UMNS Daily Digest - March 11, 2011 (Japan, churches in transition, women's history, clean water)

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                               March 11, 2011
                 [5]United Methodists respond to Japan quake
                   [6]Project helps churches find new paths
       [7]Commission offers bulletin inserts, covers on women's history
                  [8]Helping communities access clean water


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   "Finally the quake stopped, but then the aftershocks started. The ground
   kept moving, and the telephone lines were swaying, so we were afraid.
   Bicycles nearby fell over. By this time, everyone had come out of the
   buildings to wait in the street. I told my members to keep praying, and I
   did the same." - The Rev. Claudia Genung Yamamoto, a United Methodist
   missionary in Japan.

United Methodists respond to Japan quake

   TOKYO (UMNS) - The United Methodist Board of Global Ministries has nine
   missionaries in Japan along with a number of individual
   volunteers-in-mission, and the church is already responding to those in need
   after the earthquake and tsunami. Donations can be made to [16]Pacific
   Emergency, UMCOR Advance #3021317.

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Project helps churches find new paths

   AUSTIN, Texas (UMNS) - Churches in transition - struggling financially, or
   faced with a changing neighborhood, lost sense of mission, membership
   decline or realignment (going from a single, full-time pastor to being part
   of a two- or three-point charge) - can find plenty of examples of how other
   churches have risen to the challenge. Grace United Methodist Church in
   Austin is one such example.

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Commission offers bulletin inserts, covers on women's history

   CHICAGO (UMNS) - In recognition of Women's History Month, the United
   Methodist Commission on the Status and Role of Women is offering six free
   reproducible bulletin inserts that take women out of the footnotes of the
   denomination's history and place them in the main story line. The agency
   also has created four bulletin covers, each with a historical photo and a
   litany on the back. The resources can be used at any time to honor women who
   have played significant roles in the church and in the world as champions
   for Jesus Christ.

   [19]Download free inserts here»



Helping communities access clean water

   NEW YORK (UMNS) - Alice Koech, a native of Tengecha, Kenya, knows all too
   well the struggle to obtain water. As a child, she rose early in the morning
   to get water for her family before going to school. The United Methodist
   Committee on Relief is helping Alice and the other 20,000 residents assisted
   by the [20]Tengecha Community Water Project.

   United Methodist congregations can observe World Water Day on March 22 by
   sharing information about this project, [21]downloading the church bulletin
   and learning how UMCOR helps vulnerable communities throughout Africa gain
   [22]access to safe water.

   [23]Donate to UMCOR Advance #3020600»



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