UMCOR Emergency Appeal for Health Kits, Water and Blankets

As president of the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), I am making this emergency appeal for United Methodists and their friends to supply Health Kits, bottled water and blankets for survivors of Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast. The need is desperate throughout the area devastated by the storm, especially among people who have been or are being evacuated from their homes.

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Human Rights
The Rev. Christopher P. Momany. Photo by Kristen Schell.

Resistance is not enough

United Methodists’ baptismal call to resist injustice demands attention. “What does God call us to be for, that at the same time might require our resistance to systems and structures?”
Disaster Relief
The Rev. John Shaver (left) and his friend, Rabbi Mark Blazer, look out at the rubble left of Community United Methodist Church in Pacific Palisades, Calif., where Shaver is pastor. The community of Pacific Palisades was mostly destroyed by the Palisades wildfire. Photo courtesy of Shaver, California-Pacific Conference.

Wildfires claim life of United Methodist

Church members are beginning to pick up the pieces even as they mourn great loss. Pastors hope to rebuild two churches destroyed by fire.
The Rev. Neelley Hicks. Photo courtesy of the author.

What does hate feel like in the body?

Through self-awareness, we can understand and respond to the spiritual, emotional and physical warning signs of hate, writes the Rev. Neelley Hicks.

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