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January 15, 2023 In 1848 Ellen Craft, an enslaved woman in Macon, Georgia, feared that her father – who was her White enslaver – would claim any child she bore as his property. And so, she and her husband, also enslaved, embarked on a remarkable
November 30, 2022 Resistance to the appointment of a female pastor is still common, and remains one of the signature issues of the United Methodist Commission on the Status and Role of Women as it marks its 50th anniversary. “It’s the honest truth,” said Dawn Wiggins Hare,
2022년 11월 21일 2022년 연합감리교 한인목회강화협의회(Korean Ministry Plan, 이하 한목협)가 애틀랜타에 소재한 갬몬신학대학원(Gammon Theological Seminary)과 연합감리교 세계선교부 본부에서 9월 26부터 28일까지 사흘간 “힘으로 되지 아니하며, 능력으로 되지 아니하고, 오직 나의 영으로”(스가랴 4:6)라는 주제로 열렸다. 한목협은 2000년 연합감리교 총회에서 연합감리교 내 한인 교회와 한인들의 사역을 강화하기
October 19, 2022 Amid severe economic adversity in Zimbabwe, a local family inspired overflowing joy as they shared their blessings. The Mukandi family donated money to build a borehole, parsonage and sanctuary at Bwanya United Methodist Church. Zimbabwe Area Bishop Eben K. Nhiwatiwa dedicated the
October 4, 2022 Fame is catching up with Jovita Idár. One might even say she’s having a moment, 76 years after her death. Idár’s life as a Mexican American journalist and activist in South Texas began to be rediscovered in the late 1970s and early 1980s, as
July 19, 2022 Many are feeling shock and grief after the Rev. Autura Eason-Williams, a United Methodist district superintendent, was shot and killed in an apparent carjacking. Memphis, Tennessee, police responded to gunfire the afternoon of July 18 and found Eason-Williams shot outside her home.
May 23, 2022 Denied a high school education because she was a girl, Greater Taremeredzwa Nhiwatiwa spent her teen years scaring baboons out of her family’s maize fields in rural Maswera Village, northeast of Mutare in Manicaland, Zimbabwe. Later, a guerrilla war forced her to seek
May 24, 2022 More than 3,000 gathered in Orlando, Florida, and online for United Women in Faith’s Assembly 2022, held May 20-22 at the Orange County Convention Center. Twenty-four countries and all 50 states were represented at the event with the theme “Turn It Up!”
In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Ask The UMC remembers two pioneering Koreans in Methodist history. Esther Kim Pak (1876-1910) — First Korean Methodist Female Doctor Esther Kim was born into a poor family in Seoul in 1876. At the time, education
2022년 5월 9일 5월이 아시안태평양계유산의달(Asian American and Pacific Islander(AAPI) Heritage Month)로 자리매김하게 되기까지는 많은 시간과 법적 절차 그리고 지니 쥬(Jeanie Jew)라는 중국계 여성의 열정이 있었기 때문이다. 1992년, 이 법이 만장일치로 의회를 통과하기 이전에 이미 1968년 9월 15일부터 10월 15일까지를 히스패닉계 이민자들의 공헌을 기념하고 기억하는 기간으로
