North American News & Stories

Global Ministries’ Energy Efficiency Webinar offered tonight, January 27; Speakers Include representative of church that secured $102,000 solar grant from local utility company.

General Secretary Roland Fernandes outlines the United Methodist mission agency's globally inclusive response to the COVID-19 pandemic, seeking to "do no harm" and alleviate human suffering.

Cory United Methodist Church in Glenville, Cleveland, Ohio, offers a ministry of financial education, restoring a tradition from the 1950s.

Two years after the UMCOR, CWS and JFON partnership, asylum cases are finally moving. Confusing policies and pandemic closures have kept asylum seekers with legitimate cases in limbo.

The fourth and final Advent devotion in our 2021 missionary series comes from Shiree Fetterly, a US-2 Global Mission Fellow from Michigan serving with Metropolitan Ministries in Tampa, Florida.

UMCOR supports partners in the aftermath of December tornadoes.

Roland Fernandes reflects on Christmas in light of the continued challenges of 2021, calling for all to rejoice and be joyful for “God is with us, God is near us.”

Global Ministries commissions 17 EarthKeepers from nine U.S. states and the Philippines for ministries that care for the Earth.

Seventeen new Global Ministries EarthKeepers will launch creation care projects in their local communities.

“Love Beyond Borders: The Interfaith Movement to End the Pandemic” will support UNICEF’s global vaccine distribution efforts.

A three-part overview of the work of UMCOR in the first three-quarters of 2021. This Part 1 in the series outlines disaster response in the United States.

For 5 years, UMCOR assisted those who lost loved ones and livelihoods as a result of the 9/11 attacks. On this 20th anniversary, read General Secretary Roland Fernandes’ remembrance of that day and the days that followed