GBGM

The organization Rise Up for Life and for Rights, led by United Methodist deaconess Norma P. Dollaga, holds a demonstration advocating for human rights in the Philippines on Valentine’s Day 2019. Dollaga, who has championed the rights of poor and marginalized persons in the Philippines for four decades, has been named the 2024 recipient of the World Methodist Council’s prestigious World Methodist Peace Award. File photo by Paul Jeffrey.

Filipino deaconess receives peace award

United Methodist Norma P. Dollaga is the recipient of the World Methodist Peace Award for her four decades of service focusing on peace and justice.

Global Health

Sierra Leonian volunteers with the Imagine No Malaria campaign visit with a small child in Koribondo Village near Bo, Sierra Leone, after installing a new mosquito net in his home. 2010 file photo by Mike DuBose, UM News.

Imagine No Malaria concludes

Bishop Thomas J. Bickerton took a moment to lead a well-earned victory lap for the Imagine No Malaria campaign, noting that it will come to an end with 2024.

Violence

UM News is the official news gathering agency of the 13-million member United Methodist Church. Map courtesy of Pixabay; graphic by UM News.

Urging a stronger Middle East response

The response of The United Methodist Church to the hostilities in the Middle East was characterized as “very weak and timid” during the joint meeting of the boards of United Methodist Global Ministries and Higher Education and Ministry.

General Agencies

A moment of levity brings smiles during the first joint board meetings of the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries and United Methodist Board of Higher Education and Ministry that took place March 4-8 at Emory University in Atlanta. At the tables are (left to right) the Rev. Greg Bergquist, top executive of GBHEM; Bishop Hee-Soo Jung, president of the Global Ministries board; Bishop Sandra Steiner Ball, president of the board of Higher Education and Ministry; and Roland Fernandes, top executive of Global Ministries and the United Methodist Committee on Relief. Photo by Adam Bowers, Global Ministries.

Boards push forward despite budget cuts

In wide-ranging joint board meetings at Emory University, officials with the United Methodist boards of Global Ministries and Higher Education plotted an ambitious future despite the continuing challenge of diminishing resources.

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