Participants reflect on disaster case management training
In March 2020, UMCOR partnered with Highland Park UMC in Dallas, Texas, to hold a three-day intensive, providing in-depth understanding of the foundations, principles and processes of disaster case management.
In Hurricane Harvey’s wake, a long path to recovery
This spring, UMCOR and its partners concluded their work in response to the 2017 hurricane’s destruction in Texas and built community in more ways than one.
Responding with love and compassion to serve neighbors in need
Like many places in the world, Vietnam is facing economic impacts from the novel coronavirus. The Vietnam Mission Initiative partnered with Global Ministries Asia Pacific Regional Office, Scranton Women’s Leadership Center and the Wesley Foundation to offer concrete love and compassion to its neighbors.
Transforming the world in a rural cooperative ministry
Shirley Townsend-Jones, a Church and Community Worker missionary in South Carolina, works with a rural African American cooperative ministry. Her ministry pulls together people from nine churches to face challenges, transform their communities, and celebrate the small victories of each day.
Laos Mission Initiative grows and extends ministries
Global Ministries’ Laos Mission Initiative celebrates 20 years of service with increased membership, new clergy members and local pastors, and more engagement with local community members.