Celebrate Sustainable Agricultural Ministries!  Announcing New World Outlook's Photo Contest New World Outlook's July-August 2008 issue will feature all kinds of sustainable ministries, and we'd like to celebrate with a special photo spread from our readers. Send us your photos of pigs, cows, and other livestock, ... (continue)
Ministry With the Poor  by Christie R. House Lyn Gray, a United Methodist missionary serving as a training and development officer with the YMCA of Liberia in Monrovia, shared the following story from her recent newsletter.... (continue)
Toward Sustainable Development in Cambodia  by Rev. Dr. James L. Gulley Pastor Muy Socheat is a man with multiple talents. In Sisophon, Cambodia, he leads O Ambel Methodist mission church, a lively congregation. He earns income by raising pigs and using his carpentry skills, which are elegantly ... (continue)
Transformation and Sustainable Livelihoods in Africa  by Mozart Adevu In Ghana, the Sustainable Agricul-ture & Development Program of the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR-SA&D) receives more than a dozen phone calls each week from people who have heard about Moringa. The Moringa tree ... (continue)
The Community Enabler Developer, Inc  A Safe Place by Mary Beth Coudal "It is harder for the poor. The poor get poorer….It's harder because there are more needs, more diseases, more that have lost their jobs or their homes. It's getting so that elderly people on fixed incomes can hardly pay their ... (continue)
Give Ye Them to Eat: Integrated Development in Mexico’s South Central Region  by Terry and Muriel Henderson and Christie R. House Eleuterio and Celia Jimenez, an elderly couple living in the village of Alchichica, Puebla, in South Central Mexico, are always open to receiving friends and strangers for a visit under the trees of their outdoor patio. They ... (continue)

Special Online Features
What Is This Thing Called Poverty?  New World Outlook by L.Michelle Jackson The March/April 2008 issue of New World Outlook focuses on Ministry With the Poor.In addition to full-length articles, the online issue includes an audio slideshow entitled What Is This Thing Called Poverty? - a poem written ... (continue)

Breaking the Cycle  As this issue of New World Outlook was being edited, Kenya erupted in violence over its disputed presidential elections. Caroline Njuki, who directs Global Ministries’ Africa office, sent the following: “The situation in Kenya is not good. The Kenyan army, which has always been neutral, has informed the public that if the unrest continues, it will take over. People were burned alive in a church in Eldoret. This is much like the situation in Rwanda in the 1990s. ... ...(continue)

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

Read about New World Outlook Photo Contest. Microcredit Activities:United Methodist Women of Côte D'Ivoire Lack of Health Care and Homes in Columbus, Ohio Creating an Alternate History Banana Chips and Mushrooms Play a Role in Innovative Ministries Program:the Philippine Partnership Fund Mission to the Gulf Coast What Is this Thing Called Poverty? (Poster Pull-out Section)

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