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July
19 articles found for July, 2007.
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In January 2007, Rev. Don Fortenberry read about
the Bartimai Centre for the Blind on the Global
Ministries web page (www.gbgm-umc.org). Inspired,
Rev. Fortenberry, Minister for Student Missions,
sent Millsaps College students, Meagan Malone,
Katie Collins, and Luke Darby, to work at Bartimai
Centre with blind pre-schoolers for three weeks in
the Spring.
Date posted:Jul 31, 2007
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Hiroshima Nagarekawa Church, a congregation of the
United Church of Christ in Japan, has given
$100,000 to the United Methodist General Board of
Global Ministries for mission work in East Asia.
Date posted:Jul 31, 2007
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In the nineties, the civil war in my country,
Liberia, broke up my family and we were scattered
to parts of Liberia and subsequently to other
countries.
Date posted:Jul 27, 2007
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Jonathon Bevil didn’t expect to meet a super star
on his way to a LAVIM mission in Tampico, Mexico.*
"Our group from the Louisiana Tech Wesley
Foundation arrived at the Houston airport and
some of our group spotted Bono, the lead singer
for U-2.
Date posted:Jul 24, 2007
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The 53rd class of US-2 missionaries recently
completed their service with the General Board of
Global Ministries. These eight young adults, who
were commissioned in 2005, came to New York City
from June 10 through June 16, 2007, to share
about their missions, to debrief about their
struggles, and to commemorate their next steps.
Date posted:Jul 24, 2007
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As news of the killings of 14 Philippine Marines
was splashed across newspapers, a group of United
Methodist Christians and Muslim religious leaders
met to discuss how to build a peaceful community.
Date posted:Jul 24, 2007
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On Sunday morning at the United Methodist Church
of St. Paul and St. Andrew in New York City, 17
young adults kneeled and were commissioned for
United Methodist missions throughout the world.
Date posted:Jul 19, 2007
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This Primetimers event was an opportunity for
older adults to experience firsthand the ministry
of Henderson Settlement and other mission schools
and ministries in Appalachia, including Red Bird
Mission and Pine Mountain Settlement School.
Date posted:Jul 17, 2007
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Dr. Joerg Barthel, a professor of Old Testament,
is the new dean, or rector, of the United
Methodist Theological Seminary in Reutlingen. He
was elected earlier in the month by the trustees
of the school.
Date posted:Jul 16, 2007
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Living in the poverty of the small village of
Talanga, a valley nestled between the mountains
of Honduras, a young mother of six growing
children had never aspired to anything beyond the
life she now experienced with her family.
Dulcibella left school at the age of 12, later
married and began raising a family. It was not
uncommon for the people of her village to leave
school at such an early age and join the daily
struggle for survival.
Date posted:Jul 11, 2007
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The Seventh General Conference Session of The
Methodist Church in India (MCI) held in late May
voiced concerns over the rights of religious
minorities in India and the effects of
globalization on the mission and ministry of the
church.
Date posted:Jul 09, 2007
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In 1988, the General Conference established
Native American Awareness Sunday to remind the
church of the gifts and contributions made by
Native Americans to this denomination and to
society. Celebrated on the third Sunday after
Easter (or any date local churches choose), in
2000 its name changed to Native American
Ministries Sunday.
Date posted:Jul 06, 2007
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This interactive map shows the states within
Jurisdictions that have Native American
Ministries.
Date posted:Jul 05, 2007
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This issue of New World Outlook visits a number
of Native American ministries around the country.
An important distinction for this coverage is
that the work described in these pages is not
something that the white-majority church is doing
for Native Americans. These are ministries of
outreach initiated, developed, and maintained by
Native Americans—Native Americans are the
missionaries.
Date posted:Jul 05, 2007
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Consider the circle of an Ojibway dreamcatcher.
It lacks a beginning and an ending. Within the
circle of a dreamcatcher, all are connected.
Native American pastors who serve non-Native
congregations have used the symbol of the
dreamcatcher to help explain the limitlessness of
God.
Date posted:Jul 05, 2007
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The United Methodist Church is a racially diverse
church!
There, I said it! We find people of all racial
backgrounds as members. The problem is that there
just aren't enough of them in our congregations.
Within the United States the latest UMC
statistics (2003 GCFA Racial/Ethnic Lay
Membership) show that 96 percent of the 8.1
million members are white. We Native Americans
comprise less than half of one percent of the
total membership.
Date posted:Jul 05, 2007
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In 1999, I was serving as the district
superintendent for the Southern District of the
Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference. There were
45 Native American churches in my district,
mostly small-town or rural congregations. The
characteristics of these churches included unique
Native American cultural contexts and the
economic struggle that arises from serving people
living within a community of poverty. A group of
eight churches serving primarily Choctaw people
began meeting together in southeast Oklahoma.
Date posted:Jul 05, 2007
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The history of Native American people shows that
disasters have been a part of our lives since the
US government began its quest to remove Native
American peoples from their homelands and
assimilate them into the dominant culture.
Therefore, the creation of a Native American
Disaster Response Team in 1998 has brought a
unique perspective to disaster response in Native
American communities across the country.
Date posted:Jul 05, 2007
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Contact Information.
Date posted:Jul 03, 2007
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