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Sudan Project Serves as Model for Denomination
Ginghamsburg’s ministries now extend far beyond
Ohio. Through its Sudan Project in partnership
with UMCOR, "we are reaching or touching a
quarter million people in Darfur," Slaughter
said. The project has raised $3 million in three
years.
Source:
United Methodist News Service
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Human rights |
Refugees |
UMCOR |
United Methodist Church |
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Date posted: Mar 13, 2008
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Designated Mission Giving Program Has New Staff and Plans New Look for 60th Birthday
"Our new staff team represents a new structure of
accountability designed to improve internal
communication and fortify relationships with the
broad mission constituency," said Ms. Shawn
Bakker, who as director of the Advance is also an
associate general secretary of the mission
agency.
Source:
GBGM Press Releases
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Date posted: Oct 18, 2007
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Bishop May Comes to Mission Agency from Unique Center at Historically Black College
In 2004, following his retirement from the
active episcopacy, he became the founding dean of
the Harry R. Kendall Science and Health Mission
Center at Philander Smith College, Little Rock,
Arkansas, a United Methodist-related historically
black college. The center has multiple
relationships with the mission board.
Source:
GBGM Press Releases
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United States | World |
Date posted: Oct 16, 2007
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The Rev. Sam Dixon to Lead United Methodist Relief Agency
9/11, Katrina, the Asian tsunami led UMCOR "to
rethink how we do everything," according to new
chief executive the Rev. Sam Dixon.
Source:
United Methodist News Service
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Health |
UMCOR |
Welfare |
World |
Date posted: Oct 11, 2007
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New UMW Leader Likes Mix of Devotion, Action
That was one of the reasons she was attracted to
United Methodist Women and the position of chief
executive of the Women’s Division, United
Methodist Board of Global Ministries.
Source:
United Methodist News Service
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Date posted: Oct 11, 2007
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United Methodist Church Commissions 13 New Missionaries
In a multilingual, international, and spirit-
filled ceremony, 13 people were commissioned on
October 9 for United Methodist missionary service
in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the
United States.
Source:
GBGM Press Releases
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GBGM news |
Missionaries |
Angola | Bolivia | Brazil | Cambodia | Costa Rica | Ecuador | Germany | Latvia | Mexico | Russia |
Date posted: Oct 10, 2007
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Bishop Felton E. May to Serve as Interim General Secretary of Mission Agency
Bishop Felton E. May (retired) will serve as
interim general secretary of The United Methodist
Church's international mission agency, the
General Board of Global Ministries.
Source:
GBGM Press Releases
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Date posted: Oct 10, 2007
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Cuban Methodists Thrive But Feel Effects of US Embargo
The Methodist Church in Cuba is thriving more
than it ever has since Fidel Castro took power in
1959.But actions by the U.S. government have had
a negative impact on mission work and ministry
between Cuban church members and their American
counterparts.
Source:
United Methodist News Service
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Methodism |
Cuba | United States |
Date posted: Apr 27, 2007
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Gift of Individual Through New Jersey Church Will Provide Mission Center in Nepal
The United Methodist Church will have its first
mission center in Nepal, the country at the top
of the world, through the generosity of an
individual church member in New Jersey. Mr. Chang
W. Kim of Arcola United Methodist Church,
Paramus, NJ, has given $100,000 to the General
Board of Global Ministries toward the purchase of
a building in Kathmandu to house offices, a
congregation, and housing for the pastor. The
board will add another $114,000 to the project.
Source:
GBGM Press Releases
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Health |
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Date posted: Apr 27, 2007
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Mission Board to Develop "Branch Offices" In Africa, Asia, and Latin America
The mission agency of The United Methodist
Church plans to develop branch offices in
Africa, Asia, and Latin America. 'We are a
denomination global in our attitudes and
affections, and the time has come to make this
visible in our operational structure,' said the
Rev. R. Randy Day in his semi-annual address to
directors of the General Board of Global
Ministries.
Source:
GBGM Press Releases
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International affairs |
Mission updates |
Africa | Asia and the Pacific Islands | Latin America |
Date posted: Apr 27, 2007
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Always Room at the Mission Banquet: Rev. R. Randy Day's Address to Global Ministries Board of Directors
'To engage in Christian mission and to be reached
through Christian mission are both experiences of
God's loving grace,' said the Rev. R. Randy Day
to the directors of the General Board of Global
Ministries; he challenged directors to themselves
become emissaries distributing convincing
invitations to the 'feast of grace.'
Source:
GBGM Press Releases
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Date posted: Apr 27, 2007
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Deaconesses and Home Missioner Commissioned For Ministries of Love, Justice and Service
Stamford, CT., April 24, 2007--Ten new
deaconesses and a home missioner were
commissioned for Christian service through The
United Methodist Church at the semi-annual
meeting of the General Board of Global Ministries.
Source:
GBGM Press Releases
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Date posted: Apr 25, 2007
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Nine New Church and Community Workers Will Serve Ministries in the United States
Stamford, CT, April 24, 2007--Nine missionaries
for service in the United States were
commissioned on Tuesday evening, April 24, 2007,
at the semi-annual meeting of the General Board
of Global Ministries in Stamford, CT.
Source:
GBGM Press Releases
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United States |
Date posted: Apr 25, 2007
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Mission Agency Marks Africa Malaria Day With Worship and New Educational Materials
The United Methodist Church's international
mission agency marked Africa Malaria Day, April
25, with prayers and the release of new
educational material on its comprehensive anti-
malaria campaign. The special observance came
during the semi-annual directors' meeting of the
General Board of Global Ministries, an
organization with personnel and projects in more
than 125 countries.
Source:
GBGM Press Releases
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Health |
UMCOR |
United Methodist Church |
Africa | United States |
Date posted: Apr 25, 2007
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Women's Division Addresses Tough Issues at Spring Board Meeting
Finances, membership, and immigration were among several tough
issues addressed by the Women's Division board of directors this
March 30-April 3, 2006, in Stamford, Conn.
Source:
WD Press Releases
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Women |
Youth |
United States | World |
Date posted: Apr 10, 2006
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Hurricane Katrina and United Methodist Women: Talking Points
As Hurricane Katrina and consequent hurricanes
devastated so
many parts of the Southern United States, United
Methodist
Women members feel called to respond to the
devastation in
their backyard.
Source:
Women's Division
More about:
Children |
Economy |
Education |
Justice |
Natural disasters |
Poverty |
Prayers |
Women |
Youth |
United States |
Date posted: Oct 24, 2005
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United Methodist Women Focus on Finance: Talking Points
The Women’s Division of The United Methodist
Church responds
to the needs and concerns of millions of women,
children, and
youth in the United States and around the globe.
As the Division
works to respond proactively to the gospel
mandate of Jesus
Christ, we are aware of the ongoing changes and
trends within
our denomination and society
Source:
Women's Division
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Children |
Finance |
Women |
Youth |
United States |
Date posted: Oct 24, 2005
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Bringing Community and Wholeness by the Power of the Spirit
As a missionary attorney I provide legal advice
and representation to refugees and asylum-
seekers that have fled persecution in their
homelands, to families that are divided by
international borders, to women and children
that are victims of domestic violence, and to
other vulnerable immigrants from around the
world.
Source:
Mission Personnel
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Christian love |
GBGM programs |
Human rights |
Immigration |
Justice |
Missionaries |
Refugees |
United Methodist Church |
Partners/partnerships |
North Central U.S. | United States |
Date posted: Oct 21, 2005
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United Methodists discuss children's needs with U.N. speakers
UNICEF needs to work in partnership with United
Methodists and others to end the threats to
children in today's world.
That was the message delivered by Rima Salah,
UNICEF's deputy executive director, to directors
and staff of the United Methodist Board of
Global Ministries during a forum at the Church
Center for the United Nations.
Source:
United Methodist News Service
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Children |
Christian love |
GBGM events |
GBGM news |
International affairs |
United Methodist Church |
World |
Date posted: Oct 17, 2005
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Church Leader Challenges United Methodist to Increase Support for Mission
Mission is the living, breathing confession by
witness and service—individually and through the
church--that Jesus Christ is Savior; that we
belong to God. Many of you know the computer
phrase, “save to…,” as in save to a disk or save
to the hard drive? To make a theological
adaptation, we are “saved to God in Christ.” We
belong to God, and in the mission vineyard, we
trust God to provide any reward God might want
us to have?IF any.
Source:
GBGM Press Releases
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Christian love |
GBGM events |
GBGM news |
GBGM programs |
Jesus Christ |
John Wesley |
Mission opportunities |
United Methodist Church |
Methodism |
World |
Date posted: Oct 14, 2005
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Fall 2005 Report, Women's Division Assistant General Secretary of Christian Social Responsibilities
Like many of us having viewed the coverage of and
taken in the
reality of Katrina, followed shortly by Rita, I
was full of various
emotions and insights:
Awed by the power of nature; Devastated by the
loss of life;
Saddened by the loss of my own personal sacred
space, Gulfside
United Methodist Assembly in Waveland,
Mississippi;
Source:
Women's Division
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Poverty |
Race |
Women |
United States |
Date posted: Oct 14, 2005
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Eleven New United Methodist Missionaries Commissioned and Assigned
The United Methodist Church commissioned 11 new
missionaries in the chapel of the Church Center
for the United Nations on the night of October
11. A cool rain fell outside but the chapel was
filled with the warmth and light of Christian
witness and service.
Source:
GBGM Press Releases
More about:
Christian love |
GBGM events |
GBGM news |
GBGM programs |
Mission opportunities |
Missionaries |
UMCOR |
United Methodist Church |
Methodism |
Africa | Brazil | Caribbean Islands | Ghana | Honduras | Jamaica | Laos | Lithuania | Mexico |
Date posted: Oct 14, 2005
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Fall 2005 Report of the Women's Division Treasurer
I greet you in the name of Christ and pray God’s
blessing on
each of you. Today, I completed my third week as
your
treasurer. Having the good fortune to attend
the ‘Envisioning
the Future’ event in August, I’ve had the
opportunity to
construct some tactical initiatives for the
Section on Finance as
we move forward.
Source:
Women's Division
More about:
Finance |
Women |
United States |
Date posted: Oct 13, 2005
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UMW looks at race, class issues raised by Katrina
United Methodist Women is calling on its
membership to
address issues of race and class raised by
Hurricane Katrina.
Source:
Women's Division
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Education |
Health |
Human rights |
Justice |
Natural disasters |
Poverty |
Race |
Women |
United States |
Date posted: Oct 12, 2005
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Women's Division to take new approach to finances
A long-term decline in funding, impacted by
inflation, will mean
a new approach to finances for the Women's
Division of the
United Methodist Board of Global Ministries.
Source:
Women's Division
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Children |
Finance |
Women |
Youth |
United States |
Date posted: Oct 12, 2005
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Fall 2005 Report of the Deputy General Secretary Mission and Evangelism: How Can I Keep from Singing?
I want to say again what a joy it is to see you
all in this room
together! As I have come to know members of the
Board of
Directors across the last 14 months, I have been
deeply grateful
for the gifts, talents and determination you
bring to your work.
At this meeting, however, I am particularly
excited to have so
many Conference Presidents who, with your
mission teams,
constitute part of the backbone of the whole
organization.
Source:
Women's Division
More about:
Children |
Christian love |
Jesus Christ |
John Wesley |
Natural disasters |
Women |
Youth |
World |
Date posted: Oct 12, 2005
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UMCOR Directs Tsunami Funds to Chennai, Andaman
NEW YORK, October 11, 2005—United Methodist
Committee on Relief (UMCOR) Directors agreed
yesterday to grant $505,893 to the Methodist
Church of India in Chennai and Andaman Island to
assist them in their community-wide tsunami
recovery efforts. They are among the hardest-hit
areas in India.
Source:
UMCOR
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Donations |
Emergencies |
International affairs |
Natural disasters |
UMCOR |
United Methodist Church |
Tsunami |
Asia and the Pacific Islands | India |
Date posted: Oct 12, 2005
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Women's Division President 2005 Fall Report Being Change Agents in a Changing Time: Envisioning Our Future (Matthew 21:32; Isaiah 58:11-12)
My dear sisters and brothers in Christ, so much
has taken place
since we last saw each other as a full division
in mid-August. A
week after we gathered for the Women’s Division
Symposium,
Hurricane Katrina, the worst natural disaster in
U.S. history hit
the Gulf coast, as most of us helplessly watched
on our TV
screens tens of thousands of our citizens lose
their homes,
families and lives.
Source:
Women's Division
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Advocacy |
Children |
Jesus Christ |
Justice |
Natural disasters |
Women |
Youth |
World |
Date posted: Oct 11, 2005
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Women's Division, Treasurer's Report
United Methodist Women are light in the world at
102
National Mission Institutions serving over two
million
women, children and youth each year in the
United
States. United Methodist Women are a light in
the world
at the Wesley-Rankin Center in Dallas which
serves a
predominantly Hispanic community.
Source:
Women's Division
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Children |
Economy |
Finance |
Women |
World |
Date posted: Apr 26, 2005
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Women's Division, President Report
I have shared with you on several occasions what
I
witnessed during my trip to the tsunami-stricken
Indonesia in January of this year. But today, I
want to
share the brighter and hopeful side of my
experience of
the trip - and that is the global network of
humanity.
Source:
Women's Division
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Children |
Education |
Jesus Christ |
Poverty |
Women |
Youth |
Tsunami |
Asia and the Pacific Islands | Indonesia | Korea | Singapore |
Date posted: Apr 26, 2005
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Young woman speaks about Bible Women Training: "Part I"
My trip to Thailand and Laos was a very exciting
trip
although I didn't think it would take a total of
17 hrs to
get to Bangkok, Thailand. Boy, that was one very
long
plane ride, but I did have a great time.
Source:
Women's Division
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Bible |
Children |
Education |
Health |
Women |
Youth |
Laos | Thailand |
Date posted: Apr 25, 2005
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Young woman speaks about Bible Women Training: "Part II"
My trip to Laos and Thailand was an amazing
experience. The purpose for Jessica and I to go
with
the Bible Women group was to work with the
children.
We wanted to learn about them and wanted to
share
with them about our lives.
Source:
Women's Division
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Bible |
Children |
Health |
Women |
Youth |
Laos | Thailand |
Date posted: Apr 25, 2005
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Mission Agency Continues Its Work On Child Abuse Allegations and Policy
A retired United Methodist bishop and two
professors in the field of medical care make up
an independent panel that will receive and
assess reports on alleged child abuse at a
denominational mission facility in Africa a
generation ago.
The General Board of Global Ministries, the
international mission agency of the
denomination, is also drafting specific
guidelines on child and sexual abuse for all of
its employees and mission personnel, based upon
a policy adopted in mid-April by the board’s
directors, meeting in Stamford, CT.
Source:
GBGM Staff Briefings
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Children |
GBGM news |
Human rights |
Missionaries |
United Methodist Church |
Africa | World |
Date posted: Apr 19, 2005
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New United Methodist Bishop Elected For Central and Southern Europe Area
The Rev. Dr. Patrick Streiff was consecrated to
the episcopacy of The United Methodist Church in
a service at Bern Cathedral on April 17, 2005.
He will preside over the denomination's Central
Conference of Southern and Central Europe, which
includes northern Africa. Outside the US, a
Central conference is equivalent to a
jurisdiction.
Source:
GBGM Press Releases
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GBGM news |
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Methodism |
Europe |
Date posted: Apr 18, 2005
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UMCOR Directors Approve $1.5 Million for Start-up Work in Haiti
UMCOR directors have approved $1.5 million for
start-up and program implementation costs on the
Caribbean island. Although United Methodists have
worked in Haiti for years - particularly through
the Methodist Church in Haiti - this is the first
time UMCOR has undertaken the legal process of
registering as a nongovernmental organization
there, according to Marc Maxi, UMCOR's regional
director for Africa and the Caribbean.
Source:
United Methodist News Service
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Agriculture |
Emergencies |
Natural disasters |
Poverty |
UMCOR |
United Methodist Church |
Caribbean Islands | Grenada | Haiti |
Date posted: Apr 15, 2005
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United Methodists should fight malaria deaths, executive says
If United Methodists can help clear Mozambique
of landmines, they should be able to do the same
with mosquitoes. That's one of the challenges
that the Rev. R. Randy Day presented to
directors of the United Methodist General Board
of Global Ministries during the April 11-14
spring meeting. Day is the board's chief
executive.
Source:
United Methodist News Service
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Education |
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GBGM news |
GBGM programs |
Health |
Mission opportunities |
UMCOR |
United Methodist Church |
Methodism |
World |
Date posted: Apr 15, 2005
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Three months later, those affected by tsunami still remember
Three months have passed since Bishop Joel
Martinez made an emergency pastoral visit to
Indonesia, but he has not forgotten the faces of
the children in the camps for those left
homeless by the Dec. 26 tsunami.
Source:
United Methodist News Service
More about:
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Christian love |
Donations |
Emergencies |
GBGM programs |
International affairs |
Natural disasters |
UMCOR |
United Methodist Church |
Partners/partnerships |
Tsunami |
Asia and the Pacific Islands | India | Indonesia | Sri Lanka |
Date posted: Apr 15, 2005
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New Task Force to Find Ways to Strengthen Clergy Preparation for Mission Leadership
A new task force will evaluate and make
recommendations to strengthen the ways in which
theological education prepares pastors for
mission leadership in The United Methodist
Church.
Source:
GBGM Press Releases
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GBGM news |
GBGM programs |
International affairs |
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Methodism |
World |
Date posted: Apr 14, 2005
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New United Methodist Mission Personnel are Commissioned
Fourteen new deaconesses and six Church and
Community Workers were commissioned on April 12
for mission service through The United Methodist
Church.
Source:
GBGM Press Releases
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GBGM news |
GBGM programs |
Missionaries |
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Methodism |
World |
Date posted: Apr 14, 2005
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United Methodist Tsunami Response Exceeds $32 Million: Long-term Aid Slated for Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Somalia
United Methodists contributed $32.4 million to
their Church's emergency fund that is providing
relief and rehabilitation in the wake of
devastating South Asia tsunamis late last year.
UMCOR detailed a $19.2 million long-term
development package for Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
Projects are also underway in India and Somalia.
Source:
UMCOR Press Releases
More about:
Communities |
Ecumenical |
Emergencies |
GBGM news |
Natural disasters |
UMCOR |
United Methodist Church |
Women |
Partners/partnerships |
Tsunami |
Africa | Asia and the Pacific Islands | India | Indonesia | Somalia | Sri Lanka |
Date posted: Apr 13, 2005
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Personal Pain, Mixed with Hope, Shapes Leader's Faith
For Jan Love-the daughter of a United Methodist
pastor
and a leader both in the denomination and the
ecumenical world-a sense of mission has been a
guiding principle of life.
Source:
United Methodist News Service
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Violence |
Women |
United States |
Date posted: Apr 13, 2005
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UMCOR Slates Long Term Hurricane Recovery Operations in Haiti, Grenada
A $2 million United Methodist relief investment
will assist residents of Haiti and Grenada to
rebuild and repair homes and revive economies
after hurricanes devastated both islands in
September 2004. The board of the United
Methodist
Committee on Relief (UMCOR) meeting here,
approved the project proposals. The new
operations will augment $288,000 in emergency
aid
already dispatched to the island nations
following Tropical Storm Jeanne and Hurricane
Ivan.
Source:
UMCOR Press Releases
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Emergencies |
Natural disasters |
Poverty |
Rural |
UMCOR |
United Methodist Church |
Caribbean Islands | Grenada | Haiti |
Date posted: Apr 13, 2005
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UMCOR Board Affirms Work in Sudan And Releases Funding Information
Funds from multiple sources are underwriting the
operations of United Methodist Committee on
Relief in the Darfur area of Sudan, the agency
announced today.
The UMCOR board of directors, meeting here,
approved projects in agriculture extension,
emergency supply distribution, and small-scale
livelihoods totaling just over $1 million. A
UMCOR field team is on the ground in the area
troubled for months by armed clashes.
Source:
UMCOR Press Releases
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Conflict |
Emergencies |
Health |
UMCOR |
Violence |
Africa | Sudan |
Date posted: Apr 13, 2005
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R. Randy Day Challenges United Methodist Church to Do More In Equipping Mission Leaders and in Health Care Ministries
The chief mission executive of The United
Methodist Church called on April 13 for greater
emphases in the denomination on leadership
development for Christian mission and on health
care ministries for the poor around the world.
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