{"id":30590,"date":"2022-07-23T13:50:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T17:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=30590"},"modified":"2022-08-17T10:30:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T14:30:40","slug":"united-methodists-continue-to-stand-with-ukraine-july-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=30590","title":{"rendered":"United Methodists Continue to Stand with Ukraine (July 2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the United Methodist church has been on the ground helping the displaced Ukrainian people with housing, food, and medical assistance.\u00a0 On July 22 2022, the United Methodist News Service published an update on the relief efforts.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Relief Efforts Continue<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The July article reported that the United Methodist Church (supported by UMCOR- the United Methodist Committee on Relief)\u00a0 is currently helping refugees by providing shelter.\u00a0 Individuals are welcoming families into their homes and local churches are also sheltering refugees.\u00a0 The shelters are helping about 100 people each day, and they also provide food and medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Jim recently wrote the following comments&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">As you are aware being part of The United Methodist Church means we are part of a larger, even global community of believers in Jesus Christ. As such, when we support, pray and participate with each other we are able to make an even greater positive difference in the lives of countless people around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Below is a link to an article which explains some of the work and persons who continue to come alongside those suffering or find themselves displaced from the Ukraine. Please do not grow weary in well doing. Let us continue to pray for peace in the Ukraine and do what we can to support them and those who are on the ground assisting.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To view the United Methodist News Service article, click this button:<\/p>\n<a href='https:\/\/www.umnews.org\/en\/news\/ukrainian-united-methodists-care-for-fellow-countrymen?mkt_tok=MDc4LUpYUS02NDMAAAGFxnloAv2KWAYgKyIOi8ETQY3Vo2cS8FFRR8LbJpoGTsH0o6noyHK0Vex9fpOfnibtN7_acFZ5T63vq2RU_hqzBDnVtm7EZhYBXVxAwh73TwG7Og' class='icon-button download-icon' target=\"_blank\">UMC News Service<span class='et-icon'><\/span><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">=\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 =\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 =\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 =<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information on what the United Methodist Church is doing in Ukraine, view the following article from our website:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"8dFMDEb46q\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=30447\">United Methodists Stand with Ukraine (May 2022)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;United Methodists Stand with Ukraine (May 2022)&#8221; &#8212; pitmanumc.org\" src=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=30447&#038;embed=true#?secret=9kZrchjpBn#?secret=8dFMDEb46q\" data-secret=\"8dFMDEb46q\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #008000;\">+\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To see other articles about United Methodist relief activities, click this button:\u00a0 <a href='https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?cat=35' class='small-button smallgreen'><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> UMCOR<\/span><\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The war in Ukraine may have faded from our own front pages, but the United Methodist Church is still there.  Methodists (and the global church) continue to care for displaced refugees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30592,"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-30590","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\/30590","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=30590"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30596,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30590\/revisions\/30596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}