“What will you leave for my generation?” – Molly McEntire, Florida Conference young adult, making a plea for denominational unity at a Uniting Methodists meeting in Dallas.
NEWS AND FEATURES
Uniting Methodists get strategic
DALLAS (UMNS) — The Uniting Methodists group went beyond talking up the One Church plan to discussing strategy and tactics for getting it passed at the special General Conference set for February 2019. Sam Hodges reports on the July 16-18 meeting.
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Great Plains Conference story about Mainstream UMC group
Church continues support for landslide survivors
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (UMNS) — The Sierra Leone Conference, with support from the United Methodist Committee on Relief, has distributed uniforms, shoes, backpacks and school materials to nearly 500 children in four schools affected by the August 2017 landslide and flooding here. The $98,000 UMCOR-funded project also provided five boreholes in disaster-affected communities. Phileas Jusu reports.
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United Methodist brings hope to former village home
HEADLANDS, Zimbabwe (UMNS) — Farai Rukunda, a member of Stevensville United Methodist Church in Stevensville, Michigan, sees himself in the young people at Arnoldine Mission in the Zimbabwe East Conference. It’s where Rukunda, orphaned at the age of 6 when his parents died in a car accident, grew up. Kudzai Chingwe reports on how he is transforming lives in his former village.
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New 2018 annual conference reports posted
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) — United Methodist News Service is posting annual conference reports. New this week are Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Mountain Sky, North Georgia, South Carolina, Susquehanna and Tennessee.
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PRESS RELEASES
United Methodist Women
UMW initiates plan to reduce staff size
NEW YORK — United Methodist Women has announced plans to reduce the size of its national staff through a voluntary severance offering. "The work toward building out our new operational structure is coinciding with market volatility and declines in other sources of income," said Harriett Jane Olson, UMW’s chief executive officer.
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Standing against hate
FULTON, Md. — Baltimore-Washington Area Bishop LaTrelle Easterling invites all United Methodists to join in The United to Love Rally on Aug. 12, the one-year anniversary of the death of a counter-protester at a gathering of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia. The rally is an initiative of the Baltimore-Washington Conference.
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