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Imagine No Malaria
3/10/2010
Imagine No Malaria Selected for 2010 Annual Conference Offering
The Central Texas Conference’s Mission Leadership Team selected at their annual meeting March 6 Imagine No Malaria for the 2010 Annual Conference offering. Our launch date of April 25 coincides with World Malaria Day with a special emphasis at the 2010 Annual Conference June 6-9 in Fort Worth and a continuation throughout the year and beyond.
Imagine a world without malaria—a preventable disease that kills one child in Africa every 30 seconds, more than 1 million children every year. Imagine the lives changed, the futures created.
Now imagine how your church can have an enormous impact on preventing the disease. Educate your congregation. Empower your community. Organize fundraising. Plan events. Eradicate suffering in simple ways.
Our Central Texas Conference is joining The United Methodist Church in launching this new ministry initiative called Imagine No Malaria, a comprehensive effort to raise $75 million to fight malaria and eliminate deaths and suffering from the disease in Africa by 2015 through education, communication, prevention and treatment. The success of Imagine No Malaria will depend on the active participation of United Methodists. How will your congregation “Imagine No Malaria”?
Broad support for Nothing Buts Nets, our 2007 Annual Conference offering that raised $135,276, confirms that we are a missional people willing to tackle the diseases of poverty and improve health globally. Imagine No Malaria is a call to churches and individuals to take the global health initiative to the next step and increase our contribution in 2010.
The key to winning this fight is empowering people in Africa to achieve a sustainable victory over malaria, which we will accomplish in several ways:
Prevention: Distributing insecticide-treated bed nets (Nothing But Nets), and working to drain standing water where mosquitoes breed.
Education: Teaching people how to effectively use bed nets and how best to protect themselves from malaria.
Communication: Using radio and cell phones to deliver lifesaving information about malaria.
Treatment: Improving access-to-care by training community-based health workers, and delivering life-saving medicines so hospitals and clinics can care for those in need.
For helpful links to resources and ideas:
FaceBook Page for Imagine No Malaria
UMC’s Imagine No Malaria Information & Downloadable Resources (check Know, Act, Pray)
Web Banners, Print Resources, Videos
The United Methodist Response to Malaria
“Sleep-Out to Stamp-Out Malaria” (a suggested youth activity)
Create Pipe Cleaner Mosquitoes
Photo description: School children in Lekki, Nigeria, perform a skit promoting the effectiveness of mosquito nets in preventing malaria. The nets were among malaria-fighting tools discussed last when more than 300 malaria scientists and policymakers participated in the Malaria Forum sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Participants shared updates and advances on eradicating the global disease. A UMNS file photo by Mike DuBose.