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The Rev. Roberto Escamilla shows the suitcase he carried when traveling from Mexico to Iowa at age 17, to attend Parsons College. Escamilla would go on to a long, distinguished career in United Methodist ministry, and became an interpreter and traveling companion for famed Methodist missionary evangelist E. Stanley Jones. Photo by Sam Hodges, UM News.

Pastor shared stage with E. Stanley Jones

The Rev. Roberto Escamilla, 92, was the Spanish-language interpreter for the great Methodist missionary evangelist E. Stanley Jones and made a big mark with his own ministry.

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The sign at the United Methodist Building in Washington, where the Board of Church and Society’s offices are, was changed after the mass shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high school. Photo courtesy of United Methodist Board of Church and Society.

Pastors, churches respond to Florida massacre

As pastors and churches near a mass school shooting respond, one church leader says United Methodists must do more than pray about gun violence.

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Displaced children, including some orphaned by the Aug. 14 mudslide that killed hundreds, eat breakfast at one of the relief centers established for mudslide victims in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photo by Julu Swen, UMNS.

United Methodists provide relief to mudslide, flood survivors

The United Methodist Church in Sierra Leone is providing food, emergency health care and even counseling to survivors of the landslide and flooding that killed hundreds.

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The Rev. Henry Samuel of Vine Memorial Baptist Church, an affiliate member of the Council of Churches in Sierra Leone, prays with and consoles a group of women who lost 17 members of their family during the Aug. 14 flood and landslide in in Freetown. Photo by Phileas Jusu, UMNS.

Church providing emergency health services after mudslide

The United Methodist Church is providing emergency health services for survivors of the flood and mudslide that has killed nearly 500 people.

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