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UMNS Daily Digest - November 30, 2010 (Alabama, rural poverty, Louisiana, AIDS, vote, Southern Sudan
From "United Methodist News Service" <[email protected]>Date Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:03:59 -0800
To ensure consistent delivery, please add [1][email protected] 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, Nov. 30, 2010 [5]Co-op ministry cares for rural poor [6]Louisiana churches help lead fight against AIDS [7]Church members urged to call Congress about DREAM Act [8]Offering taken for Global AIDS Fund [9]UMTV: Teens Skype AIDS orphans [10]UMTV: Church Offers AIDS Tests» [11]UMTV: AIDS Care in India» [12]UMTV: Christmas for AIDS Orphans» [13]Read Additional UMNS Stories» [14] Find us on Facebook [15] Twitter Contact Us [16]E-mail (615) 742-5470 "The Upper Sand Mountain is one of the poorest areas in Alabama. Without the parish, there are a lot of folks that would go hungry. A lot wouldn't have housing." - Kenneth Graham, pastor. Co-op ministry cares for rural poor NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) - Delbert Hancock and his family were truly proud when they were able to move into their own home on Upper Sand Mountain 18 years ago, thanks to the Heart and Hand Housing program, a ministry of the [17]Upper Sand Mountain Parish. A cooperative ministry, the parish encompasses eight area United Methodist churches in a 1,000-mile area of Jackson and DeKalb counties in the northeast corner of Alabama. [18]Read full story and post a comment» Louisiana churches help lead fight against AIDS BATON ROUGE, La. (UMNS) - United Methodists in Louisiana are far from content to be honored as leaders in efforts both to educate people about AIDS and help lead the way to eliminating the disease in their state. The attempt to put faces on the disease and educate about its very human cost helped the annual conference there earn one of five inaugural United Methodist Global AIDS Leadership Awards recently. [19]Read full story and post a comment» Church members urged to call Congress about DREAM Act PHOENIX (UMNS) - United Methodist Bishop Minerva Carcaño is calling upon United Methodists to join an interfaith effort to support bipartisan Congressional legislation on behalf of undocumented immigrant students. Church members are encouraged to call the Capitol Hill switchboard at 202-225-3121 on Dec. 1, talk to their senators and representatives, and ask them to vote for and publicly support the [20]DREAM Act. Offering taken for Global AIDS Fund NEW YORK, N.Y. (UMNS) - Churches are encouraged to collect special offerings for the United Methodist Global AIDS Fund on Dec. 5. The fund supports education, prevention, care and treatment programs for people living with HIV/AIDS. An estimated 33 million people live with HIV worldwide and women account for half of all HIV infections. Twenty-two million people live with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa - 67 percent of all people living with HIV. 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