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October 18, 2022 On a spring Wednesday at St. Mark United Methodist Church in South Los Angeles, volunteers huddle around tables, organizing bulk boxes of pantry items for the Wednesday pick-up. Reverend Gary Bernard Williams and Labrenda Joyce Parker, one of his congregants, walk down
The RMC is offering free membership to all churches within the Greater Northwest Episcopal Area starting immediately and continuing through January 1st, 2022. United Methodist Churches within the Western Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church are also included in this offering, but not automatically enrolled (interested churches
October 19, 2022 With the help of my mentor, I have begun to dive into the priority area of Economic Justice to study ways that we can advocate to end poverty domestically and globally. My efforts, so far, have largely been focused on Affordable Housing.
October 17th is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. These picture books introduce the complexities of poverty and how communities worldwide are creating change. October 17, 2022 Our United Methodist Church has a long tradition of working for economic justice. This work is
October 18, 2022 Just ahead of Americans heading to the polls for Election Day, United Methodist delegates will be heading to five simultaneous jurisdictional conferences across the U.S. to elect new bishops. But unlike during previous bishop elections, jurisdictional leaders are recommending that the delegates
October 17, 2022 Members of the women’s organization in the South Africa Conference marched in the streets of Gugulethu to protest gender-based violence. The march was organized in conjunction with the conference’s United Methodist Women (rebranded United Women in Faith) and United Methodist Men 19th
October 17, 2022 In former times, the Rev. Glen Kernell would have been called an “Indian.” His name in the language of his tribe is Chebon. As European settlement of North America expanded westward, the indigenous population with cultures going back hundreds and thousands of
The California-Pacific Conference’s vision: Ending Spiritual and Physical Hunger resonates and inspires the laity and clergy of our area to give, lead, and serve in new and exciting ways. Each week we will share a video from one of our churches that is living into
Originally Published by Disability Ministries Committee of the United Methodist Church, Republished with Permission 1. Why should we celebrate Disability Awareness Sunday? As United Methodists, “We recognize that God made all creation and saw that it was good. As a diverse people of God who
October 13, 2022 Editor’s Note: In late May, a team from United Methodist News, the United Methodist Committee on Relief and the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries visited church refugee ministries in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and western Ukraine to share stories of the
