Mission News & Features from Global Ministries

"Christmas is not your birthday, kids. It's Jesus' birthday! For Christmas, do you really think God wants you to have the Warhammer Xbox 360 game? Does God want you to accumulate more toys that just get dusty? Maybe God wants our family to help others this Christmas; to feed the hungry; to welcome the stranger; to volunteer at church; to love one another."
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Advent | Children | Christian love | Jesus Christ | Poverty | Focus on Ministry with the Poor |
Date posted: Nov 20, 2009

Greensboro, North Carolina, November 20, 2009- -Isaiah, prophet of ancient Israel, told his people that God was saying to them, "I will give you as a light to the nations that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth." This promise provided the theme scripture for "Across the Miles," a consultation focused on United Methodist mission in the Eastern Europe and the Balkan countries.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Global connections | Mission opportunities | Missionaries | Wesley | Focus on Congregational Development | Europe |
Date posted: Nov 20, 2009

New York, NY, November 18, 2000--A clergyman who is also a trained musician is the bishop- elect of the Methodist Church of Puerto Rico.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: GBGM news | Global connections | Missionaries | United Methodist Church | Focus on Leadership Development | Puerto Rico |
Date posted: Nov 18, 2009

For more than 12 years, the Comprehensive Health Program of the Council of Evangelical Methodist Churches in Latin America and the Caribbean (CIEMAL) has been focusing on the church's response to health issues confronting Latin American and Caribbean communities.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: AIDS/HIV | Children | Education | Health | Women | Youth | Focus on Global Health | Caribbean Islands | Latin America |
Date posted: Nov 01, 2009

"What we need is not more words, but action!" proclaimed Bishop Kainda Katembo, episcopal leader for the South Congo Episcopal Area, as he spoke some years ago about the AIDS crisis in Africa. Thankfully, United Methodists heard that plea and have been responding in profound ways.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: AIDS/HIV | Children | Health | Women | Youth | Focus on Global Health | Africa | Congo DR |
Date posted: Nov 01, 2009

The "speed" at which a virus can appear to spread is astounding. Take the H1N1 (Swine Flu) virus as an example. We heard about it in reports from Mexico and soon we saw the first confirmed case in New York City. In the same week, five more cases were announced, then 21 cases, then a whole school was shut down, and then five schools in New York were closed, all in the same month.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: AIDS/HIV | Children | Communities | Health | Welfare | Women | Youth | Focus on Global Health |
Date posted: Nov 17, 2009

Disheveled children of every age and size crowded around our vehicle as it ground to a stop in front of the United Methodist Mpasa Reference Health Center in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was in this sprawling suburb of Kinshasa, DR Congo, that I was to assess health facilities for the Central Congo Conference. Dr. Rebecca Yohadi, the conference's Chief Medical Officer, told me that the Mpasa suburb sprang up in 1998 near a military installation as a camp for displaced persons and refugees.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: AIDS/HIV | Children | Conflict | Health | Hunger | Poverty | Violence | Women | Youth | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Focus on Global Health | Congo DR |
Date posted: Nov 01, 2009

New York, NY, November 13, 2009--The General Board of Global Ministries, the mission agency of The United Methodist Church, is changing the way it delivers and monitors funds for international mission work.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Economy | GBGM news | GBGM programs | Global connections | Missionaries | United Methodist Church | Focus on Congregational Development | Africa | Asia and the Pacific Islands | Europe | Latin America |
Date posted: Nov 13, 2009

Advent is the season in the Christian year when we hear and participate in the time of waiting for the birth of the Messiah, and we look with hope for the second coming of Christ. It is a time of intentional prayer for the light of Christ to fill the darkest corners of our world. We hear the voice of God in scripture. We hear the voices of God's people around the earth as we pray together for the brilliant light of Christ's love to warm the hearts and lives of humankind.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Advent | GBGM events | United Methodist Church | Focus on Congregational Development |
Date posted: Nov 13, 2009

Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 12, 2009-- Lois Dauway, an executive of the United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries, was honored for outstanding service to ecumenism at the 2009 General Assembly of the National Council of Churches and Church World Service.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Ecumenical | United Methodist Church | Focus on Leadership Development |
Date posted: Nov 12, 2009

Frederica, Delaware, Nov. 11, 2009--On a bright November Sunday, 125 United Methodists gathered to thank and praise God at the spot where, 225 years earlier, events converged to shape the course of American Methodism.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Missionaries | United Methodist Church | Focus on Congregational Development | Focus on Leadership Development |
Date posted: Nov 12, 2009

New York, NY, November 10, 2009--More than $1.8 million in "mission opportunity grants" were approved or confirmed by directors of the United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries at their annual meeting in Stamford, Connecticut, in mid-October.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Education | Finance | Health | Focus on Congregational Development | Focus on Leadership Development | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Focus on Global Health | Congo DR | Japan | Middle East | Pakistan | Palestine |
Date posted: Nov 10, 2009

Columbia, South Carolina, November 9, 2009-- Twenty-six states were represented among the 275 people who took part in the Eighth National Summit of the Communities of Shalom, a faith- based movement promoting community development and justice, meeting in Columbia, South Carolina, in the closing days of October.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Communities | Justice | Focus on Congregational Development |
Date posted: Nov 10, 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 01, 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: Nov 01, 2009