UMNS Daily Digest - February 24, 2011 (Weight loss, United Methodist Women, repentance, Disciple Bib
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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 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 [9] UMTV: Clergy Health Study» [10] UMTV: Womenâs Spirituality Club» [11] Journey to 2012 Act of Repentance: Sand Creek» [12] UMTV: Church for Inmatesâ Kids» [13] Read Additional UMNS Stories» [14] Find us on Facebook [15] Twitter Contact Us [16]E-mail (615) 742-5470 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 [17]Read full story here» 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. [18]Read full story and post a comment» 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. [19]Read commentary here» 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. [20]Read full story here» Did someone you know pass along this copy to you? Get your own copy [21]here. 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