UMNS Daily Digest - Sept. 7, 2011 (9/11, UMCOR, Tropical Storm Lee, wildfires, trust)
From "United Methodist News Service" <newsdesk@umcom.org>Date Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:11:02 -0700
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 Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011 [5]United Methodist funds aid 9/11 healing [6]Churches face flood, fire in Lee's wake [7]UMCOR's 9/11 aid lifted Pentagon corridor [8]Church near ground zero hosts reflection [9]Trust fund [10]Making Peace After 9/11» [11]UMTV: 9/11 Highest Honors» [12]UMCOR: Hurricanes 2011» [13]UMCOR» [14]Read Additional UMNS Stories» [15]Find us on Facebook [16]Twitter Contact Us [17]E-mail (615) 742-5470 [18]Interpreter» "I'm very confident that because of the generosity of the people who gave to UMCOR... a lot of people did, in fact, benefit and maybe recovered faster and in some cases, better." - Catherine Earl, United Methodist Committee on Relief. United Methodist funds aid 9/11 healing NEW YORK (UMNS) - United Methodists donated $20.8 million to a fund - aptly named "Love in the Midst of Tragedy" - designed to create a response across the denomination to the Sept. 11 attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The scope and nature of the events, along with the large amount of resources available, made this a very different type of disaster for the relief agency. [19]Read full story and post a comment» Churches face flood, fire in Lee's wake BASTROP, Texas (UMNS) - In the wake of Tropical Storm Lee, United Methodists are contending with the damage of floods - and flames. The storm's heavy rains cut a soggy path across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, and its 50-mile-per-hour winds whipped up wildfires in parched Texas as well as parts of Louisiana. [20]Read full story and post a comment» UMCOR's 9/11 aid lifted Pentagon corridor ALEXANDRIA, Va. (UMNS) - In the neighborhoods around the Pentagon, there still are signs of the fallout of the terror attack 10 years ago. Signs of ministry done in the area are less tangible, of course. But thanks to more than $1.1 million from the United Methodist Committee on Relief in the form of "Love in the Midst of Tragedy" grants after 9/11, United Methodists did ministry and made an important impact in the area. [21]Read full story and post a comment» Church near ground zero hosts reflection NEW YORK (UMNS) - [22]John Street United Methodist Church, the historic congregation at 44 John Street near ground zero, will host a 10th anniversary of 9/11 "response and reflection" from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sept. 8. The evening will include an exhibition of paintings created by [23]Marjorie Morrow in the aftermath of 9/11, accompanied by readings of original poems by Drew University students. The exhibit will continue at John Street through September. The idea was to use John Street as a place of prayer, reflection and witness for the 10th anniversary, [24]explained the Rev. Jason Radmacher. "The general way we have settled into observing 9/11 in recent years has been pretty quiet," said Radmacher, who was assigned to the church in 2003. "We knew we wanted to do something that would make the space available to the congregation, to the neighborhood. To have Drew and the artist and John Street working together, that really seemed like a nice combination." Trust fund BETHEL, Conn. (UMNS) - Lots of things conspire to erode mutual trust, writes Ray Waddle in a column for Interpreter magazine. One is the wide gap between rich and poor. Surely another is the daily clash of worldviews (on cable TV and the Internet) that divide people into fuming ideological camps. However, churchgoers, he contends, have a role in renewing trust. [25]Read full story» Did someone you know pass along this copy to you? Get your own copy [26]here. 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