UMNS Daily Digest - January 10, 2011 (Tucson shootings, Malawi, political rhetoric, Haiti)

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                           Monday, Jan. 10, 2010
                  [5]Mushrooms enrich lives of Malawi women
             [6]Arizona bishop asks for prayers after shootings
            [7]United Methodist shooting victim off critical list
            [8]Board of Church and Society urges calmer discourse
                     [9]Church advertises Haiti recovery
                      [10]Advisory: Haiti series coming


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   [12]Haiti One Year Later: Jim Gulley»




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"Let us pray for healing for our sisters and brothers in Tucson, and 
for our
   state. May God be merciful and may we be agents of Christ's grace 
and
                    love." - Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño.

Mushrooms enrich lives of Malawi women

   BLANTYRE, Malawi (UMNS) - The English poet Janet Erskine Stuart 
advised,
   "You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom." But it is the 
lowly
   mushroom that is giving new life to eight United Methodist women 
in this
   central African nation.

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Arizona bishop asks for prayers after shootings

   TUCSON, Ariz. (UMNS) - Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño is calling for 
prayers of
   healing following the Jan. 8 shootings in Tucson that left six 
dead and more
   than a dozen - including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords - wounded. 
The bishop
   expressed concern about whether the shooting was an expression of 
âgrowing
   intolerance."

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United Methodist shooting victim off critical list

   TUCSON, Ariz. (UMNS) - Pam Simon, a member of St. Francis in the 
Foothills
   United Methodist Church in Tucson, was injured in the shootings 
that claimed
   six lives and critically injured U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. 
Simon serves
   on Giffords' staff. In an e-mail to the congregation, lay pastor 
Rolland
   "Rolly" Loomis said, "We received the good news that her (Simon's) 
condition
   is not critical. Alex Villec, 19, an intern for the Congresswoman 
and also a
   beloved member of St. Francis, witnessed the incident but was not 
injured."


Board of Church and Society urges calmer discourse

   WASHINGTON, D.C. (UMNS) - The United Methodist Board of Church and 
Society
   joins the nation in grieving the shooting incident Jan. 8 in which 
six
   people,  including a 9-year-old girl, were killed in Tucson, Ariz. 
Top
   executive Jim Winkler said in a statement that the agency staff is 
praying
   for comfort for those families affected by the tragedy.

   While many factors seem to have contributed to the shooting, 
Winkler said,
   the  agency  joins  with Republicans and Democrats in calling for 
less
   vitriolic rhetoric in political debate.

   "The use of vicious language in political discourse, even 
metaphorically,
   only adds to a climate of fear and anger," Winkler said. "Such 
language
   prevents a coherent dialogue that leads to solutions for the 
problems that
   society faces."

   The agency also called for making gun ownership to become a more 
responsible
   process.

   "The United Methodist Church is deeply concerned with gun 
violence," Winkler
   said. "The gunman used a weapon bought legally, but if the ban on 
assault
   weapons that unfortunately lapsed in 2004 had remained in place, 
then the
   30-round clip he used would have been illegal. Yes, the gunman 
still could
   have  inflicted  a  tremendous  amount of harm, but it would have 
been
   dramatically reduced."


Church advertises Haiti recovery

   NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) - To commemorate the one-year anniversary 
of the
   Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti, The United Methodist Church is 
reminding
   people that much work remains to be done there and suggesting ways 
they can
   help.   An   advertising   campaign   running   now  through  Jan. 
 23
   includes [20]television ads on CNN and Fox News Channel, online 
advertising,
   text messaging and outdoor billboards in selected cities. The ads 
invite
   viewers to go to [21]RethinkChurch.org to find out how to get 
involved.


Advisory: Haiti series coming

   United Methodists have used their long-standing connections with 
the people
   of Haiti to assist with earthquake relief. To mark the first 
anniversary of
   the  Jan.  12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti, a four-part series by 
United
   Methodist News Service examines the efforts by volunteer teams, 
Haitian
   Methodists  and  relief  agencies,  as well as the stumbling 
blocks to
   rebuilding one of the poorest nations in the hemisphere. The 
series will
   begin Tuesday, Jan. 11.


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