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- - A Prayer for Zimbabwe*
  - Adapted by Mark Conard from the Prayer “For Those Who Suffer,” The United Methodist Book of Worship # 546.
  - Lack of education plagues Mozambique economy
  - While the economy in Mozambique is improving, it's not quick enough for impoverished families looking for a sustainable income.
  - Community radio crusade renewed in U.S. Congress
  - “Radio of the people, for the people, by the people" is the goal of bills introduced in the U.S. Congress.
  - United Methodist radio back on the air in Liberia
  - United Methodists in the West African nation have a new FM radio station to help heal the war-torn country.
  - Zimbabwean ministries get boost in communications skills
  - United Methodist church workers hear challenge to tell stories of faith in their areas.
  - Communications commission meets in Zimbabwe
  - Twenty-nine members of the Commission on Communications are meeting in Africa Jan. 4-11, the first ever meeting outside the United States.
  - Africa University develops e-learning plans, officials say
  - Africa University is on an e-learning threshold to become the pan-African institution it was created to be, school officials told United Methodist bishops.
  - African United Methodists count on radio to reach masses
  - MUTARE, Zimbabwe (UMNS) — On a vast continent where large regions are “off the grid” — inaccessible by Internet or telephone — African communicators are looking to one medium to help them connect United Methodist churches: Radio.
  - Analysis: Looking at community radio in Africa
  - Communication is a rare and precious resource in a land where phones lines don’t exist and no one delivers letters.
  - Africa University sees broader role as service provider
  - A training conference for United Methodist communicators is a sign of more events to come at the denomination's Africa University.
  - Conference trains communicators to tell Africa's stories
  - MUTARE, Zimbabwe (UMNS) -- For Marie Manisha, whose homeland of Burundi is still recovering from war, good communications is essential to life itself.
  - Mozambique struggles with communication issues
  - Bishop Joao Somane Machado and his staff know good communication saves lives.
  - Poor infrastructure stymies communications in Sierra Leone
  - It’s “neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night” that keeps the mail from being delivered in this African country.
  - Church in Zimbabwe far behind in communication
  - Gladman Makwenya is a young, enthusiastic communicator, ready to take on the challenges of spreading the news about the church in Zimbabwe with a pen and some loose recycled newsprint pages.
  - Initiative helps communicators build global network
  - Thirty-one representatives from 17 African countries will gather June 15-30 for an intense two-week course of study to build their skills as Christian communicators and help build a global network for the United Methodist Church.
  - Liberia Conference close to establishing radio station
  - Bishop John Innis is looking forward to being the first broadcaster on United Methodist radio in this war-torn country because he has good news to share.
  - African communicators meet, share ideas for future
  - Most United Methodist communicators in Africa work without access to a working landline phone, Internet, transportation and, in some cases, reliable electricity.
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The United Methodist Church has launched radio in Côte d’Ivoire. Amplify Hope by giving some of the earth’s poorest and most isolated people the ability to communicate and to become better educated. Put power back into their lives. Visit Amplifyhope.org

There is hope. There is light. And when the light shines, the darkness scatters.

Communication is a kind of light. It reveals what was hidden. It puts on full display what has been here all along: The hope of God. The human spirit. The power of common people to make a difference in their own lives and in the lives of others.

That's why the Central Conference Communications Initiative (CCCI), authorized by General Conference 2004 and led by United Methodist Communications, has had such an impact. By building communications infrastructure and training people to use it, CCCI has given the people of the central conferences the power to shine a light of their own.

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