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  • Scouts prepare 24,000 meals

    January 27th, 2012

    VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- Five Scout units sponsored by St. Andrew’s UMC prepared 24,000 dehydrated meals for Haitians during a March 5, 2011 Stop Hunger Now packaging event. A Boy Scout troop and a Cub Scout pack joined with three Girl Scout troops to package dehydrated high-protein meals for Haitians following the devastating earthquake … read more

  • Electrical engineer named scouting ministry specialist in Missouri

    January 20th, 2012

    Photo: Dr. J. Derald Morgan, a scouting ministry specialist in the Missouri Annual Conference, stands near the entrance to the Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve in West Virginia, the future site of the National Scout Jamboree. Morgan will be on the staff at that July 15-24, 2013, event which will be attended by some 45,000 Scouts. BRANSON WEST… read more

  • UM Men – The year in review

    December 29th, 2011

    Photo: Participants in the 2011 World Methodist Conference package 101,000 dehydrated meals as part of a Stop Hunger Now event sponsored by United Methodist Men.   NASHVILLE, Tenn.–– The year 2011 might well be characterized as the year of the volunteer.   During the year, the General Commission on UM Men recruited and trained … read more

  • Teen aids disabled and homeless vets

    October 28th, 2011

    Photo: Emilie Miller sits with items she has collected for homeless and disabled veterans. The Herald Photo by Andy Burris   By Shawn Cetrone ROCK HILL, N.C.––Emilie Miller, 16, collected mounds of clothing, stacks of books and bundles of soap and laundry detergent for Alston Wilkes Society, a Columbia charity that serves disabled and … read more