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June
47 articles found for June, 2004.
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Sudan Relief and Development Supplies Cost List
UMCOR's partner Action by Churches Together
released an illustrative relief supplies cost
list in June 2004. UMCOR invites church to use
this list to encourage donations to UMCOR's Sudan
Emergency, Advance #184385. The range of cost
enables larger or smaller United Methodist
congregations, groups, and individuals to choose
the amount of their contribution.
Date posted:Jun 30, 2004
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UMCOR Hotline, June 29, 2004
UMCOR has sent grants in the wake of storms in
Wisconsin and Texas. A new bulletin insert
describes the relief supplies ministry of UMCOR
Sager Brown. UMCOR participates in an ecumenical
response to the humanitarian crisis in the
Darfur, Sudan region. UMCOR will mount a new
program to combat trafficking of children and
women in Armenia. A coordinated faith-based
response addresses longterm flood recovery
efforts in the southern region of Haiti.
Date posted:Jun 29, 2004
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United Methodist Women consistently demonstrate
their concern and commitment to social justice
through their advocacy for the welfare of women,
children and families in the United States and
throughout the world. Development programs are
the means by which we seek to reduce poverty and
hunger, increase income and economic growth,
improve public health, and promote access to
education - all in an effort to improve people ís
quality of life.
Date posted:Jun 29, 2004
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On December 8, 2003 President George W. Bush
signed into law the Medicare Prescription Drug,
Improvement and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003.
This law is the largest expansion of the Medicare
program since it was created in 1965. The most
significant change this law has created is the
addition of an optional prescription drug
benefit, also known as "Part D," which will begin
in 2006.
Date posted:Jun 28, 2004
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A statement from R. Randy Day, General
Secretary, and Bishop Martinez, President of the
Board of Directors, the General Board of Global
Ministries of The United Methodist Church
regarding the turn-over of authority in Iraq
June 28, 2004.
Date posted:Jun 28, 2004
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David and Kristin Markay, GBGM missionaries
served in The United Methodist Church in
Lithuania, Missionaries-in Residence at the
General Board of Global Ministsries, and now
anticipate moving to Italy where they will serve
as pastors to the English speaking community of
Chiesa Evangelica Metodista di Milano. Below
they share some thoughts on their ministry past
and future.
Date posted:Jun 25, 2004
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Haitian Methodist clergy and key lay leaders met
in Port-au-Prince in mid-June to reflect on
recent troubles, and to sharpen their skills in
dealing with the aftermath of a series of recent
crises: the overthrow of the government of
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, occupation by
troops from the United States, and floods that
took the lives of more than 2,000 people along
the border between Haiti and the Dominican
Republic.
Date posted:Jun 24, 2004
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For decades, members of a small Mississippi
church thought there was little they could do to
push for justice in the deaths of three civil-
rights workers.
Now, a broad-based citizens' coalition is
calling on the U.S. Justice Department to reopen
the investigation into the 1964 slayings of
Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew
Goodman. Members of the Philadelphia Coalition
believe enough evidence can still be turned up
to bring murder charges in the case.
Date posted:Jun 23, 2004
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In a June 22 letter to U.S. Secretary of State
Colin Powell, the National Council of Churches
argued that the Bush Administration's new Cuba
measures would weaken, not empower Cuban civil
society organizations.
Date posted:Jun 23, 2004
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The Patriot Act was signed into law on October
26, 2001 ìto deter and punish terrorist acts in
the United States and around the world, to
enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and
for other purposes.
Date posted:Jun 22, 2004
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Since February 2003, massive human rights
violations have been taking place in Darfur, a
region in western Sudan.† Armed militias have
targeted civilians with violent attacks, forced
removal, rape, and execution.† In addition to
this ongoing violence, the people of Darfur face
starvation and disease. U.N. officials have
described the situation in Darfur as the worst
humanitarian crisis in the world.
Date posted:Jun 22, 2004
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UMCOR Hotline, June 22, 2004
UMCOR has joined many other humanitarian groups
in calling for an end to hostilities in the
eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. UMCOR is
providing grants to the Wisconsin and Kentucky
Annual Conferences where floods recently struck.
Food supplies, emergency shelter equipment, and
vehicles have delivered to the Southern Darfur
region of Sudan. Some 2,000 Zimbabwean children
will complete their education, thanks to a
generous gift from an anonymous United Methodist
family. A new UMCOR office opens June 29 in
Albania.
Date posted:Jun 22, 2004
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Calling the offer a public relations ploy, the
Coalition of Immokalee Workers has returned a
$110,000 check from Yum! Brands, the parent
company of Taco Bell.
Date posted:Jun 22, 2004
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The Rev. Paul Jeffrey is a missionary of the
General Board of Global Ministries of the United
Methodist Church serving in Central America
along with his wife, the Rev. Lyda Pierce, who
is also a GBGM missionary. Appointed to the
Christian Commission for Development (CCD) in
Honduras, Paul writes about the region for
church-based media in the north.
Date posted:Jun 21, 2004
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Delegates of the Sudan Ecumenical Forum
(SEF) from Africa, Europe, and North America
have hailed recent
peace protocols signed between the Sudan
People*s Liberation
Movement /Army and the government of Sudan, but
they would like
to see a final agreement clinched.
Date posted:Jun 18, 2004
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Rev R. Randy Day shares some of his thoughts
regarding fatherhood, children and God's grace.
Date posted:Jun 17, 2004
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A major donation from a United Methodist family
will underwrite school expenses for 2,000
children in Zimbabwe whose parents have died of
AIDS. Officials of the United Methodist
Committee on Relief and the Zimbabwe United
Methodist Church announced the six-year-long
project this week.
Date posted:Jun 17, 2004
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The Womenís Division of the General Board of
Global Ministries, parent organization of United
Methodist Women receives a vote of 835-26 by the
General Conference delegates affirming the work
and ministry of the Womenís Division.
Date posted:Jun 16, 2004
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NEW YORK (UMNS)-Dorothy Brown, the first black
woman surgeon in the South and a member of
United
Methodist Women, died June 13, in Nashville,
Tenn., after a life in which she opened doors
that had been closed previously to African
Americans and women. She was 90.
Date posted:Jun 16, 2004
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The Rev. R. Randy Day, chief executive of the
United Methodist Board of Global Ministries,
acknowledged the impact of the former
president's legacy. "Our mission prospected in
the former USSR and Eastern Europe were enhanced
by the political changes that Ronald Reagan
helped to bring about, although the roots of our
thriving mission in Russia came through
humanitarian efforts in response to a food
crisis caused by internal economic upheaval," he
said.
Date posted:Jun 15, 2004
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UMCOR Hotline, June 15, 2004
UMCOR is sending a grant to assist in storm
recovery efforts in Texas and monitoring storm
damage in Kansas and Kentucky. UMCOR is providing
a grant for emergency food assistance for the
Democratic Republic of Congo and exploring
possible interventions in the Bukavu region. The
toll from floods and mudslides in remote regions
of the Dominican Republic and Haiti is now over
3,000 dead or missing. UMCOR is giving an
emergency grant for an airlift of relief goods.
Date posted:Jun 15, 2004
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"Africa has sounded a distress call to reverse
depopulation of
her people by the HIV/AIDS pandemic," members of
the All Africa
Conference of Churches (AACC) said in a
statement at the end of a
three-day summit on 11 June. "The continent is
in a chronic
crisis of crippling poverty too."
Date posted:Jun 14, 2004
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Through its "Return to the Earth" project,
Religions for Peace-USA supports Native
Americans trying to bury ancestral remains now
scattered across the country and fosters
reconciliation between Native and non-Native
peoples, according to the Rev. Bud Heckman, a
United Methodist pastor who serves as executive
director.
Date posted:Jun 14, 2004
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Prayer, Cuba, and public education are the 2004-
05 mission study themes of The United Methodist
Church in the United States.
Mission studies themes and materials are
introduced each year in June at Regional Schools
of Mission, sponsored by the Women’s Division of
the General Board of Global Ministries.
Date posted:Jun 09, 2004
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Each attendee to a Conference School of
Christian
Mission has a story about how the school changed
their lives, opened their eyes, and educated
them
to mission.
With schools of mission educating close to
25,000
lay, clergy, children and youth every year,
these
mission education events have a large influence
on United Methodists. Each school offers a
spiritual growth, issue, and geographical study.
Date posted:Jun 09, 2004
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In an update of the earlier story about Keith
Turman participating in a marathon in Sweden,
Chan Turman writes from Stockholm Sweden....
Date posted:Jun 08, 2004
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UMCOR Hotline, June 8, 2004
At a camp in Liberia, UMCOR is offering health
screening, counseling, and training to help
former soldiers return to their communities.
Civilians in the disputed eastern DR Congo town
of Bukavu face a humanitarian crisis. UMCOR is
providing disaster relief grants to several
conferences affected by severe weather. Each day,
some five to seven farmers in India are taking
their own lives as a paralyzing drought causes
their crops to fail.
Date posted:Jun 08, 2004
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United Methodist Women's intern Ginena Dulley-
Wills has a two-year mission - focus on public
education and help women organize to advocate for
their children.
Date posted:Jun 07, 2004
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It was in response to this resolution on public
education and a long history of concern for the
education of children that the Womenís Division
voted to renew the Childrenís Campaign in early
2002. The goal of the UMW Campaign for Children
is to see that every child receives a good,
quality, free and accessible education.
Date posted:Jun 07, 2004
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Jerri Savuto is a missionary with the General
Board of Global Ministries of the United
Methodist Church, along with her husband Bill,
and served in Maua Methodist Hospital, Maua,
Kenya from 1998-2003 where she was a tutor in
the hospital RN program. Her responsibilities
included teaching nursing students in the areas
of anatomy, physiology, nutrition, pharmacology,
medical and surgical nursing, pediatrics, and
community health.
Date posted:Jun 03, 2004
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Summer’s here and the School of Congregational
Development is warming up for its annual
assembly, which will take place on Thursday,
August 5-10, 2004 at Ginghamsburg United
Methodist Church in Tipp City, OH.
Date posted:Jun 03, 2004
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Africa University made history May 29 by
awarding the first post-graduate diplomas and
master's degrees in peace and governance to
young people on the continent of Africa.
Fourteen young women and men from Burundi,
Kenya, Mozambique and Zimbabwe were the first to
graduate from the university's pan-African
Institute of Peace, Leadership and Governance.
Date posted:Jun 03, 2004
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Twenty-three-year-old Wellman Kavul pulled a
tattered sheet of paper from his wallet and
opened it on the table. It was the first letter
he received from Frank and Betty Anderson, the
couple who sponsored his four years as an
undergraduate at Africa University.
Date posted:Jun 03, 2004
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United Methodist Women are governed by several
layers of Church policy that form the foundation
for implementing environmentally just guidelines
when planning events.
Date posted:Jun 02, 2004
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El Comité Metodista Unido de Auxilio está
brindando asistencia de emergencia en la
República Dominicana y Haití, donde las
recientes inundaciones y aluviones de lodo han
causado la muerte de más de 2.100 personas.
Date posted:Jun 02, 2004
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The chief mission executive of The United
Methodist Church today took a cautiously
optimistic view of the recent formal moves
toward ending a long civil war in Sudan.
Date posted:Jun 02, 2004
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For the Rev. Keith Turman, running is a
pleasure, not just a way to
keep fit.
But the United Methodist missionary, based in
Lithuania, has chosen to
make his first marathon more than just an
enjoyable race past the
Swedish Royal Palace and Houses of Parliament in
central Stockholm.
Date posted:Jun 02, 2004
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This issue of New World Outlook considers
various aspects of the Protestant church in
Cuba, and the Methodist Church in particular.
This annual mission study supplement is offered
as a resource for the Schools of Christian
Mission.
Date posted:Jun 01, 2004
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The Methodist and United Methodist Conferences
in Cuba and Florida share a 121-year-old
partnership. It was established because the
Florida Conference envisioned Hispanic ministry
among Spanish-speaking peoples in Key West and
Tampa. Many were patriots and veterans of the
unsuccessful Ten Years’ War (1868-1878), an
uprising against Spain for independence. The
political asylum seekers found sanctuary only 90
miles north across the Florida Straits.
Date posted:Jun 01, 2004
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The Rev. Raimundo García Franco is a
Presbyterian pastor in Cárdenas, the city east
of Havana now known to many as the hometown of
Elián González. After serving as a pastor for 38
years, García founded the Christian Center for
Reflection and Dialogue in 1991 and has since
served as its executive director. With its own
dormitories and conference rooms, the center is
a busy place.
Date posted:Jun 01, 2004
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In January 1993, a team of volunteers from the
Methodist Association representing the cause of
Hispanic Americans (MARCHA) was able to visit
the Methodist Church in Cuba for the first time
after many years of isolation. This great
accomplishment paved the way for UMVIM to
establish a mission-related work-team program in
Cuba.
Date posted:Jun 01, 2004
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Since 1998, the General Board of Global
Ministries (GBGM) has deepened its involvement
with the Methodist Church in Cuba (IMECU),
developing a partnership that seeks to serve the
Cuban people as an outreach of God’s love. In a
series of consultations, the Methodist Church in
Cuba identified several areas in which outside
assistance in fulfilling its mission ministries
would be welcome.
Date posted:Jun 01, 2004
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Richard Lord interviewed Bishop Ricardo Pereira,
of the Methodist Church in Cuba (IMECU), in
Havana, Cuba, in January 2004. At that time, the
Methodist Church in Cuba was hosting the
Evangelism Leadership Summit of the Americas, an
event sponsored by the World Evangelism
Institute of the World Methodist Council. About
100 participants from North America, Latin
America, and Cuba attended the event.
Date posted:Jun 01, 2004
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When the Soviet Union collapsed and over- night
Cuba lost the preferential trade relations it
had enjoyed for decades, the Caribbean island
was thrust into an economic and political
crisis. While the resulting troubles sparked a
rush to the churches as people searched for
meaning amidst the ashes of failed paradigms,
they also presented a new challenge of meeting
social needs that the Cuban state was no longer
capable of satisfying.
Date posted:Jun 01, 2004
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‘Separation of Church and State’ is a frequently
used phrase and is probably one of the most
debated Constitutional issues. ‘The separation
of church and state is a concept in law whereby
the structures of state or national government
are kept separate from those of religious
institutions.’
Date posted:Jun 01, 2004
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Chlorine-Free description and definition of
Dioxine.
Date posted:Jun 01, 2004
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UMCOR Hotline, June 1, 2004
Floods and mudslides have left 1,000 dead and
1,600 missing in the Dominican Republic and
Haiti. On June 3 people across the United States
gather to focus on the problem of domestic
hunger. 170 tornadoes already this spring may
challenge the 2003 record for the worst tornado
season. UMCOR is cooperating with Action by
Churches Together to deliver relief to scores of
Sudanese.
Date posted:Jun 01, 2004
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