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May
30 articles found for May, 2009.
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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:May 29, 2009
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Peshawar, Pakistan, May 29, 2009--Christian
leaders in the province of Pakistan bordering
Afghanistan are appealing to fellow believers
worldwide to join them in prayer for
the "innocent" and "vulnerable" people
victimized by conflicts in their region and
across the country.
Date posted:May 29, 2009
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New York, NY, May 28, 2009--A seasoned church
leader is being tapped to lead the process that
will unify five program units of the United
Methodist General Board of Global Ministries
into a single mission operation.
Date posted:May 28, 2009
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The UMCOR Hotline for May 26, 2009
In Today's Hotline:
*PAKISTAN: Helping the Displaced
*HONDURAS: Building Homes
*SOUTH AFRICA: Supporting Hunger Projects
*RESOURCES: World Refugee Day, June 20
Date posted:May 26, 2009
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"I have been in the dark without knowing
anything
about myself," a young man told us in
Diamniadio,
where we were holding HIV education and
testing. "There are no talks about sex in the
home and I cannot even sit with my sisters."
Date posted:May 22, 2009
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The hymn says, blessed be the tie that binds,
but ties in Christian mission can also expand.
Growing stronger is perhaps the best way to
describe a mission partnership between a United
Methodist congregation in Nashville, Tennessee,
and the denomination’s Malawi Missionary
Conference in central Africa.
Date posted:May 22, 2009
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Oranienburg, Germany, May 19, 2009--The United
Methodist "Church in the Container" of
Oranienburg, Germany, has a new center from
which
to serve a community with a dramatic past and
acute contemporary needs.
Date posted:May 19, 2009
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The UMCOR Hotline for May 19, 2009
In Today's Hotline:
*MOZAMBIQUE: Health Education and Training
*SAGER BROWN: Helping Communities in Home Repair
*BURUNDI: Alleviating Hunger
*SOUTH AFRICA: Providing Refuge
Date posted:May 19, 2009
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New York, NY, May 18, 2009--The Rev. René O.
Bideaux, a former United Methodist missionary
and mission agency executive, died on May 13 in
Asheville, North Carolina, and was memorialized
at the Biltmore United Methodist Church there on
May 17. He was 77.
Date posted:May 18, 2009
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New York, New York, May 15, 2009--The
word "discern" means to recognize or identify.
Discerning the will of God for life is a
necessary responsibility of every Christian.
United Methodist laity--women and men--seeking to
discern God's will for their futures will have
that opportunity in mid September, 2009.
Date posted:May 15, 2009
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Bethesda, Maryland, May 14, 2009—The full
Council
of Bishops of The United Methodist Church has
appealed to the President and Congress of the
United States to support "comprehensive
immigration reform" that would, among other
goals, provide pathways to citizenship and
reunify families separated by current policies.
Date posted:May 13, 2009
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The two little girls were entertaining
themselves in the church during a teacher-
training seminar. During this brief interlude,
they provided a poignant lesson that summed up
for me what it means to be the global church.
Date posted:May 13, 2009
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New York, NY, May 12, 2009--One year ago, on
May 12, 2008, at 2:28 in the afternoon, the
Longmenshan fault in Sichuan province, China,
buckled and ripped in two. Whole towns and
villages were reduced to rubble; school
buildings collapsed like accordions.
Date posted:May 12, 2009
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The UMCOR Hotline for May 12, 2009
In Today's Hotline:
*UMCOR: New Ryckman Fund Sets Malaria Challenge
*HAITI: Birthing Kits Are Essential in Rural
Communities
*US: Coffee Helps Church Become Better Stewards
*JFON: Legal Help
*RESOURCES: Starting a Health Ministry?
Date posted:May 12, 2009
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As news organizations marked the first 100
days of a new president in the United States,
Individual Volunteer Holly Heyroth of Kansas
marked her first 100 days in Tanzania. Holly has
been working at Methodist Angel House Orphanage,
a children's home that opened five years ago to
assist with the care of 40 "amazingly strong and
beautiful children."
Date posted:May 11, 2009
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New York, NY, May 8, 2009--UMCommunities, a
retooled electronic forum for connecting United
Methodists around shared interests in Christian
faith and mission, is now live and available. It
is at umcommunities.org and is sponsored by the
United Methodist General Board of Global
Ministries.
Date posted:May 08, 2009
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One of the founders of Mother's Day was Anna
Reeves Jarvis. Anna Jarvis was the daughter of a
Methodist preacher. In the late 1800s, she
organized Mother's Day Work Clubs to improve the
health and sanitation of West Virginian families
torn apart and made ill by the effects of the
Civil War.
Date posted:May 08, 2009
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Raleigh, NC , May 6, 2009--A $300,000 grant will
cover part of the start-up costs of a United
Methodist three-year program to lift 75 families
out of poverty and help communities to make
strides toward eliminating poverty in three
counties of western North Carolina.
Date posted:May 06, 2009
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New York, NY, May 5, 2009--"Justice through
Service" is the theme of the 2009 conference of
South Asian Youth (SAY), a domestic organization
within The United Methodist Church. It will take
place August 7-9 at a retreat center in
Larkspur,
Colorado.
Date posted:May 05, 2009
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The UMCOR Hotline for May 5, 2009
In Today's Hotline:
*ZIMBABWE: Maize Distribution Brings Relief
*RESOURCES: World Fair Trade Day—May 9
*MEXICO: UMCOR Helps in Swine Flu Prevention
*US: UMCOR West Depot Opens May 30
*EVENT: Anti-Hunger Concert—May 7
Date posted:May 05, 2009
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"To learn to embroider was very important in
my life," says Meire. "Now that I have a new
job, I understand that I got this job because of
what I have learned in the embroidery workshops."
Date posted:May 01, 2009
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New York, NY, May 1, 2009--Scholarships
totaling $1,348,321 for advanced and college-
level study in the 2009-2010 academic year were
approved on April 29 by directors of the General
Board of Global Ministries, meeting in Stamford,
Connecticut.
Date posted:May 01, 2009
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Like many other institutions, the United
Methodist Board of Global Ministries lost
millions in its investments in 2008.
Date posted:May 01, 2009
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This May-June edition of New World Outlook is our
annual mission-study issue, a companion piece to
the geographic topic studied at the Schools of
Christian Mission. This year the new study is on
the country of Sudan.
Date posted:May 01, 2009
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In antiquity—Sudan was known as Nubia and was
settled by people migrating from Egypt. This
timeline touches on events involving Sudan from
the time of the Crusades in 1098 to today.
Date posted:May 01, 2009
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Driving home down Interstate 81 toward Knoxville,
Tennessee, we witnessed a beautiful sunset behind
the mountains of East Tennessee. Having just
attended an all-day "packing party" with those
who would leave in just nine days for Southern
Sudan, we had thoughts of Sudan on our minds.
Date posted:May 01, 2009
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In 2006, the Holston Annual Conference, having
decided to send a team to Yei in Southern Sudan,
requested assistance from Global Ministries'
Africa office staff. The idea for this trip
sprang from a chance meeting between Holston
Conference members and the "Lost Boys of Sudan."
Date posted:May 01, 2009
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Sudan is a place of contrasts: dusty and dry,
lush and green; Muslim and Christian; peaceful
and hostile.
It is also a place where one can see Easter hope
springing up in corners where once all hope was
lost. You can see it on the faces of children who
attend school -- be it under mango trees or in
thatch-roofed classrooms.
Date posted:May 01, 2009
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Deriga, Sudan, is a small village in the southern
part of the Darfur region. It was destroyed
during a brutal scorched-earth attack by
the "Janjaweed," a proxy militia group unleashed
by the Sudanese government to fight Darfuri rebel
groups and control villages after conflict broke
out in the region in 2003.
Date posted:May 01, 2009
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As I reviewed hundreds of Paul Jeffrey's photos
for this issue on Sudan, the photos of the
children stood out. Though the facts of their
lives are harsh and often unyielding, the
Sudanese children have not lost hope. ... These
children are Sudan's hope for a better future.
They have survived horror and deprivation—more
than most of us will ever see in our lifetimes—
and they have survived.
Date posted:May 01, 2009
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