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| Greetings! |
 Our God-given mission is to make disciples for Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world. Methodism's founder John Wesley reminded us that we are called to step out of our little corner of the world to spread the good news, transform hopelessness into hope and help God's children wherever they may be.
No matter how or where we serve serve Jesus Christ, United Methodists do God's work in a unique structure referred to as "the connection." This concept has been central to the Methodist movement from its beginning and comes to life through our clergy appointment system, our mission and outreach, and through our collective giving.
Please join me and other conference and district leaders at the Together We Can event in your district. Both clergy and lay persons will have a chance to be heard, ask questions about our connection and apportionment system, and receive information about the ministries our faithful stewardship supports and how that stewardship is making our churches stronger.
Yours in Christ,
Bishop Bruce R. Ough
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| Mission leaders appeal for end to violence |
 A joint statement from Bishop Bruce Ough of West Ohio, president of the General Board of Global Ministries, and Inelda Gonzalez, president of the Women's Division, urges the nation of Pakistan, other governments, and the international community to take measures to end violence against the Christian minority in Pakistan. [more] | |
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| Rethink Welcoming Training a Record Breaking Event |
 Last August, 500 people representing local churches throughout Ohio entered through Grove City UMC's purple doors and saw red..."Rethink Church" T-shirts, that is. The event - which turned out to be the largest single welcoming training event since 2003 - was a joint effort of the West and East Ohio conferences of The United Methodist Church and United Methodist Communications. [more] |
| Community Ministry Festival |
 The Capitol Area Districts invite you to our Community Ministry Festival. There you will see over 50 displays from local mission sites and agencies across the districts, hear great speakers like Rev. Sue Nilson Kibbey, Executive Pastor at Ginghamsburg UMC, and Greg Landsman, Director of the Governor's Office on Faith-based and Community Initiatives. In addtion, your'll have a delicious meal and come away inspired and excited about outreach ministries! [more] |
| United Methodists, Lutherans take historic step forward |
 The celebration of an historic agreement on full communion is just beginning from local and regional United Methodist and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America bodies to the wider world. Full communion means that each church acknowledges the other as a partner in the Christian faith, recognizes the authenticity of each other's baptism and Eucharist, and is committed to working together toward greater unity. [more] |
| Church developers learn from early evangelists |
 Can Methodists learn anything about effective Christian evangelism from their denomination's founding period 250 years ago? "Yes," says a Duke University professor, who told 600 church developers how the Wesley brothers, John and Charles, gave rise to a movement that swept the young United States of America. "Early Methodism was evangelistic," the Rev. Laceye Warner explained to the 2009 United Methodist School of Congregational Development on July 30. [more] |
| Thousands join faith-based call on health care |
 A recent national conference call on faith-based health care reform attracted more than 140,000 listeners. The call launched a "40 Days for Health Reform" campaign to ask people of faith to press Congress to finish work on a health plan when lawmakers return after the Labor Day recess. The United Methodist Boards of Church and Society and Global Ministries were among the more than 30 religious denominations and organizations that sponsored the call. [more] |
| United Methodists save one life in Uganda |
 They're called "the invisible children" - a generation of young boys and girls in Uganda who were torn from their villages, brainwashed and used as pack animals and bullet fodder for the Lord's Resistance Army of Joseph Kony. A teen named Lazarus, who also calls himself Joe, lived amid these atrocities, and then on the streets, eating out of garbage pits, after escaping Kony's terrorist army. Only about a year ago did he let himself smile. [more] |
| Mission News |
A UMVIM team from the North Central New York Conference made a mission trip to Mutambara Mission in Zimbabwe and was impressed by the need for materials there - school supplies as well as medical supplies. While they make plans and raise funds to send a container, they would like to "rent" space on any container going to Zimbabwe in the next 6 months. Email Sylvia Reimer or call 315-788-5442 or 315-778-5074.
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| Dates of note |
Sept. 30...Registration deadline for Exploration 2009, an event offering youth and young adults who feel God's call to ordained ministry as a deacon or elder in The United Methodist Church, a chance to explore that call.
Oct. 2-3...PAUMCS Conference, Fall conference of the Professional Association of United Methodist Church Secretaries, with guests Bishop Bruce Ough, Rev. Stan Sutton, Rev. Desiree Carter.
Oct. 3...Taste and See: A Fall Day Away, experience currents of refreshment and renewal from Streams of Living Water by Richard Foster.
Oct. 19...Together We Can...moving from paying the bills to serving God's vision, Lima, Ohio, with Bishop Bruce Ough, Conference and Northwest Plains District leadership. Oct. 21-22..."Growing Closer to God in Our Mature Years," a continuing education event for clergy and laity hosted by Otterbein Church Relations. Keynote speaker is retired UM Bishop Violet Fisher.
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