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Eight young adults were commissioned on Sunday,
July 30, for United Methodist mission service in
the United States. The service took place as part
of morning worship at Christ Church United
Methodist in New York City.
Date posted:Jul 31, 2006
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I strongly urge the State of Israel to suspend
all bombing in Lebanon and for Israel and the
Hezbollah forces to observe a total ceasefire,
assisted by the United Nations. The world can no
longer tolerate the behavior of either side in
the renewed Middle East fighting, including the
despicable Israeli bombings of civilians in
Qana.
Suspicion that a village may be “militant” is no
justification for bombing and killing 60 people
who have taken refuge in a building. Such
thinking is political and morally unacceptable.
Date posted:Jul 31, 2006
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Participants in the July 20-24 World Methodist
Conference were reminded of the powerful role
that evangelism plays in today's world Methodist
movement.
Date posted:Jul 31, 2006
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Speaking as a fellow Methodist, the chief
executive of the World Council of Churches told
the World Methodist Conference that the
ecumenical movement is "at a turning point in its
history."
Date posted:Jul 28, 2006
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“Like HIV and unsafe water, malaria in
Mozambique
is a weapon of mass destruction… I have four
grandchildren and I hope to take them there
someday,” said Global Ministries missionary
Carol
Kreamer, coordinator of Mozambique Initiative in
the Missouri Area.
Date posted:Jul 27, 2006
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Addressing issues of justice and faith, Methodist
women and youth held separate gatherings in South
Korea before attending the World Methodist
Conference.
Date posted:Jul 26, 2006
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Ten rural Alabama churches that were damaged or
destroyed by arson this year are receiving checks
from United Methodist-related Birmingham-Southern
College, which launched a fund last spring to
help the congregations rebuild.
Date posted:Jul 26, 2006
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United Methodist Relief Agency Needs Funds for Middle East Crisis
The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR)
today issued an urgent appeal for funds to
assist civilians caught in the renewed fighting
in the Middle East.
Date posted:Jul 25, 2006
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The UMCOR Hotline, July 25, 2006
In Today's Hotline:
Middle East: More Funds Needed to Provide Relief
Sri Lanka: Homes for All
Africa: Preventing Hunger
Relief Supplies: Help Sager Brown Stock up for
the Storm Season
Date posted:Jul 25, 2006
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Religious leaders from across the United States,
along with several key lawmakers and a White
House staff person, emphasized the importance of
passing comprehensive immigration reform during
this Congressional session.
Date posted:Jul 25, 2006
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Deaconess and Home Missioner Discernment Event
(October 24-26) followed by the National
Association of Deaconesses and Missionaries
(NADAM) Convocation (October 26-29 will be held
at the Scarritt Bennett Center in Nashville,
Tennessee, October 24 - 29, 2006.
Date posted:Jul 25, 2006
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The top staff executive of the World Methodist
Council challenged delegates from around the
world to make followers of Christ, noting that
if the church doesn't "disciple the nations, the
nations will disciple the church."
Date posted:Jul 24, 2006
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Sunday, July 23, became a new Day of Pentecost
as some 300 delegates from the World Methodist
Conference participated in a worship service on
peace and reunification at Imjingak (the
Demilitarized Zone between South and North
Korea).
Date posted:Jul 24, 2006
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Methodists in two regions half a world apart -
one in the United States, one in South Korea -
have signed a covenant to work together on
making disciples.
Date posted:Jul 24, 2006
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The Rev. John C.A. Barrett of the British
Methodist Church is the new chairperson of the
World Methodist Council, which includes churches
in 132 countries.
Date posted:Jul 24, 2006
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Many years ago the first missionary pilot to
enter our village gave me a pair of shoes. At
age 9, I put on my first pair of shoes, and they
changed my life completely. Those shoes were
like seeds of love, planted inside me, waiting
to make other people feel special.
Date posted:Jul 23, 2006
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She, like all of the girls, was forced to
evacuate the French Quarter of New Orleans after
Hurricane Katrina. From Virginia, she called the
Awesome Girls Mentoring Program director, James
Rogers.
Date posted:Jul 21, 2006
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Drawing representatives from churches in 132
countries, the World Methodist Council met July
18-19, followed by the July 20-24 World
Methodist Conference. "God in Christ
Reconciling" (II Corinthians 5:18) is the theme
for the 19th conference, which is meeting at
Seoul's Kum Nan Church for worship, dialogue and
study. Conference participants come during a
time of high tension following North Korea's
recent missile tests.
Date posted:Jul 21, 2006
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United Methodists can build on the church's
strengths to set off an "epidemic of health," a
faith and health expert told participants at a
health ministry training event.
Date posted:Jul 20, 2006
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World Methodists have unanimously approved a
resolution authorizing further dialogue with the
Roman Catholic Church, with the stated aim
of "full communion in faith, mission and
sacramental life."
Date posted:Jul 20, 2006
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The Community of Shalom at First Street United
Methodist Church in New Orleans, Louisiana
remains faithful in their ministry to a
neighborhood that was transformed by Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita last summer.
Date posted:Jul 18, 2006
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The UMCOR Hotline, July 18, 2006
In Today's Hotline:
Middle East: Violence Continues
Indonesia: Java Tsunami
Mississippi: Steps to Recovery
Burundi: Supporting Peace
Date posted:Jul 18, 2006
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Janet Lahr Lewis, United Methodist Mission
Personnel in Palestine, describes some of the
situation in the Middle East Crisis from her
perspective in a letter.
Date posted:Jul 18, 2006
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United Methodist mission intern Ryan Clayburn,
who was in Beirut when the Israeli bombing began
on July 13, was in transit out of the Middle East
on July 17. He went overland to Syria and is
expected to continue to the United States as soon
as possible.
Date posted:Jul 17, 2006
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David Persons, an educational missionary from
Colorado, serves as dean of the Katanga Methodist
University in the Southern Congo Annual
Conference. One day he decided to tell graduating
students what he perceived as their strengths and
weaknesses. I was one of the students.
Date posted:Jul 17, 2006
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As of the afternoon of July 14, Ryan Clayburn, a
United Methodist
mission intern working in Beirut, was safe in the
wake of the Israeli bombing of targets in Lebanon.
Date posted:Jul 14, 2006
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The head of The United Methodist mission agency
today called on the United Nations and the major
powers to take quick and decisive action to end
the renewed military action in the Middle East.
Date posted:Jul 14, 2006
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Two current staff members are being
provisionally
moved into key positions at The United Methodist
Church’s international missionary agency, the
General Board of Global Ministries.
The Rev. Jorge Domingues, a native of Brazil,
has
been named an associate general secretary with
responsibilities relating to units on
Evangelization and Church Growth and Mission
Contexts and Relationships.
The Rev. Clinton Rabb, a member of the Southwest
Texas Conference, has been tapped to head, as an
assistant general secretary, the unit on Mission
Volunteers.
Date posted:Jul 14, 2006
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While HIV/AIDS has been spreading into a
pandemic, The United Methodist Church has been
sleeping, according to the president of the
Center for the Church and Global AIDS.
“The church has been sleeping for the past 25
years while the pandemic is spreading, but the
Spirit of God is awakening the church, (and it is
raising) people to respond with money and
programs for prevention, care and treatment,”
said the Rev. Donald Messer, who directs the
center at Iliff Theological Seminary in Denver.
Messer is a former president of Iliff.
Date posted:Jul 14, 2006
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Rev. R. Randy Day, General Secretary of the
General Board of Global Ministries of the United
Methodist Church sends a letter of condolence and
support to Methodist Church in India.
Date posted:Jul 13, 2006
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Since Johnnetta Cole took the responsibility of
revitalizing Bennett College for Women four years
ago, the school has been successful in increasing
its fiscal and physical operations and
instituting new and innovative academic programs.
During a July 11 press conference, Cole recapped
the "marvelous trajectory that is propelling us
toward unquestionable excellence" and also
indicated plans to step down as the 14th
president next June.
Date posted:Jul 12, 2006
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The UMCOR Hotline, July 11, 2006
IN THIS HOTLINE:
-- Us: As Floodwaters Recede, Umcor Responds
With Grants
-- Us: Historic Ruling In Umcor's Favor Releases
Citizen
-- Armenia: "Don't Think That You Have Ruined
Everything"
-- Global: What You Need To Know About Bird Flu
Date posted:Jul 11, 2006
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The dusty road snakes through fields of cassava
and maize, past thatch-roofed mud houses with
brightly colored laundry drying on the bushes.
Small children herd cattle and goats; women carry
sacks of produce or containers of water on their
heads. All scatter from the approaching vehicle.
Fifteen miles from Migori Town, we reach the
Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Kopanga,
started in 2001 by Alice Wasilwa, a Missioner of
Hope.
Date posted:Jul 10, 2006
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United Methodists are joining the Tongan
community in the Bay Area and abroad in mourning
the loss of two members of Tonga's royal family,
killed July 5 in a traffic accident in Menlo
Park, Calif.
Date posted:Jul 10, 2006
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United Methodist Volunteers in Mission are
renovating the St. Mark’s Community Center in the
French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Soon
the center will house dozens of volunteers who
are helping to rebuild the Gulf Coast this summer.
Date posted:Jul 07, 2006
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Recently there have been a number of E-Mails sent
to prospective donors in the name of
missionaries, UMCOR, GBGM and the Office of
Covenant Relationships originating from London to
Nigeria. Please note that these are SCAMS.
Date posted:Jul 07, 2006
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At regional gatherings this year, United
Methodists celebrated the 50th anniversary of
clergywomen receiving full clergy rights and
affirmed their commitment to helping the U.S.
Gulf Coast recover from last fall's hurricanes.
Date posted:Jul 07, 2006
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As a teenager, I was an assistant counselor at a
Methodist Youth Fellowship camp. Also present was
a woman who was a missionary in Japan. She talked
a great deal about her experiences, and I decided
I, too, would like to be a missionary some day.
Date posted:Jul 05, 2006
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The choir was singing “Here I Am, Lord” when I
responded to God’s call on my life to become a
missionary. I answered, “I will go,” and little
did I realize how many people it would affect. I
thought I had been called personally and it would
involve only me. How wrong I was!
Date posted:Jul 05, 2006
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The UMCOR Hotline, July 05, 2006
In Today's Hotline:
US: Widespread Floods Damage Communities
Africa: Stemming Malaria's Toll
South Africa: Women "Pick It Up" for Children
US: Last Days on the River
Date posted:Jul 05, 2006
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First the world was broken.
People did not trust each other. People hurt one
another. People believed terrible things about
each other.
Then the world broke even more. The rock cracked.
Buildings fell down. The wave came. Boats crashed
through the houses. One house pushed over its
neighbors’ house.
Date posted:Jul 01, 2006
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Since 1948, the United Methodist Committee on
Relief (UMCOR) has been answering the church’s
call to minister to people in need. From its
first tasks—to aid displaced refugees and help in
the reconstruction of Europe and Asia after World
War II—to its present call, the agency has
faithfully directed funds to ministries
designated by its donors.
Date posted:Jul 01, 2006
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In an effort to reach the most vulnerable
Hurricane Katrina survivors, UMCOR designed a
program that requires the highest level of
collaboration among case management agencies. the
Katrina Aid Today—National Case Management
Consortium is a FEMA-funded program seeking to
reach 100,000 families affected by the storm.
Date posted:Jul 01, 2006
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Bright colored houses dot the landscape of the
five villages where UMCOR is reconstructing homes
in the Bireuen District of eastern Aceh Province.
They stand as bright reminders of what the rows
and rows of ongoing construction will become.
Every day, families move from temporary shelters
into their newly completed homes.“UMCOR houses”
come in a variety of colors: pale pink, warm
peach, sky blue, teal green, and bright yellow.
They are built according to a government-
established design for tsunami reconstruction.
Date posted:Jul 01, 2006
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On October 8, 2005, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake
struck the mountainous region of Kashmir, a
disputed territory claimed by Pakistan and India.
In Pakistan alone, 4 million people suffered some
consequence of the quake and as of November 8,
the death toll was more than 87,000. In the
months that followed, United Methodists gave
almost $2 million to the United Methodist
Committee on Relief (UMCOR) for earthquake relief
in
the region.
Date posted:Jul 01, 2006
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On October 20, 2005, 10 volunteers from Christian
Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) in Ludhiana,
India, were chosen to embark on a special mission—
to provide medical relief to the Kashmir State
ravaged by the earthquake that rocked the entire
region on October 8, 2005.
Date posted:Jul 01, 2006
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By the time this issue of New World Outlook
arrives, the Western Hemisphere should be in the
middle of hurricane season once again. Though I
can’t predict the storms or the shores they will
hit, I can safely say that the United Methodist
Committee on Relief (UMCOR) will be there. This
ability—to be everywhere serving all kinds of
people in many different disaster situations—has
everything to do with the United Methodist
connection.
Date posted:Jul 01, 2006
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