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April is National Donate Life Month which highlights the urgent, widespread need for lifesaving donations of organs Graphic courtesy of Donate Life America.

Church friendship grows from kidney donation

When Diane Boggess needed a second kidney transplant, her church family at Grove United Methodist Church came to the rescue. After hearing a sermon on sacrificial friendship, church member Susan Parno decided to step up as a donor.
Faith Stories
Retired Bishop Timothy Whitaker, who served as resident bishop of the Florida Conference from 2001 to 2012, died March 28. Photo courtesy of the Florida Conference.

Bishop faced death — and wrote about it

Leader of The United Methodist Church’s Florida Conference from 2001 to 2012, retired Bishop Timothy W. Whitaker has died at age 75.
Faith Stories
Mourners gather in Funyula, Kenya, during the burial service for the Rev. Carol Alois Ososo, retired dean of superintendents and Busia District superintendent in The United Methodist Church. He was 77. Photo by the Rev. Bernard Amani Mudiri, UM News.

Church leader in Kenya remembered as father figure

Friends and colleagues say the Rev. Carol Alois Ososo was a “statesman of integrity” who mentored countless young people and contributed to the growth of The United Methodist Church in Kenya. He died Feb. 19 at age 77.
Faith Stories
Angella Patricia Current-Felder’s path to a life of advocacy started on the day she was born. “I have been trying to be Sojourner Truth all my life.” File photo by Mike DuBose, UM News.

Living up to the Sojourner Truth moniker

When Angella Patricia Current-Felder was born, her father suggested naming her after the American abolitionist. “That started me on my path,” she said. “I have been trying to be Sojourner Truth all my life.”

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