Global Ministries News & Stories

Asti White, a Global Mission Fellow, discusses how his ministry in Michigan is addressing food injustice and how they've adapted their methods of fellowship amidst crisis.

Through their relationship in mission, the North Texas, West Ohio and North Katanga annual conferences celebrate vital upgrades to Lupandilo Hospital in Kamina, DRC.

Bishop Hee-Soo Jung, president of the board of Global Ministries, grieves over the unjust deaths of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery and challenges disciples of Jesus Christ to step forth in action.

Vicki McCuistion reflects on the work of UMCOR in the Rio Texas Conference and how her training as a disaster recovery asset manager prepared her to navigate a different kind of disaster: the coronavirus.

Daoud Nassar highlights the four principles of the Tent of Nations, a family farm operating on the Palestinian West Bank, which strives to bring different cultures together to develop understanding and respect for one another and their shared land.

For more than 40 years, Global Ministries and UMCOR have supported health and development work in Afghanistan through an ecumenical partner agency. The work continues today.

Even while following strict COVID-19 quarantine orders in Ukraine, United Methodists pray for peace and resolution to the ongoing armed conflict in eastern Ukraine. Missionary John Calhoun has the story.

Early in March the North Katanga Wings of the Morning pilot, Gaston Ntambo Nkulu, was asked to fly a peace mission to the Tanganyika province to facilitate peace negotiations in Nyunzu. George Howard shares the story.

The Rev. Dr. Richard Boone, Church and Community Worker missionary with the West Ohio Conference, tells the story of how an inmate experiences transformation through the Horizon Prison Initiative.

Deinah Lorpu Quire, a Global Mission Fellow from Liberia, has been on a peace pilgrimage her whole life. From Liberia, to Sri Lanka, to the border between the two Koreas, Quire has listened to sorrow, accompanied strangers and urged the practice of forgiveness wherever God sends her.

Mohandas K. Gandhi, who was neither Methodist nor Christian, inspired generations of Methodist and United Methodist missionaries seeking nonviolent ways to work for peace and change the balance of power.

Global Ministries’ coronavirus response is reaching those in need internationally and in the U.S. In addition to grants from the Sheltering in Love UMCOR COVID-19 Response Fund, 32 solidarity grants have been dispersed from UMCOR, Global Health and other program units, totaling about $346,000.