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Resource Library Give-Away
Written: 8/18/2008
The conference office resource library will be holding a giant video give-away through the month of September. Gather a couple of friends from your church and make a day of out of a trip to Columbia. You can even plan on lunch at one of Columbia’s many charming restaurants.  Bring bags or...

Retiree Healthcare Meetings with Clergy Support Team and CLAIM Representatives
Written: 8/14/2008
If you would like assistance with understanding the plan option available, we have set up meetings with representatives from the CLAIM organization. CLAIM is an acronym for Community Leaders Assisting the Insured in Missouri, it's an organization that has a contract with the federal govern...

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New Bishop Elected to United Methodist Church in Mozambique
Written: 7/24/2008
Bishop Joaquina Filipe Nhanala, pastor of the United Methodist Church in Mozambique, has just been elected the first female United Methodist bishop in Africa!  Many know Joaquina from her visits to Missouri, from her 2004 video with Bread for the World, from her participation in global clergy-w...

Back to School with Igniting Ministries
Written: 7/23/2008
People across Missouri are about to get invited to your church. Igniting Ministry, the marketing arm of the United Methodist Church, is mailing postcards to households in the St. Louis, Kansas City and Sprin...

Time is Running Out for the Global Poverty Act
Written: 7/17/2008
Dear Bread for the World Friends in Missouri, With skyrocketing food prices globally, millions of people need your voice to urge your senators to pass the Global Poverty Act so that U.S. aid that we currently administer can have a greater impact on more lives. Take 2 minutes to call Senators Bond ...

'Discernment Events' Planned to Assist: Laity in Finding God’s Will for Their Lives
Written: 7/14/2008
New York, New York, March 20, 2008—To “discern” means to recognize or identify. United Methodist laity—women and men—seeking to discern God’s will for their lives will have that opportunity in late October, 2008. A Young Adult Discernment Event, open to United Me...

Be prepared for the next disaster
Written: 6/25/2008
Missouri has had more disasters than any other state in the country during the past three years. Only one other state, Oklahoma, has had more federal declared disasters than Missouri. Currently, the Southwest part of the state is responding most easily and with the least confusion to disasters. They...

Tragic Death of Sérgio Machado in Mozambique
Written: 6/19/2008
Sérgio Machado, son of Bishop João Somane and Mrs. Nocía Machado, passed away due to a traffic accident on Sunday morning, June 15 in Mozambique. He was 29. According to Mozambique Initiative representative, Ezequiel Nhantumbo, he, along with friends and conference staff joine...

Conference offerings surpass $200,000
Written: 6/9/2008
This Annual Conference session was a generous one for the Missouri Conference. Giving from local churches and individuals exceeded $200,000. The big offering collection was for the PET Project. A PET is a sturdy, hand-cranked wheel chair that is hand-built of simple parts by volunteers and shipped ...

Nothing But Nets in Mozambique!
Written: 5/13/2008
Insecticide treated bed-nets are being distributed through the United Methodist Church in Mozambique from Missouri "Nothing But Nets" funds! 1,000 bed-nets were distributed in December 2007 through the Annual Conference session of the United Methodist Church in Mozambique. 500 nets were dist...

Proposed changes for Retiree Health Care Insurance
Written: 5/8/2008
The Clergy Support Team is proposing a change in how the conference provides healthcare coverage to the retirees currently in the HealthFlex plan. The proposal is to provide funding to the retirees to use in purchasing a plan that can meet their individual needs. Members of the Clergy Support Team w...

New Mozambique Covenant Partnerships Needed
Written: 5/8/2008
Covenant partnership has transformed congregations in both Mozambique and Missouri. A church covenant partnership includes prayer, correspondence, leadership, financial support ($990/year – 3 years) and subscribers to e-news. The following churches in Mozambique are in need of covenant partne...

Mozambique Initiative Seeks Missionary Covenants
Written: 4/22/2008
The Mozambique Initiative is seeking missionary covenants for support of coordinator, Carol Kreamer.  Carol is a United Methodist missionary and 100% of her support comes from contributions from churches, groups and individuals.  Carol administers the Missouri-Mozambique church and seminar...

Annual Conference registration opens
Written: 3/3/2008
The 6th regular session of the Missouri Annual Conference will be held June 6-9, 2008, at the Exposition Center in Springfield. Registration opens at 8 a.m. on Friday, June 6, for the 2,000 people designated as lay or clergy members of the annual conference. While in Springfield, conference attende...

Planning for a better future: Church pilots Healthy Church Process
Written: 3/3/2008
St. Stephen UMC is in a position many churches would envy. They are settled into their new building, located in the growing community of Troy in the Gateway Regional District. But although the move to the new building brought growth, it wasn’t at the level that they had hoped to achieve. Finances ar...

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Flooding along Zambezi, Pungue, Save and Buzi Rivers displaces communities in Mozambique
Written: 1/17/2008
Flood image slide show Missouri churches have been watching the news as flooding in Central Mozambique affects their partners 10,000 miles away. It continues to rain in Mozambique and churches most affected are Chemba, Buzi, Save, and Nova Mambone. Rev. Jacob Jenhuro, traveled as close as he co...

Pastors encouraged to reach outside of their comfort zone
Written: 1/17/2008
Susan Cox-Johnson addressed minister’s school not only as a district superintendent, or a United Methodist pastor, but as a student of and a participant in the “emerging church” conversation. The emergent church (also known as the emerging church movement) is “… a 21st-century Protestant Christian ...

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MI Netraiser team - $10 can save a life in Mozambique!
Written: 1/8/2008
* Click here to donate During the year 2007 we told stories about the devastating impact of malaria on Mozambique and our campaign with Nothing But Nets.  We told of conference staff, clergy and even in December, during Annual Conference, a district superintendent who was lost to complications...

Missouri Nets cover Mozambique Conference
Written: 12/27/2007
Used properly insecticide-treated bed nets can save lives from the killer disease, malaria.  In June the Missouri Conference joined the “Nothing But Nets” campaign to provide insecticide-treated nets to save lives around the world.  Since that time, more than $100,000 has been raised. ...

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At last Ezy made it to Machuuquele!
Written: 12/14/2007
Leaving home has never been novel to me and my family. I had a mission to accomplish: Visit and serve the people of God at Machuuquele area. Mr Adolfo Hulho, the conference office’s head of transportation and conference Lay Leader, and I signed off North of Maputo. We put up in Chicuque to replenish...