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Larry and Jane Kies, missionaries of the General
Board of Global Ministries recently returned
temporarily to the US from Africa University,
just outside of Mutare, Zimbabwe. Larry serves
as technical advisor at the university,
assisting in the development of the university’s
farm and training a new generation of
agriculturalists from across Africa. Jane
teaches English to students coming from
countries where it is not spoken. The Kies share
some thoughts as they leave their home in
Zimbabwe to go to a temporary home in the US.
Date posted:Jul 29, 2004
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More than 80 people gathered at the conference
center in late June to learn strategies and share
ideas on how local churches can partner with each
other through cooperative ministry.
Date posted:Jul 29, 2004
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Workers in manufacturing jobs, also known as blue
collar workers, have long been exposed to foreign
competition, losing jobs to lower wages abroad.
With the advancement of technology, now there is
a trend to ìoutsourceî white collar jobs as well.
Date posted:Jul 28, 2004
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United Methodists are being encouraged to join in
a nationwide effort to challenge American women to
talk to their elected officials and candidates in
the upcoming election about the importance of
investing in women around the world as a way of
fighting global poverty and building a more
peaceful world.
Date posted:Jul 28, 2004
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One never knows where a walk with God will lead
and Ross Olivier says he's an example.
The 49-year-old pastor is on a "journey that began
in a jail cell in Pretoria (South Africa) and has
led me to Galloway (United Methodist Church) in
Jackson, Miss."
Date posted:Jul 28, 2004
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Europe - which in the 19th century sent
missionaries to spread Christianity around the
world - is now becoming one of the new "mission
fields" where people do not even know basic
information about the faith, according to the
World Council of Churches' (WCC) chief executive
Date posted:Jul 28, 2004
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UMCOR Hotline, July 27, 2004
Ganta is the only hospital that has a surgeon in
the northeastern region of Liberia. UMCOR is
sending grants to New Jersey and Arkansas to
assist with flood recovery. Eritrean refugees in
northeast Sudan are facing food shortages and
malnutrition. UMCOR invites congregations near
resettlement sites in the United States to
consider sponsoring a refugee family.
Date posted:Jul 27, 2004
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Church Bulletin Insert: Afghanistan: Schools, Homes, and Hope
United Methodist gifts have assisted families in
Afghanistan to find their way home after a twenty-
four-year war. UMCOR is delivering hope and
presence on behalf of the church. This document
has one 8 1/2" x 11" "landscape style" page page
designed either to be cut in half and printed
back-to-back or printed as is.
Date posted:Jul 26, 2004
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On Wednesday, Massachusetts United Methodist
Women members, two experts and one United
Methodist Women's Division executive met with
Staples' company executives in Framingham, Mass.
They informed company decision makers about the
deadly effects of dioxins on women and children's
health and that prevention is possible. United
Methodist Women's prevention solution is simple -
carry and promote Process Chlorine-Free or Total
Chlorine-Free paper in all Staples' stores.
Date posted:Jul 23, 2004
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A man without a country, and the last Burmese
asylum seeker in Guam, is a step closer to asylum
in the United States, thanks to a ruling published
July 16 by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in
California.
Date posted:Jul 22, 2004
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With repeated calls for urgent and immediate
action, a broad coalition of close to 100 groups,
including the National Council of Churches, is
asking the nation's policymakers to dramatically
overhaul the health care system.
Date posted:Jul 22, 2004
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UMCOR Provides Emergency Relief in Sudan
The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR)
is working with partners to expand support for
displaced Sudanese people. Some live in camps in
Darfur, others beyond Sudan's border in Chad. The
statistics are overwhelming. Personal stories
give those numbers a face.
Date posted:Jul 21, 2004
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UMCOR Hotline, July 20, 2004
Eight New Jersey communities are mopping up after
two days of heavy rains. UMCOR is seeking
energetic volunteers to assemble flood buckets.
More than a million people have fled their homes
in the Darfur region of Sudan. Southern and
Western African families face severe food
shortages. Some 23,000 people occupy Soul Clinic
in Liberia, a camp for displaced persons managed
by UMCOR.
Date posted:Jul 20, 2004
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Last May, the Dominican Republic and Haiti were
devastated by heavy rain and flooding along the
border shared by the two nations on the island
of Hispaniola in the Caribbean. In the
Dominican Republic, the Rio Blanco overflowed,
and its strong currents destroyed property and
lives of many people in Jimani. The United
Methodist Church, through the General Board of
Global Ministries and the United Methodist
Committee on Relief, let the church and the
world know about the tragedy in both Haiti and
the Dominican Republic.
Date posted:Jul 16, 2004
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The top mission leaders of The United Methodist
Church have joined professors of mission in
denominational seminaries in the USA in calling
church members to strong, renewed commitment to
Christian mission.
Date posted:Jul 16, 2004
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Koreans are a minority group in Japan, and
Korean Christians are even more so. But the
strength of the church does not lie in its
numbers but in the power and intensity of its
witness.
Date posted:Jul 16, 2004
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The annual School of Congregational Development
is one of the best seminars The United Methodist
Church has to offer. The school is a leadership
development opportunity for pastors and laity to
learn new tools for congregational growth and to
discuss related issues. It has strongly impacted
my local ministry and that of my annual
conference over the years.
Date posted:Jul 15, 2004
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The United Methodist Church has acquired land
and a building for a mission center in Ulaan
Baatar, the capital city of Mongolia.
The property was dedicated in late June by a
team from the General Board of Global
Ministries, the National Caucus of Korean United
Methodist Church in the USA, and mission
personnel in Mongolia. The board is the
international mission agency of the denomination.
Date posted:Jul 15, 2004
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Nan McCurdy is a missionary of the General Board
of Global Ministries of the United Methodist
Church who has been serving the people of
Nicaragua since 1985. She and her husband,
Miguel Mairena, who is also a GBGM missionary,
work with the Women and Community Association of
San Francisco Libre, a county in northwestern
Nicaragua.
Date posted:Jul 14, 2004
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UMCOR Hotline, July 13, 2004
UMCOR urgently seeks contributions for the most
vulnerable Southern African families facing
critical food shortages. Typhoon Mindulle
devastated many regions of the Philippines in
late June and early July. Severe drought is
spurring wildfires in the Western US. UMCOR
workers are calling for shipments of school kits
and health kits for displaced families near
Monrovia.
Date posted:Jul 13, 2004
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The international mission agency of The United
Methodist Church expects to commission nine
regular and eight young adult missionaries on
August 22, 2004.
Date posted:Jul 09, 2004
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Lane Winn, Staff Photographer and A/V Archivist
for the General Board of Global Ministries,
shares some thoughts as she visits some national
mission institutions supported by GBGM.
Date posted:Jul 08, 2004
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Through the Global Justice Volunteers program of
the Mission Volunteers Program Area, two young
adults are currently serving in mission in Hong
Kong. Erika Larson of South Colby, Washington
and Andee Cooper of Morrilton, Arkansas are
working with the Bethune House: Migrant Women’s
Refuge, a temporary shelter for migrant workers
who are in distress.
Date posted:Jul 08, 2004
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Ceremonies Launch Sunflower Development Project in Albania
Ceremonies here on June 29 marked the opening of
a new United Methodist sunflower production
program in Albania. Albanian governmental
officials and farmers, representatives of
governmental and corporate donors from the United
States, and other project participants attended.
Some 50 to 100 farmers will benefit from the
United Methodist Committee on Relief's project.
Date posted:Jul 08, 2004
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UMCOR Hotline, July 6, 2004
UMCOR participates in an ecumenical humanitarian
response in Sudan, where whole villages of people
have been forced out of their homes. Ceremonies
in Tirana June 29 launched UMCOR's new sunflower
production program in Albania. UMCOR is
committed to assist refugee and relief programs
in Iraq, particularly those for children, as long
as viable systems of service delivery exist. A
new bulletin insert describes the relief supplies
ministry of UMCOR Sager Brown.
Date posted:Jul 06, 2004
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As churches in the People’s Republic of China
seek to live Christ’s gospel in Chinese society,
one area of growing involvement is the church’s
mission amidst the HIV/AIDS crisis. For
Christians in China this presents new and
challenging opportunities to walk in the
footsteps of Jesus who stood alongside the
stigmatized and the outcast.
Date posted:Jul 06, 2004
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This issue of New World Outlook is devoted to
the many missionaries that serve around the
world in the name of Christ through The United
Methodist Church. The training, sending, and
support of missionaries continues to be the
cornerstone of the General Board of Global
Ministries’ work as the United Methodist mission
agency. Randy Day’s introduction (p. 4) will
serve to orient readers to the contents of this
issue.
Date posted:Jul 01, 2004
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All faithful Christians are in a real sense
missionaries. They convey the Good News of God’s
love and forgiveness to others near and far.
“Missionary” is also one of the oldest and most
honored offices of the Christian church, with
origins in the New Testament.
Date posted:Jul 01, 2004
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Sallcapampa, located outside the city of La Paz,
is part of the Anco- raimes section of the
Omasuyos Province of Bolivia. Before the
Agrarian Reform of 1952, it was
a hacienda [a large estate]. About 20 families
lived there as unpaid laborers in the service of
the landowner, being part of a true feudal
system.
Date posted:Jul 01, 2004
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Since 1974, the Covenant Relationship Program
has enabled United Methodist congregations to
surround mission personnel with love and prayer.
The program also enables church members to grow
in the understanding of the context in which
mission workers serve: to learn about a place of
service and its people, culture, traditions, and
religious life.
Date posted:Jul 01, 2004
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Mulungwishi is located 100 miles to the
northwest of Lubumbashi in the southern province
of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
As a station, it was established in the late
1930s and is considered the educational center
for The United Methodist Church in this part of
the Congo.
Date posted:Jul 01, 2004
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Our day usually starts with a cock’s crow from a
nearby neighborhood, followed by the Mus-lims’
call to prayer on a loudspeaker. Then we go to
the university chapel, where Kenya Methodist
University students and staff gather each
morning for devotions. But the morning of April
16, 2003, was different. Still half asleep, we
heard a knock on the door. We thought someone
was knocking at one of our neighbors’ doors.
Minutes later, the knocking grew stronger and
more persistent.
Date posted:Jul 01, 2004
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In June 1971, I graduated from Mulungwishi
Seminary. I married Kona Kuleya and we are
parents of nine children, with two more adopted
children living with us now.
My father was one of the first African Methodist
pastors in Kapanga. In due course, I accepted
the call to become a pastor. I wanted to be a
missionary, but by the time I was a teenager, I
gave up this hope, perhaps because all the
missionaries I saw then were White. I believed
it was impossible for a Black African to become
a missionary.
Date posted:Jul 01, 2004
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Recipes for a Costa Rican menu.
Date posted:Jul 01, 2004
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The spring semester of my senior year at
college, I sat in the library before a large
window overlooking my alma mater’s green
spacious campus. Unable to concentrate on
writing my last paper, I daydreamed as I thought
about life after graduation. ... I imagined what
it would be like for Jesus as a young man
preparing for ministry.
Date posted:Jul 01, 2004
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The celebration of American independence is a
remembrance of those values that make this
nation strong. For many of our fore-parents
and a growing number of our neighbors in urban
centers, it is the welcome spirit of this
country that is remembered.
Date posted:Jul 01, 2004
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