UMNS Daily Digest - May 13, 2011 (Change the World, service to the poor, Connectional Table, budget,

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       UMNS Daily Digest - Produced by United Methodist News Service
                            Friday, May 13, 2011
                  [5]Thousands gear up to Change the World
                  [6]Denomination faces sizable budget cuts
                  [7]Lay speakers give Haitians clean water


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   What would Jesus say about Change the World?
   "Great idea! Now keep doing it until it's no longer a big event, but a way
   of life." - Wendy Hudson, Burke United Methodist Church in Virginia.

Thousands gear up to Change the World

   NASHVILLE, Tenn.(UMNS) - In dozens of ways, thousands of United Methodists
   will team up to make a positive difference — locally and globally — during
   the second Change the World event on May 14-15. There's likely a service
   project in your neck of the woods.

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Denomination faces sizable budget cuts

   NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) - Two groups responsible for denominational budgets
   quickly accepted proposed overall budget reductions. For the first time in
   the history of The United Methodist Church, even the best-case budget
   projection called for a reduction in the actual dollars available.

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Lay speakers give Haitians clean water

   COLUMBIA, Mo. (UMNS) - With almost a million cases of cholera forecast in
   Haiti this year, the disease is likely to affect more lives than the 2010
   earthquake. One of the main causes of the disease is a lack of safe drinking
   water. United Methodist lay speakers across the United States are doing
   something about it.

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