Bishop John Yambasu, RIP
With the rest of the United Methodist family around the globe, we join in mourning the death of Bishop John K. Yambasu, the Resident Bishop of the Sierra Leone Area, who died in a car accident outside Freetown in Sierra Leone on Sunday, August 16. According to the...
With Hearts for Mission
By Ruth Burgner - H.T. and Alice Maclin may be names familiar to you. In January 1984, H.T. became the founding president of The Mission Society for United Methodists (now TMS Global). Its launch was well known among evangelical United Methodists and was so momentous...
Tom Skinner and Inner City Tech
Tom Skinner and Inner City Tech May/June 1990 Good News God has raised up Tom Skinner (1942-1994), former gang leaders of the Harlem Lords, into a dramatic ministry that has reached into the poverty-stricken inner city. His learning center in Newark, New...
Archive: We Must Surrender Ourselves
Archive: We Must Surrender Ourselves By E. Stanley Jones May/June 1990 Good News Why is God so cruel? Why does he demand so much of us? In demanding self-surrender, is God being cruel or consistent? God obeys every law he demands of us. He especially obeys and...
Abortion: The UMC is ‘Falling Short’ (1990)
Abortion: The UMC is ‘Falling Short’ By Steve Beard March/April 1990 As thousands of marchers descended upon the Mall to protest the 17th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, pro-life clergy and laypeople met together for a worship service in the chapel of the UM Building...
Archive: God Beckons ‘Come Near to Minister to Me’
Archive: God Beckons ‘Come Near to Minister to Me' If the Lord is to be lord worship must have priority in our lives. The first commandment of Jesus is "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all...
Archive: Can Somebody Find a Way to Clone This Guy?
Archive: Can Somebody Find a Way to Clone This Guy? By Dierdra DeVries Moran If we had more people like Gus Gustafson, the Church would have fewer problems. "I'll be a preacher! I'll be a boy preacher! Why, I'll start right now!" said a teenaged Gus Gustafson, the man...
Archive: How We Can Overcome Our Private Misery
Archive: How We Can Overcome Our Private Misery By J. I. Packer ‘It belongs to true Easter faith to take to our own hurts the healing of the Emmaus Road’ On Friday afternoon they took Him down from the cross as dead as a man can be. On Sunday afternoon He walked most...
