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38 articles found for June, 2008.

The 2008 corn harvest at Mujila Falls was a major success with about 120 tons being harvested.
Kanyama, Zambia, June 26, 2008--The Mujila Falls Agricultural Centre takes Proverbs 14:4 seriously: "Where there are no oxen, there is no grain; abundant crops come by the strength of the ox."
Date posted:Jun 30, 2008
A New Podcast: Amy Spaur 
Amy Spaur is a missionary with the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church serving as a Mission Intern with Centro Popular para América Latina de Comunicación (Latin American Center for Popular Communication) in Colombia and Justice For Our Neighbors (JFON) through the North Texas Annual Conference. Interview by Mary Beth Coudal, Global Ministries staff.
Date posted:Jun 30, 2008
I'm an editor and word dithering is important to me. I think we ought to take the time to get the words right, because words should represent what we really mean to say. We need to listen to each other and change our minds every now and then about the words we print in our books of Resolutions and Discipline. I'm glad our doctrines are living documents that stretch and grow and change with the growing pains of our church. But is a committee of 1000 members the best way to get this done?
Date posted:Jun 29, 2008
In Liberia, Ezekiel Freeman, Agricultural Program Officer in Ganta, points to nucs (nucleus boxes), where colonies of bees are housed to produce honey. UMCOR SA&D provides beekeeper training to community members in West Africa.
Esther Rashid, of Sumbuya, Sierra Leone, is one of several farmers the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR ) trained in 2003 and 2004 through its Sustainable Agriculture and Development (SA&D) Program in West Africa. She harvested six gallons of honey from her hives in 2006, for an income of about US $36. Last year, her harvest tripled.
Date posted:Jun 29, 2008
A young boy in Côte d'Ivoire rakes cacao beans so that they can ferment and then be taken to a cocoa processing facility. Photo Courtesy International Labor Rights Forum.
For many, Valentine's Day is all about chocolate. And unfortunately, that means big business for companies that sometimes profit—albeit indirectly— from forced child labor in West Africa.
Date posted:Jun 29, 2008
A dinner of boiled beans and potatoes is spread out on cloths in Ancoraimes, the Altiplano region near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. Community members will come to the cloths to partake of this meal together.
High in the Illimani Mountains of Bolivia's Altiplano, Justa Mamani weaves shawls in a cooperative with about 20 other women from her village of Catacora. Mamani founded this cooperative and three others in the area, though her formal schooling ended at the fifth grade.
Date posted:Jun 29, 2008
A girl carries a baby at an Ed Daein transition camp, where internally displaced people are given tools to enable them to progress.
Ginghamsburg Church is a United Methodist congregation in Tipp City, Ohio, a small city of 9,300 people just north of Dayton, in the heart of the "rust belt." When the Rev. Mike Slaughter arrived at Ginghamsburg 29 years ago, he inherited a 104-year-old small country church on a quarter of an acre, with fewer than 100 members and an annual budget of $27,000.
Date posted:Jun 29, 2008
Shame Mutsingo is an agricultural worker at Africa University in Mutare, Zimbabwe. This photo won the New World Outlook photo contest in 2008.
The New World Outlook Pigs and Cows Contest winner, Larry Kies, has been a Global Ministries missionary since 1982 and has served in various agricultural ministries in Botswana; in Nyadire, Zimbabwe; and at Africa University in Mutare, Zimbabwe.
Date posted:Jun 29, 2008
Leonard Kafemba with his PET.
"Has the PET really made a difference in your life?" I asked Leonard. Leonard replied enthusiastically: "I now have a new life! I am able to help others and myself for the first time in a long time. And it led me to Jesus!"
Date posted:Jun 26, 2008
A congregation in Vietnam welcomed Bishop Larry M. Goodpaster with flowers.
outheast Asia is opening up to Christian mission, and The United Methodist Church is there on the ground floor. "We are just starting to see what God is doing and how the Spirit is moving across the area," said Bishop Larry M. Goodpaster, the first presiding bishop of the Southeast Asia Mission.
Date posted:Jun 26, 2008
Chief executives of the Women's Division and the General Board of Global Ministries called the 2007-2008 Israel-Palestine mission study consistent with the denomination's stand for a just and lasting peace in that region in a joint statement issued Feb. 19 (updated in June, 2008). Women's Division Deputy General Secretary Harriett Jane Olson and Global Ministries' Interim General Secretary Bishop Felton E. May issued the statement in response to attacks on the study launched after a denominational briefing for delegates to the 2008 General Conference.
Date posted:Jun 24, 2008
The UMCOR Hotline for June 24, 2008 
US: Assisting Flood Survivors DRC: Educating Boys GHANA: An Increasing Harvest RESOURCES: Protecting the Innocent—New Church Bulletin
Source: UMCOR
Date posted:Jun 24, 2008
From left to right: Back row; Crickett Nicovich, Amy Spaur, Angie Miller.<br /> Front row, Alexandria Jones, Stephanie Kellner, Jill Conway, T. Ryan Clayburn.
New York, June 23, 2008--Seven young adults recently concluded their three years of United Methodist missionary service. As Mission Interns, they addressed issues such as poverty, homelessness, or economic justice. Following are excerpts from some of their reflections on their work.
Date posted:Jun 23, 2008
A New Podcast: Michael Keyse 
Michael Keyse is a missionary with the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church serving in Bolivia. Based in La Paz, Michael's ministry promotes The Advance for Christ projects and coordinates Volunteers in Mission for the national church of Bolivia. Interview by Rachael Barnett, Global Ministries staff of The Advance.
Date posted:Jun 23, 2008
Evelena Sombrero-Remore, a Native American United Methodist, shared her gift by creating the cover art for
From the Mohawk nation to the Hawaiian Islands, songs ring out in a spirit-filled songbook, Singing the Sacred: Musical Gifts from Native American Communities. The songs can be heard on a companion CD that includes all 21 songs recorded by people from the indigenous communities.
Date posted:Jun 20, 2008
Washington, DC. (UMNS), June 20, 2008 - Early on a typical summer morning, migrant farm workers are awakened by the grinding sound of a truck door sliding open. Loaded into pickup trucks and driven to lush, green tomato fields, the workers toil from dawn to dusk in temperatures soaring into the 90s, filling and emptying 32-pound buckets of tomatoes.
Date posted:Jun 20, 2008
EAST PEORIA, Illinois, June 17, 2008 (UMNS)--An agreement fostering collaboration between an Illinois community college and the United Methodist University in Monrovia, Liberia, was consummated June 9 in a signing ceremony.
Date posted:Jun 18, 2008
LOS ANGELES, June 17, 2008 (UMNS)--United Methodists in the California-Pacific Annual (regional) Conference are determined to boost their Hispanic ministry.
Date posted:Jun 18, 2008
A United Methodist mission program that provides legal services to immigrants in the United States needs a full-time lawyer--who will become a missionary--for work within the Iowa Annual Conference of the denomination. He or she will supervise congregation-based legal clinics affiliated with the Justice for Our Neighbors (JFON) network, a ministry that expresses the church's concern for "sojourners in our midst.
Date posted:Jun 18, 2008
Fifteen young people will serve as Summer Interns in United Methodist community centers, churches, and institutions during over the summer of 2008.
New York, NY, June 10, 2008--"I hope to gain a new understanding of the world around me and to step outside of my comfort zone in a challenging and rewarding experience," said Summer Intern Melanie Hornbeck from Jonesboro, Arkansas.
Date posted:Jun 17, 2008
Camp Wesley, near Leipaja, Latvia, represents hopes reborn and ministry extended to the most ignored groups in society.
Wesley Camp and Retreat Center, the three-year- old retreat center of the United Methodist Church in Latvia, is set for a busy summer of Christian witness and fellowship at its still- under-renovation facility on the Baltic Sea.
Date posted:Jun 17, 2008
The UMCOR Hotline for June 17, 2008 
US: Midwest Flood Response; MYANMAR: Receiving Relief; ARMENIA: Providing Quality Care; UMCOR: Coffee Challenge News; EVENT: Register Early for Health Ministries Conference
Source: UMCOR
Date posted:Jun 17, 2008
The Rev. Dr. Samuel Kobia, general secretary of the World Council of Churches.
New York, NY, June 17, 2008—The head of the United Methodist mission agency has endorsed a call from the World Council of Churches that Christians everywhere join on June 22 in a day of prayer for the nation of Zimbabwe as it faces a run-off in a deeply contested national election.
Date posted:Jun 17, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Ca. (UMNS) - La Conferencia Anual California-Pacífico de la Iglesia Metodista Unida está determinada a darle nuevo impulso al ministerio hispano. A principios de este año, la conferencia trajo al Rdo. Emilio Müller para ocupar la posición de Director de Ministerios Latinos. Müller tiene 30 años de experiencia pastoral y ha estado con el Plan Nacional para el Ministerio Hispano (PNMH) desde sus comienzos.
Date posted:Jun 17, 2008
A New Podcast: Jeremias Franca 
Jeremias Franca, a missionary with the Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church, is serving through the Global Health Program as administrator of Chicuque Rural Hospital in his home country of Mozambique. Interview by Rachael Barnett, Global Ministries staff of The Advance.
Date posted:Jun 16, 2008
Community Health Promoters and Teaching Team
"These kids can't sleep at night just thinking about what's going to happen the next day," one grandmother said when asked what the children thought about vacation Bible school. The only topic of conversation in the small community was about the big "fiesta" planned to celebrate the end of the week.
Date posted:Jun 13, 2008
Numer Licardo and son, Dan, at Niagara Falls, July 1973.
When your father is gone, it's easy to turn Father's Day into a day of memories only.
Date posted:Jun 13, 2008
Unlock the Church in Russia: You are the Key. Rev. Dick Ellis and Bishop Sally Dyck (pictured) called on conference members to re-commit themselves to the Minnesota-Russia partnership and to urge their churches to do the same.
A new United Methodist mission center will emerge in St. Petersburg, Russia, through a partnership between the Minnesota and the Northwest Russia Annual Conferences of the denomination. United Methodists in Minnesota have already given $500,000 toward the facility and expect to add $100,000 in the near future.
Date posted:Jun 13, 2008
Jalingo, Nigeria, June 12, 2008--United Methodists in Nigeria and Iowa are mourning the death of Ron Wilmot, a Volunteer in Mission who died in Jalingo on June 9 while doing the Lord's work in a place he loved, surrounded by people he admired.
Date posted:Jun 12, 2008
Give Ye Them To Eat
Puebla, Puebla, Mexico, June 6, 2008--Times are tough! Funding for the "Give Ye Them To Eat" program has declined by 90 percent. Surplus funds and money from the sale of livestock have kept this outreach program alive over the last few months so that the GYTTE staff could continue to serve the rural poor of south-central Mexico, but those funds are now depleted. Your help is needed immediately!
Date posted:Jun 10, 2008
From left to right: Jim Berner, West Virginia Annual Conference Treasurer; Judy Nutter, lay member of West Virginia Annual Conference and Global Ministries Director; Rev. Chris Heckert, Global Ministries.
Buckhannon, WV, June 10, 2008--The West Virginia Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church demonstrated the use of an empty bag while celebrating the 60th anniversary of The Advance, the denomination's designated or "second-mile" mission-giving program.
Date posted:Jun 10, 2008
The UMCOR Hotline for June 10, 2008 
ZIMBABWE: UMCOR Responds to Needs In Politically Charged Zimbabwe US: Small Churches Doing Big Ministries WORLDWIDE: Resources Addressing the Food Crisis SAGER BROWN: Depot of Hope WORLDWIDE: World Refugee Day is June 20
Source: UMCOR
Date posted:Jun 10, 2008
A New Podcast: Sonya Luna 
Sonya Luna is a missionary with the Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church serving through the National Plan for Hispanic and Latino Ministries (NPHLM) in the Detroit Annual Conference. Interview by Rachael Barnett, Global Ministries staff of The Advance.
Date posted:Jun 09, 2008
The annual School of Congregational Development is a joint project of Global Ministries and the General Board of Discipleship. In the recent past, a school at a single location has drawn between 600 and 700 pastors, lay leaders, district superintendents, and bishops.
Date posted:Jun 06, 2008

Christian greetings to you from Nairobi. As you have been following in the news and in my recent reports to you, the first half of 2008 has been a time of great turmoil and anxiety in Kenya. The wave of violence that erupted following the December 2007 presidential elections left more than 1,000 Kenyans dead and up to 500,000 displaced. Although the formation of a new coalition government has led to the cessation of violence, many thousands remain resident in temporary shelter, too afraid to return to their home communities.
Date posted:Jun 04, 2008
The UMCOR Hotline for June 3, 2008 
SOUTH AFRICA: UMCOR Assists Survivors of Violence IVORY COAST: Texas and Côte d’Ivoire Annual Conferences Join Forces to Fight Malaria US: United Methodists Express Support for the Immigrant Community in Postville US: Hurricane Season Begins, Flood Buckets Needed EVENT: Empowering Health Ministries Conference
Source: UMCOR
Date posted:Jun 03, 2008
Texas and Côte d’Ivoire Annual Conferences Join Forces to Fight Malaria 
The Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church is giving $1 million to combat malaria in the Côte d'Ivoire Annual Conference.
Source: UMCOR
Date posted:Jun 02, 2008

The 27 congregations of the United Methodist Red Bird Missionary Conference gave $19,300 for mission in Cambodia at their 2008 annual conference meeting.
Date posted:Jun 02, 2008

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