Today, through 10-Fold, we journey with our Missionaries serving in the U.S.  One serves here with us in the North Carolina Conference.    Read more of his story below, but before you do, please register at 10-Fold.  Today’s sponsor will donate $1 on your behalf toward the wondrous ministries of our U.S. based missionaries.

Gary Locklear is a General Board of Global Ministries Church & Community Worker and Home Missioner.  Gary is assigned to the Rockingham District Native American Cooperative Ministry in Robeson County North Carolina. Robeson County is one of the poorest counties in the US. Gary works with the thirteen Native American churches in the North Carolina Conference.

His primary responsibility is in the broad area of mission, living into the life of Jesus through Native American interpretation and communicating the story of the ministry.  Gary host’s numerous work teams during the year providing renovation to homes and churches in the community around Robeson and adjoining counties.   In such ministry, the lives of participants are transformed into a greater likeness of Christ, as they reflect on these acts of love and compassion, as they reach out and touch their neighbor, and as they discover Jesus reaching back to them.  It is disciple-making in the fullest sense.  And of course, Read more »

Every 45 seconds, a child in Africa dies of malaria. Millions of lives, needlessly lost each year. A continent. Entire nations…slipping away. Slipping through life’s precious net. Unless you hear the buzzing inside you.  Just Imagine …

It’s time we all join hands with Africa | On a personal mission to heal | Imagine no malaria | Then make it real. | Over a million lives, we’re gonna save | But only if you get involved today. | The bednets have been cast | But people can’t slip through | Listen to the buzz inside of you.  Be part of the Dream … be part of the Solution … be part of the work of Jesus! 

10-Fold!

What is 10-Fold? What’s The Advance? 10-Fold is a movement to raise awareness of projects of the General Board of Global Ministries around the world, supported through The Advance—the designated-giving arm of The United Methodist Church. This message of doing something (advocating, raising awareness, or giving) and watching it expand “10-Fold,” comes with the guarantee that 100 percent of all money raised through The Advance goes directly to the project you support or donate to. Join us daily, October 10-19.

By clicking on the site each day, you register your interest in a program, triggering $1 of support on your behalf, given by one of our sponsors: http://www.10-fold.org/ the project you support or donate to.  If you miss a day, don’t worry, you can go back to that day and still partner with the ministry by learning about and supporting the ministry with your donation.  Remember, you are the key partner in mission.  Only by your participation will these vital ministries occur.  Jesus calls us to journey with him in the transformation of the world.  10 Fold is a facet of that journey.  Please join us in touching the lives of the least, in bringing hope into despair, in proclaiming the saving grace and life of Jesus Christ!   10 Fold – Advancing the realm of God.    

Mozart training trainers at Farmers Field School - building an infrastructure of sustainable agriculture in Liberia.

The Role of UMCOR’s Sustainable Agriculture and Development Program in promoting the “miracle tree.”  - Moringa in Sierra Leone – Flowing from Work in Liberia – January 2011 — Mozart Adevu

Dear Friends,

Happy and Prosperous New Year!

I bring you New Year greetings from my family, friends and communities in Africa, especially those you have impacted over the last years. We thank you for your support and giving over the last years. I hope my stories inspire you and give you great testimonies of how your support has helped changed lives in Africa.

“Imagine a tree in your backyard that will meet all your nutritional needs, take care of you medicinally, and purify your water for you. This tree actually exists. For centuries, the natives of northern India and many parts of Africa have known of the many benefits of Moringa oleifera.  Its uses are as unique as the names it is Read more »

Farmers learning from test plots - what techniques produce the highest yield

Today’s 10-Fold focus is on UMCOR’s sustainable agriculture ministry and is sponsored by Edenton Street UMC in Raleigh, NC, and Horne Memorial UMC in Clayton, NC.   Earlier in our 10-Fold coverage, we highlighted our missionary Mozart Adevu (agriculturalist leading much of the sustainable agriculture work), so if you weren’t able to read about his work then, please feel free to do so now.

Please follow the 10-Fold link to “be counted,” and then click the submit button.  Your presence will generate a $1 gift for the ministry from today’s generous sponsors.  Also, please prayerfully consider giving further to this incredibly important ministry that teaches farmers skills for sustainable farming.  Your gift will make a difference in the life of a community, teaching people to feed themselves, empowered in dignity, lifted in the Body of Christ, in a movement of love and hope.

If you have not visited all the 10-Fold projects, please return to any that you missed.  One click is another point of love lived out in the Kingdom of God.

Entrance to Ganta Missionary Hospital in Ganta, Liberia.

UMCOR supports United Methodist hospitals and clinics in Africa and Asia through the Hospital Revitalization Program. This program provides funds, training, and support to help these facilities assess the needs of the hospital or clinic, and the needs of the surrounding community. The program works with the health care institutions to help them improve community outreach, standards of care, and community-based education and development.  Please go to 10-Fold, click on the “be counted” icon and then submit button.  The ministry will receive $1 from today’s sponsor simply because you visited.   Please take the time for a few clicks and save a sick child.

Woman receives assistance from JFON case worker

Today’s 10-Fold ministry is UMCOR’s Justice for Our Neighbors (JFON) Program, a ministry that welcomes immigrants into our churches and communities by providing free, high-quality immigration legal services, education, and advocacy.  Simply by following the link “Be counted” and submitting, $1 will be donated to the ministry by today’s sponsor.

Motivated by Christian values of love, justice, and compassion, JFON serves Read more »

New Church in Kaliningrad, Russia. First Methodist church in the region since WWII.

Welcome to 10-Fold, Day 6 of 10 days of mission and ministry.  Today we celebrate world-wide United Methodist Church planting, reaching out to invite more brothers and sisters into the life and body of Christ. Global Ministries is working in collaboration with church leaders across the world to plant 400 churches by 2012.  It’s an ambitious goal, but with God’s help we have already planted over 150 congregations in locations such as Laos, Vietnam, Cameroon, Russia, Honduras, and several other countries.  We call these areas Mission Initiatives.

Please check out the 10-Fold website and register for this ministry.  Your presence will garner a $1 donation from today’s sponsor, the North Alabama Conference.  Here is the possibility:  You clicking be counted and submit, could be the dollar that makes it possible for someone to finally know Jesus.  Please register.  It matters.

Visit 10-Fold today and hear first-hand about another ministry supported by  the United Methodist Church that is making a difference and changing people’s lives.

Today 10-Fold focuses on training church leaders.

And don’t forget to register your interest and secure a $1.00 donation on your behalf from the Western North Carolina Conference.  You earn $1 for these critical ministries simply by visiting 10-Fold for the day and registering.  Each day you visit, you earn another dollar.  And please go back and support any projects you’ve missed so far!

One of the four goals of the General Board of Global Ministries is to strengthen, develop, and renew Christian congregations and communities. By working mutually with mission partners in growth and development of spiritual life, worship, witness, and service, this work continues to play a vital role in disciple making around the world.

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Mozart Adevu - United Methodist missionary - teaching in village.

Today, in 10-Fold, we journey with Mozart Adevu, one of our over 300 missionaries serving in over 60 countries around the world.  Mozart, like all of our missionaries, serves as extensions of our hands, feet, voice and heart.

Read more about the wondrous work in sustainable agriculture that we do with Mozart, and before you do, please register at the 10-Fold web site. Your registration will generate a $1 gift toward the critical service of ministry lived out by our United Methodist missionaries in some of the most desperate places on earth.   Read more »