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UMCOR Responds to Myanmar Disaster
Written: 5/9/2008
Cyclone Nargis tore through Myanmar (Burma) May 2, 2008, with unexpected fury, causing a tidal surge that swept inland and devastated Myanmar's most populated regions.  The storm left homes and businesses flattened and families forever changed. Thousands are reported dead, with many thousands m...

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Hope for Africa Children's Choir Comes to Kentucky
Written: 5/5/2008
The Hope for Africa Children's Choir arrived in Texas in mid-April and now is traveling in Kentucky on their four-month tour of the United States. The choir will perform at various sites throughout the Kentucky Conference. They will be part of the Missions and Ministry Celebration on June 3 at Annua...

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College Heights & Dios Siempre Presente Provide Training Opportunity
Written: 5/2/2008
College Heights UMC (Elizabethtown District) in collaboration with Dios Siempre Presente conducted a certification course for teaching Bible Based English as a Second Language (BBESL) at College Heights UMC. The ground work for the classes was done by Dr. Freddie Delgado and Rev. Maria Bas Delgado. ...

United Methodists Meet in Fort Worth for Worldwide Conference
Written: 4/22/2008
FORT WORTH:  More than 3,000 United Methodists from around the globe are expected to converge on Fort Worth, Texas this week for General Conference 2008. The General Conference is the top legislative body of The United Methodist Church. The General Conference meets every four years to determine...

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Historic Southeast Asia Mission Conference in Thailand
Written: 4/17/2008
Friday night, February 1, 2008, was a historic event in the life of The United Methodist Church.  It was the first Conference of the Southeast Asia Mission of the United Methodist Church in Thailand.  At this conference, Bishop Larry Goodpaster of the Alabama-West Florida Annual Confe...

Mission Possible 2008 Summer Work Camp at Bennett Center
Written: 4/9/2008
The Bennett Center of London will be hosting Mission Possible Summer Work Camps again this year.  And there is still space available for these weeks of Summer Home Repair: July 20-26; July 27-August 2.  If you or your church is still looking for a work mission trip that is close to home ...

Online Game Offers New Opportunity to Send Nets, Save Lives
Written: 4/9/2008
NASHVILLE – World Malaria Day is April 25.  Now and throughout April, there's an easy new way to help eliminate malaria deaths in Africa and raise more money for nets through the Nothing But Nets malaria prevention campaign. Malaria is a serious and often fatal disease transmitted by mosquitoes...

New UM Social Creed Proposed
Written: 4/9/2008
A proposed new Social Creed will be presented to The United Methodist Church General Conference, the denomination's top law-making body, during its meeting April 23-May 2 in Fort Worth, Texas. The new creed has been developed by the General Board of Church & Society (GBCS) at the direction of th...

Church offers shelter to VIM Gulf Coast Teams
Written: 4/9/2008
VIM Gulf Coast Teams Christ United Methodist Church in Bowling Green, KY is again offering shelter (showers included), food, and sleeping quarters for church groups traveling to and from the Gulf Coast to assist with disaster relief. Teams of youth and adults are welcome. Please call Rev. Michael...

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Volunteers Needed for Mountain T.O.P. 'Adults In Ministry' Program
Written: 4/4/2008
ALTAMONT, Tenn. -- Last fall, Mountain T.O.P. (Tennessee Outreach Project), an interdenominational ministry to the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee affiliated with the Tennessee Conference of The United Methodist Church, got some good news. Mountain T.O.P. was awarded a $60,000 HPG (Housing Preser...

JAM Gardens "Help" Stretch Out Household Food Supply
Written: 4/4/2008
Congregations and/or individuals from the Kentucky Annual Conference donated seeds or financial contributions to the Jam Gardening Project (Green Thumb Gardening Project).  Thanks to the generosity of churches and individuals last summer 2,810 households were supplied seed potatoes, tomato plan...

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Lighthouse Clean Up Day
Written: 4/3/2008
On Saturday, March 29, 2008, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., around 40 students, parents, volunteers, staff, and a special team from Southeast Christian Church joined with our team from the Lighthouse Community Center (A United Methodist Community Center) as we participated in a special "Clean Up Project." ...

Why NCD?
Written: 4/3/2008
A Perspective from Smiths Grove "What is NCD?" you may ask.  NCD is a process properly called Natural Church Development that has been successfully implemented by thousands of churches worldwide.  It involves a self-analysis technique that results in church growth both spiritually and num...

KAC Missionary Support
Written: 4/3/2008
The final report for the calendar year 2007 reveals that 40 of our congregations supported our United Methodist missionaries. Of these, 32 provided gifts for the Morrisseys (Michael and Sherri) in Thailand and 10 helped provide for David Persons. Five other UM missionaries--Marilyn Brock, Karen...

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Kavanaugh's New Adventure
Written: 4/2/2008
Kavanaugh Life Enrichment Center's first annual travel retreat made footprints in the sand January 19-26, 2008 when 29 "retreaters" left Kavanaugh and headed to Puerto Rico, where they boarded a ship for a seven day adventure.  The travel retreat combined seven days of renewal, Christian fellow...

Muhlenberg County Ready for Skilled Teams in Tornado Recovery
Written: 3/25/2008
We are pleased to report that the Muhlenberg County response and recovery efforts in the wake of the "Super Tuesday Tornado" are making steady progress.  We have now entered a "new phase" of those efforts. With the development and pending incorporation of the "Muhlenberg County Long Term Disast...

Conference Nomination Forms
Written: 3/13/2008
If you have received conference nomination information, please click HERE in order to complete the nomination process.      ...

Muhlenberg County Thanks Work Teams
Written: 3/6/2008
On behalf of  the residents of Muhlenberg County, the United Methodists would like to thank all those fellow United Methodists from across the state who have sent us their prayers, their financial resources, and their Saturday work teams.  A special thank-you goes to teams, however large o...

UMCOR Sager Brown: Kit Supplies Are Low
Written: 2/27/2008
UMCOR's relief supply warehouse, UMCOR Sager Brown Depot in Baldwin, La., is requesting your help to provide bedding, sewing and layette kits that are urgently needed for Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Sager Brown’s kit ministry has been on the decline over the last year. Even when there are no la...

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Visit to Cinderella's Closet Helps Girls Feel like Princesses
Written: 2/27/2008
Cinderella’s Closet is a dream come true for many high school girls who look forward to feeling like a princess at their prom. Part of the youth ministry of Immanuel UMC (Covington District), this program provides formal dresses and accessories to financially disadvantaged girls for free.  Er...