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       UMNS Daily Digest - Produced by United Methodist News Service
                           Friday, July 29, 2011
           [5]'Bold' changes proposed for church structure, funding
               [6]Faithful urged to contact Congress about debt
                   [7]Dulac recovers with church as anchor
               [8]Bloombytes: Transcending the trauma of Norway


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   "All the members of Congress are themselves part of our religious
   traditions. Congress is filled with Christians, Jews and Muslims, and there
   are times when their own faith leaders need to speak to them...." -- Jim
   Winkler, United Methodist Church Board of Church and Society.

'Bold' changes proposed for church structure, funding

   NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) -- Members of the [16]Connectional Table, meeting
   July 25-28, endorsed five proposals that would change The United Methodist
   Church's structure and potentially its funding. East Ohio Area Bishop John
   L. Hopkins, the Connectional Table's chairperson, called the proposals
   "far-reaching."

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Faithful urged to contact Congress about debt

   WASHINGTON (UMNS) -- Pray, then contact your member of Congress, says Jim
   Winkler, top executive of The United Methodist Church's social action
   agency. Those two actions are the most important things people of faith can
   do to get the U.S. budget crisis resolved without hurting the most
   vulnerable around the world, he said. Speaking on the morning after [18]his
   arrest along with 10 other faith leaders, he said, "We felt that we needed
   to do something dramatic to illustrate that people of faith want this crisis
   resolved."

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Dulac recovers with church as anchor

   DULAC, La. (UMNS) -- Last July, small fishing towns up and down the Gulf
   Coast were reeling from the Deep Horizon oil rig explosion. For a time it
   seemed the way of life for these communities would change forever. However,
   things are getting back to normal. One of the hopeful signs is that the
   International Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo, the oldest fishing tournament in the
   United States, will go on during the last weekend in July as it has since
   1928. The only year it stopped was in 2010 because of the oil spill. The
   Rev. Kirby Verret, pastor of Clanton Chapel United Methodist Church, said
   the shrimp season was good this year, even if the price for shrimp was low.

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Bloombytes: Transcending the trauma of Norway

   NEW YORK (UMNS) -- In her Bloombytes blog, UMNS Reporter Linda Bloom offers
   suggestions on how to respond to the Norway killings in simple ways that
   transcend security protocols and fear-mongering.

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