{"id":30447,"date":"2022-07-02T12:50:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T16:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=30447"},"modified":"2022-07-23T13:52:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T17:52:06","slug":"united-methodists-stand-with-ukraine-may-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=30447","title":{"rendered":"United Methodists Stand with Ukraine (May 2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since February 2022, we’ve been inundated by images of bombs, bodies, and burned out buildings.\u00a0 Devastation and Darkness have covered the people of Ukraine.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

But when the refugees began to stream from their country, United Methodists in Eastern Europe immediately jumped into action to help the displaced Ukrainians.\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

In late May 2022, a team from the United Methodist News Service<\/a> traveled to the region to report on what the United Methodist Church is doing to cushion the suffering and to provide a refuge for those fleeing their war torn country.\u00a0 One result of this visit is a series of heart-warming photos taken by\u00a0 Mike DuBose of the United Methodist News Service.\u00a0
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The Chris Tomlin song, “How Great is Our God,” reminds us that God’s Light always triumphs…<\/p>\n

He wraps himself in light, <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

And darkness tries to hide,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

And trembles at His voice.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Glimmers of Light in a Dark World…<\/span><\/h3>\n

In these pictures, we catch a refreshing glimpse of God’s light:\u00a0 children playing, refugees being given a home, Hungarians, Czechs, and Americans praying with displaced Ukrainians.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of the photos, shown below, offers a sense of “normalcy” as children play …. in a United Methodist Camp located in Debrecen, Hungary.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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To view all of the photos and to read the introductory article, click the following button:<\/p>\n

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How Can I Help?<\/span><\/h3>\n

In the United Methodist Church, relief efforts are funded by an organization called “UMCOR” (which has the really exciting name of “United Methodist Committee on Relief.”). The name isn’t inspiring, but the work\u00a0 that happens because of UMCOR is exciting.\u00a0 From our neck of the woods,we can help people in places like Ukraine by supporting a fund established by UMCOR.<\/p>\n

To give to UMCOR’s Ukrainian relief efforts, check out our website’s “Invest<\/a><\/span><\/strong>” page.\u00a0 If you want to give electronically, click the “Give” button that’s on the\u00a0 top of that page (from the online giving site,select the “UMCOR-Beneveloance” fund).\u00a0 Additional instructions are on the “Invest<\/a>” page if you want to give in other ways.<\/p>\n

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To see other articles about United Methodist relief activities, click this button:\u00a0 UMCOR<\/span><\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Since February 2022, we have endured constant barrage of news describing the destruction and suffering in Ukraine. But there are glimmers of light. The United Methodist News Service recently posted a series of photos showing how Ukrainian refugees are finding tastes of “normalcy” as they are cared for by United Methodists in the surrounding countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,57,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evrpt","category-mission-global","category-umcor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30447"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30465,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30447\/revisions\/30465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}