Prayers, Donations Needed for Southern Region
The United Methodist Committee on Relief is working with bishops and disaster response personnel to determine the next steps to assist communities affected by April's devastating storms.
Spring Storms Devastate South
On April 27, more then 100 tornadoes touched down in cities and towns across the southern region of the United States.
Hispanic plan takes root in BWC
Una iglesia – one church – that speaks both English and Spanish, with a hundred different accents – that’s the goal of the Hispanic Plan that is being lived out in the Baltimore-Washington Conference.
Church Surrounds Man Slated for Deportation
Cristian Ramirez, like many 21-year-olds, works full time while attending college and volunteers most of his spare time to the youth ministry at his local United Methodist church.
However, unlike most young people his age, he is living with the fear that at any moment he could be deported to a violent country his parents fled when he was 12.
Cristian, born in El Salvador, is one of more than 60,000 college students living in fear of deportation. They are young people taken from their home countries as children by parents seeking safety and a better future for them in the United States.
United Methodist Women Seeks to Broaden Global Diversity
During their spring board meeting, the Women’s Division decided they would split structurally, but not missionally, from the General Board of Global Ministries (GBGM) in an effort to strengthen relationships throughout the Church.
What I didn’t say at the Leadership Summit
"As a presenter at the Leadership Summit on April 6, and as a church leader who has been involved in many conversations about change in the denomination, I have been reflecting on this time in our life as a community of faith with great anticipation and even greater prayer."
Dr. Elizabeth Tapia Named Director of Mission Theology, GBGM
Dr. Elizabeth Tapia, Ph.D., has been named Director of Mission Theology at the General Board of Global Ministries (GBGM).
Without influxes of Hispanics and Asians, some U.S. cities would be smaller
More than half of the United States’ 100 largest cities relied on Hispanics and Asians to grow and would have seen their populations decline without them over the past decade, a Washington Post analysis shows.
Are We Post-Racial? White Privilege in America
Neither the election of a black president nor an influx of Latino immigrants changes the pervasive influence of white privilege--a social context that emerges from a culture that advances systematic advantages of people of white skin color--in American society.
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