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Brenda Phillips, an artist residing in Meriden, New Hampshire, is on a national crusade to use her artwork to fight Chagas infection in the Andean villages of Bolivia.
The Advance Online Gift Tracking tool is a great way to verify the receipt and allocation of Advance gifts. A new animated tutorial has been developed to demonstrate how to generate a report on the gifts of your church. The animation shows step-by-step how to go from The Advance home page to the customization of your report.
Quick, snappy, and substantive, this newly released three-minute online video explains the fasting campaign, B1. B1 is a response to teenagers' concern and action on behalf of poverty in their neighborhoods and around the world.
The Advance for Christ and His Church--The Advance--has a new monthly electronic and online newsletter to encourage United Methodist designated mission giving and to report to church members on projects they may already be supporting.
The premier issue of the Advancing Hope e-newsletter reminds us that the world's most vulnerable, our children, need our support year-round.
"Christmas is a time to share with family." Our ears, thoughts, and hearts are so full of such words that we believe that without family there can be no Christmas. For those who can't
physically
be with our families, Christmas can be a time of sorrow instead of rejoicing.
For 35 years, the Asian Rural Institute (ARI) has trained rural community leaders to quietly transform the world. The 18-acre ARI farm, situated in Nasushiobara, in northern Japan, enables its students to re-imagine their communities as harbors for peace and justice and then gives them the tools to make it so.
The Advance for Christ and His Church, the designated mission giving program of The United Methodist Church, has a new structure, a new staff, and will have a new look in coming months. Read more...
Franco Ibacache had been coming for 10 years. First, he came because he was hungry and he heard that the church ladies gave out free toys. He kept coming because he liked the company and made friends. Later he came because he enjoyed hearing about God. Read more....
The Red Bird valley, nestled in the Appalachian mountains of southeastern Kentucky is an isolated area where three counties come together. Read more...
The Theological Community of Honduras in Tegucigalpa is not just an educational institution. Read more....
The shelter opened in 1992. Over the years the women have formed a close knit community. They grow their own food and help support one another. The conference helps with medical assistance when needed and a nurse visits twice a week. Read more....
Please join the effort to end the diseases of poverty by giving through The Advance to Nothing But Nets, a global campaign to save lives by preventing malaria, a leading killer of children in Africa.
Almost everyone asks when the bridge will be built. It was washed out years ago in a torrent of rain, not uncommon in the Caribbean, so the indigenous people must bring their wares to market by pulling themselves by rope in a basket, one or two at a time across the Rio San Juan.
"Slumdog Millionaire" swept the Academy Awards. Yet the subject of the movie is not new to the Methodist Ministry in Mumbai, India, which has been helping street children for decades.
