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Dallas Church Takes on Feeding Its Neighborhood During Pandemic
A historic African American congregation, Hamilton Park UMC in Dallas, has been offering take-away hot meals to anyone who comes during the coronavirus crisis. Read more
Apr 8, 2020
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UMCom Posts Links to Online Worship Services
Where to worship online for Easter; the Virtual Easter Choir video is due; and new health statistics are showing black communities with much higher rates of COVID-19 infections; Read more
Apr 8, 2020
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Here's How to Have Significant Ministries During Pandemic
Independent publisher M. George Walters has suggestions for churches that want to help their communities during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more
Apr 8, 2020
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Global United Methodist Responses to the Coronavirus, Updated
Dr. David W. Scott of UM & Global adds more information on how United Methodists worldwide are responding to the coronavirus pandemic. Read more
Apr 7, 2020
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Being the Church at the Epicenter of U.S. Pandemic
United Methodists in New York and New Jersey are grappling with the unwanted distinction of living at the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, reports Linda Bloom of UM News. Read more
Apr 6, 2020
Notable Quotes
"A pandemic is not a judgment, and it will not discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving. I think moments like this reveal to me God’s unbelievable love for us. ... We’re learning right now in isolation what interdependence feels like and what a gift it is, and the more we’re apart the more we realize how much we need each other. "
– Religion historian Kate Bowler of UMC-related Duke Divinity School, profiled in the April 6, 2020 New York Times.
"This is our new 9/11 in New York." — New York Area Bishop Thomas J. Bickerton
"If New York and New Jersey were nations, New York would be No. 5 in the world and New Jersey would be No. 8 in terms of the number of cases."
— Greater New Jersey Area Bishop John R. Schol
The United Methodist Church officially opposes the death penalty: "We believe the death penalty denies the power of Christ to redeem, restore and transform all human beings." (The Social Principles, Book of Discipline).
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