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Message from Bishop Hope Morgan Ward

by United Methodist News Service September 2, 2005

The United Methodist people of Mississippi thank each of you for your thoughts and prayers as we face the disastrous effects of Hurricane Katrina and seek to be a comforting and healing presence to our neighbors.

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Cyclone Idai survivor Geshem Makufa, 55, is being treated at United Methodist Mutambara Mission Hospital in the Chimanimani District of Eastern Zimbabwe. He is pictured with his wife, Tandiwe Makufa. Photo by Kudzai Chingwe, UMNS.

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A doctor examines a child at a camp for people displaced in flooding in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai, near Beira, Mozambique. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings, please do not reuse.

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