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Health facilities undergo renovations worldwide, like Shungu maternity clinic in DRC
A vital health facility for a rural community in Kamina, the Shungu maternity clinic now has running water for the first time since it opened its doors in 1969.
Learning through relationship
Watch as Allison Lindsey, board member from the South Georgia Annual Conference, recounts trips to the North Katanga Annual Conference and how lasting relationships centered in mission have been built between the two conferences.
Mission is: Relationship
Relationship is at the heart of mission. Cultivating relationships across boundaries because of the good news God offers us in Christ is a foundational and sustaining part of our work as United Methodists.
UMCOR names new executive director
The United Methodist Committee on Relief will enter its ninth decade led by Lara S. Martin who brings a strong background in international disaster response, public health and child welfare.
Remembering heroes of mission and ministry: Sam Dixon and Clint Rabb
On the 10th anniversary of their death, Thomas Kemper remembers the life, ministry and mission of two Global Ministries staff members who died in the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
Christmas in the Real World: 2019
General secretary Thomas Kemper reflects on the Christmas season and offers words of challenge and hope.
Holding someone’s hand is the beginning of every peace journey
Devotional by Jin Yang Kim | Fourth week of Advent
Gateway to freedom: Peace with justice
Devotional by Angela A. Reed | Fourth week of Advent
Sustaining faith partnerships with Latin America
Through small grants, the Encounter with Christ fund has nurtured Methodist mission and relationships in 26 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Former young adult missionary once held in the Philippines dies in Zimbabwe
Tawanda Chandiwana, 29, a former United Methodist Global Mission Fellow who was at the center of a 2018 campaign to win his release from the Philippines, died on December 13 in his home of Zimbabwe.