Within this section is a collection of resources to aid you in your ministry. Here, you will find links to helpful websites, materials and videos for interpreting the ministries of the United Methodist Church, the Kansas Area Resource Center, and other helps for your ministry.
If you have a resource to share, e-mail Gary Beach or call him at 877-972-9111.
Featured Resources:
10-Fold Participants' guide
The featured projects and a participant's guide for 10-Fold, an intiative of the General Board of Global Ministries and The Advance for Christ and His Church is now available online. Visit www.10-fold.org for a video and a link to download the participant's guide.
CyberSafety Training Kit for families and churches
A new training CD developed by the General Board of Disicpleship (GBOD) is now available to help churches and community groups protect children and youth from the perils of the digital world of cell phones and cyberspace.
The CyberSafety for Families Training Kit allows the church to be more directly involved in providing awareness and training around technology to help ensure children and youth are protected as they navigate the Internet world.
The training kit's CD includes a section on "what you need to know first," a planning guide, teaching plans with schedule options, handouts and a slide presentation. Subjects include safety in the high tech world of computers, cell phones, video games and social networking Web sites.
The kit is available for $35 plus shipping from The Upper Room (www.upperroom.org) and Cokesbury (www.cokesbury.com) and also at Cokesbury bookstores nationwide.
God's Creation Renewed: A call to hope and action
At its November meeting, the United Methodist Council of Bishops issued a call to all United Methodists to change our way of being in the world to effect a change in the world. Pandemic poverty and disease, environmentla degradation and a world full of weapons and violance are the wages of our sins against God's creation. But there is hope if we chagne our ways, the 69 United Methodist bishops said in a pastoral letter the council asked to be read in churches during Advent. The letter is found on a special website for this initiative at www.hopeandaction.org.
Churches can continue the conversation during Lent with a Bible study. The Bible study can be downloaded from the Hope and Action website.
For more information on the call to hope and action, visit www.hopeandaction.org.