Global Ministries News & Stories

This overview of UMCOR’s global migration work includes places of welcome, food for body and spirit, education, legal help and many more ways that United Methodists support migrants around the world.

For the month of June, follow along as we highlight the ways in which UMCOR is working to support the rights of migrants all over the world.

For World Communion scholar, Insar Gohar, studies in the U.S. prepared him to return to Pakistan to answer a call to ministry, counseling survivors of the kind of trauma and terror his immediate and extended family experienced.

Katherine Parker, a missionary in Nepal, believes the work of the United Mission to Nepal serves as a positive model for participation in the missio Dei, the mission of God. Third in a Three-part series.

Two years after announcing their intention to reconcile, United Methodists in Burundi prepare the way for growth, mission and service in a reunited church.

Meet Thomas Harris from the U.S. and Dr. Cristina Manabat from Harris Memorial College in the Philippines. What do they share in common? More than a name.

Eight missionaries will lend their gifts in service to God in places like El Salvador, Mongolia and South Africa.

Kristi Painter, a Global Mission Fellow, US-2 track, from Georgia, describes her work with Arch Street UMC in Philadelphia and how her experience has shifted her perspectives on mission and what it means to engage in community.

In the aftermath of the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, Jerome Sahabandu, a Global Ministries theologian from Sri Lanka, describes reactions to the attacks among Christians and other faith groups and the consequences for vulnerable Muslim refugees seeking asylum and shelter in the country.

Since 2017, more than $8 million has been given and 46 facilities have been renovated, increasing the standard of care in rural communities.

Mary Lou Greenwood Boice will serve as interim executive director of Mission Engagement, the unit responsible for communications, marketing, fundraising and connectional relations.

General secretary Thomas Kemper expresses gratitude for the safe passage of Asia Bibi.