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October
57 articles found for October, 2004.
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We came to this community of Chicuque in
Inhambane Province, Mozambique as a sixteen
member Volunteer-in-Mission Team from Troy
Conference (eastern New York and Vermont). We’d
been prepared to launch a new construction
project for Chicuque Rural Hospital: a building
to house a diagnostic center with X-ray
equipment promised through the World Health
Organization. Sometimes the “mission” one
prepares for and the “mission” God requires
takes two different paths!
Date posted:Oct 29, 2004
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Women's Division President, Kyung Za Yim shares
her
story and vision as a member of United Methodist
Women and president of the Women's Division.
Date posted:Oct 29, 2004
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Expressing continuing concern about the people
of Sudan, the United Methodist Board of Global
Ministries has designated $100,000 to assist
with the humanitarian crisis there.
Date posted:Oct 29, 2004
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More than 60 Women's Division directors and
staff
lined a main thoroughfare in Stamford, Conn.,
during
the lunch hour Saturday, Oct. 16, holding signs
urging
passersby to vote and calling for voting
procedures that
ensure all people of all races have equal access
to
voting.
Date posted:Oct 28, 2004
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Killingsworth Home, which has served women in
crisis since 1947, is a National Mission
Institution of the General Board of Global
Ministries ... Today, my faith has brought me
through so many things...
Date posted:Oct 28, 2004
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Rev. John Calhoun is assigned to the Moscow
Protestant Chaplaincy in Russia. As pastor of an
English-speaking international Protestant
congregation, John’s ministry is with Christians
from around the world. “Moscow is an incredibly
challenging place to live ... especially for
persons of color and other minority groups...."
Grace and peace to you from Moscow, in
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Date posted:Oct 28, 2004
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UMCOR Recommends Quick Impact Support for Grenada, Haiti
A team of United Methodist relief specialists just
back from Haiti and Grenada is recommending new
quick impact initiatives to help both island
nations recover from devastating hurricanes in
recent weeks. Urgent needs in Haiti include a
speed-up of food distribution and reconstruction
of homes. Grenada needs help restoring its nutmeg
industry and in rebuilding community centers.
Date posted:Oct 28, 2004
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Reformation Day commemorates the achievements of
the great reformer Martin Luther in challenging
the abuse of power and correcting doctrinal
teaching in the 16th century Catholic Church.
Common themes of the reformers such as the
authority of scripture and the practice of
Christian piety are still reflected in the
Protestant churches of the Lutheran and
Calvinist traditions.
Date posted:Oct 27, 2004
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The Boys’ Group at the NewHolly Teen Center
organized a very successful food drive this
spring and learned more about hunger in the
process.
Date posted:Oct 27, 2004
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Annual Report: United Methodist Committee on Relief
This booket describes the work of the United
Methodist Committee on Relief in 2003. UMCOR
links the hearts of generous donors with the
hands of equally generous beneficiaries around
the globe. Our work is a miracle of connection.
Thank you for engaging in this miracle with us.
Date posted:Oct 26, 2004
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Free DVD: A Generation of Hope- Orphans of the AIDS Crisis in Zimbabwe
The documentary "A Generation of Hope," now
available as a free DVD, highlights the
resilience of children whose parents have died of
AIDS. It is an inspiring story of how Zimbabwe's
children fight to keep their families together
and struggle to make a future for themselves.
Date posted:Oct 26, 2004
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UMCOR Team Heads for Darfur
The United Nations calls it "a crisis out of
control." A 14-year-old resident of an internally
displaced persons camp in the region told an aid
worker, "We have lost everything." To this place
of loss-- the Sudanese region of Darfur-- UMCOR
this week dispatched a team of workers. Over the
next three weeks the team will explore ways to
expand the agency's involvement in delivering aid.
Date posted:Oct 26, 2004
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UMCOR Hotline, October 26, 2004
UMCOR last week dispatched a team of workers to
the Sudanese region of Darfur. UMCOR's
assessments of Haiti and Grenada earlier this
month have identified unmet needs in both island
nations. Recovery efforts continue in areas of
the Atlantic seaboard and Gulf Coast that were
thrashed by multiple hurricanes earlier this fall.
Date posted:Oct 26, 2004
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Churches worldwide will address violence against
women and children within the framework of a World
Council of Churches (WCC) campaign, "On the wings
of a dove".
Date posted:Oct 25, 2004
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Church Bulletin Insert: How the Children Hold On in the Midst of the AIDS Pandemic World AIDS Day Resources
This bulletin insert, which describes a new United
Methodist program to serve AIDS orphans and other
vulnerable children in Zimbabwe, can be used in
conjunction with World AIDS Day, December 1, or
another time of year.
Date posted:Oct 22, 2004
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It must be close to Halloween and harvest time.
The aisles of the local stores are overflowing
with candy brightly wrapped in orange and black
paper. The numerous pumpkin patches that have
appeared on most street corners, church parking
lots, and vacant lots are quite noticeable.
Everyone is selling pumpkins—the churches, the
schools and almost every store, regardless of
their specialty
Date posted:Oct 22, 2004
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STAMFORD, CT, October 19, 2004--A Korean
American congregation in New York City is giving
$130,000 to establish a new United Methodist
mission center to serve Kazakhstan and other
Central Asian countries that were once part of
the Soviet Union.
The Rev. Joong Um Kim, senior pastor,
and lay leaders of the First United Methodist
Church of Flushing, located in the Borough of
Queens, New York, presented the gift to the
General Board of Global Ministries at a meeting
of the mission agency’s directors here.
Date posted:Oct 22, 2004
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Stamford, CT, October 22, 2004--Directors of The
United Methodist Church’s mission agency,
meeting here, set up a process to receive and
assess reports of child sexual abuse by mission
personnel a generation ago in what is today the
Democratic Republic of Congo.
Date posted:Oct 22, 2004
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STAMFORD, Conn. (UMNS) - Two teen delegates to
an international conference on child labor
shared their passion for that issue with
directors of the Women's Division of the United
Methodist Church's missions agency, the General
Board of Global Ministries.
Date posted:Oct 22, 2004
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The Women's Division is seeking to bring together
United Methodist Women members who will commit to
working intensively on environmental justice issues
over the next four years.
Date posted:Oct 20, 2004
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Stamford, CT, October 19, 2004 – Bishop Joel
Martinez of San Antonio will serve a second four-
year term as president of the General Board of
Global Ministries of The United Methodist
Church. He was elected by the directors of the
agency meeting here on October 18-22.
Date posted:Oct 20, 2004
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Building a Better World, One Sip at a Time: A Sermon for Fair Trade Sunday
One day "Right will dwell in the desert and
justice will abide in the orchard. Justice will
bring about peace; and right will produce calm and
security. My people will live in peaceful country,
in secure dwellings and quiet resting places."
These words spoken through the prophet Isaiah,
describe God's vision of a new world community; a
community to be constructed, brick by brick,
through loving acts of mercy and compassion like
the ones demonstrated by the Good Samaritan in our
scripture lesson.
Date posted:Oct 20, 2004
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Fair Trade Sunday Worship Service
"How does God's love abide in anyone who has the
world's goods and sees a person in need and yet
refuses to help? Children, let us love not in word
or speech, but in truth and action" (1 John
3:17-18). This worship service is also available
as a bulletin insert. Get it in either PDF or WORD
format. See also Building a Better World, One Sip
at a Time, a sermon for Fair Trade Sunday.
Date posted:Oct 20, 2004
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For John Wesley, the founder of Methodism,
practicing his religion meant addressing
society's social needs as well.
But that concept of "social holiness" is in
danger of being lost in today's United Methodist
Church, according to Jan Love, who now leads
United Methodist Women and its administrative
arm, the Women's Division in the denomination's
Board of Global Ministries.
Date posted:Oct 20, 2004
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To help counteract possible voter
disenfranchisement, the Women's Division of the
United Methodist missions agency is supporting
voter-monitoring projects this election season.
The division, a unit of the Board of Global
Ministries, has been working with "Count Every
Vote 2004," a nonpartisan project that has
sponsored training for monitoring in some 10
states, according to Elmira Nazombe, the
division's staff executive for racial justice.
This model of human rights monitoring "is a good
thing that people can do at the local level,"
she explained.
Date posted:Oct 20, 2004
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United Methodists spend too much time, energy
and money maintaining their institutions.
Instead, the denomination should be investing
more heavily in people and their communities,
according to the Rev. R. Randy Day, chief
executive of the United Methodist Board of
Global Ministries.
Day pledged to move the denomination's mission
agency away from "institutional maintenance
only" and talked about the need to "pursue love"
when he addressed board directors Oct. 18 during
their annual meeting.
Date posted:Oct 20, 2004
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How can United Methodists impact the hunger
epidemic domestically and globally?
Answers to questions such as this are available
in a study guide designed to accompany an Oct.
24 television documentary focusing on hunger
issues.
The National Council of Churches produced the
one-hour program, Hunger No More: Faces Behind
the Facts, for the ABC-TV "Vision and Values"
series.
Date posted:Oct 20, 2004
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For the next four years, we have an opportunity
to paint
a portrait of who we want to be - of what we
want to
hang on the wall for posterity. We who are
responsible
for leading the Women's Division and United
Methodist
Women are beginning a new quadrennium.
Date posted:Oct 19, 2004
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This Action Alert describes the political, social,
economic and humanitarian crises currently facing
Haiti. In particular, it describes the quality of life for the
country's women and children.
Date posted:Oct 19, 2004
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In Brooklyn, United Methodist investments have
helped
convert an unused warehouse into a 400-bed
shelter designed to assist
the homeless in becoming self-sufficient.
In San Francisco, the church's financial
commitment is aiding
construction of a "healing center" for Native
Americans.
In Fort Worth, Texas, United Methodists helped
fund the conversion of a
former convent into affordable housing units and
arts-related space.
Date posted:Oct 19, 2004
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UMCOR Hotline, October 19, 2004
On October 24, ABC will air Hunger No More, a
documentary that shows how faith groups working
to end hunger. Last week UMCOR workers assessed
Haiti's storm-wracked northern region. Cleanup
efforts continue in Florida and other regions
thrashed by multiple hurricanes earlier this
fall. Flood buckets are urgently needed. This
week an UMCOR team will begin an assessment of
additional initiatives in the Darfur region of
Sudan.
Date posted:Oct 19, 2004
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Dawn Hand, communications director for the
United Methodist Church's Charlotte (N.C.) Area
and a leader at many levels of the denomination,
has been named the church's 2004 Communicator of
the Year.
Date posted:Oct 19, 2004
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The annual United Methodist Association of
Communicators' awards competition covered a wide
range of work.
Awards were bestowed in 17 categories during the
association's annual banquet Oct. 15.
Recognition included certificates of merit, Best
of Division honors and Awards of Excellence.
Date posted:Oct 19, 2004
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A nine-year old orphan boy named Carl Wade
called
the David & Margaret Home in La Verne,
California
home in the mid-1960’s. This summer - forty
years later - he raised thousands of dollars to
benefit David & Margaret Home and its current
residents.
Date posted:Oct 18, 2004
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To get to town, Mr. Zhao, blind since birth,
travels down the stone steps of the village
ancestral hall, through some bamboo forests,
along the narrow paths between rice fields until
he gets to the Yangtze River edge. He waits for
the local boat to take him 45 minutes to the
next stop up river before boarding a bus into
town. Several years ago he could have never
imagined himself so independent.
Date posted:Oct 15, 2004
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The concept of Asian Americans as a "model
minority" emerged in the 1960s. The phrase has
been used to imply that all Asian Americans are
hard working, well educated, and are members of
a successful minority race. However, while being
described as a 'successful race' may seem
complimentary to some, there are many reasons
why the phrase "model minority" is a myth and is
in fact detrimental to the Asian American
community.
Date posted:Oct 14, 2004
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The Nathaniel United Methodist Mission currently
serves approximately 2,100 households in various
ways during the course of a year. Most of the
residents are "working poor" and have limited
education and job skills. For these families,
Nathaniel Mission has become a source for a full
range of health care services, emotional and
spiritual support, and financial assistance.
Date posted:Oct 14, 2004
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Fact Sheet: Women and AIDS-- A Growing Challenge
In the early days of the epidemic, men vastly
outnumbered women among people infected with HIV.
In 1997, women made up 41% of all people living
with HIV. Today, nearly 50% of women are infected
globally– close to 60% in sub-Saharan Africa.
Women are more physically susceptible to HIV
infection than men. Male-to-female transmission
during sex is about twice as likely to occur as
female-to-male ones.
Date posted:Oct 14, 2004
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When Gail enrolled in the Youthbuild program
sponsored by Petersburg Urban Ministries (Va.),
she knew the road would be long and difficult -
but she succeeded.
Date posted:Oct 14, 2004
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Organ and Tissue Donor Sunday 2004
Organ and Tissue Donor Sunday, a new United
Methodist special Sunday observed as part of the
National Donor Sabbath, will be on November 14,
2004. The United Methodist Church says: "We
believe that organ transplantation and organ
donation are acts of charity, agape love, and
self-sacrifice."
Date posted:Oct 14, 2004
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Millard Fuller, president and founder of Habitat
for Humanity International, will receive the
2004 World Methodist Peace Award.
The award, given annually since 1977 by the
World Methodist Council, will be presented to
Fuller Dec. 8, at Glenn Memorial United
Methodist Church on the campus of Emory
University in Atlanta.
Date posted:Oct 14, 2004
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As November 2 approaches, United Methodist Women
are concerned about the potential disenfranchisement
of racial and ethnic minority groups, people living in
poverty, and obstacles they may face in the federal
election process.
Date posted:Oct 13, 2004
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UMCOR Hotline, October 12, 2004
On October 24 ABC television affiliates will
begin to air Hunger No More, a documentary that
shows how faith groups working to end hunger.
With funding from from UMCOR, the Cuban Council
of Churches is implementing recovery efforts in
Cuba. UMCOR is one of several ecumenical
partners clearing debris, rehabbing schools, and
providing fresh water in Haiti. Medicine Boxes
are needed now in Azerbaijan, flood buckets in
the United
States, and health and school kits in Liberia.
Date posted:Oct 12, 2004
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Have You Heard Me Today? World AIDS Day 2004: Women, Girls, HIV and AIDS
Each year, World AIDS Day is observed on December
1. "Have You Heard Me Today? Women, Girls, HIV
and AIDS" is this year's theme. United Methodists
are encouraged to observe this event on or near
that day. Women now make up around half the
people living with HIV. Globally women and girls
are becoming infected with HIV at a faster rate
than men and boys.
Date posted:Oct 12, 2004
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In a survey of United Methodist congregational
development leaders, Anna Workman expected poor
funding to be cited as the No. 1 cause of failed
new churches.
To her surprise, money wasn't even mentioned.
Instead, she consistently heard grumbling,
lamentations and outright horror stories about
poor leadership - from inexperienced or poorly
trained pastors to mismatched assignments to an
inadequate system of expectations and
accountability.
Date posted:Oct 12, 2004
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A frequent question asked of the Mission
Information Line at the General Board of Global
Ministries is "Can a lay person be a
missionary?" The response is an
emphatic, "YES! Please visit the biographical
sheets online and see the various ways God has
placed lay persons as missionaries."
Date posted:Oct 11, 2004
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When Lindell Haverstic applied for free web
space, he had no idea that his church’s web page
would be the 10,000th site approved by GBGM Web
Hosting. An admitted beginner at web design and
web publishing, Lindell enlisted the aid of the
UMConnect community of web masters and produced
an initial site that gives Moundville United
Methodist Church, Missouri, a presence on the
World Wide Web.
Date posted:Oct 11, 2004
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Curtis Daniel Upton, from Hazel Green, AL, is
serving as a Church and Community Worker with
Justice For Our Neighbors (JFON) project. The
primary focus for JFON is to provide immigration
legal services to those in need, while also
providing the congregations and church
volunteers an opportunity to reach out to the
sojourners in their midst.
Date posted:Oct 07, 2004
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Scores of American teens, who have everything
they need, paying $200 or more to spend a week
living as if they had nothing. Adults who have
comfortable beds at home choosing to live
temporarily in a hut, sleeping on a bamboo
floor. Schoolchildren who could be swinging or
climbing on a playground at recess instead
working with yarn spun from the hair of llamas
or molding soap from goat's milk.
Date posted:Oct 06, 2004
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Shirley Townsend Jones is a missionary of the
General Board of Global Ministries serving as a
Church and Community Worker with the
Bennettsville-Cheraw Area Cooperative Ministry
in Bennettsville, South Carolina.
Date posted:Oct 06, 2004
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Lyyisa V. Harris is the new director of the
United Methodist Development Fund (UMDF), an
investment fund that makes loans to build
sanctuaries, parsonages, and other mission-
related buildings.
Date posted:Oct 05, 2004
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Once again this month, thousands of United
Methodist congregations will join other people
of faith in their communities – Christian,
Unitarian, Jewish, Baha’i, Muslim – to celebrate
Children’s Sabbath. Sponsored by the Children’s
Defense Fund and endorsed by over 200
denominations and faith groups including the
United Methodist General Conference, this is an
annual interfaith opportunity to join in prayer,
education, and advocacy on behalf of children
and their families.
Date posted:Oct 05, 2004
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UMCOR Hotline, October 5, 2004
UMCOR highlights several initiatives to support
World Food Day October 16. Teams from UMCOR will
assess storm damage in Haiti, Grenada and the
Caymans this week. UMCOR has sent grants to the
church in the Bahamas, Cuba and Haiti, and to
international partners in Grenada. In the
southeastern United States, long-term case
management plans for hurricane survivors have
resumed. UMCOR issues urgent call for flood
buckets and Medicine Boxes. In Liberia, school
and health kits are needed.
Date posted:Oct 05, 2004
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Jeanie Leeper is a Church and Community Worker
assigned by the General Board of Global
Ministries of the United Methodist Church to the
Matthew 25 Ministries, a program of the Missouri
Conference in Versailles, MO. Jeanie directs the
services provided by this ministry such as
health and respite care, transportation, minor
home repairs, and grief or loss support for
people who are not eligible for other programs.
Date posted:Oct 05, 2004
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The Rev. P. Michael Watts is a church and
community worker with the General Board of
Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church
assigned to Petersburg, VA. A clergy member of
the Virginia Annual Conference, Mike works with
youth in the community in rebuilding neglected
housing.
Date posted:Oct 05, 2004
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Our church was blessed to have a group of
Volunteers in Mission lead our service
recently. They had been to Mozambique and had
lots of inspirational stories to tell but it was
hard for me to concentrate on their message
after watching them sing and dance with the
children.
Date posted:Oct 04, 2004
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UMCOR and Florida Annual Conference Respond Together to Meet Needs after Storms
When the Florida Conference responds after a major
disaster, such as hurricanes Charley and Frances,
it doesn't do it alone. The United Methodist
Committee on Relief (UMCOR) lends a generous hand.
Tom Hazelwood, UMCOR's director of emergency
services, began working in Florida at the request
of Bishop Timothy W. Whitaker days after Hurricane
Charley hit. That work has expanded to include
recovery efforts for hurricanes Frances and Jeanne
and any other storms that may hit during this
hurricane season.
Date posted:Oct 02, 2004
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