Race and Racism in Methodist Mission History: A Literature Review
The work of overcoming racism in church and society today requires honest confrontation with racism in the past. Dr. David W. Scott has prepared a review of existing literature on African Americans, race and racism in Methodist mission history, published by the independent blog UM & Global.
Food relief helps in Liberia’s COVID-19 fight
Liberia is combating COVID-19 through both health and food security: the health board received an early solidarity grant from UMCOR for prevention training and the conference received a more recent UMCOR Sheltering in Love grant to provide food packages to the elderly, the physically challenged and at-risk children and youth undergoing rehabilitation at a facility in Monrovia. UMNS shares the story.
The enduring resiliency of North Macedonia
ATLANTA — Missionary Jennifer Moore reflects on life lessons she has learned from the Macedonian people, especially as they face a pandemic. To support our missionaries around the world, give to Advance #00779Z.
A creative response to grief
Originally from Minneapolis but now serving in Tampa as a Global Mission Fellow, Abigail Reeth envisioned a way for her community – especially the kids – to process and respond to racial injustice: painting a mural together.
United Methodist mission in Morogoro, Tanzania
Missionaries Umba and Ngoy Kalangwa send a mission update from Morogoro, Tanzania – a reconstructed dispensary that reopens just as COVID-19 starts to spread, members of a sewing workshop who learn to craft hundreds of masks and the first woman to pastor a UMC church in the Morogoro District.
Sifting through the ashes
UMCOR supports Western conferences responding to 2020 wildfires.