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February
43 articles found for February, 2004.
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Landmark Constitution Points Afghanistan Toward a New Stability
Warren Harrity, United Methodist Committee on
Relief head of mission in Kabul, says "This was a
great achievement. While the constitution may not
please all parties, the great benefit of the
process to the Afghan people is its completion in
a transparent manner."
Date posted:Feb 27, 2004
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Ganta Hospital in Liberia Reopens March 15
Struggling to emerge from a near-total
destruction of its facilities last summer, the
United Methodist Ganta Hospital in Liberia plans
to restore some basic services by March 15.
Cherian Thomas, an executive with the health and
relief unit of the United Methodist General Board
of Global Ministries, confirmed that the hospital
will be reopened to provide outpatient and
emergency services, as well as 30 inpatient beds
for maternal deliveries and medical emergencies.
Date posted:Feb 27, 2004
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Boris Trajkovski, a United Methodist who helped
unite his country of Macedonia and was admired
in many circles for his skills at peacemaking
and bridge building, died Feb. 26 in a plane
crash in southeastern Bosnia.
Date posted:Feb 26, 2004
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The organization of United Methodist Women, in
the current STAPLES campaign is asking the
office
supply giant to permanently stock “processed
chlorine free” paper. United Methodist women
have been practicing paper recycling on an
ongoing basis. We support using recycled
content
paper products to produce “processed chlorine
free” (PCF) paper, taking the quality of paper
to
a higher level on behalf of consumers, the
industry and the environment.
Date posted:Feb 25, 2004
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In a church in Denmark,
framed letters on the sacristy wall read,
Remember the shortness of life,
the certainty of death,
and the length of eternity.
Date posted:Feb 25, 2004
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Ash Wednesday, the start of the forty-day Lenten
Season, calls Christians to serious reflection
on the meaning of sin and penitence. Its very
name comes from the ancient practice, so
dramatically illustrated in the Book of Job, of
retreating to “sackcloth and ashes” when
confronted with the glory and honor of God.
Date posted:Feb 24, 2004
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UMCOR Hotline, February 24, 2004
About 4,800 survivors of the Bam earthquake will
soon leave their tents for semi-permanent housing
funded in part by UMCOR. Tropical cyclone Heta
has caused a food shortage in the affected
islands. Haiti is "a great human catastrophe,"
according to the Rev. Raphael Dessieu.
Date posted:Feb 24, 2004
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The 11:00 a.m. Sunday Morning hour has been long
established as the most segregated hour in
America. An adage frequently quoted by the civil
rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., this
was confirmed again in a recently aired
documentary “America Beyond The Color Line:
Dialogues with African Americans.” Based on the
companion book by Harvard Professor Henry Louis
Gates Jr., the study examines the social and
economic standing of Blacks in America during
the thirty-five years since the death of Dr.
King.
Date posted:Feb 23, 2004
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How to restart normal lives after nearly 14
years of war is
the daunting challenge facing nearly 3 million
Liberians. Especially
hard hit are some 365,000 who sought shelter in
other parts of the
country. They are internally displaced--that is,
unable to return to
homes leveled in fighting or to towns that are
marginally stable--and
without possessions.
Date posted:Feb 20, 2004
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Alex Awad, a Palestinian Christian and GBGM
missionary serving with his wife in Israel sends
a prayer for peace. He pastors a small
international church in East Jerusalem and
teaches courses at Bethlehem Bible College,
where he serves as faculty member, dean of
students and board member.
Date posted:Feb 19, 2004
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The Rev. Carol Thompson, who heads the rural
ministry office at the General Board of Global
Ministries, will preach at the National
Cathedral in Washington, DC on Sunday, March 28
in a service honoring the State of Idaho.
Date posted:Feb 19, 2004
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Members of the 1-million member United Methodist
Women are starting a
new fight against environmental toxins that are
suspected of causing
breast cancer.
Date posted:Feb 19, 2004
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225 United Methodist Women from around the
country went to Nashville, TN this summer 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, which took
place August 2-8 was a question: “If not now,
when. . . If not me, who?”
Date posted:Feb 18, 2004
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I have considered myself to a part of the United
Methodist Women for as long as I can remember.
As a child I went with my great-grandmother,
grandmother, and my mother to countless spring
bazaars, rummage sales, and mission outreach
projects. Recently I was elected Vice President
of my local unit at Emanuel United Methodist
Church.
Date posted:Feb 18, 2004
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Trafficking is the “...recruitment,
transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt
of persons...” by improper means, such as force,
abduction, fraud or coercion, for an improper
purpose, like forced or coerced labor,
servitude, slavery or sexual exploitation.
Date posted:Feb 18, 2004
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This year’s young women’s event, “Empowering
Young Women” was a huge success! We spent three
days and two nights at Camp Glisson in
Dahlonega. Over sixty young women, primarily
middle and high school age, attended and each
left asking when the next event would be held!
Dr. Alice Rodgers, from Emory University, was
the speaker and she did a beautiful job relating
the theme “Woman at the Well” to each young
woman. Workshops, music, dance, banner-making,
and litany readings provided an opportunity for
everyone to bring their strengths to the table.
Date posted:Feb 18, 2004
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In the summer months the youth volunteer. They
fully understand what is going on in the world.
Some of them are so mission-minded. They say —
this is what I will do. And they do it,” marvels
Glenn Druilhet, director of Depot Operations,
UMCOR Sager Brown, Baldwin, Louisiana.
Date posted:Feb 18, 2004
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Last spring, I applied for the Ethnic Young
Adults (EYA) Internship Program with the General
Board of Church and Society. I received
confirmation of my selection as one of eleven
2003 EYA Interns but wasn’t quite sure what my
role was going to be as an intern at my
placement; the Religious Coalition for
Reproductive Choice in Washington, D.C.
Date posted:Feb 18, 2004
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The work continues for United Methodist Women as
they continue to support the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms Of Discrimination
Against Women (CEDAW or Women's Convention) and
its ratification.
Date posted:Feb 17, 2004
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The General Board of Global Ministries is deeply
concerned about the growing violence and
political instability in Haiti. We are
monitoring the situation from a humanitarian
perspective and also because Haiti is one of the
most popular destinations for United Methodist
Volunteers in Mission teams—more than 80 teams
made up of 700 people a year.
Date posted:Feb 17, 2004
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In the last two issues of this newsletter, we
have provided information about the rapid and
continuing growth of the Hispanic/Latino
population in the United States—examining the
implications and challenges of this expansion.
Date posted:Feb 17, 2004
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As we come to the end of the 2001-2004
quadrennium, we celebrate God’s constant
presence with us, strengthening and guiding us
along the way. God has become real to us by
blessing our ministry through acts of mercy and
abiding love.
Date posted:Feb 17, 2004
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A list of training events with dates and contact
persons follows.
Date posted:Feb 17, 2004
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We need your prayers for, support of, and votes
for the continuation of the National Plan by the
2004 General Conference to ensure our ongoing
mission during the next quadrennium. In all the
matters that will come before its consideration,
we ask your prayers for this General Conference.
Date posted:Feb 17, 2004
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These plans are essential if The United
Methodist Church is to be the Church—an
inclusive body for all God’s people. The five
plans have committed themselves to work together
to continue helping the denomination become even
more inclusive and welcoming. Thanks be to God.
Date posted:Feb 17, 2004
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The National Plan is changing its name to
reflect its expanded mission. On gaining
approval from the 2004 General Conference, it
will be called The National Plan for Hispanic/
Latino Ministry. This change is being made to
reflect our diversity and because Portuguese-
speaking Brazilian Americans are being
incorporated into the Plan, joining those whose
family origins were in Spanish-speaking
countries.
Date posted:Feb 17, 2004
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A list containing future dates for the National
Plan for Hispanic Ministries follows.
Date posted:Feb 17, 2004
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Thomas and Sharon Crowe serve in the face of war
in the village of Nyembo Umpungu in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo: following is
an excerpt from a newsletter that details their
work.
Dru Smith is a Missioner of Hope
stationed in Kitwe, Zambia, where she serves
TASC, the Training, Assistance and Support of
Children Project
Date posted:Feb 16, 2004
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Let us come together in this United Methodist
Women campaign to honor all of those who have
had
a cancer diagnosis by taking a few minutes to
help make a difference! If there isn't a Staples
store near you, go to the web and please request
New Life DP 100 and pass these materials along.
Encourage a relative, friend, or co-worker who
could make this quick visit to do so.
Date posted:Feb 16, 2004
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Relief Agency Provides Water to Baghdad Slum
The Baghdad suburb of Hai Tarek is an unusually
harsh place, and conditions here - muddy roads
covered with garbage, no sewage system, the
effects of sickness and trauma - underline the
continued importance of humanitarian assistance.
Date posted:Feb 13, 2004
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Volunteers Give Back at UMCOR Sager Brown
More than 2,700 volunteers go to UMCOR Sager
Brown each year to process disaster relief
supplies, distribute boxes of food to seniors and
assist the surrounding community in Baldwin,
Louisiana. But some volunteers, like Evelyn
Lewis, have a special connection to the center.
Lewis, who has lived near Bayou Teche in Baldwin
for seven decades, remembers Sager Brown as a
haven from the racial prejudices of the South.
Date posted:Feb 13, 2004
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On Ash Wednesday, Feb. 25, Mel Gibson's
controversial new film, The Passion of the
Christ, opens in theaters to fears by some that
it could impair Jewish Christian relations or
lead to a rise in anti-Semitism. The National
Council of Churches Interfaith Relations
Commission has prepared a reflection guide for
Christians who want to consider an array of
issues raised by the film.
Date posted:Feb 13, 2004
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UMCOR Hotline, February 10, 2004
In Liberia, UMCOR has begun on a proposal to
provide training for ex-combatants in farming and
blacksmithing. Two strong earthquakes killed 48
people in Indonesia last week. UMCOR has sent an
emergency grant to Samoa, which is recovering
from Tropical Cyclone Heta.
Date posted:Feb 10, 2004
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The United Methodist Church has a unique
opportunity to address the issue of
Institutional Racism. Our denomination created
the Community Developers Program in 1968 to
address equality and civil rights; many of the
congregations who joined that ministry in 1968
still actively work to involve The United
Methodist Church in supporting and protecting
the rights of people of African descent and
other similarly disenfranchised groups.
Date posted:Feb 09, 2004
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The General Board of Global Ministries of The
United Methodist Church today disaffiliated
itself with the efforts of South Carolina State
Senator Robert F. Ford to bring casino gambling
to the state and said that it had no current
professional relationship with the legislator.
Date posted:Feb 06, 2004
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After assisting with wildfire recovery on two
reservations in Southern California last
December, United Methodist disaster response
workers from the Oklahoma Indian Missionary
Conference have returned to continue case
management with tribal members on a reservation
near San Diego.
Date posted:Feb 05, 2004
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UMCOR Hotline, February 3, 2004
Delivery of medicines, school kits, and a
creative theater arts project are part of
the 'All Our Children Program' in Iraq. Private
charities like UMCOR have been working
in Liberia despite lack of security, distributing
mattresses and food to displaced persons living
in camps near Monrovia, the capital city.
Date posted:Feb 03, 2004
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Mission Update is the quarterly newsletter of the
Women's Division, which goes to all local,
district and conference units of United Methodist
Women.
Date posted:Feb 03, 2004
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When United Methodists meet this spring for
their quadrennial legislative session, they will
have to sort through approximately 1,500 to
1,600 petitions submitted by church agencies,
regional conferences and other groups and
individuals.
Date posted:Feb 03, 2004
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The face of the United Methodist Church is
becoming increasingly multinational - a change
that will affect the denomination's top assembly
this spring, according to Bishop Ruediger Minor.
"The number of delegates from other countries
will be larger than ever before, which leads to
a reduction of U.S. delegates," said Minor, who
oversees the church's Eurasia Area out of Moscow
and is president of the Council of Bishops.
Date posted:Feb 03, 2004
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In January 2002, President George W. Bush signed
the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) into law.
No
Child Left Behind reauthorized the Elementary
and
Secondary Education Act (ESEA) - the principal
federal law affecting education from
kindergarten
through high school. Buried within the 650 pages
of the No Child Left Behind Act is Section 9528,
which requires secondary schools to release
student directory information for juniors and
seniors to military recruiters upon request.
Directory information consists of a student’s
name, home address, and phone number.
Date posted:Feb 03, 2004
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Maria Sabino Humbane is a missionary of the
General Board of Global Ministries of the United
Methodist Church assigned to church and
community ministries in Mutare, Zimbabwe. Maria
is married to Dr. William James Humbane and has
five adult children, four sons and one daughter.
She is a member of Hilltop United Methodist
Church in Mutare, Zimbabwe. In the following
story, she shares good news about the Ishe Anesu
Project, which she helped found.
Date posted:Feb 02, 2004
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A United Methodist pastor's reluctant trip to
Russia has led to a
continuing
relationship with a school for deaf children in
the city of Stavropol.
"I'm passionate about this now," said the Rev.
John Speight, pastor of
Christ Church, a United Methodist congregation
in Fairfax Station, Va.
Date posted:Feb 02, 2004
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