As part of the 2011 Louisiana Annual
Conference focus on ministry with the
poor, United Methodist churches
throughout the state have made extraordinary commitments of money and service
to alleviate the suffering of the poor.
Each local church was asked to make a
formal commitment for service at the
2011 Louisiana Annual Conference in...
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As part of the 2011 Louisiana Annual Conference focus on ministry with the poor, United Methodist churches throughout the state have made extraordinary commitments of money and service to alleviate the suffering of the poor. Each local church was asked to make a formal commitment for service at the 2011 Louisiana Annual Conference in Shreveport. Here are a few reports on some of the exciting work that is being accomplished by our churches. The Mission Society of Asbury United Methodist Church in Natchitoches (Alexandria District) hosted a women’s workshop entitled “Fruit of the Spirit. ” Area churches were invited to attend the program which emphasized helping the sick, shut-ins and those in need. Participants donated diabetic socks which were distributed to nursing homes. The church also feeds the sick and shut-ins on the third Sunday of each month. Volunteers send cards, make telephone calls, and visit the nursing homes and hospitals in our area. Colfax United Methodist Church
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Running to Beat Malaria
Imagine No Malaria / 5
Free worship help / 3
Broadmoor UMC / 8
The Louisiana United Methodist
Conference will sponsor a number of 5K
and Fun Walk/Runs on Saturday,...
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VOL. 12, No. 21 NoVeMBeR 11, 2011BAtoN RoUge, LA NoN-PRoFit U. S. PoStAge PAidBAtoN RoUge,LA PeRMit#575 527NorthBlvd. BatonRouge,LA 70802-5700 Running to Beat Malaria Imagine No Malaria / 5 Free worship help / 3 Broadmoor UMC / 8 The Louisiana United Methodist Conference will sponsor a number of 5K and Fun Walk/Runs on Saturday, April 21, 2012 benefitting Imagine No Malaria, our denomination’s global initiative dedicated to eradicating malaria worldwide. As with the conference-wide “Day of Caring” held May 14 of this year, all of our local churches are encouraged to participate in this very special event. The Conference Global Health Initiative Task Force is preparing for the Imagine No Malaria 5K/Walks and plans on facilitating separate runs in strategic locations throughout the state of Louisiana on April 21. Race directors are being recruited for each of the runs. These volunteers will be United Methodists from our local churches who are also members of local certified runnin
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LOUISIANA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
June 6–9, 2010
40th Session
Louisiana Annual Conference
T U M C
June 5-8, 2011
41st
Session
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Vol.
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20 oCtoBer 21, 2011BAtoN roUGe, lA
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Latino Ministry
Roberts UMC / 4
Russians / 3
Douglas UMC / 5
A crying woman, whose husband beat
and humiliated her constantly, asked me,
“Pastor, how can the power of God
change my present reality? I...
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Vol. 12, No. 20 oCtoBer 21, 2011BAtoN roUGe, lA NoN-Profit U. S. PoStAGe PAidBAtoN roUGe,lA 527NorthBlvd. Batonrouge,lA 70802-5700 Latino Ministry Roberts UMC / 4 Russians / 3 Douglas UMC / 5 A crying woman, whose husband beat and humiliated her constantly, asked me, “Pastor, how can the power of God change my present reality? I don’t understand when you tell me that with God, the best is yet to come and that we have begun to taste it in the present. ” I asked her if she could see herself happy and without fear. “No,” she said, but I began seeing in her face the determination of someone who understands that God created her to be happy, free and without fear. It has been a year since that conversation, and it is now difficult to remember the terror and bitterness in her face. Christ gave her strength and energy to leave her abuser — who did not want to know anything about Christ — and to study and reinvent herself. It is not easy to minister to the Hispanic community in New Orle
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VoL.
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19 oCtoBeR 7, 2011BAtoN RoUge, LA
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527NorthBlvd.
BatonRouge,LA
70802-5700
Town & Country
Pineville FUMC / 5
Elders picnic / 2
Youth Ignite! / 8
Nine Louisiana Conference churches
recently celebrated the completion of a
two-year Town & Country Ministry
Academy...
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VoL. 12, No. 19 oCtoBeR 7, 2011BAtoN RoUge, LA NoN-PRofit U. S. PoStAge PAidBAtoN RoUge,LA PeRmit#575 527NorthBlvd. BatonRouge,LA 70802-5700 Town & Country Pineville FUMC / 5 Elders picnic / 2 Youth Ignite! / 8 Nine Louisiana Conference churches recently celebrated the completion of a two-year Town & Country Ministry Academy sponsored by the United Methodist Foundation of Louisiana and the Conference Office of Church Extension and Transformation. The Academy is designed to strengthen community service and evangelism in small United Methodist congregations. United Methodist churches graduating during the Sept. 17 event included Waldheim and Fitzgerald, New Orleans District; Livingston and Magnolia, Baton Rouge District; Sweetlake, Lake Charles District; Shiloh, Vivian and Haughton, Shreveport District; and Downsville, Monroe District. Participants in the program were nominated by their respective District Superintendents and were accepted into the Academy after a “very specific”
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VoL.
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non-Profit
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PaidBaton
roUge,La
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527northBlvd.
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Tropical Storm Lee
Search for Peace / 4
UMCOR and 9/11 / 3
9/11 remembered / 8
In the wake of Tropical Storm Lee,
United Methodists are contending with
the damage from floods — and...
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VoL. 12, no. 18 sePtemBer 23, 2011Baton roUge, La non-Profit U. s. Postage PaidBaton roUge,La Permit#575 527northBlvd. Batonrouge,La 70802-5700 Tropical Storm Lee Search for Peace / 4 UMCOR and 9/11 / 3 9/11 remembered / 8 In the wake of Tropical Storm Lee, United Methodists are contending with the damage from floods — and flames. While the storm’s heavy rains cut a soggy path across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, Lee’s 50-mile-perhour winds whipped wildfires in parched Texas as well as in parts of Louisiana. “My real worry is just having funding to be able to help,” said the Rev. Tom Hazelwood, the executive in charge of the United Methodist Committee on Relief’s U. S. disaster response. “We were short and we got a little money in to help with the spring storms, and now we’ve got all of this, and we have to ask people to give again for a different set of circumstances. ” Hazelwood spent most of Sept. 7 coordinating response to the fire-ravaged parts of Texas, wh
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Helping Haiti
Noel UMC / 5
Hagar’s House / 4
Facebook / 8
The Rev.
Timothy Smith, pastor of the
Gretna United Methodist Church, recently returned from the town of La
Tremblay, Haiti where...
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VoL. 12, No. 17 SePtemBeR 9, 2011BAtoN RoUge, LA NoN-PRofit U. S. PoStAge PAidBAtoN RoUge,LA PeRmit#575 527NorthBlvd. BatonRouge,LA 70802-5700 Helping Haiti Noel UMC / 5 Hagar’s House / 4 Facebook / 8 The Rev. Timothy Smith, pastor of the Gretna United Methodist Church, recently returned from the town of La Tremblay, Haiti where he, along with a small group from St. Francisville United Methodist Church, worked to help rebuild a church that had been devastated by the earthquake in January 2010. Joining the volunteer work crew was a local voodoo priest. As Smith recalled his eight-day mission experience, he noted how he and the priest were able to connect despite their differences. “Even though we had the language barrier, we were kind of connecting and kidding with one another,” he said. Smith, the priest, the work crew and the other volunteers worked diligently to help rebuild the church, even with considerable obstacles. “When working with the cement, we had to carry the san
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A 14-member Louisiana Volunteers
in Mission team traveled to
Guatemala this summer to perform
construction tasks at a retreat center and to lead Vacation Bible
School for a local orphanage.
Students, left, lined up to receive
snack bags after watching a program performed by the team.
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A 14-member Louisiana Volunteers in Mission team traveled to Guatemala this summer to perform construction tasks at a retreat center and to lead Vacation Bible School for a local orphanage. Students, left, lined up to receive snack bags after watching a program performed by the team. VoL. 12, No. 16 AUgUSt 26, 2011BAtoN RoUge, LA NoN-PRofit U. S. PoStAge PAidBAtoN RoUge,LA PeRmit#575 527NorthBlvd. BatonRouge,LA 70802-5700 Going to Guatemala UMW Section / 3-6 First UMC Shreveport/2 Little chapel / 8 Fourteen members of St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church in Baton Rouge served as part of a Louisiana Volunteers in Mission team to Guatemala during July. Group projects included work on construction at a Methodist retreat center and putting on a Vacation Bible School for an orphanage in Lemoa, a rural village in central Guatemala. “Words or pictures cannot do justice for what our time in Guatemala meant to all of us. We were touched by God often, and we saw His hands at work with o
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Connections for Life
Union Chapel UMC / 4
New Song UMC / 3
Cleaning Buckets / 4
A graduate of a Baton Rouge-based
re-entry and transitional housing program
for women in need said her “misery...
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VoL. 12, No. 15 AUgUSt 5, 2011BAtoN RoUge, LA NoN-PRoFit U. S. PoStAge PAidBAtoN RoUge,LA PeRMit#575 527NorthBlvd. BatonRouge,LA 70802-5700 Connections for Life Union Chapel UMC / 4 New Song UMC / 3 Cleaning Buckets / 4 A graduate of a Baton Rouge-based re-entry and transitional housing program for women in need said her “misery came to an end” when she became involved in Connections for Life. “I had hit rock bottom,” said Robyn, now a member of First United Methodist Church in Baton Rouge, La. “My problems led me down a path to prison. My family was disgusted with my actions and I didn’t care about myself. ” Connections for Life, a non-profit organization founded in 2000, offers a 12-month transitional housing and reentry program that serves women coming from prison, treatment facilities, battered women’s shelters and other referral agencies. The women the program serves are each provided an efficiency apartment as well as clothing, food, transportation, job placement assistanc
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VoL.
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Cyber Church
Exploration / 4
Rethinking Worship / 3
Awakening / 5
It’s Friday, and the Rev.
Jack Kale is
doing what he frequently does on a day
off: household chores.
But as all pastors
know,...
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VoL. 12, No. 14 JULY 22, 2011BAtoN RoUge, LA NoN-PRoFit U. S. PoStAge PAidBAtoN RoUge,LA PeRmit#575 527NorthBlvd. BatonRouge,LA 70802-5700 Cyber Church Exploration / 4 Rethinking Worship / 3 Awakening / 5 It’s Friday, and the Rev. Jack Kale is doing what he frequently does on a day off: household chores. But as all pastors know, there’s no such thing as a day off when you are doing God’s work. As soon as he drops off the kids at school, his focus shifts from the family to-do list to the Sunday sermon. He thinks about his message all week long, and he wants his congregation to do the same. With technology, this is now easily done. Rev. Kale sits down at his kitchen table, opens his laptop, and signs on to gbNetwork, the private social network of Gulf Breeze (Fla. ) United Methodist Church. He talks into his webcam. “Have you ever just wanted to start over? Have you ever wanted to restart part of your life?” The message is less than two minutes. Kale uploads to the gbNetwork
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