{"id":8727,"date":"2014-11-05T16:52:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T00:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/?p=8727"},"modified":"2014-11-05T16:53:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T00:53:41","slug":"imagine-no-malaria-encourages-congregations-to-imagine-with-advent-2014-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/imagine-no-malaria-encourages-congregations-to-imagine-with-advent-2014-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine No Malaria encourages congregations to \u2018imagine\u2019 with Advent 2014 resources"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nashville, Tenn.:\u00a0 Imagine hope, love, joy and peace this Advent season with Imagine No Malaria 2014 worship resources. The\u00a0downloadable<\/a>\u00a0materials include sermon starters, hymn suggestions and children\u2019s messages.<\/p>\n

The five weeks of materials are centered on the themes of \u201cImagine Hope,\u201d \u201cImagine Peace,\u201d \u201cImagine Joy, \u201cImagine Love,\u201d all highlighted by the African hymn \u201cI\u2019ve Got The Light Of God In Me,\u201d from the country of Cameroon. Additional materials include litanies, prayers, and a short\u00a0video<\/a>\u00a0that can be shared in small groups or with the congregation.<\/p>\n

Imagine No Malaria<\/a>, an initiative from The United Methodist Church, is committed to ending death and suffering from malaria through prevention, communication, trained health workers and facilities, and grassroots education. To date, INM has raised 82 percent of its goal with more than $64.5 million in gifts and pledges. United Methodists across the world are working hard to reach and celebrate the initiative\u2019s $75 million goal before the denomination\u2019s General Conference in 2016.<\/p>\n

Safe, secure and easy giving opportunities are available on the site so that anyone can participate and join the effort to eliminate this disease. Visitors can make one-time gifts and pledges of any amount, but many individuals participate with a recurring pledge of $28 per month over three years, to potentially save the lives of up to 100 children at risk for contracting the deadly disease.<\/p>\n

Additionally, visitors can get a glimpse at the lives Imagine No Malaria is changing through video diaries, touching photos and new stories.<\/p>\n

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About Imagine No Malaria<\/em><\/h4>\n

Imagine No Malaria is an extraordinary ministry of the people of The United Methodist Church, putting faith into action to end preventable deaths from malaria in Africa, especially the death of a child or a mother. With a comprehensive approach to fighting this killer disease, Imagine No Malaria empowers the people of Africa to improve health infrastructure and achieve a sustainable victory over malari<\/em>a.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nashville, Tenn.:\u00a0 Imagine hope, love, joy and peace this Advent season with Imagine No Malaria 2014 worship resources. The\u00a0downloadable\u00a0materials include sermon starters, hymn suggestions and children\u2019s messages. The five weeks of materials are centered on the themes of \u201cImagine Hope,\u201d \u201cImagine Peace,\u201d \u201cImagine Joy, \u201cImagine Love,\u201d all highlighted by the African hymn \u201cI\u2019ve Got The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":8728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[400,32,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-inm-2","8":"category-news","9":"category-umns"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/inm-advent.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2l75j-2gL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8729,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8727\/revisions\/8729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}