United Methodist University (UMU)
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Facilities and Programs
Facilities and Programs
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Student's Stories
Yambasu Agriculture Initiative empowers farmers
Yambasu Agriculture Initiative staff from 15 annual conferences sharpened their entrepreneurial skills during training at the Songhai Center, a sustainable farming research, teaching and production facility in West Africa.
United Methodist hospital in Nigeria expands
The Rev. Jolly T. Nyame, former governor of Taraba state and onetime director of connectional ministries for The United Methodist Church in Nigeria, said he was proud of the church’s work but also disappointed in the division within the denomination.
Program helps trauma survivors heal
Hicks, a United Methodist deacon and founder of Nashville-based Harper Hill Global, was on the cusp of offering training for Triumph Over Trauma, a seven-week psychoeducational program for people going through trauma, and she explained the training to the two leaders of St. Matthew’s United Methodist Church in Memphis.
United Methodists in Nigeria distribute 50 tricycles
A partnership between the United Methodist Southern Nigeria Conference and the Beautiful Gate Handicap Center recently improved the lives of people with mobility issues. Fifty tricycles were donated through the conference’s ministries with the disabled.
Big day for United Methodist school, guesthouse
Nearby, on the same day, the conference dedicated its first guesthouse, which will serve United Methodists arriving for mission work. The school bears the name of a late United Methodist missionary from Iowa who, from 2002-2008, spent every summer in Nigeria, teaching science, digging wells and installing solar projects.
Nigeria bishop convenes meeting to address violence
Bishop John Wesley Yohanna, leader of The United Methodist Church in Nigeria, organized a peace and reconciliation meeting on Aug. 17 following incidents of violence in the Karim Lamido area of Taraba state.
Divide deepens among Nigerian church leaders
Among those who spent two nights in jail in Jalingo, Taraba State, Nigeria, was the Rev. Ande Emmanuel, who until recently was Yohanna’s administrative assistant. Yohanna announced in early May that he had replaced him and later appointed him to local church ministry, though Emmanuel said he was not consulted on the appointment and has not reported to it.
2021 Sierra Leone Annual Conference
Officiating bishops: Interim Bishop Warner H. Brown and retired Bishop Joseph C. Humper. The conference met in-person in the later part of April because of the movement of interim Bishop Brown from the United States to Freetown, Sierra Leone. The 141st annual session of the conference also did not start with its usual parade in the streets due to coronavirus pandemic and government restrictions.
African bishops not united on church future
Three African bishops have lately said they and their conferences will leave The United Methodist Church and organize with other traditionalists if the denomination splits over whether to remove bans on same-sex marriage and ordination of “self-avowed practicing” gay clergy.
Bishop calls for dialogue on police reform in Nigeria
“The current protest going on in many major cities of this country is a sign that Nigerians need true police reform that will end police brutality in this country,” he said. “I want to call on the government at all levels to use dialogue as a means of settling this protest (rather) than police and military force.
