By Kathy L. Gilbert June 26, 2018 | UMNS For four days in June, United Methodist Camp Colby is a respite for children and teens who traveled a long, dark and dangerous journey. These children, some as young as 8, are known as unaccompanied migrants and they arrive on the border of California alone and […]
By WFMUCW Webmaster June 18, 2018 The second of eight Area Seminars was almost on my doorstep! I had visited Belfast before as Area President of the Britain and Ireland Area so knew I would find my way without difficulty (but it was still wonderful to be met at the airport!) It was heart-warming to […]
By Michael Ivatt Lead Media Officer, Methodist Church House June 26 2018 The Revd Trey Hall has been announced as the Methodist Church’s Director of Evangelism and Growth, a new position aimed at supporting the development of these vital areas in Church life. The role is part of the Church’s ongoing work to reaffirm its […]
Have you ever waited for a miracle? We remember and recognize this situation every Advent time, but often it is not felt deeply and personally. It is a very different thing to pray, and petition, and hope, and dream of a miraculous act breaking into our day-to-day world. For my entire life, I have prayed […]
By The Rev. Gustavo Vasquez May 17, 2018 | KISSIMMEE, Florida (UMNS) Ask members of First United Methodist Church, “Who is my neighbor?” and by their actions, they answer, “Whomever God sends to us.”After hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated Puerto Rico and plunged its 3.4 million people into a desperate humanitarian crisis late last summer, […]
By: Klaus Ulrich Ruof (Germany) and Urs Schweizer (Switzerland) It was in 2012. The European Methodist Council had planned to organize a European Methodist Festival in Krakow (Poland). However, due to the fact that not enough people had registered for this event by a certain time, this Festival regretfully had to be cancelled. And the question was: In […]
Dear Friends There has been many commemorations and celebrations the past month. Wesleyans commemorate the 24th of May, as the day that John Wesley, the father of the Methodist Movement received assurance of his salvation. Our President writes an interesting article in this edition of the First Friday Letter. The Methodist Church in Fiji […]
By: Rev. Dr. J. C. Park (President of World Methodist Council) People called Methodists all around the world are celebrating the 280th anniversary of the Aldersgate experience of John Wesley. Strictly speaking, it was not his conversion from his unbelief or atheism but his personal experience of the assurance of faith in Jesus Christ. Wesley […]
By Nazarene Church News Staff 25 May 2018, Havana, Cuba — Leonel López, president for the Church of the Nazarene in Cuba and superintendent of the Cuba West District, shared an update this week following the 18 May plane crash that claimed the lives of more than 100 people, including 10 Nazarene pastor couples. López was at the airport […]
By Philippe Kituka Lolonga May 15, 2018 | UVIRA, Congo (UMNS) Nine people have died and thousands of homes and buildings have been destroyed, including five United Methodist schools, two local churches and pastoral homes, after heavy rains and flooding in the Uvira District of Kivu. Among the dead are a United Methodist woman from […]
By Kathy L. Gilbert May 7, 2018 | UMNS The Rev. Bill Jenkins, pastor of the Christ United Methodist Ministry Center in San Diego, and other church leaders are gearing up to offer shelter to hundreds of migrants gathering at the border seeking asylum. The migrants reached the border after a months-long journey, fleeing their […]
In January, the Revd Michaela Youngson, President Designate of the Methodist Conference [Methodist Church in Britain], visited the United Church of Papua New Guinea with her husband Sandy, and Steve Pearce, Partnership Coordinator for Asia and the Pacific. The United Church of Papua New Guinea celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in true South Pacific style. Surrounded by beautiful landscapes and […]
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