REACT: Christmas Institute celebrates unconditional love
Christmas Institute is an annual church retreat with origins in the Philippines. Here in the Pacific Northwest, CI will be held at The Firs...
CI-PNW is searching for “Real Love”
The Leadership Team of Christmas Institute gather at Seattle: Beacon UMC for training in preparation for their annual retreat happening on December 26-30, 2014....
Sanctuary: A New Hope
By Rev. Lyda Pierce | Director of Hispanic/Latino Ministries
“When a foreigner lives with you in your land, don’t take advantage of him. Treat the foreigner...
UMCOR’s Return to Leyte
Rev. David Cosmiano is a United Methodist district superintendent for Eastern Visayas in the Philippines, a region heavily impacted by Typhoon Haiyan last November....
Immigration Call to Action
Scenes from a protest at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash. in 2014.
Immigration Call to Action
By Pastor Lorellen Nausner | Photos by Jesse...
Global Mission Fellows: Is there a reason to sing?
Global Mission Fellows Amanda Chng and Yvonne Agduyeng are given Bibles by a leader of Ruferkirche in Germany.
By Yvonne Agduyeng
I need a reason to...
2015 Ethnic Local church grants deadline Jan. 10
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Jan. 10 is the deadline to apply for an Ethnic Local Church Grant from the United Methodist General Board of Church...
CI-PNW: Answering God’s invitation to REACT! (+ CI Leadership: My Favorite Thing About CI!)
In the Pacific Northwest, the young people who attend Christmas Institute are learning in different ways how to REACT to God’s love – through identity,...
Jars for Jamaa Letu 2017
Download the PDF label at www.jamaaletu.org.
By Barbara Dadd Shaffer
Like all families, it costs money to raise children in the Congo, too. The annual “Jars” campaign...
Letters for Jamaa Letu
Letters for Jamaa Letu
By Barbara Dadd Shaffer
After years of saying it was not possible to send letters to the children of our Jamaa Letu...
