UMNS Daily Digest - November 22, 2011 (Help for the homeless, youth ministry, Sierra Leone, women cl
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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 Tuesday, November 22, 2011 [5]Sleep Out wakes youth to homeless causes [6]Sierra Leone appoints 2 women to D.S. posts [7]CBS to air interfaith special on Dec. 4 [8]Methodists to attend migration forum [9]United Methodist Communications honored [10]Correction: Occupy ‘astonishing opportunity for clergy’ [11] Advent and Christmas Resources» [12] UMTV: Sleep Out Serves The Homeless» [13] Slideshow: Exploration 2011» [14] Côte d’Ivoire: Walking in Faith» [15] Read Additional UMNS Stories» [16]Find us on Facebook [17]Twitter Contact Us [18]E-mail (615) 742-5470 “That’s really the awareness part you want (youth) to get — so they don’t look at homeless people as dirty, smelly people that are drug addicts. Well, they could be, but then so could your neighbor that’s got gazillions of dollars. It’s just a person who doesn’t have a residence. They get that. I think they really get that.” — Lisa Rogers, youth director at First United Methodist Church in Elmhurst, Ill. Sleep Out wakes youth to homeless causes ELMHURST, Ill. (UMNS) — In DuPage County where foreclosures are on the rise, youth at First United Methodist Church spent a cold night outside in boxes to raise money for transitional housing and raise awareness about homelessness, the Elmhurst Patch reports. [19]Read full story» Sierra Leone appoints 2 women to D.S. posts FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (UMNS) — The Sierra Leone Annual (regional) Conference now has two female district superintendents, ending a 15-year absence of women in this position. The appointments of the Rev Mariama Bockari, 52, and the Rev. Etta Nicol, 70, give hope for female leadership in the church at a time when women in the country are yearning for equal representation in decision-making at the national level. [20]Read full story and post comment» CBS to air interfaith special on Dec. 4 NEW YORK (UMNS) — An interfaith religion special, “Finding Common Ground: Today’s Interfaith Movement,” will be broadcast Dec. 4 on [21]CBS stations. Among those featured is the Rev. Paul Clark, chaplain of United Methodist-related Albright College, and Jack Gombach, a student, involved with the President’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge announced last March by the White House. [22]Read more» Methodists to attend migration forum NEW YORK (UMNS) — Eighteen Methodists, hosted by the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries, will attend a grassroots event on migration organized by Migrant Rights International Nov. 28-Dec. 2 in Geneva, Switzerland. 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