UMNS Daily Digest - June 6, 2011 (AIDS; ministry with the poor, Sierra Leone; Joplin, Mo; annual con

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       UMNS Daily Digest - Produced by United Methodist News Service
                            Monday, June 6, 2011
                [5]Church confronts AIDS - but often timidly
                      [6]UM school gets firm foundation
                 [7]Slideshow displays church work in Joplin
               [8]Annual Conference coverage available online
             [9]Planned Act of Repentance becomes personal quest


   [10]UMTV: AIDS Awareness Church»



   [11]UMTV: Church Offers AIDS Tests»



   [12]UMTV: Teens Skype AIDS Orphans»



   [13]Pauley Perrette: Acting on Faith»



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   "While HIV is a health issue, the impact of living with the virus invades
   all areas of a person's life. The social-justice side effect of HIV/AIDS
   that further weakens a person's quality of life includes isolation, stigma
   and discrimination." - The Rev. Deborah Tanksley-Brown, who leads an AIDS
   ministry in Pennsylvania.

Church confronts AIDS - but often timidly

   NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) - Since the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
   identified AIDS 30 years ago, many United Methodist local churches have
   opened their hearts, minds and doors to people living with AIDS. Tragically,
   some others have not.

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UM school gets firm foundation

   BUMPETOKE, Sierra Leone (UMNS) - For the children in a remote coastal
   village in Sierra Leone, school was held under trees near the Atlantic
   shoreline. But classes on the sandy shore are now history.

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Slideshow displays church work in Joplin

   JOPLIN, Mo. (UMNS) - Just as quickly as the Joplin tornado struck, the
   United Methodist connection came into play. United Methodist Communications
   put together an [20]audio slideshow that can be used by local churches and
   individuals who want to remind others of the efforts to comfort and rebuild
   in a town that suffered damage from one of the worst single tornadoes in
   U.S. recorded weather history.

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Annual Conference coverage available online

   NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) - United Methodist Communications will offer ongoing
   coverage of the 2011 sessions of annual (regional) conference. Readers will
   find the [22]dates of this year's conferences. They can also follow Twitter
   feeds, see Facebook updates and watch streaming video from various
   conferences in the United States.

   [23]See coverage of annual conferences»



Planned Act of Repentance becomes personal quest

   NEW YORK (UMNS) - Harry Askin, a United Methodist from Ohio and board member
   of the denomination's Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious
   Concerns, has experienced a change in perspective as the agency has planned
   an Act of Repentance to Indigenous Peoples for the denomination's top
   lawmaking body, General Conference 2012 in Tampa, Fla.

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