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Disaster Response: Helping our Neighbors

5/6/2010

We have much to pray about this May. As we have talked with friends from Tennessee, North Alabama, Mississippi, and the Gulf Coast, we are so aware of the urgency to respond. The most powerful response to these neighbors and friends is always through prayer. I urge you to form prayer groups and to pray individually and collectively. Other ways we can reach out to our neighbors include: EARLY RESPONSE TEAMS: Tennessee Conference of the United Methodist Church is requesting UMCOR-trained Early ...


Who Dat Making Health Kits for Haiti?

2/12/2010

Who dat making a super effort to build health kits for Haiti? United Methodist churches in Louisiana and Indiana, dat’s who. Two congregations, one from Indianapolis and another just outside of New Orleans, are harnessing the energy surrounding Super Bowl XLIV with a friendly challenge: Which church can assemble the largest number of health kits for Haiti? Read the whole story at: http://www.umc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&b=5259669&ct=7995779.