Community Outreach Clinics
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Mercy Hospital’s Child Health program is dedicated to reducing childhood illness and mortality by providing essential medical care, immunizations, nutrition support, and health education. Through outreach clinics and in-hospital services, the program ensures that even the most vulnerable children in the community have access to life-saving care. Every child deserves a healthy start, and Mercy Hospital is committed to making that a reality.
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Your Impact
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.
