Mission News & Features from Global Ministries

New World Outlook, November/December 2009

HIV/AIDS affects people in all nations at all strata of society. Thanks to the United Methodist Global AIDS Fund, United Methodists and their partners can fight this disease in various countries through church-, community-, and hospital-based projects.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: AIDS/HIV | Children | Global connections | Poverty | Welfare | Women | Youth | Focus on Global Health | India | Zambia | Zimbabwe |
Date posted: Nov 05, 2009

New York, NY, October 29, 2009--The fifth classroom at Wesley Primary School, Morogoro, Tanzania, has a foundation; now it needs only a floor, walls, windows, a ceiling, a roof, and equipment--in the next few months.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Children | Education | Poverty | Youth | Tanzania |
Date posted: Oct 29, 2009

Winchester, Virginia, October 25, 2009-- A "Service of Life and Resurrection for The Rev. Dr. James C. Logan," 77, was held in Winchester, Virginia, on Saturday, October 24. The long-time professor at Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC, died on October 17 at a medical center in Winchester.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Education | Focus on Leadership Development |
Date posted: Oct 26, 2009

Columbia, South Carolina, October 23, 2009-- Major portions of the seventh national "summit" of Communities of Shalom, a movement of faith- inspired community development, will be broadcast live from its meeting site in Columbia, South Carolina, October 31.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Christian love | Health | Immigration | Poverty | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Focus on Global Health |
Date posted: Oct 26, 2009

Does anyone care that every three seconds a person dies somewhere in the world because of poverty? Are we concerned that 8 million poor people are converted into faceless and nameless death statistics every year? Does the fact that more than 1 billion people go to bed hungry every night disturb our sleep?
Source: New World Outlook
More about: AIDS/HIV | United Methodist Church | Focus on Global Health |
Date posted: Oct 26, 2009

New York, New York, October 22, 2009--The Methodist community of Italy now has its first woman president, who is assuming her duties at a time when the small church is seeking to increase it ministry among immigrants.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Communities | Global connections | Hate | Missionaries | United Methodist Church | Violence | Partners/partnerships | Urban | Focus on Congregational Development | Italy |
Date posted: Oct 22, 2009

She retired from the conference in 2003 after a long ministry beginning in 1968 with her first pastoral appointment.
Source: GBGM Administration
More about: GBGM news | United Methodist Church | United States | World |
Date posted: Oct 21, 2009

New York, NY, October 19, 2009--Five loaves from diverse cultures represent the bread of life and the church as the body of Christ in a new litany for Holy Communion introduced at the annual meeting of The United Methodist Board of Global Ministries.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Communities | Evangelization | Mission opportunities | Missionaries | Focus on Congregational Development | Afghanistan | Africa | India | Latin America | Middle East | Pakistan |
Date posted: Oct 19, 2009

Oct. 14, 2009 | STAMFORD, Conn. (UMNS) Shannon and David Goran use the Internet to advertise their campus ministry to students in the Ukraine. So it seemed fitting that the young couple’s formal commissioning as missionaries of The United Methodist Church could be viewed live as a Webcast.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: GBGM events | GBGM news | Mission opportunities | Missionaries | Focus on Leadership Development | Thailand | Ukraine |
Date posted: Oct 15, 2009

Stamford, Connecticut, October 14, 2009--"The Lord is among us," the president of the General Board of Global Ministries told directors of the mission agency at their annual meeting, held in Stamford, Connecticut on October 12-14.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: GBGM events | GBGM news | Global connections | Mission opportunities | Missionaries | Focus on Congregational Development | Focus on Leadership Development | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Focus on Global Health |
Date posted: Oct 14, 2009

Stamford, Connecticut, October 13, 2009--The United Methodist Church formally commissioned 40 persons to mission vocations in a powerful service of celebration and commitment on the night of October 13 in Stamford, Connecticut.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: GBGM events | GBGM news | General Conference | Global connections | Mission opportunities | Missionaries | Focus on Leadership Development | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Cambodia | Caribbean Islands | Japan | Liberia | Mongolia | South Africa | Thailand | Ukraine |
Date posted: Oct 14, 2009

Stamford, Connecticut, October 13, 2009-- Those who engage in mission form the "connective wiring" that makes possible the sharing of God's love by United Methodists and ecumenical partners with all of God's children, the chief mission executive of the denomination told directors of the General Board of Global Ministries, meeting October 12-14 in Stamford, Connecticut.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: GBGM events | GBGM news | General Conference | Mission opportunities | Missionaries | United Methodist Church | Focus on Congregational Development | Focus on Leadership Development | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Focus on Global Health |
Date posted: Oct 13, 2009

The General Board of Global Ministries cordially and joyfully invites all members of The United Methodist Church to take part in the commissioning of new missionaries, deaconesses, and home missionaries on the evening of October 13, 2009.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: GBGM events | Missionaries | Youth | Focus on Leadership Development |
Date posted: Oct 12, 2009