Labels for
Education program, Red Bird Mission can exchange
soup labels for much-needed equipment and
supplies that help support its ministries.
Date posted:Jan 16, 2004
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The birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., January
15, is important to Christians not so much
because it is a federal holiday in the United
States but because of who and what King was: a
minister of the gospel who loved the church,
even when the church took wrong turns on race,
war, and economic justice.
Date posted:Jan 15, 2004
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At Women’s Division trainings, “Bible Women” –
as
the indigenous women are called – are armed with
a knowledge of HIV/AIDS, community-based health,
micro-credit, domestic violence, etc. They
choose the issue, based on what they see as
urgent in their areas.
Date posted:Jan 15, 2004
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On February 22, 2003, Mark Hicks, Executive
Director of Disciple Bible Outreach Ministries
conducted a workshop on the DISCIPLE Prison
Ministry in the Mississippi Annual Conference.
This event was sponsors by the Restorative
Justice Committee of the Mississippi
Conference. Among the attendees was Eugene
Wigglesworth, Director of Religious Services for
the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
Date posted:Jan 14, 2004
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The central question of this issue of New World
Outlook sets off many more questions. What do
you do about an open door? Do you go through it,
or do you stand at the threshold and call in? Do
you knock first? Do you wait for those inside to
come out before you relate to them? Do you close
the door? The question provokes more questions
than it does answers.
Date posted:Jan 13, 2004
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One foggy Appalachian summer morning about
halfway to the construction site, somebody in
the pickup truck noticed an open doorway in the
old home place at Cane Creek in Yancey County.
The curl of wood smoke and the clothes on the
line were evidence that a new young family was
living in that long-forsaken old building.
Instead of replacing the missing front door,
they had just hung up an old quilt.
Date posted:Jan 13, 2004
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Picture yourself living in another country with
different customs—among people speaking another
language, maybe having another value system or
set of beliefs—trying to communicate a message
of hope and life that is available to all
through the person of Jesus Christ. In the
evenings, you are exhausted from speaking and
thinking in this other language; you are
exhausted from accomplishing simple daily
tasks, such as shopping, mailing letters,
traveling from one part of the city to another,
and getting something to eat.
Date posted:Jan 13, 2004
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Many churches in the southeast region of the
Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference are
located in very rural areas. Church membership
is small on the average, smaller than the
definition of “small church” in the Book of
Discipline. Church members primarily are members
of the Choctaw Nation. The few elders present in
the congregations may speak entirely in the
Choctaw language. The services include tribal
hymns that date back more than 170 years to the
Trail of Tears.
Date posted:Jan 13, 2004
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“One more family in the church packed their
things, boarded up the house, and moved out this
week. They can’t find a job. they can’t sell
their house. all they feel that they can do is
start over.”
Date posted:Jan 13, 2004
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In any given year, the United Methodist
Committee on Relief (UMCOR) responds to a heart-
stopping range of emergencies: earthquakes,
hurricanes, floods, cyclones and typhoons, war,
civil strife, outbreaks of cholera, fire,
famine. For people caught in
these kinds of disasters, UMCOR becomes the
face, hands, and heart of The United Methodist
Church.
Date posted:Jan 13, 2004
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UMCOR Hotline, January 13, 2004
United Methodist volunteer teams may again enter
Haiti. UMCOR and its partner relief agencies have
installed hundreds of sturdy family-size tents to
help people endure the harsh winter weather.
Residents of eastern Ohio once again face a messy
cleanup after high water and flash floods damaged
homes in 13 counties over the weekend. In Indiana
flood waters swept over farmland.
Date posted:Jan 13, 2004
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“Human Relations Day is a very important day in
the United Methodist Church... As a new program,
we are very dependent on the funds received from
the Human Relations Day offerings that are
conducted nationwide through this program.
Without Human Relations Day, we would not have
been able to initiate the programs in our famous
Bedford Stuyvesant Community...."
Date posted:Jan 12, 2004
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The gap between developed countries and
developing countries still remains very large.
Inequalities in trade practices are hurting
developing countries. Despite the growth in
free
trade agreements, “low income countries account
for more than 40% of the population, but less
than 3% of the world trade.” There are
solutions to these inequalities.
Date posted:Jan 07, 2004
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In 1985 the Amity Foundation was created on the
initiative of Christians in China as a way to
live the gospel in Chinese society. Amity is an
independent voluntary social service
organization which promotes rural development,
health care, education, social welfare,
blindness prevention, special education, relief
and rehabilitation. Among its beliefs is a
strong conviction that the people of China must
assume leadership of China’s development.
Date posted:Jan 06, 2004
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The season of Epiphany celebrates the radiation
of God’s light and love in Jesus Christ into all
the world. It is a time for us to recommit
ourselves to the joy and responsibility of the
global proclamation of God’s Good News, to renew
our determination to effective bring new
believers into the Church and to serve those in
need with Christ-like compassion.
Date posted:Jan 06, 2004
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Response to Proposed Good News/Renew Petitions to General Conference Regarding the Women's Division
The Good News/Renew Network, unofficial
organizations of the denomination, are bringing
several petitions to General Conference that are
meant to undermine the work of United Methodist
Women and the Women's Division. Below are the
Petitions from Good News/Renew and the Women's
Division's response to each petition so that
United Methodist Women may speak to concerns of
church members and constituency about the issues.
Date posted:Jan 06, 2004
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In 2002, the Women’s Division launched Phase III
of the Children’s Campaign to focus on Advocacy,
specifically in Public School Education. This
publication is part of an ongoing series of
issue
papers designed to provide United Methodist
Women
and others with a variety of local concerns that
they can investigate and on which they may take
action.
Date posted:Jan 06, 2004
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UMCOR Hotline, January 6, 2004
UMCOR has sent an emergency grant to Bam, Iran,
for installation of tents for about 4,000
persons. The tiny southern Africa kingdom of
Swaziland could face crop failures due to a
drought. Tropical cyclone Heta swept past the
South Pacific island nation of Samoa over the
weekend.
Date posted:Jan 06, 2004
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