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63 articles found for November, 2005.

Scanning electron micrograph of HIV-1 budding from cultured lymphocyte. Multiple round bumps on cell surface represent sites of assembly and budding of virions.
A children’s song, written by a colleague whose ministry involves both new and old songs for humans just as new, or just as old, has often helped me to focus my attention on the realities of ministry in the face of AIDS.
Source: UMCOR
Date posted:Nov 30, 2005
United Methodist Bishop, Peter D. Weaver President of the denomination's council of Bishops and Bishop Ruediger R. Minor (right), Eurasia
Whereas, the prophet Micah reminds us that God calls nations to "beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears to pruning hooks," and that nations will no longer "lift up sword against nation, and neither shall they learn war anymore" (Micah 4:3)
Date posted:Nov 30, 2005
Church World Service/ACT supports this
Throughout Pakistan, people face the challenges of a variety of recurrent disasters, but the country's mountainous north, according to CWS Director Marvin Parvez, is Pakistan's only multi- hazard area, subject to mudslides, flash floods, earthquakes, and more. "You name it, you get it in the north," Parvez said.
Date posted:Nov 30, 2005
Bishop Patrick Streiff during “In Mission Together” Eastern Europe and Balkans Consultation II.
Keller, Texas, November 27, 2005—The Central and North Texas Annual Conferences joined the General Board of Global Ministries in welcoming brothers and sisters in Christ to First United Methodist Church, Keller, Texas for a second “In Mission Together” consultation focused on Eastern European and Balkan countries. Ninety-five participants, including three bishops and people from 16 states and nine countries, took part in the November 17-20 event.
Date posted:Nov 29, 2005
The UMCOR Hotline, November 29 2005 
UMCOR Emergency Response
In Today's Hotline: Armenia: Promoting AIDS Awareness Texas and Rita: A Forgotten Pair Central America: Rebuilding after the Floods Christmas with UMCOR
Source: UMCOR
Date posted:Nov 29, 2005
United worship in a rural area of Guatemala where Eunice Arias and Luis Aramayo serve as missionaries.
Luis was closing a workshop with pastors and leaders of the Iglesia Evanglica Nacional Metodista Primivita de Guatemala (the Methodist Church of Guatemala). He asked them to share their new insights about the issue of stewardship. A simple, true and very biblical answer came forth – “Stewardship is to share our corn”.
Date posted:Nov 28, 2005

In the year 2000, I faced a big crisis in my life and my family. My father was seriously ill. Amid the depression and the confusion, I gave my life to God and put my trust in God.
Source: Advance
Date posted:Nov 28, 2005
Jan Love, Deputy General Secretary of Women's Division
One of the greatest joys of my life has been encountering strong women of faith, such as all of you gathered here, who play key roles in leading the church. United Methodist Women hold a special place in my heart for this reason, but this morning I want to tell you about a woman with whom I worked from another denomination -- a Canadian, Lois Wilson. One of her books, Miriam, Mary and Me, is on our Reading Program List.
Date posted:Nov 28, 2005
HIV/AIDS Programs in India and Zimbabwe Photo Gallery: A New World Outlook Web Feature
A child intently watches a puppet show about HIV/AIDS. Learn more about her and the work of The United Methodist Church around AIDS/HIV in the March/April print issue of the NWO, article: Steps Toward a Better Society.
Featured are photos and audio interviews by Paul Jeffrey, who visited some United Methodist HIV/AIDS Projects in India and Richard Lord, who visited HIV/AIDS Projects in Zimbababwe with a particular focus on children who have been orphaned because of AIDS.
Date posted:Nov 27, 2005
Bill and Jerri Savuto are Missionary Interpreters in Residence, South Central Jurisdiction. They are former missionaries who were assigned to Maua, Kenya from 1998-2003.
While in Houston this past week, I read Sue Monk Kidd’s "The Secret Life of Bees," and when I came to a particular passage, it hit me so hard I had to put the book down and take a walk. Then I had to get down on my knees and ask for forgiveness
Date posted:Nov 23, 2005
Hayden's thoughts about Thanksgiving.
Last night, I asked my third grader, Hayden, to help me write something about Thanksgiving. ... Hayden was remembering the night several months ago when we volunteered with the United Methodist Women at the shelter at the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Date posted:Nov 23, 2005
The Navajo women burning cedar at the United Methodist Center, Farmington New Mexico
As the United States celebrates Thanksgiving, school children are sent home with pictures of Pilgrims and Native Americans sharing a feast in harmony. However, for many indigenous women, Thanksgiving does not hold such fond memories, says Andele Foutz.  Foutz, is executive director of the Navajo United Methodist Center in Farmington, New Mexico, one of the national mission institutions supported by United Methodist Women and the denomination.
Date posted:Nov 23, 2005
In her journal, Melissa Maher wrote: It is my third day here, and today we attended the funeral of a small baby (less than two months old), named Canada. The coffin was small, too small for a full life to have existed. The important thing here at the orphanage is that every life is remembered and honored, no matter how short or how long.
Date posted:Nov 22, 2005
The UMCOR Hotline, November 22, 2005 
UMCOR Emergency Response
In Today's Hotline: US: What’s a Storm Center? Pakistan/Kashmir: Relief Continues Africa: Feeding the Hungry Make 2006 a Year of Hope
Source: UMCOR
Date posted:Nov 22, 2005
From left to right, Rev. Morais Quissico, Bishop Quipungo, Rev Dixon at a recent meeting.
Several United Methodist bishops from sub- Saharan African countries recently visited the New York offices of the mission agency on their way to the Council of Bishops meeting in Lake Junaluska, NC. The bishops, Bishop Quipongo from East Angola, Bishop Yemba from Central Congo, and Bishop Boni from Cote D’Ivoire talk about the need for evangelism, education on preventable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, and peaceful democratic elections.
Date posted:Nov 22, 2005
The Amity Foundation, one of The United Methodist Church’s main mission partners in the People’s Republic of China, celebrated 20 years of social service and development work from November 1-9. The celebrations, under the banner 'That All May Have Abundant Life', drew nearly 200 persons from within China and around the globe.
Date posted:Nov 22, 2005
The aftermath of Katrina's devastation.
In recent months, United Methodist Women all over the country have responded with remarkable generosity to the needs of all affected by the hurricanes. This special offering provides an opportunity to respond again, to participate in a powerful sisterhood of support to “be repairers of the breach” caused by these disasters.
Date posted:Nov 21, 2005
Heather Sevrens (center) serves as a Global Justice Volunteer in Brazil.
For three months, Heather Sevrens of Rohnert Park, CA is serving with two other young adults as a “Global Justice Volunteer” with the Projeto Meninos e Meninas de Rua (“Street Children’s Project”) in Brazil. Below are some reflections from Heather on serving in mission.
Date posted:Nov 21, 2005
Rev. Joong Urn Kim, (center) senior pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Flushing, gives a check for $100,000 to Rev. Sam Dixon, deputy general secretary of the Evangelization and Church Growth (ECG) unit of the international mission agency while Jong Sung Kim, church executive with ECG, stands by.
The First United Methodist Church of Flushing, Queens, the largest Korean United Methodist church in the United States, have upwards of 1,700 members. Their largeness in numbers is matched only by their largess for mission. On November 16, 2005, The Rev. Joong Urn Kim, senior pastor of the First United Methodist Church, gave the second and final installment of a $130,000 gift to the General Board of Global Ministries to build the church in Kazakhstan.
Date posted:Nov 18, 2005
DeLyce Triplett, left, and her sister, Pooh Triplett, co-lead the youth study at Missouri Conference's School of Christian Mission.
DeLyce Triplett has attended four United Methodist Women's Assemblies-- Kansas City, 1990; Cincinnati, 1994; Orlando, 1998; Philadelphia, 2002 - and she plans to be at Assembly 2006 in Anaheim, Calif.
Date posted:Nov 18, 2005
Every time Waldensian and Methodist Christians in Italy welcome the stranger, they are honoring a child of God, and offering a bold retort to anti-immigration voices.
Date posted:Nov 17, 2005
The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), the humanitarian relief and rehabilitation agency of The United Methodist Church and a unit of the church’s General Board of Global Ministries, is the lead agency in a federally-funded program to assist large numbers of people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
Date posted:Nov 17, 2005

Diane Abbott, a translator, and the Rev. T. Mark Abbott, a professor, both serve the United Evangelical Theological Seminary, Madrid, Spain.
Source: Advance
Date posted:Nov 16, 2005
The UMCOR Hotline, November 15, 2005 
UMCOR Emergency Response
In Today's Hotline: Worldwide: Responding to International Disasters US: Hurricane Recovery Continues Hunger No More: TV Documentary airs Nov. 20 World AIDS Day Christmas with UMCOR
Source: UMCOR
Date posted:Nov 15, 2005
Women from the Philippines led the morning worship at the Asian Women’s Leadership Training.
As the United States celebrates American Education Week, November 14-18, Korean-American United Methodist Women were returning home from their own training event with a different perspective on education – one in which the educator learns as much as the student.
Date posted:Nov 15, 2005
New York, NY, November 15, 2005—The chief executive of The United Methodist Church’s mission agency is hopeful that a free, although not uncontested, presidential election in Liberia is a prelude to peace and stability in the African country.
Date posted:Nov 15, 2005
Should Native Americans deny their cultural practices in order to be Christian and to make their churches effective and vital? For a group of Native American leaders in The United Methodist Church, this question provided a starting point for discussing how native culture can be brought into the church.
Date posted:Nov 15, 2005
Jan Resseger, of the United Church of Christ Justice and Witness Ministries office, addresssed United Methodist Women at the Public Education Summit in Nashville, Tennessee
On July 30, 2005, Jan Resseger of the United Church of Christ Justice and Witness Ministries office, addressed United Methodist Women at the Public Education Summit in Nashville, Tenn.  These United Methodist Women members demonstrated a commitment  to public education, already served in a variety of positions in the public education sector, participated in the weekend-long event to set a direction for the organization around advocacy, and were part of the organization’s Phase III of the Campaign for Children
Date posted:Nov 14, 2005
This has been a year of great progress. In previous correspondence we shared with you that Teca is the National Coordinator of the Shade and Fresh Water network and that together with my involvement in the Methodist Foundation, we’ve been working to provide technical assistance and financial support for the local church projects.
Date posted:Nov 11, 2005
United Methodist Women member, Deanna, worked to get out the vote in the 2004 presidential election.
When a Dallas, Texas, newspaper ran a column by Dr. James Dobson, founder and chair of Focus on the Family, stating cartoon character SpongeBob Square Pants was gay, Deanna, 14, took offense. She had to act. Raised by a journalist mother and a pastor father, Deanna picked up a pen and wrote to the editor:
Date posted:Nov 11, 2005
Dr. Cherian Thomas, Executive Secretary, Health and Relief, General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church
The sponsor called it the “TIME Global Health Summit” but the event on November 1-3, 2005, may be best remembered by Bono’s more colorful sobriquet, “The Woodstock of Global Health.” The weekly news magazine brought together 350 people from around the world to focus on global health crisis.
Date posted:Nov 10, 2005
Foundation pilings are all that remain of a building at Gulfside Assembly.
Hurricane Katrina washed away The United Methodist Church's historic Gulfside Assembly retreat center Aug. 29, but plans are in the works to bring the center back to life.
Date posted:Nov 10, 2005
The Chikara Daiko group, of Centenary United Methodist Church in Little Tokyo
When United Methodist Women arrive at Assembly 2006 on May 4-7, close to ten thousand women will fill the Anaheim Convention Center – along with music from around the world. One of the groups planned for the event is a taiko drumming group.  Taiko drumming is a Japanese classical art with a two thousand-year history.
Date posted:Nov 09, 2005
The hallways of First United Methodist Church, Hyattsville, Md. resemble an artist’s gallery with leaf prints, photographs, and drawings covering the walls. Students and tutors sit in classrooms and complete assignments. Rehearsal space at the church fills with the music of piano lessons, and the sounds of tap dancers.
Date posted:Nov 09, 2005
The UMCOR Hotline, November 8, 2005 
UMCOR Emergency Response
In Today's Hotline: Midwest Tornado: Picking up the Pieces Pakistan/Kashmir: Relief Efforts Continue Central America: Helping the Most Vulnerable World AIDS Day is December 1, 2005 New Resource: UMCOR Christmas Wish List
Source: UMCOR
Date posted:Nov 08, 2005
Westminster Community of Shalom board member Deborah Sims on new community center site, Westminster, MD.
The Westminster Community of Shalom recently broke ground for a new community center. The new building will be directly across from their current home at Union Street United Methodist Church.
Date posted:Nov 08, 2005
Flora Belle Stott.
Happy birthday Missionary Flora Belle Stott!
The directors, staff, and current missionaries of the General Board of Global Ministries send you warmest greetings as you enter your 100th year.
Date posted:Nov 07, 2005
From left to right, Korean Bishop Kyoung-Ha Kim, New York Bishop Jeremiah Park (center), and Rev. R. Randy Day as The Korean Methodist Church presented its initial gift of $55,000 to The United Methodist Church for Hurricane Katrina relief.
The Rev. R. Randy Day, chief executive of the General Board of Global Ministries, announced the gift at a meeting of the Connectional Table of his denomination at Lake Junaluska. He said that Bishop Kyoung-Ha Kim, president of the council of bishops of the Korean denomination, made a commitment of $100,000 in new money in a letter dated October 25.
Date posted:Nov 07, 2005
Morenike F. Irving, Women’s Division Director
This summer, Women’s Division director, Morenike Irving attended the 2005 Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry in Clinton, Tenn.  At the fall board meeting, Ms. Irving shared her personal poetry and reflections on what she experienced at the event. 
Date posted:Nov 07, 2005
United Methodist Bishop William Hutchinson of Louisiana (right) joins in singing a hymn with fellow bishops Ernest Lyght (left) and Peter Weaver at the Council of Bishops meeting in Lake Junaluska, NC.
The Council of Bishops approved the Katrina Church Recovery Appeal during its Oct. 30-Nov. 4 fall meeting. The appeal will focus on building new ministries, rebuilding facilities and addressing a wide range of other local church and conference needs, such as paying clergy salaries and covering an untold amount of uninsured losses.
Date posted:Nov 07, 2005
United Methodist Bishop Joao Somane Machado of Mozambique (second from right) participates in a panel discussion at the Global Health Summit in New York.
Issues surrounding such health crises were addressed during the Nov. 1-3 Global Health Summit in New York, sponsored by TIME magazine and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. United Methodists were among the participants from medicine, government, business, nonprofits, public policy and the arts.
Date posted:Nov 07, 2005
Heart with ribbon signifies the gift aspect of Organ Donation. Image courtesy of http://organdonor.gov/.
The human body is an amazing structure. Just when we think we have learnt everything there is to know about it a fresh new discovery comes along that catches everyone by surprise. And then there is the brain, that intricate computer which no one has fully understood. We take our bodies for granted but as St. Paul wrote in 1Corinthians 6:19 “your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit”. We have to treat it with dignity, respect and love. We have been “fearfully and wonderfully made.”
Date posted:Nov 07, 2005
The second week of October marks the celebration of the largest Hindu festival in Nepal.
Festival season started last month here in Nepal and the second week of October is when the biggest Hindu festival is celebrated. Dasai is a 10-day festival where the goddess Durga is worshiped. It started this year on October 4 when each family filled up a vessel with water from a holy river.
Date posted:Nov 04, 2005
John Raleigh Mott, a Nobel Peace Laureate who was the first honorary president of the World Council of Churches, has been honoured in Geneva where the church grouping has its headquarters.
Date posted:Nov 04, 2005
Dr. Janice Love, deputy general secretary for the Women's Division of the General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church
Living a life of thanksgiving and gratitude -- not just once a year at Thanksgiving, not just in good times, and not simply as a naive way of escaping the hard work of wading through tough challenges -- can be a powerful witness to the world.
Date posted:Nov 04, 2005
The Rev. R. Randy Day, addressing the TIME Global Health Summit, says every thirty seconds a child dies of malaria.
Comments of the Rev. R. Randy Day, chief executive, General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church, at Time Global Health Summit, press conference, November 1, 2005, New York City.
Date posted:Nov 03, 2005
Bishop Joao Somane Machado of Mozambique says that education and communication are part of the cure for malaria.
Comments of United Methodist Bishop João Somane Machado of Mozambique at Time Global Health Summit, press conference, November 1, 2005, New York City.
Date posted:Nov 03, 2005
On the way to St. Luke's United Methodist Church on Canal Street there is a new landmark in this historic city-a towering mountain of trash. ... Scattered among the trash heap are bits and pieces of many of the 79 United Methodist churches in the New Orleans district that were damaged by the storm. The Rev. Freddy C. Henderson, district superintendent, said no church was left untouched and many were destroyed.
Date posted:Nov 03, 2005
Kelly C. Martini, Women's Division, Communications Director/Information Officer
In keeping with the theme of “many sparks, one flame,”  I’m entitling today’s speech, “Burning Bush Moments:  Are we Consumed or Ablaze?”  The scripture passage I’ll be reading from is a familiar story to us – about Moses, who never thought of himself as a leader, and God’s revelation to him through a burning bush.
Date posted:Nov 02, 2005
United Methodist Women calls on members of Congress to enact legislation to raise the minimum wage to $7.25. 
Date posted:Nov 02, 2005
Rev. R. Randy Day with best-selling author and Pastor Rick Warren and Bishop Machado from Mozambique listening as he presenst the UM Malaria Initiative during the Time Global Health Summit
Bishop Joao Somane Machado sees children in Mozambique dying of malaria on a daily basis and he wants the world to pay attention. “This is not an African issue,” said Machado, who leads the United Methodist Church in Mozambique. “It’s not only for poor countries. It’s global.”
Date posted:Nov 02, 2005
BATON ROUGE, La. (UMNS) - The shiny new neighborhood is flat, dusty and cramped. On the freshly scrapped ground are rows of white trailers stretched out in neat rows as far as the eye can see. What is missing are trees, green grass, playgrounds, easy access to everyday essentials such as a grocery store or any other form of what makes a neighborhood comfortable.
Date posted:Nov 02, 2005
In 1997, the Armenia office of the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) established the Sustainable Guaranteed Agricultural Assistance for Women (AREGAK) program to give women the opportunity to take out small loans to establish or grow small businesses. The goal of the program is for women to increase their families’ incomes and well- being by selling goods.
Date posted:Nov 01, 2005
Privilege has been cared for by her grandmother, Endime, since her parents died. She attends school and helps with household chores. Drought destroyed Endime's Maize crop, which she normally grows on her acre of land. They have no animals,
Chirpo Makowi Fandera is just 50 years old. She lives with her family in the Glenview Falls section of Harare. She cares for 25 children in her home, six of her own and 19 “dumped” kids. “I don’t know who their parents are,” says Fandera. The police bring them here, the welfare office brings them here.”
Date posted:Nov 01, 2005
Gregory translates for the Rev. Allen Proctor at St. Joseph's 20th anniversary celebration in January 2005.
On a hot day in 1998, a 12-year-old boy stumbled through the gate of Grace Children’s Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Exhausted and emaciated, with the reddish-orange hair color that is a hallmark of acute malnutrition, Gregory Adrien could go no further. A nurse carried him up to the inpatient ward and laid him on a bed to be examined.
Date posted:Nov 01, 2005
At the Lighthouse Care Center, abandoned children are taught Christian principles, provided with food, receive an education, participate in recreational activities, and are given support to help them live positive and productive lives.
Martin [not his real name] came to our Lighthouse Care Center when he got very hungry. His mother had left him when he was just a couple of years old. The boy lived with a mostly absent father. His father’s girlfriend was an alcoholic. When the father ended up in prison, the woman turned to prostitution, and Martin found himself on the streets of Tallinn, where he stole, drank, and smoked.
Date posted:Nov 01, 2005
Joanna, resident at the orphanage; a street child in the Bella Union slum outside Montevideo; a school child in Yacare, Uruguay.
The warm fire, the warmly dressed children reading and playing, and the aroma of the roasted chicken being cooked by the older children for the others at Hogar El Amanecer (Sunrise House), the Lutheran-Methodist orphanage in Montevideo, contradicted the lasting images in my mind of children who performed juggling acts in the streets for money or encircled me in the streets to give them change.
Date posted:Nov 01, 2005
An extraordinary coincidence became apparent as we gathered the stories for this issue of New World Outlook. As the articles arrived, I noticed the names of the ministries in many of these articles contained the words "light," "day," or "sunrise." ... Yet one over-riding theme came through: ministries that reach homeless and orphaned children are ministries of light. They reach into lives that exist in very dark places and open the curtains.
Date posted:Nov 01, 2005
The former North Meridian United Methodist Church building in Redkey, Ind., was sold on an eBay auction.
When members of the United Methodist Church in Redkey, Ind., decided to sell an old church building on eBay, they were looking for more than a quick profit. The $40,600 winning bid - which came Oct. 27 - will be used for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts through the United Methodist Committee on Relief.
Date posted:Nov 01, 2005
Christians in Japan have strongly protested the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to a shrine closely aligned with militarism in the past, and a visit ruled "worship" and illegal by a court.
Date posted:Nov 01, 2005
United Methodist Women’s Green Team calls on all United Methodist women to participate in a letter-writing campaign that calls on paper supply chains, such as Office Depot, Office Max and Corporate Express, to stock their shelves with PCF third party certified paper. 
Date posted:Nov 01, 2005
The UMCOR Hotline, November 1, 2005 
UMCOR Emergency Response
In Today's Hotline: US: UMCOR to Lead National Case Management Effort for Katrina Recovery Pakistan/Kashmir: The Rush to Provide Relief Central America and the Caribbean: Hurricane Relief Africa: Malaria Control Ministry Begins in Kissy UMCOR: Don’t Miss These New Resources
Source: UMCOR
Date posted:Nov 01, 2005
SLIDELL, La. (UMNS) - When it came time for announcements at Hartzell Mt. Zion United Methodist Church, Charles Alfred stood up and asked for volunteers and two trucks to go pick up a piano and organ being donated to the church from a Jewish community in Monroe, La.
Date posted:Nov 01, 2005

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