UMNS Daily Digest - February 24, 2011 (Weight loss, United Methodist Women, repentance, Disciple Bib

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                        Thursday, February 24, 2011
                 [5]âPhatPastorâ gains hope after losing big
                  [6]Women share their stories at UN event
          [7]Church seeks to heal relationships with native peoples
           [8]United Methodists to take Bible study to 14 prisons


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 âI wasnât crawling up into a bottle and dying. I was crawling into a plate
         of mashed potatoes and dying.â â The Rev. Richard Richter

âPhatPastorâ gains hope after losing big

   KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) â Too many potlucks had taken a heavy toll on the
   Rev. Richard Richter. Now that he has lost 200 pounds, the United Methodist
   pastor feels free and hopes to share that sense of freedom with others. He
   has become âless of a man to be more for God.â

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Women share their stories at UN event

   NEW YORK (UMNS) â Taurai Sandra Chinyerere is a model of what young African
   women can achieve, but when she was discouraged from taking an information-
   technology course, she learned that some in her society do not appreciate
   her gifts. The 26-year-old is part of the United Methodist Women delegation
   sharing stories, advice and solidarity during the Feb. 22-March 4 meeting of
   Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations.

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Church seeks to heal relationships with native peoples

   NEW YORK (UMNS) â The documented 320 million indigenous people in the world
   have experienced everything from land theft to cultural genocide, writes the
   Rev. Stephen J. Sidorak Jr. in a commentary. Methodists have played an
   unfortunate role in this history, he says. He leads the United Methodist
   Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns, which is
   preparing an âAct of Repentanceâ for the 2012 General Conference in Tampa,
   Fla.

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United Methodists to take Bible study to 14 prisons

   FRANKLIN, Tenn. (UMNS) ââ Representatives from the United Methodist
   Tennessee, Memphis and Holston annual (regional) conferences will recruit
   and train persons to take Disciple Bible Study to 14 Tennessee state prisons
   housing 20,000 inmates. The effort to introduce the 34-week study into
   Tennessee prisons is coordinated by Rev. Mark Hicks, executive director of
   DISCIPLE Bible Outreach Ministries of North Carolina, and Gil Hanke, top
   staff executive of the Nashville-based Commission on United Methodist Men.

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