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Living Locally During Lent
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Instead of giving up chocolate, French fries, television or other typical worldly pleasures for Lent this year, about 60 Savannah-area residents are observing the Lenten season in a different way: by living locally. Striving to eat locally produced ...
Mondays are marvelous with Willacoochee UMC and Beulah UMC
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Every Monday afternoon, a diverse group of about 70 children from Willacoochee Elementary School bound off the bus and swarm the grounds of Willacoochee United Methodist Church. They are participating in Marvelous Monday, an after-school program run...
Young Harris College Adds Five New Baccalaureate Programs
Monday, March 15, 2010
Young Harris College has earned approval from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) to offer five new bachelor’s degree programs beginning in August 2010.   The College received notification Friday afternoon that the S...
Special session of General Conference unlikely
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
 Do not expect a special session of General Conference in advance of the 2012 meeting in Tampa, Fla. The limited amount of time available to put together a special session, the cost and the U.S.-focused agenda for a worldwide meeting of United ...
First UM church plant in Columbus District in 50 years hosts launch service
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
 The Ridge, the first United Methodist church planted in the Columbus District in the past 50 years, held its launch service on Sunday, February 21. More than 300 people, including 60 children, joined together to worship, fellowship and celebra...
Aldersgate UMC member honored for local missions work
Monday, March 08, 2010
Norma Curry, missions chairperson for Aldersgate United Methodist Church in Savannah, has been named one of A Working Woman In Need’s (AWWIN) Top Ten Working Women of the Year. Curry, a 75 year-old retired nurse and lifelong advocate for those...
Offering is UMCORs backbone
Friday, March 05, 2010
The ability of her team to get to Haiti quickly was due in part to One Great Hour of Sharing, an annual churchwide offering for UMCOR taken on the fourth Sunday in Lent. This year’s offering is on March 14.Eight days after the January earthqu...
Teamwork Stretches Across the Miles to Realize a Dream for West Angola
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Moving thousands of pounds of agricultural equipment 9,000 miles may seem to be a daunting task. When members of the team needed to accomplish that task are 2300 miles apart, it may seem undoable – or at the very least, unlikely. But that's not...
United Methodists respond to Chile earthquake
Saturday, February 27, 2010
  United Methodists were scrambling to respond to a massive earthquake that struck Chile early on Feb. 27 and prompted tsunami warnings across the Pacific region. The magnitude 8.8 earthquake, which hit about 60 miles northwest of the town...
Bishop King to appoint Ben Martin as Statesboro District Superintendent
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Bishop James R. King, Jr. announces the projected appointment of the Rev. Dr. Ben Martin as the next Superintendent of the Statesboro District.  The appointment will become effective at the conclusion of the Annual Conference session in June.&nb...
Helping Hands food pantry helps those in need
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Unemployment is rampant. Food, gas and energy prices are breaking budgets. Families are struggling to stay in their homes.  And too many people wake up and go to bed hungry every day. St. Marys United Methodist Church’s Helping Hands Mini...
McCord Named to Campus Ministry Staff
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
General Secretary Jerome King Del Pino is pleased to announce the appointment of the Rev. Michael McCord as director of Campus Ministry Resources and Training in the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry’s Division of Higher Education....
Feeding folks, body and soul
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Heritage United Methodist Church in Macon, through its Heritage at Houston ministry, is feeding people in the Houston Avenue area of Macon. They’re being fed a hearty breakfast every Sunday morning, with bacon, scrambled eggs and toast, but mo...
Haitian tragedy hits close to home
Monday, February 08, 2010
Through the shock and fear and heartbreak is a gnawing uncertainty. Rev. Albert Melifaite and members of First Haitian United Methodist Church in Roswell are coping with a myriad of emotions that are unlikely to ebb anytime soon. The massi...
Hearts for Haiti: Give a gift that lasts this Valentine's
Monday, February 08, 2010
This Valentine's Day give the gift that lasts. Make your gift online at umcorhaiti.org, download this card in color or black and white and insert it into a traditional Valentine’s Day card....
Digital Resource Packet for Haiti Response Available from GBGM
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
The General Board of Global Ministries has put together a Digital Resource Packet for use by conferences, churches and groups to help interpret and promote mission and ministry in Haiti. Please click on the link below to view and download the co...
Georgia Pastors' School Board of Directors wants clergy input
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
The Board of Managers of the Georgia Pastors’ School is conducting a survey of clergy in the NorthGeorgia Conference and South Georgia Conference to gather information and feedback to help withdeveloping and planning the program and speakers fo...
Souper Bowl of Caring is Sunday, Feb. 7
Monday, February 01, 2010
Like thousands of United Methodists around the country, Grace United Methodist Church in Hopkin, MA, invites football fans in its area to “rethink Super Bowl Sunday” and join the Souper Bowl of Caring. If football devotees redirect even o...
Letter from the Methodist Church of Haiti
Friday, January 29, 2010
  On behalf of the Methodist Church in Haiti and the Haitian people, we thank you. Thank you all for your outpouring of love, support and Christian brotherhood in our great hour of need. Haiti has suffered a great tragedy, and to rebuild, recov...
UMCOR begins pilot aid project for Haitians
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Six young Haitian Methodists spent an afternoon dividing 55-pound bags of rice and 100-pound bags of beans into family-sized portions to feed more than 160 families who have had little assistance since the Jan. 12 earthquake. “This is meeting ...