United Methodist sites

Church and Society, UMC General Board of: www.umc-gbcs.org: Background on key issues, worship and study resources,  rapid access to elected officials.

Cokesbury: www.cokesbury.com: Retail division of the UM Publishing house; curriculum, books, supplies, etc.

Discipleship, UMC General Board of: www.gbod.org/: Discipleship ministries/resources, Upper Room, Horizon

Discount software and hardware for U Ms: see UMCOM techshop.

Evangelism, General Board of Discipleship: www.gbod.org/evangelism/: articles, resources, newsletters, programs, calendar

Foundation for Evangelism: www.evangelize.org/: promotes and provides resources for responsible evangelism:

Free web space: gbgm-umc.org/churches/terms.cfm; from the Board of Global Ministries.

Global Ministries, UMC General Board of: gbgm-umc.org/home_page/index.cfm: UMC in missions

HIPPA: www.gcfa.org/HIPAA_Privacy_Rule.pdf: how the health privacy rules affect churches.

Igniting Ministry: www.ignitingministry.org: advertising and outreach ideas.

Infoserv: archives.umc.org/interior.asp?ptid=16&mid=1244: ask your UM related question by email, phone or fax. Infoserv will have the answer!

Interpreter:  www.interpretermagazine.org: on-line magazine for and about UMs.

Methodist Leader: methodistleader.com: a compilation of helpful sites.

Music and Worship Arts, The Fellowship of UMs in: www.fummwa.org: Organization for UMC musicians and other worship artists

PAUMCS: www.paumcs.org: official site of Professional Association of United Methodist Church Secretaries.

Prayer Request: www.umc.org/site/c.lwL4KnN1LtH/b.2114865/k.A8FA/Prayer_Request.htm. Send your prayer request to the Upper Room.

Special Sunday resources: https://secure.umcom.org/store/Dept.asp?Cat%5FID=207&web%5Fname=Special+Sundays+2 007&mscsid=7US1QHXE34GU9PA9KS6X9QUJUSR3CXUD: free resources for UM Special Sunday offerings.

UMCOM: www.umcom.org/: official communications division of the UMC; helps tell the story of the church and its people.

UMCOM Tech Shop: www.techshopministry.org/interior.asp?ptid=20&mid=3267: hardware and software for UMs at a discount.

UMCOR: gbgm-umc.org/umcor: official web site of the United Methodist Committee on Relief.

UMC website: www.umc.org: official website of the United Methodist Church. Links to most other UM agencies, conferences, districts and churches.

UM graphics: http://www2.umc.org/interior.asp?ptid=1&mid=792: download the cross and flame and other UM symbols.

UMA: www.umassociation.org: UM Association for health care; Destination RX.

UMNeXus: www.umnexus.org/: an independent weekly news publication for United Methodists produced by the Boston Wesleyan Association.

Worship: www.gbod.org/worship: UM website for worship planning; calendars, music, preaching, lectionary.

Sign up for UM online news and information

Alban Institute: not a UM organization but they occasionally hold events in Wisconsin which may be more easily accessed by some UP residents.

Church and Society: choose a weekly digest or updates on a wide range of social issues.

Foundation for Evangelism: news release service.

United Methodist News Service: choose from all sorts of topics or a weekly digest of news by email.

UM Nexus: independent weekly news publication for U Ms published by Zion’s Herald.

Of interest to the Marquette District UMC

Camp Michigamme: www.gbgm-umc.org/campmichigamme/

Detroit Annual Conference UMC: www.umc-detconf.org/

Emmaus Community, Superiorland: www.superiorlandemmaus.org/: Upcoming Emmaus Walks, other dates, forms, newsletter.

Fire UP: fireup.gospelcom.net/: annual ecumenical youth event at NMU.

Marquette District Office UMC: wwwwww.umc-detconf.org/.gbgm-umc.org/mqtdistrict/: churches, pastors, calendar, news, events.

Michigan Area Resource Center, UMC, (MARC): www.marc-web.org: Audiovisual and music lending library: books, videos, music, magazines, posters, booklets.

Northern Michigan University Wesley House: www.gbgm-umc.org/wesleyhouse-nmu: UMC campus ministry at NMU.

United Methodist Women, Marquette District: www.gbgm-umc.org/detcumw/md.html: District mission team of the UMW.

Youth Ministries, Detroit Conference Committee on: daccym.org or www.daccym.org: Events, meetings, calendar, general church opportunities.

Other religion-related sites

Bible Crosswalk: bible.crosswalk.com: scripture resources and Bible study tools.

Bible: Gateway: biblegateway.com: Bible verses, words, topics; all versions including New International Version.

Clergy resource center: clergyresourcecenter.com/Services.html: clergy relocation help and moving services.

Christian symbols: www.christiansymbols.net: Christian symbols and their meanings.

Church business: www.churchbusiness.com: solutions and strategies for growing churches.

Church Plaza: churchplaza.com: church building products and services.

Church Art: www.churchart.com: not free but folks speak highly of it.

Christian Tools of Affirmation: www.ctainc.com: Christian gifts and tokens.

Church Secretary Today: www.churchsecretarytoday.com: $19 gets you on-line resources, a monthly newsletter, on-line forum.

Dayspring: dayspring.com: free religious and inspirational e-cards; purchase cards and stationary.

Edevotionals: edevotionals.com: free daily devotional; paid church communication service

Man in the Mirror: http://www.maninthemirror.org: resources for men’s ministry.

Ministry Values.com: www.ministryvalues.com/: search engine for anything of a religious nature.

OneChurchSource: www.onechurchsource.com: Links to suppliers of a multitude of church necessities; newsletter

Text Week: www.textweek.com/: Lectionary, scripture study and worship links and resources.

Search engine sites:

Altavista: www.altavista.com/: answers your questions.

Ask Jeeves: www.ask.com: answers your questions.

Dogpile: dogpile.com: claims “all the best search engines piled into one.”  One of the best.

Excite: excite.com/: answers your questions.

Google: www.google.com: another one of the best place to find answers to your questions

Yahoo: www.yahoo.com/: answers your questions.

Verify/identify scams, spams, viruses, hoaxes:

Email chain letters: www.breakthechain.org: check on veracity and origin of email chain letters.

Fact check: www.factcheck.com: Is that a fact? Verify it here. Research your questions.

Phishing Encyclopeida: www.trendmicro.com/en/security/phishing/overview.htm. Verify credit card and bank phishing scams.

Snopes: www.snopes.com/snopes.asp. true story or urban legend?

Truth or fiction: truthorfiction.com/: email reality check.

Virus search: securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html: identify/report viruses and spyware.

General resources

Address & Phone directory: www.whitepagesnationwide.com: white pages, reverse phone directory.

Adobe Reader: www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html: free program enables access to web documents.

Adware remover, free: www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html: Spybot, removes unwanted ads and pop-ups.

Adware remover, free: www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html: Ad-Aware, removes unwanted ads and pop-ups.

Amortization calculator: ray.met.fsu.edu/~bret/amortize.html: calculate payments, payoffs.

Anti-virus protection, free: www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html: AVG Anti-virus, free virus protection.

Clip art, free: www.free-graphics.com: free and for sale.

Driver guide: driverguide.com: find the driver you need for a whole lot of hardware.

Demographic info: www.claritas.com/claritas/Default.jsp?ti=3&ci=1&pn=freeinfo (Free!).

Download.com: www.download.com: downloads for software, music, games and videos; free and paid.

Maps: www.mapquest.com: maps and travel directions.

Mortgage Loan Calculator: http://www.mortgageloan.com/calculator/; over 100 personal finance calculators.

The Music Rack: www.sheetmusic1.com/MUSIC.RACK.HTML: free sheet music, staff paper,

music teacher resources.

Poster Advisor: http://www.dol.gov/elaws/asp/posters/default.asp: find out what employment posters you are required to display and download or order them for free.

Post Office, Business Mail 101: www.usps.com/businessmail101; primer for mailing anything in large quantities.

Quotes: www.quoteland.com: identify a quote, quotes by subject

Webopedia: www.webopedia.com/: computer dictionary for internet, computer and internet technology.

Wikopedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page: free online encyclopedia; great for an overall idea on practically everything, but don’t cite for anything really important.

Wiktionary: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary: free online dictionary.

Zip codes: zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp: look up zip codes.

Of personal interest

Find abandoned money: www.bankrate.com/aol/news/bank/19990420b.asp: look for cash you may have forgotten about.

Credit Report: www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/index: get your free annual credit report here.

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