Christmas in the Real World: 2019
General secretary Thomas Kemper reflects on the Christmas season and offers words of challenge and hope.
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.
UMCOR provides home sanitation units for Alaska’s Yu’pik community as first residents relocate to Mertarvik
Mertarvik, Alaska, the relocation site for Newtok, a Yu’pik village that lost much of its land to rising sea levels and eroding coastline, receives its first residents in newly built houses, complete with UMCOR-funded PASS sanitation units in each home.
Hope for the weary, food for the hungry
Devotional by Devorah Umpig-Julian | Third week of Advent
Vegetables, fish and hope for Quessua families
Devotional by Kutela Katembo Dieudonne | Third week of Advent
Holding someone’s hand is the beginning of every peace journey
Devotional by Jin Yang Kim | Fourth week of Advent
National Plan for Hispanic/Latino Ministry announces departure of the Rev. Francisco Cañas in June 2020 and search for new director
Having served in his current role for 13 years, Cañas will step down from his staff position as national director and the NPHLM Committee will conduct a national search for a new director next year.