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Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Thursday, July 6, 2023

News Roundup July 2023

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Below is a run-down of significant (United) Methodist stories from the past month. Bishop Bickerton Invites United Methodists to “Reclaim, ...
Monday, May 1, 2023

News Roundup - May 1, 2023

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Below is a run-down of significant (United) Methodist stories from the past month. Notable this month are the many stories from the continen...
Monday, July 18, 2022

Recommended Reading: Global Visa Inequality

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When the Commission on General Conference announced the further postponement of General Conference to 2024, access to visas was a major reas...
Monday, December 20, 2021

Recommended Reading: Deacon Pioneers "Global Learning"

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In a piece entitled " Deacon Pioneers 'Global Learning ,'" the Michigan Annual Conference recently profiled the work of Re...
Monday, October 18, 2021

Emmanuel and Florence Mefor: The Practice of Health Mission

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Today's post is by Dr. Emmanuel and Florence Mefor. They are health (Medical and Nurse/midwife) missionaries with Global Ministries. T...
Friday, October 15, 2021

Recommended Reading: The Pandemic's Impact on Short-Term Medical Missions

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Short-term medical missions, in which teams of medical professionals travel from the West to a developing nation to provide services for a w...
Monday, October 11, 2021

Emmanuel and Florence Mefor: Our Calling to Medical Mission

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Today's post is by Dr. Emmanuel and Florence Mefor. They are health (Medical and Nurse/midwife) missionaries with Global Ministries. T...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Lester Dornon: Reflection on my (Medical) Mission in Nepal

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Today’s piece is by Lester Dornon, M.D . Dornon is a missionary with the General Board of Global Ministries, assigned as senior physician at...
Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Recommended Reading: Would Wesley Get a COVID-19 Vaccine?

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United Methodist Professor of Mission and past UM & Global contributor Rev. Dr. Peter J. Bellini wrote an article for Firebrand magazi...
Friday, May 7, 2021

Recommended Reading: How COVID Reveals the Hypocrisy of the Global Health "Experience"

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NPR recently published a thoughtful piece by Abraar Karan , a physician who has worked in global health for his career. The piece reflected ...
Friday, November 20, 2020

Recommended Reading: International Mission from the Global South

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All too often, United Methodists from around the world think of international mission as something that flows from the West to the global So...
Friday, October 30, 2020

Health Mission and Learning Across Contexts

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Today's post is by UM & Global blogmaster Dr. David W. Scott, Mission Theologian at the General Board of Global Ministries . It is a...
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Friday, October 16, 2020

Recommended Viewing: Mission Beyond COVID-19 Webinar on COVID-19 and the Health of Communities

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Video of the fifth and final episode of Global Ministries' monthly webinar series, "Mission Beyond COVID-19," which examine...
Friday, October 9, 2020

Recommended Viewing: Mission Beyond COVID-19 Webinar on Asian Americans, COVID-19, and Race

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Video of the fourth episode of Global Ministries' monthly webinar series, "Mission Beyond COVID-19," which examines aspects o...
Monday, April 20, 2020

Recommended Reading on Differing Cultural Understandings of Disease

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Rev. Esther Inuwa, an intern for Church and Society, has written a post on Church and Society's website entitled " A United Methodi...
Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Rolf Wischnath on the Coronavirus Pandemic: The Questioners Are Questioned

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Today’s post is by Rev. Dr. Rolf Wischnath. Rev. Wischnath is an honorary professor at Bielefeld University. He was a reformed pastor in Soe...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Recommended Readings: United Methodist Around the World Respond to Coronavirus

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Cancelations and closures in response to coronavirus have been extensive among United Methodists in the United States, but the virus has bee...
Friday, November 9, 2018

New Mission Area: Mental Health

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Today's post is by UM & Global blogmaster Dr. David W. Scott, Director of Mission Theology at the General Board of Global Ministries...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Recommended Reading: Philippines Quadrennial Plan

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United Methodists may be familiar with the plans and priorities of their annual conference or perhaps an agency or two that they may be part...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Recommended Readings: The Church and World AIDS Day

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World AIDS Day is December 1st every year. Below is a somewhat belated rundown of the work that a variety of United Methodist agencies and g...