GBGM Mission News

2001

November 2001 News

• GBGM Board Meeting Roundup: "Our Program is Strong"
• Job Opportunity:  General Board of Global Ministries seeks candidates for position of General Secretary
• What's so funny that the soldiers laugh?
• UMCOR Continues Response to 9/11 Tragedy
• Pastor Gives Witness Among the Ruins
• Michelle Causes Massive Flooding in Central America
• Displaced Indigent Families, Philippines UMCOR Story of the Month
• MISSION STORY:   Cookson Hills Center Ministry With American Indians to Expand
• MISSION STORY:    A New Life in Christ

October 2001 News

• UMW project shows flaws in classifying hate crimes
• No Food, No Money: Afghan Refugees' Plight
• Whose Birthday Is It Anyway? Christ-Centered Christmas
• The Cardinals' Blessing, meditation on AIDS, 9/11, & God's love
• Board of Global Ministries Sends Forth New Missionaries and Deaconesses
• "I Am No Longer My Own, But Thine"
• 'Stand for truth,' reporter urges at healing retreat
• Organ and Tissue Donor Sunday, Nov. 11
• GBGM Press Release: United Methodist Community Developers Program Community Developers Program
• NYARDZO: Travel Seminar to Africa Inspires Book of Reflections
• Teaching Acceptance and Respect: United Methodist Community Center Works with Children from Many Cultures
• Thank You, Tacoma Community House!
• MISSION STORY: Mission Station Bali
• MISSION STORY: "Let's Help the Children"
• Healthy Homes, Healthy Families Kit Program
• Urgent News - Maternity Hospital Hit in Bethlehem
• United Methodist 'listeners' reach out to New Yorkers
• Grants available for youth, young adult ministries
• Update from Palestine
• MISSION STORY: the Philippines - God's people in Tondo
• MISSION STORY: Ghana With the children in Accra
• United Methodists, Muslims affirm mutual respect
• United Methodist Development Fund Has $30 Million to Lend
• God, You Wrap Your Love Around Us hymn for Afghan refugees relief (blankets)
• News Bulletin: More Vieques Sentencing
• Muslim-Christian Summit Appeals for Peace
• 'Listening posts' open at NYC churches
• United Methodist Development Fund Has $30 Million to Lend
• Thousands of Afghan Families Suffering
• Responding to Crises in Both Hemispheres UMCOR Inasmuch Update
• Prophetic Words from Women's Assembly 1970
• News Bulletin: More Vieques Sentencing
• Muslim-Christian Summit Appeals for Peace
• Methodist Pastor of Vieques Sentenced for Christian Obedience
• God, How Can We Comprehend? a hymn for Afghan refugees relief
• 'Listening posts' open at NYC churches
• Elementary school becomes sectarian battleground
• GBGM Press Release: Mission Board Reacts to Ailing Economy
• GBGM Press Release: A Landmark in Mission: First Hymn and Worship Book Published for Churches of Methodism in Cambodia
• Bulletin Insert: Love in the Midst of Tragedy
• MISSION STORY: Education is #1 for Liberian youth
• MISSION STORY: Russian Congregation Works Against Prejudice
• Keeping Families Together in Bucharest, Romania. UMCOR Story of the month.
• Afghan events could affect Pakistan's Christians

September 2001 News

• Love in the Midst of Tragedy UMCOR, Update, 9/28
• A Missionary Reflects on the Crisis from Afar
• Community Relations Teams Going Door-To-Door In Lower Manhattan
• Hate Crime Data Collection Project
• Come Sunday: Caring for the Children
• MISSION STORY: Mission work with young adult refugees
• Mission beyond tragedy
• MISSION STORY: In our work with the children in Sunday School
• Signs of hope: thousands of spontaneous memorials like this one have appeared all over in New York City
• Couple addresses children's needs in New York
• UMCOR Places Teams in New York, Washington
• From News Archives - 1/17/2000: Student on Mission Study Tourto Senegal Sees Muslims with New Eyes
• Mary & Martha: Jesus & Courageous Women
• OK City Pastors Share Insightsfrom 1995 Bombing
• MISSION STORY: God Brought Us Together!
• MISSION STORY: Mission is a two-way street.
• View and send messages of support
• Pray and act in love 'For the healing of the nations' (a GBGM statement)
• Noel's "New York," A Teen's Drawing
• UMCOR Plans Response to World Trade Center Tragedy
• United Methodist Bishop Visits 'Ground Zero'
• When sudden terror tears apart a hymn for September 11
• Pray and act in love 'For the healing of the nations' (a GBGM statement)
• When sudden terror tears apart a hymn for September 11
• United Methodist churches open doors after tragedy
• Reconciliation in the midst of tragedy: How do we respond?
• GBGM responds to disaster in NYC and Virginia
  (new messages of support)
• O God, Our Words Cannot Express, a hymn for September 11th
• UMCOR's Response to National Emergency
• UMs react to the terrorist attacks in NYC and Virginia
• A rock in a weary land
• How Your Church Can Sponsor Refugees
• Accessibility & Inclusion: An Interfaith Resource List
• GBGM in ecumenical statement on race
• Ecumenical statement at race talks
• GBGM at anti-racism conference
• Response to WCAR walkout
• D R Congo on Nightline
• Dismantle racism now, churches tell UN conference
• Statement of the Ecumenical Caucus at the U. N. World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
• IAM foreign staff leave Afghanistan
• International Assistance Mission (IAM) Press Release - 2 September, 2001
• United Methodists press on while US delegation walks out of anti-racism meeting
• Statement on US delegation walkout from anti-racism conference
• Urgent Action Needed to Stop "Fast Track"
• U.S. Needs to Commit to Combating Racism
• Mission Update Quarterly

August 2001 News

• Praying for peace in Macedonia
• Missionary letter from Beit Jala
• United Methodist work for Congolese peace
• Children against the curfew
• Curfew babies
• Faith-based Initiative Update
• Highlights of the 2002 United Methodist Women Assembly
• History of Assemblies and Quadrennial Conventions: United Methodist Women
• Over 200 countries in new mission contexts database
• The Refugee Protection Act: Action Alert
• Global Justice Volunteer ministers with neglected Russian children
• Parable of Lost Coin: Jesus and Courageous Women
• Pastor with the Bright Blue Hair: Medicine Box Fundraising Idea
• Multi-ethnic Net Circular from Evangelization and Church Growth (event announcement)
• Missionaries in the midst of strife
• Missionaries celebrate debt relief in Tanzania
• GBGM shares tips on new church startups
• What Next for the Church? Background Data for Mission, August 2001
• World AIDS Day 2001: Men Make a Difference. I care. Do you?
• UMCOR in Armenia: A Human Face on Development
• The Widow & Unjust Judge - Jesus & Courageous Women
• Organ and Tissue Donor Sunday
• Angola still dear to former missionaries
• PBS airing Native American struggle
• US-2 missionaries celebrate 50 years
• The context of the suicide bomb — a missionary reports
• Diamonds and violence:  UMCOR Advance Story of the Month
• Church Helps Victims of Recurrent Flooding
• Bailed Vieques pastor faces 'difficult days' ahead
• Methodists arrested on Vieques
• Marching for peace in Sri Lanka
• The time is now: a Middle East action alert
• Missioners of Hope: t wo years at work
• Support the World Conference Against Racism: Women's Division action alert
• Women's Division 2002 Reading Program
• Middle East missionary urges international presence
  

July 2001 News

• Say yes to children: Women's Division action alert
• Support Freedom in Burma: Women's Division Action Alert
• Mission volunteers return from El Salvador
• Congo's leader in peace talks
• A GBGM missionary bears witness
• July/August New World Outlook
• Over 500 homeless as Israel steps up demolitions of Palestinian homes
• United Methodists respond to West Virginia flood damage
  
• Middle East violence: the untold story
• Bishops' Initiative launches DR Congo school
  
• Stop demolitions, Bishops demand
  
• Reconciliation not for faint-hearted
• Youth Mission Chorale Concert in Beijing, China
• Missioner of Hope in Congo
• UMCOR advance: Tajikistan
• UMCOR Hotline, emergency relief, July 13, 2001
• UMCOR advance: Tajikistan
• Encounter in Shanghai (Story from Youth Mission Chorale, 2001)
  
• Feeding hungry children takes precedence for Congo missioner
  
• Youth caucus gives input on HIV/AIDS

June 2001 News

• Congo president looks to United Methodists to sustain spirit
• Youth Mission Chorale (Phnom Penh, Cambodia)
• DR Congo Photo Gallery
• Missionaries in Georgia, USA for conference
• From the Clems in Lithuania
• President Kabila asks the United Methodist Church for assistance
• Strength and spirit in the Congolese church
• Execution cruel and unusual
• Bishop Vera on Vieques
• Youth Mission Chorale in concert at Grace Methodist Church in Singapore (video)
• HIV/AIDS Timeline
• Jesus and Courageous Women: Youth Study
• Dr. Nugent to meet with Congo President
• PR Annual Conference resolution on Vieques
• Churches study alternatives to globalization
• Urgent Needs: Tropical Storm Allison's Aftermath
• Rwandan church deals with roots of conflict
• Porridge and hope

• Response to navy "pullout"

• Paddling together: a Pacific Islands Journal
• Youth Mission Chorale in second Bali concert (video clip)
• Substance abuse conference
• UMCOR Advance Story of the Month: Justice for Our Neighbors
• Calling all US-2s.
• U.S. Navy to pull out of Vieques, Puerto Rico by 2003
• Página Web en Español... (updated)
• Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos: New World Outlook online
• Youth Chorale Photo Gallery
• Youth Chorale Video Gallery
• Youth Chorale Stories
• Tropical Storm Allison
• Bali helps Youth Chorale break out of its box
• Militias decide fate of East Timor refugees
• Chorale tunes up
• United Methodist response to faith-based initiatives
• From the bookshelf: Methodists and Revolutionary America
• Racism in N. America
• Churches worldwide scrutinize violence
• Building homes, rebuilding lives in El Salvador
  
• Youth Chorale arrives in Bali
• Youth Chorale video crew goes to Asia
  
  

May 2001 News

• Churches discuss racism in Asian and Pacific nations
• All aboard: youth chorale begins Asia tour
• World Refugee Day
• World Refugee Day worship service
• Caribou people fear Bush oil drilling plans
• Pacific Islands gathering photo gallery and videos
• Consultation breaks new ground on drug abuse and violence
• Pacific Islands regional gathering kicks off with feast of Tongan hospitality
• Vieques wants freedom, P.R. governor tells Boston U. graduates
• Missionary mason: An Asian Pacific American Heritage Month special
• "We went to help them. But they helped us." Encounters with Christ
• Jesus and Women of Courage
• TX prosecutor advocates restorative justice
• Domestic violence spreads AIDS in East Africa
• Tonga to host partnership gathering
• Landmine removal: restoring land, restoring lives
• Bush AIDS funding not enough
• AIDS retreats offer strength for living
• Promising Start for Zimbabwe's Underprivileged Children
• Deaf Women Study Preaching
• A Visit with Viequense Fisherman and Activist Carlos Zenón

April 2001 News

• Vieques Protestors Cheer Naval Withdrawal
• Global Gathering IV Celebrates Mission Together
• GBGM Funds New De-mining Techniques
• United Methodists Work on Land Mine Removal in Mozambique
• Church Leadership in Fighting AIDS Required
• Religious Leaders Must Provide AIDS Education in Africa
• Vieques Demonstrators ask for Prayers
• Vieques Protesters Shot and Gassed
• Telling the Right Time—Even in the Dark
• Board of Global Ministries Prepares For Transition to New General Secretary
• Native American Ministries Sunday: A Sacred and Special Celebration
• Notes from Japan n the Season of Lent
• Christians in India Work Toward Change Despite Harassment, UMNS
• New Hope Conferences, United Methodists for the Children of Africa
• Hope and Healing, by Sarla Chand
• Child-to-Child Health Promotion, UMCOR Story of the Month
• Mental Health: Stop Exclusion - Dare to Care, World Health Day, April 7

March 2001 News

• First International Volunteer Assigned to United States, GBGM News Release
• Mission Study Group Witnesses New Life in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, by Brenda Wilkinson
• Popularity of Individual Volunteers Rises, UMNS
• United Methodists Find Oppression in Myanmar, UMNS
• South Asia Earthquake Photo Library
• WCC Cites Devastating Human Costs of Small Arms
• Evangelism, Church Growth in the Midst of Poverty Explored, UMNS
• Legislative Letter, Women's Division
• Congolese Children Released from Schools of War, by Thomas Abraham
• Indigenous People in Costa Rica Work to Regain Land, UMNS
• One Great Hour of Sharing, March 25, 2001
• World TB Day, March 24, 2001
• Christians of Russia Giving Hope to the Young and Needy, by Brenda Wilkinson
• From the Water's Point of View: Life During the Floods as Seen from a Canoe, by Pamela Zintatu Ntshanga
• United Methodists Address Flood Problems in Mozambique, UMNS
• Primitive Physick by John Wesley, An Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases
• United Methodists Hail Temporary Bombing Halt on Vieques, UMNS
• Drought-Plagued Afghanistan in Urgent Need of Assistance, Says Official of Relief Agency
• One Great Hour of Sharing, Stories, Sermons, and Pictures
• Liberia Annual Conference Launches Foundation, UMNS
• Women of the Anointing, Crucifixion, and Resurrection , Choral Reading of Gospels
• UMCOR Story of the Month - Working to Improve the Standard of Living through Sustainable Development Projects in Papua New Guinea
• Dr. Nugent Reflects on Cabinet Visit to Africa Trip, GBGM News Release
• Youth Chorale Seeks Applicants by March 15, UMNS
• United Methodist Officials Assess Damage from Quake, UMNS
  

February 2001 News

• Partnerships Provide Key to Church's Russia Initiative, UMNS
• Commentary: A Nation under Siege, UMNS
• Jesus and Courageous Women of the Bible
• Black Churches Pray for the Healing of AIDS, GBGM News Release
• Global Ministries Event To Explore Evangelization Amidst Poverty
• United Methodists Commission Young Adult Missioners, UMNS
• One Great Hour of Sharing Worship Resources; Grace Upon Grace
• Noticias de Inmigración, En Español
• Openings Available for Global Justice Volunteers, UMNS
• Survey Finds More People Working but Still Mired in Poverty, UMNS
• "Eat Your Dinner, Lucy!" Story and Activity for Children about World Hunger
• El Salvador Earthquake Photo Library
• UMCOR Bosnia / Kosovo / Turkey: Current Programs
• Update on Hope for the Children of Africa, by Judith Olin
• Valentine's Day Strengthens Cuban Families, by Sharon Maeda
• New Missionaries Strengthen Hispanic Ministries, GBGM News Release
• United Methodist Women Respond to Welfare Changes, by Kelly C. Martini
• Bible Women Carry Word of Christ to Neighbors, by Kelly C. Martini
• United Methodists Raise Funds for Latin American Work, UMNS
• `Encounter with Christ' Is Permanent Fund , UMNS
• Long After Earthquake, UMCOR Work Continues in Turkey, UMNS
• From Russia With Love: Two Month's Salary for El Salvador, by Peter Siegfried
• One Great Hour of Sharing, a Chance to Act in Love, Generosity, and Grace
• A Sound Investment in Black America, by Brenda Wilkinson
• Two African Protagonists Meet in Washington, by Mulegwa Zihindula
• Help Rebuild What Floyd Destroyed in the Bahamas, Mission Volunteer Opportunity
• Memphis Volunteers Experience India Quake First-hand, UMNS
• Volunteers to India Accomplish Goals Despite Earthquake, UMNS
• Friends of Estonia Group Shifts Focus to Local Churches, UMNS
• So Great a Cloud of Witnesses | 28k/56K | ISDN/LAN | (RealVideo)
• Una Nube Muy Grande de Testigos | 28k/56K | ISDN/LAN | (RealVideo)
• Seminar on Russia Initiative Set for February 22
• Dennis Fletcher, Methodist Missions Leader, Dead at 91, UMNS
• Diverse New Units of United Methodist Women
• Sam Dixon of North Carolina to Head Development Fund
  
  

January 2001 News

• United Methodist Apportioned Giving in Year 2000 Rises, UMNS , January 30, 2001
• The Salt of the Earth, edited by Brenda Wilkinson, January 31, 2001
• Task Force Acts to Sharpen Focus on Native Spirituality, UMNS , January 30, 2001
• UMCOR Assists with India Earthquake, UMNS, January 29, 2001
• ACT Alliance Pledges More Than $2 million for Earthquake Victims, ACT International, January 29, 2001
• Youth Mission Chorale 2001 - Asian Tour, GBGM, January 26, 2001
• South Asia Earthquake: UMCOR's Response
• I Was a Stranger and You Welcomed Me: An Immigrant's Story by Marilyn Beecher, GBGM, January 24, 2001
• Mission Agency Seeks Former US-2s for Celebration, UMNS, January 23, 2001
• Child Labor and the Global Village: Photography for Social Change, January 23, 2001
• New Immigration Provision Expires April 30, UMNS, January 19, 2001
• Russia Initiative UpdateGBGM, January 19, 2001
• A United Methodist Missionary Describes the El Salvador Earthquake, by Martha Collier, January 19, 2001
• Congolese President Laurent Kabila Dies, by Mulegwa Zihindula, GBGM, January 19, 2001
• Screams of Joy: African American and Korean Children Share Toys and Celebrate Solidarity, by Mary Beth Coudal, GBGM, January 17, 2001
• United Methodists Assisting El Salvador Earthquake Victims by Lesley Crosson, GBGM, January 16, 2001
• In Memoriam - Nancy Lightfoot, United Methodist Missionary, 1939 - 2001, January 16, 2001
• Devotees of The Dream, by Brenda Wilkinson, GBGM, January 12, 2001
• Global Praise in Germany, January 11, 2001
• Church Agency Reaches out to Africa via Radio, UMNS, January 9, 2001
• UMCOR Work Continues in Bosnia, Herzegovina, UMNS, January 9, 2001
• A Hymn for Souper Bowl Sunday, January 2001
• National Gathering for Teens and College/University Women, United Methodist Women, UMW, January, 2001
• TV Program Will Show Two Cities' Joint Efforts Against AIDS, UMNS, January 4, 2001
• Sat Tal Christian Ashram Celebrates 70th Anniversary, by J.S. Murthy, GBGM, January 3, 2001

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