United Methodist News Service

• Yambasu Agriculture Initiative empowers farmers January 26, 2023
  Program at West African center gives farmers hands-on experience in sustainable agriculture.
• Wespath expands services to Methodist kin January 26, 2023
  The United Methodist Church’s pension agency is now offering retirement benefits to both the African Methodist Episcopal Church and Global Methodist Church — building closer ties in a time of upheaval.
• Church responds to days of mass shootings January 25, 2023
  From California to Louisiana to Iowa, United Methodists are responding with prayer, comfort for the grieving and renewed calls for advocacy against gun violence.
• Black pastors group calls for day of prayer January 24, 2023
  A national day of prayer and fasting on Feb. 1 has been declared by the Rev. Dennis Blackwell and the group Black Methodists for a Better Future to ask for God’s help curbing gun, domestic and economic violence as well as systemic racism.
• A Human Relations Day to remember January 23, 2023
  Three San Antonio churches of different racial/ethnic membership model “beloved community” by coming together for a special service ahead of MLK Day March.