Monthly Archives: July 2010
Red Bird Mission School to reopen
A UMNS Report By Heather Hahn* 6:00 P.M. EST July 23, 2010 Mark Smallwood, a music teacher at Red Bird Mission School, sings a hymn with students in October 2006. UMNS file photos by Ronny Perry. View in Photo Gallery … Continue reading
What Causes Pastors to Burnout?
Carol Howard Merritt writes, “Pastors have a fifty percent burnout rate. In the first couple of years of ministry, half of them will drop out. I expect this from nursing and teaching, but I didn’t know that the rate would … Continue reading
U.S. conferences report declining numbers
A UMNS Report By Heather Hahn* 1:30 P.M. EST July 20, 2010 Participants in a prayer walk in Covington, Ky., pray with a man during the Kentucky Annual (regional) Conference’s Afternoon of Service. A UMNS photo courtesy of the Kentucky … Continue reading
Mary Ann Sieghart: Women on top? You’ve got to be joking
What a depressing week it has been to be female. A psychopathically violent woman-beater and murderer is lionised. A film director who drugs and then sodomises a 13-year-old girl is let off. A famous actor tells his ex-partner she deserves … Continue reading
A Possibility for Good Shepherd?
Contemporary Church Begins In Coffee Shop A UMNS Report By Fred Koenig* The Revs. Barry Freese (left) and Eric Huffman visit in the new Redemption United Methodist Church. UMNS photos by Fred Koenig. View in Photo Gallery Both worship services … Continue reading