UMNS Daily Digest - December 13, 2010 (Habitat for Humanity, Haiti, National Council of Churches, ru

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                           Monday, Dec. 13, 2010
               [5]Early Christmas gift shelters Eritrean family
                  [6]Stranded Haiti mission team heads home
                 [7]Gathering honors United Methodist pastor
                [8]Advisory: Series will focus on rural church


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   âI thought the process was great. It was special to work with all 
the
 churches coming together for a common cause and interacting with 
each other
in this mission work.â â Ted Mosey, development coordinator for 
Indianapolis
                           Habitat for Humanity.

Early Christmas gift shelters Eritrean family

   INDIANAPOLIS (UMNS) â With a wide smile on her face, Hidat 
Ghebremedhin cut
   the ribbon on the door of her familyâs new home near downtown 
Indianapolis
   on a snowy Saturday morning. She then received the keys to her 
house as an
   early Christmas present. Twenty-two congregations and United 
Methodist Metro
   Ministries helped finance and build the house.

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Stranded Haiti mission team heads home

   PITTSBURGH (UMNS) â Ten members of a United Methodist Volunteers 
in Mission
   Team from Western Pennsylvania boarded a Delta flight from Haiti 
on Dec. 11,
   after they were forced to extend their stay a few days because of 
turmoil
   created by demonstrators protesting election results. The 
protestors took to
   the streets of Port-au-Prince on Dec. 8, setting up flaming 
barricades and
   causing havoc that resulted in a shutdown of the airport.

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Gathering honors United Methodist pastor

   WASHINGTON (UMNS) â The Rev. Drema McAllister-Wilson, a United 
Methodist
   pastor and a specialist in death education, was among a group of 
women
   honored for their contributions to the ecumenical movement.

   The event on Nov. 18 at Wesley Theological Seminary, a United
   Methodist-related institution, was part of the National Council of 
Churches
   [17]Circles of Names campaign. The Circles of Names Campaign is a 
project to
   create a circle of support for women's ministries by asking a 
thousand
   people to give $100 in the name of a women who helped shape their 
faith.
   McAllister-Wilson, minister of congregational care at Metropolitan 
Memorial
   United Methodist Church, was recognized as one of those women.

Advisory: Series will focus on rural church

   More than six in 10 United Methodist congregations, an estimated 
20,000
   churches, serve rural areas in the United States. Yet the rural 
church,
   which took Methodism into nearly every county in the United 
States, often is
   neglected and misunderstood, according to a churchwide survey. In a
   three-part series, "Harvest of Hope: The Rural Church in America" 
the United
   Methodist News Service takes an in-depth look at the challenges 
faced by
   rural congregations, and the issues before the larger church as 
this
   critical but neglected foundation of the denomination seeks to 
move from
   survival to revival. The package of stories, videos and photos 
will run Dec.
   15-17 on [18]umc.org.
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