UMNS Daily Digest - Dec. 6, 2010 (Bush library, Imagine No Malaria, Sierra Leone, DREAM Act, Meharry
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To ensure consistent delivery, please add [1]newsdesk@umcom.org to your contact and/or safe senders list. [2]View Online | [3]Add to Address Book | [4]Subscribe UMNS Daily Digest - Produced by United Methodist News Service Monday, December 6, 2010 [5]Politics should not overshadow Bush library [6]Malaria threat pervades life in Sierra Leone [7]Update: Pastor escalates spiritual fast for DREAM Act [8]Church members ask to âDrop the I-Wordâ [9]Meharry receives grant to aid mental health patients obtain housing [10]Imagine No Malaria Overview» [11]UMTV: Lazarus Project Supports Soldiers» [12]UMTV: Teens Skype AIDS Orphans» [13]Read Additional UMNS Stories» [14]Find us on Facebook [15]Twitter Contact Us [16]E-mail (615) 742-5470 "Count me among the United Methodists who believe the Bush Library and Institute will only make SMU better and stronger for generations present and for those to come. I look forward to the opening." â James L. "Skip" Rutherford III, dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service. Politics should not overshadow Bush library DALLAS (UMNS) â "Presidential libraries can be controversial as critics often think contemporarily rather than historically," writes James L. "Skip" Rutherford III in a commentary about the George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University. "The college experience is about the open exchange of opinions and views. The Bush library and institute will only enhance that exchange at a fine school like SMU. How can that be anything but positive?" Rutherford coordinated the construction of the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Ark. He is also past chairman of the administrative board at Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church in Little Rock. [17]Read full commentary and post a comment» Malaria threat pervades life in Sierra Leone BO, Sierra Leone (UMNS) â Thanks to international organizations including The United Methodist Church, more than 3 million insecticide-treated bed nets are spreading across a country sick and dying of malaria. Malaria is a leading cause of death in this African country. The denomination's Imagine No Malaria campaign is helping people like Musukula Lukulay, 30, whose husband and children have had malaria several times. The whole household stops when the family is ill, she says. "I feel helpless when my husband or children are ill. It's as if I have malaria, too." [18]Read full story and post a comment» Update: Pastor escalates spiritual fast for DREAM Act SAN ANTONIO (UMNS) â The Rev. Lorenza Andrade Smith, a United Methodist pastor arrested Nov. 30 after a sit-in, is on a spiritual fast and is determined to remain jailed in solidarity with thousands of young people advocating for the DREAM Act. On Dec. 5 she escalated her fast and will not be accepting food or water. Her son is prayed for during an interfaith worship service at La Trindad United Methodist Church. [19]Read full story and post a comment» Church members ask to âDrop the I-Wordâ WASHINGTON (UMNS) â Dehumanizing language should not be part of the conversation on U.S. immigration reform, says Erin M. Hawkins. That is why her agency, the United Methodist Commission on Religion and Race, is urging church members to join âDrop the I-Word,â a national campaign calling for the elimination of the word âillegalâ in such discussions. The commission is [20]using its website in a year-long attempt to gather 10,000 United Methodist pledges to the campaign. [21]Read full story and post a comment» Meharry receives grant to aid mental health patients obtain housing NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) â The city's homeless population will get mental-health treatment and help to obtain stable housing through a federally funded program at Meharry Medical College, one of The United Methodist Church's historically black universities. Meharry's department of psychiatry and behavioral science received a $1.5 million grant that will fund the care for these patients from 2010 through 2015. Meharry will get more than $330,000 a year for the program, said Dr. Rahn Bailey, chairman the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at [22]Meharry Medical College. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration gave out $40 million over five years to community service organizations. It targets people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness because of mental-health and substance-abuse issues. Did someone you know pass along this copy to you? Get your own copy [23]here. United Methodist News Service is a ministry of United Methodist Communications. 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