By Rick Wolcott* An estimated 80,000 people marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 8 in remembrance of the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Last year’s motion picture Selma was based on the Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches that led to the creation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. In [...]
"As many youth leaders know, one of the best ways to get teens to look at the world with the eyes of Christ is to take the group on a mission trip to work with folks of a different culture," says movie reviewer, Rev.Bruce Batchelor-Glader. "You go out to serve others and return home realizing that [...]
By Tammy Kuntz* A United Methodist Volunteer in Mission (UMVIM) team from East Ohio traveled to Manos Juntas in Rio Bravo, Mexico Dec. 28, 2014 – Jan. 3, 2015. Our team expected to help teach Vacation Bible School. After settling in at the mission site, Willie and Julian explained there had been a change of [...]
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