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Happy Birthday to The Mission Society

Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Evangelism, Missions, United Methodist Church on January 6, 2012 | Comments Off

The Mission Society (formerly The Mission Society for United Methodists) is celebrating its 28th birthday today. Society president Dick McClain recounts the founding: A small gathering of people met together in an airport hotel in St. Louis. Like any other meeting, this one had potential — potential to be hardly remembered just a few months [...]

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St. Patrick: A great missionary

Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Missions, Prayer on March 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

St. Patrick’s Day is widely observed, but in our time few people know anything about Patrick himself. Patrick was not born in Ireland, as is widely supposed, but in what is now England. As a teenager, in about the year 430, he was captured by Irish soldiers and sold into slavery. While enslaved, he became [...]

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Claremont president: Christians shouldn’t evangelize people of other faiths

Posted in Book of Discipline, Evangelism, Missions, United Methodist Church, tagged , on July 6, 2010 | 4 Comments »

The president of a United Methodist-affiliated seminary says Christians who feel the need to evangelize people of other faiths have “an incorrect perception of what it means to follow Jesus.” The comment from Jerry D. Campbell, president of California’s Claremont School of Theology, was published July 2 by the United Methodist Reporter. “The correct perception [...]

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Podcast: Sir Alan Walker — ‘Christianity at the Crossroads’

Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Doctrine, Evangelism, Missions, Sermons, United Methodist Church on February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

MethodistThinker.com will be on hiatus from posting new material for the next several weeks. During this time, we will showcase podcasts from the fall of 2009. The premiere podcast of our fall 2009 season featured one of the most influential Methodists of the 20th century: the Rev. Dr. Sir Alan Walker. Born in Sydney, Australia, [...]

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The UMC needs what InterVarsity has

Posted in Missions, United Methodist Church, tagged , on January 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In the wake of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship’s triennial missions conference, Urbana 09 (held Dec. 27-Dec. 31 in St. Louis), a leader with The Mission Society (formerly The Mission Society for United Methodists) notes that the Urbana conference offers a clear and encouraging sign that “God is calling a new generation to His mission.” “I just [...]

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Podcast: Sir Alan Walker — ‘Christianity at the Crossroads’

Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Doctrine, Evangelism, Missions, Podcasts, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The premiere podcast of our fall 2009 season features one of the most influential Methodists of the 20th century: the Rev. Dr. Sir Alan Walker. Born in Sydney, Australia, in 1911, Alan Walker was the 13th person in his family tree to become a preacher. In the 1950s, he became known for leading evangelistic meetings [...]

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The Mission Society celebrates 25 years

Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Evangelism, General Conference, Missions, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Mission Society, launched in 1984 as The Mission Society for United Methodists, hosted a “Celebration of God’s Faithfulness” Friday, marking the mission-sending agency’s 25th anniversary. Hundreds friends and supporters gathered at the First United Methodist Church in Norcross, Georgia (near the Society’s headquarters) to celebrate with missionaries, staff members, and current and former leaders [...]

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The Global Day of Prayer

Posted in Discipleship, Holiness, Missions, Prayer, Revival, tagged on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Stopping in for a brief visit last week at a United Methodist Church in Indiana, I was pleased to see a poster in the narthex indicating the congregation would be participating in this Sunday’s Global Day of Prayer. This international prayer event represents one of the most remarkable spiritual movements of our time. The Global [...]

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Dick McClain named president of The Mission Society

Posted in Evangelism, Missions, tagged on May 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Rev. Dick McClain has been chosen as the next president of The Mission Society, the Methodist-led missionary-sending agency founded 25 years ago. The Society now has more than 225 missionaries serving in 32 nations around the world. Mr. McClain, who has served as The Society’s vice president for church ministry since 2000, will succeed [...]

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Podcast: Dr. Eddie Fox — ‘That the World May Know Jesus’

Posted in Evangelism, Missions, Podcasts, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This week’s MethodistThinker Podcast features a sermon by Dr. Eddie Fox, world director of World Methodist Evangelism, a ministry of the World Methodist Council. Dr. Fox is also the executive director of the World Methodist Evangelism Institute. In his role as director of World Evangelism, he oversees the efforts of 16 regional evangelists worldwide. His [...]

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African UM leader on amendments: ‘We should have been consulted’

Posted in Book of Discipline, General Conference, Missions, United Methodist Church, tagged , on May 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Jerry P. Kulah, superintendent of the United Methodist Church’s Monrovia District in Liberia, is urging defeat of a series of constitutional amendments aimed at restructuring the denomination. If passed, the amendments likely would result in the structural segregation of United Methodists in Africa, Asia, and Europe from United Methodists in the U.S. The amendments, proposed [...]

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