Welcome to the Global Ministries Creation Care Network--a resource of the General Board of Global Ministries. Please note the following terms of use.

By activating a profile on this platform, you consent to receiving Creation Care-related email from Global Ministries.

You may not (1) publish, display, disclose, rent, lease, modify, loan, distribute, or create derivative works based on this Network without the express written permission of Global Ministries, or remove, obliterate, or cancel from view any copyright, trademark, confidentiality or other proprietary notice, mark or legend appearing on the Global Ministries Creation Care Network.

You agree not to use the Global Ministries Creation Care Network to:

• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable to Global Ministries.

• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available content  that violates laws or regulations designed to protect minors.

• impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, the Global Ministries webmaster, forum leader, guide or host, of falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person on entity;

• forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Global Ministries Creation Care Network;

• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);

• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary right ("Rights") of any party;

• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, fundraising campaigns or any other form of solicitation.

• Intentionally upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware on telecommunications equipment;

• disrupt the normal flow of dialogue, cause a screen to scroll faster than other users of the Global Ministries Creation Care Network are able to type, or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other users’ ability to engage in real time exchanges;

• interfere with or disrupt the Network or servers or networks connected to umcmission.org, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to umcmission.org.org;

• intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including, but not limited to, regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, any rules of any national or other securities exchange, including, without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ, and any regulations having the force of law;

• stalk or otherwise harass another, or

• collect or store personal data about other users.

Global Ministries does not condone copyright infringement and will not tolerate such infringement by its users. Accordingly, Global Ministries may, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who may be infringing the intellectual property rights of others.

We may modify or discontinue of services or your account with us, with or without notice, without liability to you, any other user or any third party. We reserve the right to terminate your account if we learn that you have provided us with false or misleading registration information, interfered with other users or the administration of these services, or violated these Terms of Service.

You understand and agree that Global Ministries' services are provided AS-IS. Global Ministries assumes no responsibility for the timeliness, deletion, mis-delivery or failure to store any user communications or personalization settings.

You understand and expressly agree that use of the Global Ministries' Creation Care Network is at your own risk and you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from the download of material from the network.