NetNews Online December 2008

• Bowling Green District Churches Take Food Race Challenge
• Christ Church Serves 13 Agencies on Work Day
• Available from the Media Library: Christianity's Family Tree (A Review)
• Advent Devotionals

  In Memoriam

Other UM News, Articles, & Information

• Bishops Adopt Guidelines for Granting Deacons Sacramental Authority
• Bells, Beepers, Buzzers & Prayer
• Caring for Creation Seminar at Lake Junaluska
• Grief Group Provides Support During Holidays 
• "Lament and Hope" for Advent 
• Peace with Justice Grant Application Deadline is Feb. 15
• A Report on the Recent Judicial Council Meeting
• Small Churches Provide Unique and Hopeful Welcome
• UM Mobile Advertising Strategy Tested in Pittsburgh
• When Christmas Is Blue: Church Services Comfort the Grieving

 Links

• Four Areas of Ministry Focus Video
• Planning for Advent Year B
• Planning Helps for Epiphany
• UM Global AIDS Fund
• UMCOR's Work to Combat Hunger
• United Methodist Communications

Announcements & Classifieds

• New Address for Ashland District Office 
• Christ Church (Louisville) Celebrates Opening of New Sanctuary
• Holy Land Trip with Bishop Davis and Kentucky Conference
• Internet Safety for Parents Class
• Classifieds

 Events

• Congress on Evangelism 2009: Leading in the Wesleyan Way
• Safe Sanctuaries Workshop
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration
• SEJ Larger Church Consultation
• Human Relations Day
• Winter Blitz

Featured Articles from November-December 2008 NetNews 

• Celebration of Episcopal Assignment
• Thailand Mission
• Questions about Charitable Gift Annuities