“It was quite an accomplishment. This work done in such haste has been hailed as part of the classical Spanish literature.” — The Rev. Justo González about the first complete Spanish translation of the Bible.
NEWS AND FEATURES
Celebrating the first complete Bible in Spanish
SAN ANTONIO (UM News) — The 450th anniversary of the first complete Bible translation in Spanish is a good time to remember the intrigue and adventure it took to get “The Bible of the Bear” in the hands of the public. Murder, smuggling and the Spanish Inquisition all played a part. Jim Patterson reports.
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Conference opens first entrepreneur school
TAIAMA, Sierra Leone (UM News) — The Taiama Enterprise Academy, a hybrid of hands-on vocational and entrepreneurship training, has opened in southern Sierra Leone. The academy is the realization of a dream by Sierra Leone Conference Bishop John K. Yambasu and Operation Classroom, a United Methodist organization supported by churches in Indiana. Phileas Jusu has the story.
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South Georgia Conference
United Methodists help combat ‘period poverty’
MACON, Ga. — Centenary United Methodist Church has formed a partnership with a nonprofit group, Macon Periods Easier, to help women and girls who lack access to sanitary products. Kara Witherow reports.
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PRESS RELEASES
Church and Society
Revised Social Principles introduced to church
WASHINGTON — Legislation for the revised United Methodist Social Principles has been submitted to the 2020 General Conference and is online in seven languages for review and discussion. A writing team of more than 50 church members — from the central conferences in the Philippines, Congo, West Africa, Central and Southern Europe, Northern Europe and Eurasia and the five U.S. jurisdictions — worked on the document.
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Commission on General Conference
General Conference organizers unveil GC2020 logo
MINNEAPOLIS — Volunteers are needed for a variety of roles during the 2020 General Conference. Travel, double occupancy housing and food per diem provisions will be provided for volunteers selected. The United Methodist Church’s top legislative assembly will meet May 5-15 in Minneapolis.
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Alabama-West Florida Conference
Podcast helps clergy with preaching
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — “Word on the Street,” a biweekly podcast aimed at preaching excellence, is designed to help clergy think about unusual ways to use the lectionary text and other relevant passages of the Bible. The first episode launched Oct. 21. Participants are ordained and provisional elders and deacons, licensed local pastors and a few guests.
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