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                          Thursday, June 30, 2011
                   [5]World refugee count at 15-year high
              [6]Rural churches a unique start for young clergy
              [7]Church honors those lost in Iraq, Afghanistan
            [8]Register now for Congregational Development School


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   "The burden of helping the world's forcibly displaced people is starkly
   uneven. Poor countries host vastly more displaced people than wealthier
   ones. While anti-refugee sentiment is heard loudest in industrialized
   countries, developing nations host 80 percent of the world's refugees. This
   situation demands an equitable solution." - U.N. Secretary-General Ban
   Ki-moon.

World refugee count at 15-year high

   DECATUR, Ga. (UMNS) - Oak Grove United Methodist Church involves the entire
   church - including the youth - in its program to welcome refugees to the
   community. As the number of forcibly displaced worldwide climbs to a 15-year
   high, Oak Grove is committed to making a difference one family at a time.

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Rural churches a unique start for young clergy

   PEGRAM Tenn. (UMNS) - The United Methodist itinerant system appoints pastors
   to local churches, and clergy agree to serve where they are appointed. The
   common practice of sending young clergy to rural churches, only to move them
   to larger churches a few years later, can make those congregations feel they
   are merely stepping stones to more prominent or lucrative appointments. This
   installment of a series on young clergy looks at how those clergy and their
   congregations adjust.

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Church honors those lost in Iraq, Afghanistan

   ATLANTA (UMNS) - Members of the Peachtree Road United Methodist Church have
   been working since March to prepare a ribbon memorial to those killed in the
   conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Buckhead Patch reports. The memorial
   is to be dedicated Sept. 11, the 10-year anniversary of the 2001 terrorist
   attacks on the U.S.

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Register now for Congregational Development School

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   increase for those who plan to attend the annual [27]School of
   Congregational Development on July 27-31 in Dallas. This year's event,
   sponsored by the United Methodist Board of Discipleship, Path 1 and the
   Board of Global Ministries, will offer ways to equip new churches and
   reinvigorate existing churches.





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