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What is the denomination’s position on homosexuality?
Home > Questions? > Beliefs and Social Issues > What is the denomination’s position on homosexuality?
(last updated: 11/5/2009)
What is the denomination's position on homosexuality?
Community Center Serves Hispanic Immigrant Population; United Methodist Ministry Fills Needs
Home > Press Center > Archives > 2004 Archives > January > Community Center Serves Hispanic Immigrant Population; United Methodist Ministry Fills Needs
(last updated: 6/9/2009)
EL PASO, Texas—For 110 years, a United Methodist-related ministry in this U.S.-Mexico border town has been providing social services to people among the least likely to succeed in life. Houchen Community Center, which operates under the auspices of Vista Ysleta United Methodist Church, offers a helping hand to people from both sides of the border, all of whom are struggling to provide a good life for their families.
Community center serves needy in Texas border town
Home > United Methodist News Service > News Archives > 2004 > January 2004 > Community center serves needy in Texas border town
(last updated: 7/28/2008)
EL PASO, Texas (UMNS)—For 110 years, a United Methodist-related ministry in this U.S.-Mexico border city has been providing social services to people among the least likely to succeed in life.
Churches lend hope to Palestinians’ struggle to survive
Home > United Methodist News Service > Features > Multimedia Coverage > Multimedia Coverage Archives > Churches lend hope to Palestinians’ struggle to survive
(last updated: 12/15/2005)
While peace in the Middle East remains elusive, Action by Churches Together International continues providing help and hope to people in the occupied Palestinian territories.
United States-Mexico Border
Home > Book of Resolutions > United States-Mexico Border
(last updated: 3/10/2005)
The United StatesMexico border is a area where the socio/economic dynamics of two interacting cultures have a negative impact on the quality of life of adjoining populations
The Church’s Response to Ethnic and Religious Conflict
Home > Book of Resolutions > The Church’s Response to Ethnic and Religious Conflict
(last updated: 2/16/2005)
Religious and ethnic conflicts pose a great challenge to the Christian church as the mediator of Jesus gospel of love and reconciliation in the world, as well as to the wider religious community
UMCOR opens mission in Sudan
Home > United Methodist News Service > News Archives > 2005 > February > UMCOR opens mission in Sudan
(last updated: 2/10/2005)
The United Methodist Committee on Relief is now providing direct relief and rehabilitation in the embattled Darfur region of Sudan.
Resources to Promote Tolerance, Justice, and Peace Making
Home > Christian Educators Fellowship > Leadership Resources > Program Resources > Resources to Promote Tolerance, Justice, and Peace Making
(last updated: 1/26/2005)
Resources to Promote Tolerance, Justice and Peace Making
The Status of Women
Home > Book of Resolutions > The Status of Women
(last updated: 1/24/2005)
The movement to improve the status of women is one of the most profoundly hopeful of our times. The United Methodist Church in various ways has sought to support that movement Although change is taking place, in most societies women are still not accorded equal rights and responsibilities
The Church and Deaf Ministries
Home > Book of Resolutions > The Church and Deaf Ministries
(last updated: 1/20/2005)
The United Methodist Church's connection with the greater deaf community is a history of forgotten stories and forgotten people
Welfare Reform
Home > Book of Resolutions > Welfare Reform
(last updated: 1/20/2005)
The purpose of welfare reform was not only to reduce the welfare rolls, but to move people from dependence on public assistance to economic independence and a better life, especially for children of welfare families.
The Church and People with Mental, Physical, and/or Psychological Disabilities
Home > Book of Resolutions > The Church and People with Mental, Physical, and/or Psychological Disabilities
(last updated: 1/19/2005)
We call United Methodists to a new birth of awareness of the need to accept, include, receive the gifts of, and respond to the concerns of those persons with mental, physical, and/or psychological disabilities
Hotel Rwanda
Home > My Spiritual Journey > Movie Reviews > Hotel Rwanda
(last updated: 1/17/2005)
Hurricanes and tsunamis proved again in 2004 just how fragile human life is in the face of nature’s fury. We also saw a great flood of humanitarian relief for victims both around the block and around the world. Ten years ago, a humanitarian crisis occurred that dwarfed this year’s casualty numbers. But there were some striking and heartbreaking differences. This was not the result of nature, but of man. And the outpouring of aid we’ve seen for recent natural disasters was strangely absent. Director, Terry George’s harrowing new film Hotel Rwanda transports us to the middle of the moral morass that was the 1994 Rwanda crisis, and asks the age-old question “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
After Fleeing Haiti For His Life, Florida Pastor Gives Back to His Homeland
Home > Faith in Action > After Fleeing Haiti For His Life, Florida Pastor Gives Back to His Homeland
(last updated: 8/6/2004)
When the Rev. Luc Dessieux fled his homeland of Haiti in 1979, he left behind his wife and five children, the youngest 22 days old.
1908 Social Creed
Home > Questions? > Beliefs and Social Issues > What is the creed of The United Methodist Church? > 1908 Social Creed
(last updated: 8/4/2004)
The text of the 1908 Social Creed of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Resolution on Iraqi Prisoners
Home > Faith in Action > Iraq > Resolution on Iraqi Prisoners
(last updated: 6/25/2004)
Official resolution of The United Methodist Church regarding treatment of prisoners of war.
Commentary: Super Bowl Halftime Show Was Inappropriate Sexual Aggression
Home > My Spiritual Journey > Commentary: Super Bowl Halftime Show Was Inappropriate Sexual Aggression
(last updated: 5/28/2004)
It makes little difference if Janet Jackson’s breast baring was intentional or a mistake. In either case, it was an act of sexual aggression very inappropriate for any audience that includes children.
Seeking God in the Heavens: A Reflection on Our Renewed Commitment to Space Exploration
Home > My Spiritual Journey > Seeking God in the Heavens: A Reflection on Our Renewed Commitment to Space Exploration
(last updated: 5/28/2004)
Americans are heading back into outer space. In January, President George W. Bush announced an ambitious vision for space exploration. This revitalized interest in manned space missions raises a wide variety of questions, not the least of which, %22Is this the will of God?%22
Finding Shelter Under Stained Glass
Home > Faith in Action > Finding Shelter Under Stained Glass
(last updated: 5/25/2004)
From November through March more than 200 men, women and children line up outside the doors of Nashville’s Room in the Inn headquarters hoping to find a warm bed, hot meal and to defrost feelings of disillusionment.
AIDS Alert
Home > General Conference 2004 > Media Center > Video Stories > AIDS Alert
(last updated: 5/1/2004)
Church called to action for AIDS
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