Ministry With the Poor: Looking Poverty in the Face  by Edward W. Paup Late last April, during the 2008 United Methodist General Conference, a near disaster hovered over the poor of the world. The prices of global food commodities, especially grain, reached all-time highs, jumping 150 percent ... (continue)
Circles to Break the Poverty Cycle  by Mary Beth Coudal At age 32, Sonia Holycross has "been there, done that"--lived in a broken home, joined a gang, acquired a rap sheet. But through the Circles™ Campaign,* Holycross, a single parent of five and now an Americorps volunteer, has ... (continue)
Aviation Ministry  by Stephen Quigg • Photos by Paul Jeffrey The world's biggest head of broccoli--that's what my passengers saw when they first looked down on the canopy of virgin rainforest covering much of the Democratic Republic of Congo. ... (continue)
Breaking the Cycle of Malaria and Poverty  by Margo Jacobs Malaria kills. It kills a child every 30 seconds in sub-Saharan Africa, and those that die are disproportionately poor. The anopheles mosquito that spreads this deadly, but preventable, illness does not distinguish between ... (continue)
Fast Today and Change Tomorrow  by Rachel Harvey In 2007, Bishop Sudarshana Devadhar of the Greater New Jersey Annual Conference contacted The Advance office looking for a new way to connect the youth of Greater New Jersey Annual Conference to The Advance, the denomination's ... (continue)

Special Online Features
The Millennium Development Goals  Special Feature: July/August 2009 New World Outlook The United Nations adopted the Millennium Declaration in 2000, a pledge by the international community to "spare no effort to free our fellow men, women, and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme ... (continue)

Finding the Road  The road out of poverty is not always obvious or well-marked. As our cover story points out, sometimes the road out isn't even a road, it's a runway. The story of missionary pilots, Gaston Ntambo, Jacques Umembudi, and Rukang Chicomb of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, illustrates the church's will to empower individuals and communities to grow in their knowledge and skill as well as in their faith ...(continue)

The online version of New World Outlook features selected articles from the printed magazine. These additional stories appear in the print publication.

What Door Does God Use at Your Church? A Theology of Ministry with the Poor by John Edward Nuessle What Do We Bring to the Table? An Activity on the Theology of Ministry with the Poor by David Wildman The Hunger Season: Famine Looms over Africa's Eastern Horn by Christie R. House The Millennuim Development Goals -- New World Outlook Special Feature Despite the Bad Economy, Refugee Programs Must Not Waiver by Erol Kekic CROP Hunger Walks across the United States by Lesley Crosson

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