July 24, 2013 

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Abolishing Poverty Conference

July 27

Knoxville, Tenn. 

>>>Bishop Ken Carder will speak on "Bringing Good News to the Poor" at Cokesbury Center.    

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Calling All Men

Aug. 3 in Athens, Tenn.

Aug. 10 in Bristol, Va.

>>>Two different opportunities for worship, workshops, fellowship.  

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We asked Mitzi Sadler-Thorne, member at Narrows UMC in Tazewell District::       Mitzi Sadler-Thorne 7-24-13

"What book is lying on your nightstand?"

 

Praying for Strangers: An Adventure of the Human Spirit, by River Jordan

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Orphanage on July 18

New orphanage
Holston will open children's home in South Sudan
 

Libby Dearing and others never gave up on a dream to provide a home for the vulnerable children of South Sudan. The dream will finally become a reality for 24 children this fall.   

 

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Disaster response

      cleaning bucket collection in 2011   
Holston will collect 475 "cleaning buckets"
  
Churches and individuals are asked to help the United Methodist Committee on Relief replenish their supplies after a recent spate of U.S. disasters.  
  

 


 

United Methodist Women  

UMW at Mission U 7-24-13               
100 travel to Bristol for annual missions study


What's wrong with a TV show like "My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding"? A group of United Methodist Women found out this past weekend.   



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Urban ministry

swimming boy by CT 7-24-13
Rethinking the $3,000 mission trip: Emerald Avenue coach discovers sad reality 

 

"Painfully thin for his age, Martin shivered uncontrollably by the side of the city swimming pool. I was puzzled. A rare June heat wave had swept through Knoxville, and the temperature was pushing 90."

 

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Family ministry  

children w special needs by CTFP 7-24-13               
Chattanooga church helps children with special needs during summer break  


An independent program has popped up at Brainerd UMC to help special-needs kids structure their time in the gap between May and August.

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