UMNS Daily Digest - Oct. 11, 2010 (Ecumenical work, Bishop James Thomas, anti-graffiti ministry)

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       UMNS Daily Digest - Produced by United Methodist News Service
                           Monday, Oct. 11, 2010
               [5]Civil rights leader Bishop James Thomas dies
                  [6]United Methodist ecumenical leader dies
           [7]Graffiti removal ministry lightens neighbors' burdens



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 "I didn't come to be a black bishop. I've always been black. I have 
come to
   be the best bishop I can be." - Bishop James Thomas, who died Oct. 
10.

Civil rights leader Bishop James Thomas dies

   ATLANTA (UMNS) - James Samuel Thomas, the United Methodist bishop 
who broke
   racial barriers when he was assigned to an all-white annual 
(regional)
   conference in 1964, died Oct. 10. His funeral will be Oct. 15 at 
Cascade
   United Methodist Church in Atlanta. Thomas was 91.

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United Methodist ecumenical leader dies

   GREENPORT, N.Y. (UMNS) - The church leader who helped shape the 
ecumenical
   vision of The United Methodist Church has died at the age of 90. 
The Rev.
   Robert W. Huston is remembered as a devout Christian with a fierce 
passion
   for the unity of the church and a humble man who championed the 
gifts of
   women and young adults.

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Graffiti removal lightens neighbors' burdens

   FORT SMITH, Ark. (UMNS) - While on a drive down North 50th Street 
in Fort
   Smith, Becky Neighbors and her husband saw an older couple 
cleaning graffiti
   off the side of their business. Neighbors decided more could be 
done. That
   was the beginning of a United Methodist Graffiti Removal Team. 
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