UMNS Daily Digest - Sept. 3, 2010 (MARCHA, youth ministry, 105-year-old volunteer, Grandparents Day,

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       UMNS Daily Digest - Produced by United Methodist News Service
                           Friday, Sept. 3, 2010
                 [5]105-year-old leads hospitality ministry
                [6]At 75, Upper Room enriches spiritual walk
                [7]Hispanic caucus focuses on youth, outreach
               [8]Agency offers resources for Grandparents Day


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          "If 105 is not too old to serve the church, what's your
 excuse? I wish we had more people like her calling up and asking 
what they
                     can do." â The Rev. Mike Macdonald
            talking about church member Jean Christy, who calls
                parishioners to wish them a happy birthday.

105-year-old leads hospitality ministry

   ANDREWS, N.C. (UMNS) â Jean Christy felt she was not doing enough 
for her
   church, so she called her pastor and asked how she might 
volunteer. She was
   a mere 104 at the time. Christy suggested she might use her 
telephone skills
   to cheer up her fellow Christians, and her pastor agreed. Since 
March,
   Christy has been the "birthday ambassador" for Andrews United 
Methodist
   Church.

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At 75, Upper Room enriches spiritual walk

   NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) â Randy, 45, was in prison for the second 
time.
   Struggling with addiction since his teens, he had stolen to buy 
drugs. Randy
   planned to hang himself from the sprinkler system at lockdown. 
But, somehow,
   he found - and opened - a copy of The Upper Room daily devotional 
guide. For
   75  years,  The Upper Room daily devotional guide has offered hope 
and
   inspiration to believers and seekers alike.

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Hispanic caucus focuses on youth, outreach

   SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (UMNS) â Young Latino Methodists are eager 
to take the
   church's message into the world and be advocates for change, a 
youth leader
   said. Freddy Bermudez Jr., a college student and member of San 
Pablo United
   Methodist Church in Waukegan, Ill., was among the young people 
energized at
   the annual meeting of MARCHA, or Methodists Associated 
Representing the
   Cause of Hispanic Americans.

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                Agency offers resources for Grandparents Day

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) â Grandparents Day, the first Sunday after 
Labor
 Day, is an opportunity to honor both biological grandparents and the 
elders
 who offer compassion, concern, wisdom and generosity. According to 
research
reported by the United Methodist Board of Discipleship, children who 
have at
 least five caring adults in their lives, in addition to their 
parents, are
   more likely to thrive and less likely to become "at risk." The 
Board of
   Discipleship has worship resources for congregations to recognize 
the
       "grandmas" and "grandpas" who love and [19]share their faith.
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