General Conference 2004

Rocky Mountain Conference News and Resources

Day 10

Global AIDS Fund Approved

May 5, 2004

By Kathy L. Gilbert*

PITTSBURGH (UMNS)—A special United Methodist Global AIDS Fund gained approval May 5 from the 2004 General Conference.

The plan calls for $3 million to be raised through apportionments and a matching fund of $5 million to be raised through Advance gifts.

In a news briefing on April 30, the Rev. Donald Messer, Denver, Colo., said it was time for the church “to put its money where its mouth is” to help awaken the world to the horrors of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. Messer is author of Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence: Christian Churches and the Global AIDS Crisis,

Messer said the Global AIDS Fund will help strengthen programs already in place in the church and to expand those programs to include partner churches and agencies.

*Gilbert is a staff writer for United Methodist News Service.

News media contact: (412) 325-6080 during General Conference, April 27-May 7. After May 10: (615) 742-5470.

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General Conference links:

General Conference 2004 Web site

If the main General Conference site is slow or busy, you can also try some of the General Church agency web sites below, or the unofficial ones listed on the main RMCUMC GC2004 page.

• General Board of Global Ministries GC2004 site
• General Board of Church and Society
• General Board of Discipleship
• General Board of Pension and Health Benefits GC2004 Information
• General Council on Finance and Administration

Please keep the Rocky Mountain Conference Delegates in prayer: Janet Forbes, Youngsook Kang, Olon Lindemood, Chuck Schuster, Aaron Gray, Judy Hill, Brad Laurvick, Dan O'Neill, Liwliwa Robledo, and Peggy Sewell.