WATER

We found 18 additional articles filed under water. They're listed below, most recent first.

1. Climate Change
   03/06/2013 -- As United Methodist Women members, we can educate ourselves about climate change and raise it as an issue in our congregations, even if it generates controversy.
2. Bearers of the Message of Reconciliation and New Creation
   02/25/2013 -- Today is a new day, and we’re trusted to be bearers of this message of reconciliation and hope for all humanity.
3. Introducing Food Justice
   11/14/2012 -- Hunger and poverty have a cyclical relationship.
4. The Global Land Grab
   05/01/2012 -- Around the world impoverished peoples are fighting a foreign rush for wealth and control that threatens to strip them of land, food and water.
5. Carbon Footprint Toolkit
   03/26/2012 -- Find out what you can do in your home, your church, your community and your annual conference to help stop climate change.
6. Why is it Important to Reduce our Carbon Footprint?
   03/16/2012 -- God has given humans responsibility for the care and keeping of the earth as God’s stewards. The Bible’s message, however, goes beyond just calling us to manage natural resources wisely.
7. What Can I Do at Home?
   03/16/2012 -- Know your footprint and work to lower it. Involve those you live with in making and implementing the plan.
8. What Can I Do in My Local Church?
   03/16/2012 -- Who is currently responsible for making decisions about your building and grounds? What policies currently exist at your church about environmental stewardship? Does your church already have a Green Team?
9. Ana Chã: Brazilian Landless Worker Emphasizes Health and Happiness for Rural Women
   03/02/2012 -- Ana Chã spoke to more than 100 people on Tuesday as part of the panel, “Voices of Rural Women,” co-sponsored by United Methodist Women and World Vision International, a side event of the Commission on the Status of Women.
10. Introducing a Rural Hero
    02/28/2012 -- Eli Gashi of Kosovo, United Methodist Women-sponsored delegate to the 56th Commission on the Status of Women, shared the story of Marta Prekpalaj, who worked for women's empowerment before, during and after the conflicts in Kosovo from 1998-1999.
11. United Methodists Join Tar Sands Action for Environmental Justice
    11/09/2011 -- United Methodists converged on the White House on Sunday, November 6, 2011, with over 10,000 others to press President Obama to block construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
12. Rural Women Panels Raise Issues on Food Security, Violence Against Women
    11/01/2011 -- In observance of International Day of Rural Women and World Food Day, United Methodist Women co-organized two panel discussions highlighting issues important to rural women around the world at the Church Center for the United Nations, Oct. 14, 2011.
13. 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...
14. Be Consumed
    03/30/2011 -- Daw Dannu, a petite woman, carries her backpack full of paraphernalia for 10 days. She traveled 7 days to join the four day Bible Women Seminar in Yangon, the capital city of Myanmar (Burma).
15. We Are All God's Children
    03/29/2011 -- Just as God provided daily manna and water for the Israelites wandering in the desert, Christ provides the source of our daily spiritual water.
16. The Odd Ones in God's Mission
    03/27/2011 -- When God chooses people to use for mission, the human mind cannot even begin to understand.
17. Pakistan Flood Update from Women's Division Partners
    09/10/2010 -- Faith and funding partners of United Methodist Women in Pakistan report that recent flooding in Pakistan has hit the poorest of the poor and has further deepened poverty among those living at the lowest economic level.
18. United Methodist Women & Farmworker Justice
    06/13/2005 -- The United Methodist Church, in the 2004 General Conference, adopted the resolution to boycott Taco Bell for fair wages and working condition of tomato pickers. United Methodist Women participated in action to bring about a peaceful settlement to the boy...

Return to the original article.