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February
38 articles found for February, 2008.
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Mirroring most other mainline U.S. denominations,
United Methodists are generally older, whiter and
wealthier in a nation that is increasingly
populated with young adults, people of color and
families with modest incomes.
The United Methodist Church also is losing more
members than it's gaining, with its parishioners
increasingly moving to evangelical Protestant
churches or choosing not to affiliate with
another religious group at all.
Date posted:Feb 29, 2008
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What we have is a growing religious marketplace,
a supermarket of faith options and products.
Many Americans seem to believe that they are
each personally responsible for establishing
Divine Truth based on personal needs and
inclinations at any particular moment. It is
much like the television ad that asserts that if
one dislikes a car or a spouse “get a new one.”
Faith traditions are coming to look suspiciously
like replaceable brands.
Date posted:Feb 28, 2008
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As this issue of New World Outlook was being
edited, Kenya erupted in violence over its
disputed presidential elections. Caroline Njuki,
who directs Global Ministries’ Africa office,
sent the following: “The situation in Kenya is
not good. The Kenyan army, which has always been
neutral, has informed the public that if the
unrest continues, it will take over. People were
burned alive in a church in Eldoret. This is much
like the situation in Rwanda in the 1990s. ...
Date posted:Feb 27, 2008
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Lyn Gray, a United Methodist missionary serving
as a training and development officer with the
YMCA of Liberia in Monrovia, shared the following
story from her recent newsletter.
Date posted:Feb 27, 2008
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Pastor Muy Socheat is a man with multiple
talents. In Sisophon, Cambodia, he leads O Ambel
Methodist mission church, a lively congregation.
He earns income by raising pigs and using his
carpentry skills, which are elegantly displayed
on the wooden doors of his church-house-carpenter
shop in the form of four hand-carved Scripture
verses. He also writes Christian music.
Date posted:Feb 27, 2008
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In Ghana, the Sustainable Agricul-ture &
Development Program of the United Methodist
Committee on Relief (UMCOR-SA&D) receives more
than a dozen phone calls each week from people
who have heard about Moringa. The Moringa tree
has nutritious and medicinal properties that far
exceed those of many other foods. Gram for gram
the leaves contain twice the protein and four
times the calcium of milk, more potassium than
bananas, more vitamin C than oranges, and four
times the vitamin A of carrots.
Date posted:Feb 27, 2008
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"It is harder for the poor. The poor get
poorer….It's harder because there are more needs,
more diseases, more that have lost their jobs or
their homes. It's getting so that elderly people
on fixed incomes can hardly pay their bills.
Sometimes they have to decide whether to buy food
or their medicines," said Ms. Maudine Holloway,
executive director, Community Enabler Developer,
Inc., in Anniston, Alabama.
Date posted:Feb 27, 2008
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Eleuterio and Celia Jimenez, an elderly couple
living in the village of Alchichica, Puebla, in
South Central Mexico, are always open to
receiving friends and strangers for a visit under
the trees of their outdoor patio. They often
share their faith through music, and they enjoy
singing their favorite hymns in two-part harmony.
Date posted:Feb 27, 2008
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In the summer of 2005, United Methodist Bishop
James Swanson and his staff talked about
possible
mission projects they could pursue.
Date posted:Feb 27, 2008
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The China News Summary is compiled monthly by
the United Methodist
China Program, Room 1335, General Board of
Global Ministries, The United
Methodist Church, 475 Riverside Drive, New York,
NY 10115
Date posted:Feb 27, 2008
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A focus on the Middle East will be among the
social priorities for the National Council of
Churches over the next few years.
But the council also will look at strengthening
the relationships among its 35 member communions,
including The United Methodist Church, and re-
energizing the ecumenical movement as a whole.
Date posted:Feb 27, 2008
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A New Podcast: Millie Diane Wimberley
Millie Diane Wimberley is a missionary of the
General Board of Global Ministries of The United
Methodist Church serving in La Paz, Bolivia.
Interview by Chris Tricomi, Global Ministries
consultant.
Date posted:Feb 27, 2008
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The US Religious Landscape Survey was
conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and
Public Life. It states that 5.1 percent of the
US adults with religious affiliation are United
Methodists, classified under "mainline
Protestant."
Date posted:Feb 26, 2008
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UMCOR Hotline, February 26, 2008
UMCOR SAGER BROWN: Kit Supplies Are Low;
US: Alabama Tornado Response;
UMCOR: One Great Hour of Sharing is This Sunday;
US: Across Lands
Date posted:Feb 26, 2008
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United Methodist youth teamed up on Super Bowl
Sunday with young people across the United States
to raise more than $9 million in goods and
dollars to fight hunger and poverty in their
local communities through the 2008 Souper Bowl of
Caring.
Date posted:Feb 26, 2008
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A new institution that aims to provide
theological education via the Internet was named
the Methodist E-Academy during a meeting of the
United Methodist Theological Schools in Europe.
Date posted:Feb 25, 2008
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President and Mrs. George W. Bush’s February tour
of five Africa countries was concerned in large
measure with health issues, and from a United
Methodist perspective Liberia was an excellent
last stop.
Date posted:Feb 22, 2008
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A chill came over me as we swung open the door to
the meeting room. Inside sat a young man named
Nandan. His eyes brightened noticeably as a
missionary co-worker and I came in to visit.
When I had arrived earlier at the detention
center, I didn't have the faintest clue what God
was about to do. Having visited all the detainees
on my list, I was just about to leave when a
friend asked if I would visit Nandan.
Date posted:Feb 21, 2008
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As we move in this third week of Lent we discover
a theme around thirst. The Israelites wonder as
they wandered in the wilderness in desperation
for fear they wouldn’t have nourishment and would
die of thirst. The woman at the well, a Samaritan
woman at that, is in conversation with Jesus who
is physically thirsty and he offers streams of
water that will lead to eternal life so they will
never be thirsty again. In Romans, we are
reminded that we have the love of God which has
been poured into our hearts through the Holy
Spirit.
Date posted:Feb 21, 2008
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The first impression we had of Uganda was the
warm moist air coming off of Lake Victoria. The
beauty of the countryside soon became apparent
as we rode from the airport. In that first hour
we experienced a view of Lake Victoria, the
greenness of the countryside, the capital city
of Kampala, the bustle of Saturday morning
roadside markets, and the unique place in the
crossroad of Uganda that the city of Mukono
holds.
Date posted:Feb 20, 2008
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Effective ministry and advocacy related to
immigration must begin on both sides of the U.S.-
Mexico border as a partnership of The United
Methodist Church and the Methodist Church of
Mexico, according to church leaders along the
border.
Date posted:Feb 20, 2008
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A comprehensive 1996 statement on Christian-Jewish
relations by The United Methodist Church's
legislating General Conference strongly reiterated
the denomination's opposition to all forms of
anti-Semitism. Four years later, the quadrennial
General Conference, which is the only entity that
speaks for the whole church, urged United
Methodists to observe Yom HaShoah, the annual
Holocaust Memorial Day, and also addressed
Israeli-Palestinian relations in the Middle East.
Date posted:Feb 19, 2008
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Continued Kenya Violence Disrupts Food Supply
Continued violence in Kenya has displaced hundreds
of thousands of citizens and disrupted the food
supply in parts of that African nation. The United
Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) is appealing
to United Methodists to donate money to bolster
the food supply.
Date posted:Feb 15, 2008
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The Mission Personnel Office of the General Board
of Global Ministries is no longer accepting
applications for 2008 Summer Internships, a
program being revived this year. However,
congregations, annual conferences, and
church-related institutions may still apply to
become placement sites for interns.
Date posted:Feb 14, 2008
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A United Methodist Volunteers-in-Mission team
arrived in Nakuru, Kenya, just as violence broke
out in that Rift Valley city.
C.M. "Kip" Robinson Jr., associate VIM director
for the denomination's Southeastern
Jurisdiction, said the team was never directly
threatened during its Jan. 26-Feb. 7 work trip
and was happy to bring "a message of hope" to
Kenyans there.
Date posted:Feb 14, 2008
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The Rev. Sergei V. Nikolaev has been elected
president of the Russia United Methodist
Theological Seminary in Moscow.
The election by the seminary's board of trustees
was effective Jan. 1. Nikolaev will continue to
teach as the E. Stanley Jones Professor of
Evangelism as part of the seminary's Ruediger and
Gerlinde Minor Chair.
Date posted:Feb 12, 2008
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In the context of Lent, we are called to look at
where Christ is, was, and will be in our world.
In Psalm 121 and Genesis 12 we are called to
remember the very physical nature of our Judaic-
Christian experience with God. Lift thine eyes to
the hills, not past reality into a different
realm. The Lord is right here, in the mountains
of our lives. The Lord is aware of our struggles
as we climb through life and will not let us
stumble or lose our way.
Date posted:Feb 12, 2008
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The United Methodist Church has been invited to
apply for up to $5 million in support from the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the United
Nations Foundation to underwrite a fund-raising,
education and outreach campaign to strengthen its
global health ministries, especially work related
to malaria and other diseases of poverty in
Africa.
Date posted:Feb 11, 2008
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The 50 millionth Bible printed in China has
rolled of the presses of the Amity Printing
Company in Nanjing, a GBGM Advance Special
project, a cause for joyful celebration on
December 8, attended by over 200 persons
including Bishop K.T. Ting, 93, one of the most
influential Chinese theologians in modern
history.
Date posted:Feb 11, 2008
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A "celebration of life" was held in Vicksburg on
February 9 for Martha ("Twick") Morrison, a
widely-known leader in global mission and United
Methodist Women, who died two days earlier
following a battle against cancer.
Date posted:Feb 11, 2008
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As a deaconess candidate, I consider myself to be
a lifelong learner in theology and the ways of
The United Methodist Church. In fact, I just
recently completed the Old Testament and New
Testament courses this winter and walked away
from that experience understanding why people
refer to the Bible as "the living word."
Date posted:Feb 10, 2008
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One day a man came into Zhang Limei’s village in
rural Henan Province, China. The man handed out
Bibles, told the village how the books would
protect them from harm, and left a day later.
“We had heard how praying to Jesus can protect
you and so, not knowing any better, we carried
the Bible around with us at all times, hoping to
ward off bad things,” Ms. Zhang shared.
Date posted:Feb 08, 2008
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Thirteen people still were waiting for court
appearances as of Feb. 7, Bishop Paul Verryn
told United Methodist News Service. Verryn had
been to the court that day as another person was
released on bail.
Date posted:Feb 08, 2008
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UMCOR Responds to "Super Tuesday"
Tornadoes in Five Southern States
Early response teams are involved in debris
cleanup in areas open to volunteers. "In some
areas, seek and rescue operations are still the
priorities..."
Date posted:Feb 07, 2008
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Seasoned peacemakers, social justice advocates
and seminary students spent three days at a peace
conference grappling with the question: "How can
The United Methodist Church find its voice in a
world of violence?"
The Rev. Peter Storey, a renowned peace advocate
and the former Methodist bishop of South Africa,
set the tone for the three-day gathering as he
welcomed 400 participants to "the conference of
impossible things."
Date posted:Feb 06, 2008
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At Turtle Rock Farm we are committed to learning
from and being healed by God's good creation. As
we enter a period of the church year when we
dedicate ourselves to fasting-and-prayer, we find
it imperative to notice what's happening in
creation.
Date posted:Feb 05, 2008
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A growing number of international United
Methodist congregations now exist within Germany,
where their members range from Americans to
Africans, diplomats to asylum seekers, students
to business people.
All, according to Bishop Rosemarie Wenner of the
Germany area, are welcome within the United
Methodist Church in Germany.
Date posted:Feb 05, 2008
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Flor Crisóstomo, 28, says she is "picking up the
torch" from Elvira Arelleno, another
congregation member who lived in the church for
a year before leaving last August. Arelleno was
arrested and deported within days of leaving
Chicago and arriving in Los Angeles, where she
had planned to speak out for compassionate
immigration reform.
Date posted:Feb 01, 2008
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