Dear friends,     This comes to wish you and yours every blessing and happiness during the Advent and Christmas season. The anticipation builds as we meditate, traditionally, on ‘the Last Things’ – death, judgement, heaven and hell – and as we reflect on God’s people waiting for a Savior, on the prophets who foretold the […]

The Roundtable for Peace on the Korean Peninsular, held by the World Methodist Council, the United Methodist Church, and the Korean Methodist Church, in Atlanta Nov. 9 – 11 was hosted by the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries.  Delegates included host participants and individuals concerned with this vital peace process. Since the previous meetings […]

The Executive Committee of the World Methodist Council met recently at the Council headquarters in Lake Junaluska, NC, USA following participation in the Korean Roundtable.  They were there 2-1/2 days, which allowed for much-needed planning time, as well as taking care of other Council matters. The Steering Committee Meeting in Mexico City, August 28-31, 2019 was […]

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who helped avert a crisis between North Korea and the United States in 1994, has been working for peace for the entire Korean Peninsula ever since. In his opening address at the 2018 Roundtable for Peace on the Korean Peninsula — a Nov. 9-11 event hosted by the United Methodist Board of […]

Over the past few months, the government of Angola has reviewed laws and procedures governing the presence of Christian denominations in the country due to the proliferation of small evangelical churches primarily from Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Senegal. Denominations must now meet specific criteria including being established in a minimum number […]

By Karl Anders Ellingsen All Saints’ Day is special for Finnsnes United Methodist Church. On Nov. 4, church members will meet the passengers of the Hurtigruten ferry with offers of communion and the opportunity to light torches for loved ones who have passed away. The ministry began in 2017 and led to many emotional encounters […]

A day after the World Children’s Day November 21, the World Council of Churches and UNICEF together held a celebration in the Ecumenical Center in Geneva, reminding all WCC member churches of their commitments to children: to promote child protection through church communities, to promote meaningful participation by children and adolescents and to raise church […]

By Joao Filimone Sambo Malhangalene United Methodist Church, an inner-city congregation in Maputo, recently partnered with the city municipality to help reduce the number of undocumented national citizens. The congregation organized a communitywide health fair, inviting people to get identification cards, measure their blood pressure and get medical and exercise advice. The medical team also […]

In an age of migration with 68.5 million forcibly displaced people, many Christians are longing for a spiritual home far from their homes. At the WMC Seoul Meeting we agreed to bring a group of people together: migrants, church leaders, those who are on the move and people from countries where migrants and refugees seek […]

Work in the red-light district of Moldova is heavy, challenging, and sometimes heartbreaking, but local Nazarene trafficking intervention workers get to see the power of God’s love transform women and families in ways they may never have been able to experience on their own.   This ministry includes an intervention team and a mobile medical […]

The Wesleyan Methodist tradition is one that has always sought to put faith into action. One way that millions have done so is by serving on a short-term mission trip. Short-term mission (STM) has been billed as a way for churches to spread the Good News to those in underserved areas of the world. The […]

More than 230,000 acres of land have been burned over the past week in two California wildfires, the Camp Fire north of Sacramento and the Woolsey Fire north of Los Angeles. Nearly 70 people have died and more than 600 are still missing. At least 12,000 structures have been destroyed and more than 52,000 people have been […]