The Brooks-Howell Home is a non-profit, charitable, continuing care retirement community in Asheville, NC, owned and supported by the Women's Division of the General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church.
Admission to Brooks-Hollow is open to retirees of Women's Division, National Division, World Division, staff of Women's Division and others approved for residency. The majority of residents are missionaries and deaconesses. A limited number of health care beds are available to persons who are not otherwise eligible.
Surrounded by the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, Asheville is the cultural and medical center for western North Carolina. Lake Junaluska Assembly, several churches, and colleges are located nearby.
The DVD In our own words...The Brooks-Howell Story uses the voices and images of many residents of Brooks-Howell Home to tell the history, purpose, and story. Produced as a 'home movie', this project allows residents to share what is unique about Brooks-Howell as well as express appreciation to United Methodist Women throughout the world who help make Brooks-Howell possible.

This Stories of Hope DVD provides an overview of UMCOR's work in Darfur, Sager Brown, Justice for our Neighbors, and with hurricane recovery.

A Gateway Club is a monthly social and religious education program. It features fellowship time, crafts, singing, meditation, recreational activities, and a meal. This program offers persons with developmental disabilities some of the supports necessary to meet their spiritual needs.
This booklet contains all the direction a leader will need to conduct 36 two-hour programs. Year 1 highlights one holiday each month. Year 2 covers many of the basics of the Christian faith. Year 3 offers a study of the Psalms.
(National Task Force on Developmental Disabilities,GBGM, c2006)

Special Edition: Presents the programs of the Global Gathering in March of 1993.

Rev. Eddie Lopez is the host for this edition of Mission Magazine which includes video reports on:
-An agricultural missionary, Don Cobb, who works with small farmers in Kenya to improve their substance agriculture.
-Restart: an effort to help the homeless in Kansas City, 6,000 volunteers work with a United Mehtodist pastor, Rev. Stuart Whitney, to meet the needs.
-Sustainable agriculture: Denise O'Brien is an Iowa farmer and United Methodist laywoman who promotes small-farm sustainable agriculture globally. "Farming should be a ministry that both provides for the needs of people and respects the earth and God who created it."
-An excerpt from a new video, Love, Justice and Service: The Ministry of Deaconesses. It shows some of the variety of ministries which challenge women to enter the Order of Deaconess.

Missionaries in action. Meet Mario Rodriques who nurtures the Hispanic communities in Scottsbluff, NE; Don Wilson who works in outreach at the Theressa Hoover United Methodist Church in Little Rock, AR; Sun Lae Kin, Christian Education, and Young Chuel and Susanna Cho who do leadership training in Moscow. Also available in Spanish (VT1481) and Korean (VT1482).

The following are discussed in this edition. The latest on the fates of mission projects in war-torn ZAIRE. Visit a Missouri community center with Olympic ties. An Ohio farmer grows a super crop to fight hunger. What awaits you at the up-coming Global Gathering III.

This mission magazine focuses on the studies of the school of missions. Themes:Europe, United Nations and the Spiritual Growth Study, Ecclesiastes: The Meaning of Your Life.

Topics:
Native Americans travel to Hawaii to share their experiences as indigenous peoples.
2-Centennial UMC in rockford, IL reaches out to the Hispanic and African-American community through a multi-cultural ministry.
3-Community-based health care programs bring healing and wholeness to improverished areas.
4-A Survey of the General Board of Global Ministries' website.

National Mission Institutions. An introduction and commitment of women organized for mission, the institutions which they began (and still continued) as places of evangelization and outreach.