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October
32 articles found for October, 2007.
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When Pastor Frank Gomez first arrived at his
church on the central California coast, he was
sometimes afraid to stay in the building alone.
"(Salinas was) a hotbed of gang activity - many
shootings," he says.
While counseling an imprisoned gang member, Gomez
learned the young man once used the church
parking lot to stake out a nearby business that
he planned to rob.
Date posted:Oct 31, 2007
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During a regular week, Scott Williams works for
the Springfield Park District. Often he makes and
maintains signs for parks in the central Illinois
community. So it only made sense that on his
recent mission trip to Henderson Settlement in
Frakes, KY, he used his “regular talents” to make
a contribution to the Red Bird Missionary
Conference mission.
Date posted:Oct 30, 2007
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"O God ... we praise you for the music which
scales the heights and plumbs the depths,"
declared Lois M. Dauway, who is chair of the
center's ecumenical affairs committee. She is
also associate to the deputy general secretary of
the Women's Division, a unit of the General Board
of Global Ministries, which has offices in the
ecumenical tower at 475 Riverside Drive.
Date posted:Oct 29, 2007
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The Drew University Theological School Madison,
New Jersey, will be the new home base for
Communities of Shalom, a United Methodist program
that engages congregations and communities in
working together for community development,
peace, and wholeness.
Date posted:Oct 26, 2007
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This Halloween many trick-or-treaters will
receive a new kind of treat, fair trade mini-
chocolates. For a few cents more than brand-name
chocolates, candy buyers can have a clear
conscience when buying and giving chocolates that
are not derived from child labor.
Date posted:Oct 26, 2007
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Greetings in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
On October 9, I agreed to serve as interim
general secretary of the agency while a search
for a new chief executive takes place. This is
both a challenge and an honor for me. My
association with the board covers many decades
and multiple kinds of mission. Especially close
to my heart are ministries to families and
children, and in the health field, including
gospel work dealing with HIV/AIDS and substance
abuse.
Date posted:Oct 25, 2007
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"Torture is wrong," read the sign that hung from
the Rev. Steven Clunn's window at First United
Methodist Church in Schenectady, NY.
Date posted:Oct 25, 2007
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Rukudzo Murapa is retiring as chief executive of
Africa University after almost 10 years of leading
the United Methodist-related school.
Date posted:Oct 24, 2007
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Methodism was born in song and Charles Wesley was
a primary reason. This year, marks the 300th
anniversary of Charles Wesley's birth.
Date posted:Oct 23, 2007
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United Methodist leaders in the fight against
malaria are cautiously optimistic about a newly
released report on the safe use of a vaccine that
reduces malaria infection among infants in
Mozambique.
Date posted:Oct 23, 2007
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The emergency request came early in the morning.
A woman from the Lunda Tribe was having
complications from childbirth and needed to be
driven to the hospital 50 km away. When I arrived
at the clinic, it was too late. The woman had
died. What started out as an ambulance run became
a slow, mournful procession instead as the
woman's body was returned to her family and
village.
Date posted:Oct 19, 2007
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The chief executives of two United Methodist
agencies have welcomed with cautious optimism
report of the safe use of a vaccine that reduced
malaria infection among infants in Mozambique.
Date posted:Oct 19, 2007
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"Our new staff team represents a new structure of
accountability designed to improve internal
communication and fortify relationships with the
broad mission constituency," said Ms. Shawn
Bakker, who as director of the Advance is also an
associate general secretary of the mission
agency.
Date posted:Oct 18, 2007
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The UMCOR Hotline for October 16, 2007
In Today's Hotline:
Armenia: World Food Day
US: UMCOR Helps Rebuild Katrina-Struck Community
US: “Faces of Fair Trade” Tour
Resources: UMCOR 2008 Calendar
Date posted:Oct 17, 2007
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Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control
indicate Latinos in the United States account for
a greater proportion of AIDS cases than their
representation in the total population. Of all
racial/ethnic groups, they have the second
highest AIDS case rate in the nation. Of the
approximately 1.2 million people living with
HIV/AIDS in the US today, some 200,000 are
Hispanic/Latino. "It is important that
Hispanic/Latino churches recognize this reality
and respond with ministries of care and
compassion."
Date posted:Oct 17, 2007
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In 2004, following his retirement from the
active episcopacy, he became the founding dean of
the Harry R. Kendall Science and Health Mission
Center at Philander Smith College, Little Rock,
Arkansas, a United Methodist-related historically
black college. The center has multiple
relationships with the mission board.
Date posted:Oct 16, 2007
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The Methodist Church of Sri Lanka has a problem it
welcomes: it is having trouble keeping up with its
membership growth in a country of relatively few
Christians.
Date posted:Oct 16, 2007
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The Rev. Jorge Domingues is the new interim head
of three interrelated program areas of the General
Board of Global Ministries, the international
mission agency of The United Methodist Church.
Date posted:Oct 16, 2007
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Do you remember folding paper boats when you were
a child? Recently I led my colleagues in a
journey back to childhood as together we folded
paper boats. It was a challenge for some in the
group, but we all ended up with something that
looked like a boat…even though some would never
float like a boat.
Date posted:Oct 12, 2007
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9/11, Katrina, the Asian tsunami led UMCOR "to
rethink how we do everything," according to new
chief executive the Rev. Sam Dixon.
Date posted:Oct 11, 2007
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That was one of the reasons she was attracted to
United Methodist Women and the position of chief
executive of the Women’s Division, United
Methodist Board of Global Ministries.
Date posted:Oct 11, 2007
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In a multilingual, international, and spirit-
filled ceremony, 13 people were commissioned on
October 9 for United Methodist missionary service
in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the
United States.
Date posted:Oct 10, 2007
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Bishop Felton E. May (retired) will serve as
interim general secretary of The United Methodist
Church's international mission agency, the
General Board of Global Ministries.
Date posted:Oct 10, 2007
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A set for guidelines for helping United
Methodists talk among themselves about important,
even controversial, matters without falling into
acrimony and name calling has been developed for
use as the denomination moves toward its 2008
legislating General Conference.
Date posted:Oct 08, 2007
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To "discern" means to recognize or identify.
United Methodist laity—women and men—seeking to
discern God’s will for their lives will have that
opportunity in mid December, 2007
A Deaconess and Home Missioner Discernment Event,
open to persons of all ages living in the United
States, will take place outside of Los Angeles,
CA in Rancho Palos Verdes on December 14-16,
2007. Preference will be given to those living in
the Western Jurisdiction.
Date posted:Oct 08, 2007
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Thobani was orphaned, homeless, and desperately
ill with tuberculosis of the stomach, and several
HIV/AIDS-related opportunistic infections. When
he was 18 months old, he weighed a mere ten
pounds. His prognosis was not good.
Date posted:Oct 05, 2007
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It is the first such denominational school of its
kind in Central Asia, an area where The United
Methodist Church is developing new congregations
and social ministries. The Central Asia Mission
was launched in 2003 and is part of the Eurasia
Episcopal Area, led by Bishop Hans Vaxby of
Moscow, who was on hand for the school's opening.
Date posted:Oct 05, 2007
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United Methodist bishops in Africa ended their
first continental meeting with a renewed resolve
to work together strategically to fight poverty
in Africa.
The three-day African Bishops Roundtable brought
together 12 active and retired bishops to the
campus of Africa University in Mutare. The
bishops, representing congregations from west,
east, central and southern Africa, developed
strategies against poverty and committed to make
United Methodist-related Africa University a
partner in their efforts.
Date posted:Oct 05, 2007
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Sketchy reports indicate that the government of
Myanmar has again met peaceful pro-democracy
demonstrators with unprovoked violence.
Date posted:Oct 04, 2007
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The Rev. Michael Kinnamon, a longtime ecumenical
leader and pastor in the Christian Church
(Disciples of Christ), has been nominated to lead
the National Council of Churches.
His nomination by a search committee as the
organization's chief executive was announced Oct.
3. If affirmed next month by the NCC Governing
Board and General Assembly, Kinnamon would start
in January, becoming the council's ninth general
secretary since its beginning in 1950.
Date posted:Oct 04, 2007
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The chief mission officer of The United Methodist
Church appealed to each member of the Congress to
override President George Bush's veto of a bill
that would reauthorize and expand a pivotal
health insurance program for children. The appeal
was faxed to all Senators and Representatives on
the morning of October 3 even as the President
vetoed the reauthorization of the State
Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
Date posted:Oct 03, 2007
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“Next Steps” is theme of the 13th consultation of
the Russia Initiative of The United Methodist
Church, set for November 15-17 in Overland Park,
Kansas, outside of Kansas City.
The consultation, held about every 18 months,
brings together representatives of the church in
Russia, clergy and laity from partner
congregations in the United States and Western
Europe. The initiative is a program of the
General Board of Global Ministries, the
international mission agency of the denomination,
and dates back to the fall of the Soviet Union in
1989.
Date posted:Oct 02, 2007
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