Archived News Stories

Poverty

  • Bridging the poverty gap
  • Taking on the role of someone in poverty gives participants in the Circles Initiative a different perspective on how to help.
  • Agency Q＆A: Global Ministries
  • Series looks at how agencies work: ‘Global Ministries is a facilitator of mission — passionate for partnership and open to the visions of others.’
  • ‘We are not forgotten’
  • The One Great Hour of Sharing offering supports UMCOR, allowing them to do things like send school and hygiene kits to children in Armenia.

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Global Health

  • Facing Global AIDS
  • Global AIDS Fund puts a face on HIV and AIDS. “If we personalize the pandemic, people may move from indifference to involvement.”
  • GC2012: Ziemer on Malaria
  • Rear Adm. Tim Ziemer, the U.S. Global Malaria Coordinator, acknowledges that The United Methodist Church has been an important partner in the fight against malaria.

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Leadership Development

  • May 4 wrap: No restructure in 2012
  • A day filled with drama over an unexpected ruling on the church's structure plan ended anticlimactically when delegates adjourned without coming to a decision.

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New places for new people (Congregational Development)

  • UMTV: Bar Church Serves All
  • Pubs provide alternative to traditional church. "Jesus never said, 'If you need me, I'll be in the temple.' He was always out in the world."
  • May 4 wrap: No restructure in 2012
  • A day filled with drama over an unexpected ruling on the church's structure plan ended anticlimactically when delegates adjourned without coming to a decision.
  • The plan for congregational vitality
  • ‘Seeing the world as our parish, and seeing the individuals in that world as potential disciples,’ says Bishop Thomas Bickerton, ‘is the key to a revitalization.’

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