UMNS Daily Digest - January 14, 2011 (Haiti, UMCOR, Tucson, worship, Martin Luther King, Jr., church

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                          Friday, January 14, 2011
                   [5]Haiti walks tightrope with recovery
                 [6]Haiti marks slow but measurable progress
             [7]Faith leaders call for national âsoul-searchingâ
                  [8]Church leaders respond to King letter
                  [9]Lewis Center offers funding conference
                       [10]New worship book introduced


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   âThe Haiti earthquake really awakened a lot of people to the long-term
  development needs that exist, even within our own hemisphere.â â The Rev.
                   John McCullough, Church World Service

Haiti walks tightrope with recovery

   PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (UMNS) â Responding to the Haiti earthquake has
   required patience and balance for the United Methodist Committee on 
Relief
   and other nongovernmental organizations. In the more than 70 years that 
the
   agency has responded to disasters, the situation in Haiti âpresented us 
with
   one of the largest and most complex emergencies,â explained Melissa
   Crutchfield, UMCOR executive.

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Haiti marks slow but measurable progress

   NEW  YORK (UMNS) â A year after a massive earthquake shattered Haitiâs
   infrastructure and the lives of its citizens, the commitment to 
rebuilding
   the Caribbean nation remains. However, Novemberâs deadly cholera outbreak
   and brush with Hurricane Tomas, Decemberâs tension-filled presidential
   election and the upcoming runoff election â now postponed until February 
or
   later â have helped slow earthquake recovery efforts.

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Faith leaders call for national âsoul-searchingâ

   WASHINGTON (UMNS) â Fifty religious leaders â including Jim Winkler, 
United
   Methodist Board of Church and Society, and Phoenix Area Bishop Minerva
   Carcaño  â  called for national âsoul searchingâ in an open letter to
   Congress  published  Jan. 14 as a full-page advertisement in Roll Call
   newspaper. The leaders said they were praying for those wounded in the 
Jan.
   8 shooting spree in Tucson, Ariz., that left six people dead and U.S. 
Rep.
   Gabrielle Giffords, D.-Ariz., critically injured.

                         [20]Full letter with signatures available here»

Church leaders respond to King letter

   BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UMNS) â Participants at the annual meeting of Christian
   Churches Together in the U.S.A., have issued a response to the Rev. 
Martin
   Luther King Jr.âs âLetter from Birmingham Jail.â The church leaders, who
   were in Birmingham on Jan. 11-14 to examine the issue of domestic poverty
   through the lens of racism, noted that apparently no one has ever issued 
a
   clergy response to Kingâs famous letter.
   The civil rights leaderâs letter was an answer to a message from a group 
of
   clergy in Birmingham in 1963. In the 2011 letter, church leaders remember
   with gratitude the sacrifices of the leaders of the civil rights 
movement,
   who demonstrated the power of Christian, nonviolent action.

                                              [21]Read full letter here»

Lewis Center offers funding conference

   WASHINGTON (UMNS) â The Lewis Center for Church Leadership will offer a
   conference on attracting funding to support ministry from 9 a.m. to 12: 
30
   p.m. March 26 at Wesley Theological Seminary. The Lewis Center also will
   release an accompanying DVD/CD resource guide. Some of the workshop 
topics
   for  the âFunding Your Ministry in Changing Timesâ conference include:
   developing an operating budget, the three pillars of giving, building and
   funding a capital budget and investing church funds wisely.

                                    [22]More information available here»

New worship book introduced

   NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) â A national event to introduce âWorship & 
Song,â a
   new United Methodist collection of song and worship resources, will be 
March
   1-3 at West End United Methodist Church and the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel in
   Nashville. The United Methodist Publishing House and the denominationâs
   Board of Discipleship jointly developed the worship book.

                                    [23]More information available here»


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