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Hundreds take steps for AIDS
Written: 4/16/2008
By Woody WoodrickAdvocate Editor   Hundreds of Mississippians spent a recent Sunday afternoon showing they care about those with HIV/AIDS.   More than 400 people took part in the April 6 Footsteps in Hope 8K run/walk at Ross Barnett Reservoir in Ridgeland. The event was co-sponsored by...

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Youth eager for mission to Zimbabwe
Written: 5/15/2007
By Woody WoodrickAdvocate Editor LaKeadra Coffey has never flown in an airplane. She’s picked a doosey of a trip for her first air travel. Coffey will be among 26 people, mostly youth, from the Mississippi Conference traveling to Zimbabwe on a mission trip. The trip is part of the Chabadza Covenan...

Zimbabwe UMs look at Social Principles as instrument of change
Written: 3/30/2007
HARARE, Zimbabwe (UMNS) - Facing desperate social conditions, 121 United Methodist church leaders in Zimbabwe studied the church's Social Principles as an instrument for change in a nation burdened with systemic economic, medical and political challenges. "Overwhelming social conditions in Zim...

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Zimbabwean pastor pays visit to state
Written: 11/1/2006
By Woody WoodrickAdvocate Editor Sitting in the living room of a home in Vicksburg, one could easily sense it was a special moment for Lloyd Nyarota.  Nyarota was talking about his home country, Zimbabwe, with Twick Morrison of Vicksburg. “It meant so much to us to have someone stand with us ...

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Training shares ways for UM communicators to tell Africa's faith stories
Written: 8/1/2006
United Methodist News Service MUTARE, Zimbabwe — For Marie Manisha, whose homeland of Burundi is still recovering from war, good communications is essential to life itself.   “Without communication, there is no life,” she said, speaking in French. She and 27 other United Methodist commun...

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Nhiwatiwa pays visit to Purvis to thank church for scholarship
Written: 7/18/2006
As Bishop Eben Nhiwatiwa left the Mississippi Annual Conference session in June, he detoured to Purvis United Methodist Church to thank the members of the church for their unusual support of Africa University.   The Purvis church was the first church in United Methodism to give a full, four-...

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Mississippi takes lead in helping Zimbabwe communication woes
Written: 6/20/2006
By Kathy L. Gilbert United Methodist News Service HARARE, Zimbabwe — Gladman Makwenya is a young, enthusiastic communicator, ready to take on the challenges of spreading the news about the church in Zimbabwe with a pen and some loose recycled newsprint pages.   Pen and paper are about the o...

Covenant to be in chabadza: Signatures make pledge official
Written: 6/12/2006
By Woody WoodrickAdvocate Editor United Methodist bishops from Mississippi and Zimbabwe formalized a covenant of “chabadza” between their conferences Sunday night, June 11. Bishops Eben Nhiwatiwa of the Zimbabwe Area and Bishop Hope Morgan Ward of Mississippi signed the document calling for United...

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Mississippi to help spread the Word in Zimbabwe Area
Written: 5/25/2006
In Zimbabwe, buses serve as vital means of communication as well as transportation. “We have to go to the main bus station and persuade bus drivers who service rural areas to act as couriers for information from the bishop’s office, superintendent’s office and local church office,” said Bishop Ebe...