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Florida Conference responds to Mitch survivors

“Life [in Honduras] is coming to normal, little by little, but the need is great,” said Bishop Armando Rodriguez, the retired Cuban bishop who is serving the Methodist Church in Honduras. He says the Florida Conference has helped make that possible through the medicine, supplies, money and people it has sent to the country after last October’s Hurricane Mitch killed thousands and left millions homeless
Dr. Joe Dorn, a family physician at Citrus Memorial Hospital and member of First United Methodist Church, Inverness, was one of the first Floridians to respond.
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Florida Conference committed to reaching singles

Jesus Christ was a single adult, yet single adults “often have difficulty finding a place of connection and acceptance at the local church,” says the Rev. Nancy Wood, the Florida Conference’s consultant on singles ministries. That is why the Florida Conference has made a commitment to reach the 44 percent of the population that is single, divorced or widowed.
“Churches avidly support two-parent families, but don’t know what to do with the others [singles],” Wood said. “They just hope they fit in somehow.” Full Story

Florida woman protests training school
A total of 2,319 people walked onto the grounds of Fort Benning in Columbus, GA, Nov. 22 carrying crosses and coffins, praying, singing and repeating the names of victims of violence and persecution in Latin America in protest of the training taking place at the army base’s School of the Americas (SOA). The Rev. Vicki Walker, a deacon in the Florida Conference serving Tampa United Methodist Centers, was one of them. Full Story

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