Poverty
Advocacy
The United Methodist Church has identified eliminating poverty and engaging in ministry with the poor as one of its “Four Areas of Focus” for the next quadrennium and beyond.The Missions Ministry Team and Outreach/Advocacy Ministry Team of Holston Conference are partnering to create a Poverty Abolition Team Holston (PATH) to address that need.
Checkout some of the sessions from our 2011 Abolishing Poverty Conference held Sept 9-10 at First Broad Street UMC in Kingsport, TN:
The mission of PATH is to:
Encourage and enable Holston United Methodist congregations, districts, ministry teams, agencies and the Conference to develop and strengthen ministries which work to eliminate poverty through long-term solutions: enabling the poor to build and manage assets (housing, education, business ownership, gardening and food preservation, financial literacy training, etc.), and advocacy for policies that enable these and other means of eliminating poverty.
Lead Holston Conference in collaborating with other United Methodist annual conference, jurisdictional, and general church efforts to eliminate poverty.The Team does this through strategies of education, resource development, advocacy and networking
To be engaged in advocacy with our annual conference on ways the annual conference, districts and local churches can restructure the spending of their resources that might help us be better examples to the world
For more information contact Gaye King - gayeking@holston.org
