God Cares, I Care, Do You?World AIDS Day 2001 Worship Resources |
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God Cares, I Care, Do You?World AIDS Day 2001 Worship Resources |
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This year's World AIDS Day 2001's theme is "I care... Do you?". These worship resources expand that theme to "God Cares, I Care, Do You?" In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus told his disciples about how God cares for all of creation, even small creatures like birds, and that God cares for humankind even more. Elsewhere in the same gospel he emphasized the two Great Commandments of loving God and our neighbors as ourselves. He also spoke of ministry with the "least of these," including those who are sick.
Though UNAIDS' theme emphasizes a focus on men, these materials broaden the focus and emphasizes how it affects families, particularly children. Of special interest is Africa, an area where the General Board of Global Ministries is expanding its work with people with AIDS and their loved ones.
Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? (Matthew 6:26)
Psalm 84; Matthew 6:26; Matthew 18:10-14; John 13:34-35; Romans 12:9-18
All page numbers are from The United Methodist Hymnal.
Hymns: "The Care the Eagle Gives," #118; "God of the Sparrow, God of the Whale, #122; "God Will Take Care of You," #130; Jesus Loves Me, #191; "There's a Spirit in the Air," #192; "Kumbayah," #494; "Help Us Accept Each Other," #560; "In Christ There Is No East and West, #584; "The Church of Christ, in Every Age," #589.
See also: His Eye Is on the Sparrow
http://gbgm-umc.org/health/wad01/hiseyeisonthesparrow.stm
Affirmation: I Care About AIDS by Kathleen Wilder
Responsive Reading: Psalm 84, #804.
Sermon Resources: The Cardinals' Blessing by Nancy A. Carter, a Spiritual Reflection for World AIDS Day 2001
New York City has been my home for 25 years. I was living here when HIV/AIDS first gained a toehold in the early 1980s. Who at that time could have imagined how many people's lives this disease would claim? About 20 years later, I was in my apartment on the upper westside of Manhattan when the World Trade Center collapsed and thousands died. Gray and white smoke billowed up from that mass grave. The foreboding clouds could be seen for miles. More...
Financial: Please support Advance #982345-7, "Global HIV/AIDS Program Development." or Advance #982842-6 "AIDS Orphan Trust." UMCOR encourages you to give through your local United Methodist Church. Checks written to the United Methodist Committee on Relief may also be sent to: UMCOR, 475 Riverside Dr., Room 330, New York, NY 10115. To make a credit card donation, call (800) 554-8583 Be sure to specify the Advance # and Theme on the memo line. One hundred percent of your gift goes to the designated response.
Material Goods: Prepare one or more Healthy Homes, Healthy Families Kits.
Additional worship resources developed for World AIDS Day are available.
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The photos and animated graphics at the top of the page, except for the photo of an HIV/AIDS event at a United Methodist church, are from UNAIDS' World AIDS Day Campaign 2001 web site.