UMNS Daily Digest - February 3, 2010 (Church growth, University Senate, human trafficking, Super Bow

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       UMNS Daily Digest - Produced by United Methodist News Service
                           Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011
              [5]Council of Bishops president calls for dialogue
                     [6]UMTV: Rasmus' Church Growth Tips
                [7]University Senate approves online education
                 [8]Super Bowl draws human-trafficking alert
                [9]Pastor speaks at U.N. gathering on mercury
               [10]Advisory: Series will focus on rural church


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  "If you want people to come your way and come back again and tell others
  about their experience, you need an engaging experience." - The Rev. Rudy
                                  Rasmus.

Council of Bishops calls for dialogue

   NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) â Bishop Larry M. Goodpaster, president of the
   United Methodist Council of Bishops, released a statement Feb. 3 calling 
for
   âthoughtful, prayerful dialogue about sensitive and challenging issues.â 
His
   statement follows the Jan. 31 release of a document signed by 33 retired
   United Methodist bishops that calls for the church to remove its ban on
   homosexual clergy.
   The Council of Bishops remains committed to living within the covenant
   defined by the Book of Discipline, the denominationâs law book, and it
   understands âthat it is the General Conference that re-examines that
   covenant every four years and has the responsibility to define our 
covenant
   for the next four years.â He asks church members to pray and fast for the
   whole church with the approach of General Conference in Tampa, Fla., in
   2012.

                                            [18]Read the full statement»


UMTV: Rasmus' Church Growth Tips

   HOUSTON  (UMNS) - The Rev. Rudy Rasmus' challenge: Make the most of 52
   Sundays a year. So far, he has been fairly successful. His congregation, 
St.
   John's Downtown United Methodist Church, has grown from nine members to
   9,000. The secret: "Don't bore 'em."

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University Senate approves online education

   NASHVILLE,  Tenn.  (UMNS) - Students pursuing ordination in The United
   Methodist Church will be able to complete up to two-thirds of their 
seminary
   classes online, as long as those classes are offered by one of the 13 
United
   Methodist theological schools or Asbury Theological Seminary.

                                                    [20]Read full story»


Super Bowl draws human-trafficking alert

   NEW YORK (UMNS) - More than 12 million women, children and men around the
   world are victims of human trafficking. In the United States, the number
   increases in areas hosting major sporting events, and groups are bringing
   attention to that fact as the Super Bowl approaches at Cowboys Stadium in
   Arlington, Texas, on Feb. 6. More information is available at [21]UMCOR's
   Anti-Trafficking project and visit [22]United Methodist Women's Intercept
   Trafficking web pages. People can donate to The United Methodist Church's
   Anti-Human-Trafficking efforts at [23]UMCOR Advance #333615.


Pastor speaks at U.N. gathering on mercury

   CHIBA, Japan (UMNS) - The Rev. Lisa Sykes, a United Methodist elder in
   Virginia, addressed an international gathering aimed at developing a 
legally
   binding instrument to reduce people's exposure to mercury, a known 
hazardous
   substance. The United Nations Environment Programme sponsored the second
   session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, which met Jan.
   24-28. Sykes is president of the Coalition for Mercury-free Drugs and 
wrote
   The  United Methodist Church's resolution on "Protecting Children from
   Mercury-containing Drugs." [24]More information is available here.


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. The
   multi-part series, "Harvest of Hope: The Rural Church in America," takes 
an
   in-depth look at the challenges faced by rural congregations, and the 
issues
   before the larger church as this critical foundation of the denomination
   seeks to move from survival to revival. The multimedia package of 
stories,
   videos and photos will run Feb. 7-11 on [25]www.umc.org.


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