UMNS Daily Digest - Sept. 9, 2011 (9/11, Flight 93, Pennsylvania, New York, Rwanda, clean water, dea
From "United Methodist News Service" <newsdesk@umcom.org>Date Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:28:22 -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 Friday, Sept. 9, 2011 [5]Flight 93 Ambassadors honor 9/11 heroes [6]My mother's prayers and 9/11 [7]'The war's happening all over again' [8]Drying our tears and moving on [9]Clean water is precious gift from God [10]Event for those called to serve [11]UMTV: 9/11 Memorial in Shanksville» [12]Making Peace After 9/11» [13]Share Your 9/11 Thoughts» [14]9/11 Memories: Arlette Kitenge» [15]UMCOR: Disaster Response 2011» [16]UMNS Immigration Survey» [17]Read Additional UMNS Stories» [18]Find us on Facebook [19]Twitter Contact Us [20]E-mail (615) 742-5470 "If you think the world's in a bad way, and society is going down the chute, you just have to spend time here. ... It's a wonderful country that we live in, and people really are good. And to find that out was a very healing thing for me, especially right after 9/11 when everyone felt such anxiety." - Donna Glessner, a United Methodist, who organized volunteers to minister at the site of the Flight 93 crash. Flight 93 Ambassadors honor 9/11 heroes SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (UMNS) - Donna Glessner saw a need to help visitors understand what had happened at the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site. In January 2002, she decided to recruit volunteers and started with her congregation, Shanksville United Methodist Church. [21]Read full story and post a comment» My mother's prayers and 9/11 LAKE GROVE, N.Y. (UMNS) - The Rev. Constance Y. Pak, a pastor in Long Island on 9/11, looks at the 10-year anniversary of terrorist attacks as a time to "rededicate, rediscover and recreate ourselves and our churches." [22]Read full commentary and post a comment» 'The war's happening all over again' ANTIOCH, Tenn. (UMNS) - When the 9/11 attacks occurred, Arlette Kitenge's family had only recently escaped to the United States from the genocidal war in Rwanda. Kitenge, then in fourth grade, remembers her immediate thoughts after the attacks: "The war's happening all over again. The war followed us to the United States." [23]Read full commentary and post a comment» Drying our tears and moving on NEW YORK (UMNS) - For what seemed like months, every day after Sept, 11, 2001, the New York Times ran an article that devoted several paragraphs each to victims of the terrorist attacks. And every morning, I cried, writes UMNS multimedia reporter Linda Bloom in her Bloombytes blog. Now she takes comfort in the construction of the new World Trade Center. [24]Read full blog and post a comment» Clean water is precious gift from God NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) - In her Gilbert's Gleanings blog, United Methodist Communications reporter Kathy Gilbert writes about speaking to a group of children about the lack of clean water in many parts of the world. UMCOR's [25]monthly 10-Fold webcast will highlight its efforts in water sanitation on Sept. 10. [26]Read full blog and post a comment» Event for those called to serve ASHEVILLE, N.C. (UMNS) - A United Methodist Women event Oct. 28-30 in Asheville is for lay people to discern whether they are called to be deaconesses or home missioners. The United Methodist Church commissions deaconesses, who are laywomen, and home missioners, who are laymen, to full-time ministries of love, justice and service. The deadline to [27]apply for the discernment event is Sept. 15. [28]Read full story» Did someone you know pass along this copy to you? Get your own copy [29]here. United Methodist News Service is a ministry of United Methodist Communications. 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