SCHOOLS OF CHRISTIAN MISSION

We found 39 additional articles filed under Schools of Christian Mission. They're listed below, most recent first.

1. Roma Redux
   05/09/2013 -- Senior correspondent and photojournalist for Response shares photos and stories from his journeys visiting Roma communities in Serbia, Macedonia, and Bulgaria.
2. The Roma
   05/01/2013 -- United Methodist Women and others will come together to study the Roma this year and next at hundreds of Mission u gatherings, the next generation of United Methodist Women’s Schools of Christian Mission.
3. Introducing Food Justice
   11/14/2012 -- Hunger and poverty have a cyclical relationship.
4. What is United Methodist Women Doing, in Heaven's Name?
   10/22/2012 -- At their board of directors meeting, Harriett J. Olson asked, “What is going on with United Methodist Women, in heaven’s name?” In other words, how is United Methodist Women’s mission work living into the Gospel to benefit women, children and youth?
5. Get Involved With Your Conference Rapid Response Team
   05/10/2012 -- The United Methodist Rapid Response Team mobilizes congregations to welcome immigrants and to advocate for just and humane immigration reform at the state and federal level.
6. Responsively Yours: No Time for Business as Usual
   11/04/2011 -- The U.S. Census Bureau announced that 1-in-6 Americans lives below the poverty line. What would happen if we sat at a table with some of these persons? Would we begin to think differently about creating a sustainable economy?
7. Women's Division Annual Report: 2010 (PDF)
   10/07/2011 -- Thinking About the Next 100 Years: Shaping Faith, Hope and Love into Action.
8. Poverty Issue Study Overview
   10/03/2011 -- Participants in the study will engage in deepening their understanding of the realities of poverty and be invited to commit to solidarity with the poor through accompaniment and advocacy.
9. Immigration and the Bible
   10/03/2011 -- This study shares the story of the Bible as a narrative of immigrants and migration.
10. Waging Peace with Prayer and Action
    06/13/2011 -- During the summer months of Schools of Christian Mission until International Day of Peace on September 21, 2011, you are invited to participate in Prayers and Actions for Peace as an expression of reconciliation.
11. Grace Children's Hospital Providing Health and Hope in Haiti
    06/10/2011 -- How one hospital in Haiti survived and thrived since last year's earthquake destroyed other hospitals in the area.
12. Farming Uphill in Haiti
    06/10/2011 -- For the better part of two centuries, since Haiti gained independence from France in 1804, the indescribably resilient people of rural Haiti have been forced to farm uphill, both literally and figuratively.
13. Ecotourism: A Way Forward in Haiti?
    06/09/2011 -- Can ecotourism provide a path to sustainable development in Haiti?
14. Fact or Fiction? Five Myths About Haiti
    06/09/2011 -- Here are five of the most common misperceptions about Haiti and some alternate perspectives that come closer to the truth.
15. Haitian Methodist Women and Men Making a Difference
    06/02/2011 -- Local Haitians are the unsung heroines and heroes of the earthquake recovery story. Here are portraits of a few Haitians, Methodist sisters and brothers, who in the words of LeGrace Benson, “have been rehearsing and performing this theater since that firs...
16. The Paradoxes of the Haitian Diaspora
    06/02/2011 -- This article examines these three paradoxes, often caused by government immigration policies for Haitians who live scattered.
17. Environmental Justice: Just Words, or Haiti's Key to Capacity?
    05/27/2011 -- The 2010 earthquake in Haiti presented humanitarian workers with one of their most complex and difficult emergencies. The response to immediate needs must be accomplished with an eye toward fair and just long-term development. Capacity building must outwe...
18. Reframing Recovery to Achieve Environmental Justice in Haiti
    05/27/2011 -- During its 21-year occupation of Haiti, the United States concentrated nearly all economic resources and investments in the capital city, Port-au-Prince. Haiti's other population centers and rural areas received few benefits, spurring a severe decline in ...
19. Introduction to 'The Journey'
    05/25/2011 -- Glory Dharmaraj introduces 'The Journey' web supplement.
20. Restorative Justice: Moving Beyond Punishment
    05/24/2011 -- This mission study from 2002 is a response to the call of The United Methodist Church to focus upon Restorative Justice ministries in light of the prison-industrial complex, and offers a vision of restoration and healing over isolation and punishment.
21. Anne Gallagher's Forgiveness Story
    05/23/2011 -- Listen to Anne Gallagher's story of forgiveness as a nurse in the midst of the English-Irish turmoil in Belfast, Ireland.
22. The Journey of Reconciliation
    05/17/2011 -- What does the journey of reconciliation look like?
23. Truth-Telling and the Confrontation of the Other
    05/17/2011 -- In telling the truth and confronting the other, boundaries of status are shattered, borders of exclusion are transcended, harms woven into the fabric of one anothers histories are acknowledged, crowds are fed, and those not typically seen and heard are he...
24. The Importance of Grieving and Facing Our Fears in Journey of Reconciliation
    05/17/2011 -- Why is grieving so important? Not grieving the trauma often pushes it deep in our psyche where we medicate it with, for example, drugs or alcohol.
25. The Journey of Forgiveness, Rehumanizing the Other and the Choice to Forgive
    05/17/2011 -- We look more closely at the importance of the other’s story, the one who has harmed, and the power of rehumanizing the other and the gift of forgiveness.
26. Sample Covenant of Reconciliation
    05/16/2011 -- As a community of Jesus’ followers, we covenant to choose grace over pointing fingers.
27. Reconciled with God and our Neighbors
    05/16/2011 -- We have reconciliation with Jesus Christ--we are right before God.
28. Truth and Reconciliation
    05/16/2011 -- Nelson Mandela organized the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which would be the organization to work systemically to heal the country after Apartheid and bring about a new future for South Africa.
29. The United Methodist Church Seeks Forgiveness
    05/16/2011 -- In 2005, the annual conferences of The United Methodist Church focused on confession and healing in the area of racism in the church.
30. Bible Snapshots of Forgiveness
    05/16/2011 -- Broken, forgiven, reconciled. This is the recurring theme throughout the stories of the Scriptures.
31. 2011 Schools of Christian Mission Map
    04/10/2011 -- Find the School of Christian Mission in your conference with the 2011 Google map.
32. God's Plan
    03/19/2011 -- Faith in God and God's vision is easy to talk about, but it is more difficult to just turn loose and know that wherever God leads us is where we need to go and to be.
33. My Work With Imam Feisal Rauf and Daisy Khan
    09/15/2010 -- As I listen to the debate about the proposed Cordoba House community center at 51 Park Place in Manhattan, I find it painful to see two highly regarded interfaith leaders dragged through the mud by news commentators and politicians who don’t really know t...
34. Mission-Minded
    08/25/2010 -- With more than 50 locations across the nation, Schools of Christian Mission attract more than 20,000 people—including children, youth, church members and non-United Methodists—every year.
35. Domestic Violence Printable Handout (PDF)
    07/27/2010 -- Print this handout for distribution at events on building awareness on domestic violence. Also includes survey and program evaluation form.
36. Because God First Loved Us
    07/01/2010 -- Make a commitment to act on behalf of women, children and youth, and start meaningful conversations in your community on important issues.
37. Making a Difference
    06/18/2010 -- United Methodist Women member Pamela Stewart describes her involvement in Emma’s Circle, a circle for girls 7-17 years old.
38. Bridge Builder of United Methodist Women
    05/14/2010 -- A member of United Methodist Women’s Language Ministries Consultative Group and United Methodist Women at Mosaic United Methodist Church in Louisville, Ky., shares her mission story.
39. Mission Study on Israel-Palestine Is Consistent with United Methodist Policy
    06/24/2008 -- A joint statement of the General Board of Global Ministries and the Women's Division

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