Clergy pension changes on the table
Active United Methodist clergy in the United States could see their retirement benefits change in the near future.
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Date Created: 4/23/2012 9:35:36 AM
Prison Chaplaincy: The Empowerment of Meaning
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life recently released a survey report: “Religion in Prisons: a Fifty State Survey of Prison Chaplains” which gave a glimpse into religion behind the prison wall.
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Date Created: 4/10/2012 7:43:31 AM
Debate grapples with restructuring
“More than we need a new organizational chart, we need a new Pentecost.” The Rev. Kim Cape, top executive of the United Methodist Board of Higher Education and Ministry, shared that thought as part of a larger debate on proposals to restructure United Methodist agencies.
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Date Created: 4/3/2012 1:09:10 PM
Agency Q&A: Higher Education & Ministry
As the 2012 General Conference approaches, United Methodist News Service is looking at details of legislation and offering information to help readers better understand how the church works. This is the response from GBHEM.
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Date Created: 3/20/2012 6:42:08 AM
Group offers ‘Plan B’ for church structure
A group of church leaders is calling for an alternative to the proposed reorganization of The United Methodist Church's general agencies.
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Date Created: 3/20/2012 7:43:33 AM
In the Meantime
To our dear friends who serve in the ministry of extending the hands and voice of Christ beyond the local church into the world: Grace and peace in the name of Jesus Christ.
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Date Created: 11/15/2011 12:18:07 PM
United Methodist pastors called to serve
Thousands of U.S. Reserve and National Guard members found themselves called suddenly into active duty and deployed when the war on terror started 10 years ago.
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Date Created: 9/19/2011 8:41:33 AM
Chaplain Mike Charles Speaks at August 2011 GBHEM Board Meeting
Chaplain (COL) Mike Charles shares experiences with GBHEM Board members at the August GBHEM Board meeting. He talks about how can local UMC churches can support deployed service members deployed in "harm's way."
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Date Created: 9/2/2011 10:48:09 AM
Preparing clergy for war: army chaplains train by the hundred for the combat zone
The summer sun beats down on camouflaged Kevlar helmets. Weighed down by heavy body armor, men and women of the cloth are crawling through sand, under barbed wire and learning how to run with soldiers.
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Date Created: 9/1/2011 12:38:43 PM
UMEA Visitors Begin Outreach Support
It’s official…the United Methodist Endorsing Agency’s (UMEA) new Volunteer Visitation Program has begun as its twenty-three trained visitors are reaching out to the endorsed community extending pastoral care and support, advocacy and gathering exciting stories of ministry.
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Date Created: 8/22/2011 12:33:01 PM
Disasters, Images and God’s Presence
The images of tornadoes, floods, radiation leaks, earthquakes and war are everywhere. We have been inundated with them throughout the past few weeks. When they will end, we do not know.
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Date Created: 5/31/2011 12:35:32 PM
Unemployment Reflections
Dealing with the current financial and unemployment crisis in this country has been difficult for many endorsed chaplains and pastoral counselors of The United Methodist Church
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Date Created: 4/20/2011 11:56:23 AM
Bringing Mental Illness Into the Light
The church as one thinks of it serves different purposes in the lives of different people. For some, it is their opportunity each week to leave the outside world behind and reconnect with God.
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Date Created: 4/19/2011 10:33:41 AM
Chaplains Promote Ministry Beyond Church Walls
The United Methodist Church needs to do a better job communicating about opportunities for ministry beyond the local church, say two General Board of Higher Education and Ministry staffers who are visiting 22 schools of theology last fall and this year to talk about chaplaincy and other opportunities for ministry.
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Date Created: 4/5/2011 9:10:10 AM
Hospice chaplain keeps people, pets together
One of the Rev. Delana Taylor McNac’s favorite family snapshots shows her as a 2-year-old sleeping on her big dog Rip.
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Date Created: 3/15/2011 9:41:43 AM
Military ministers serve all needs, says chaplain
“If war is hell, then the military chaplain’s job is to go there and keep [the soldiers] from establishing residency,” says the Chaplain Laura J. Bender, command chaplain for the USS New York in Norfolk, Va.
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Date Created: 2/25/2011 11:48:53 AM
Begin Again!
Those are words I often heard in The Coaches Training Institute’s Co-Active Leadership Program and they are also appropriate for us as we start off the new year. Begin again! These words are similar to Jesus’s call to Matthew to “follow me” and the effects of his healing the bleeding woman.
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Date Created: 1/11/2011 11:28:51 AM
Technology replaces phone cards for military
The world back in 2003 was quite different from the world today. No Facebook or Twitter. No one had yet heard of Lady Gaga or “The Situation.” People used phones exclusively for placing calls.
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Date Created: 11/15/2010 1:19:16 PM
A Care-ful Connection is Needed
His most recent deployment as a United Methodist military chaplain was to serve as officer in charge and chaplain of the mortuary for the theatre of operations in the Middle East, located in Kuwait. In short, his task was to oversee the care of the military war dead
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Date Created: 11/10/2010 7:54:02 AM
Chaplains Have Crucial Role to Play in Hospice Care
As more and more people seek hospice care, chaplains have a crucial role to play in leading discussions about end-of-life spiritual and medical issues, panelists at a chaplains’ convocation on hospice and palliative care said this week.
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Date Created: 10/4/2010 11:50:13 AM
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