September 2, 2008

September 2, 2008

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Word from Winkler — Working for justice in Gaza
By Jim Winkler, General Secretary, General Board of Church & Society

2009-2012 GBCS Board of Directors
New Board of Directors announced
By Michelle Brooks, Digital Communications Director

Sixty-three member board will hold organizational meeting in October in Washington, D.C.

Sept. 11-13 immigration seminar in Arkansas
Bishop Carcaño, GBCS's Mefford to speak at ‘Welcoming the Sojourner’

3-day event to help the church ‘find its voice’ on immigration reform.

World Communion Sunday 2008
Special Sunday is Oct. 5

Offering provides scholarships for racial- and ethnic-minority graduate students and minority persons seeking second careers in church-related vocations.

Celebrate Children's Sabbath
Oct. 17-19 is weekend for national observance

Children's Defense Fund offers downloadable materials to help in annual observance.

Creating shalom through health, wholeness, peace
Empowering Health Ministries Conference, Sept. 21-24

A developing health ministry at First UMC, Laurel, Md., plays an important role in the congregation's identity.

North Central Jurisdiction to welcome sojourners
Bishops to speak at conference on immigration reform

'Finding the Church’s Voice on Immigration' will be Oct. 16-18 in Naperville, Ill.

'Tents of Hope' for Darfur
National gathering is Nov. 6-8 in Washington, D.C.

Project uses simulated refugee tents to stress humanitarian crisis.

On hunger ministries
‘It’s horrendous that we pay so little attention to our senior citizens.’
—Gail Buettgenvach (West Michigan)

September 2, 2008

Word from Winkler — Working for justice in Gaza

2009-2012 GBCS Board of Directors

Sept. 11-13 immigration seminar in Arkansas

World Communion Sunday 2008

Celebrate Children's Sabbath

Creating shalom through health, wholeness, peace

North Central Jurisdiction to welcome sojourners

'Tents of Hope' for Darfur

On hunger ministries

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