Give Now

Popular Searches

mission church
global
support
global church
mission

Recent Searches

News & Stories / UMCOR

News & Stories

UMCOR

Women and Water – Advancing Equality on World Water Day

Commemorations for World Water Day 2026 focus on the ways that safe and accessible water and sanitation can improve gender equality
Read Story
Read Story

Browse Recent Stories

Filter by:

Give love campaign promotes year-end giving to support mission and disaster response

Through Dec. 31, support the many ways in which United Methodist mission empowers individuals and transforms communities around the world.
Strategic Plan 2022-2024

Board of directors approve strategic plan to guide Global Ministries through 2024

Read the full strategic plan.

In Alabama and Florida, UMCOR provides both immediate and long-term disaster response

From Hurricane Michael in 2018 to Hurricane Ian in 2022, UMCOR remains “early in, last out” for many survivors recovering from devastating storms.

Relief, health, housing and safety for people in Ukraine

As the war in Ukraine escalates, UMCOR engages with more partners inside and outside Ukraine to care for war-weary people whose lives have been disrupted and overburdened with loss.

Clean water flows in rural Côte d’Ivoire communities

No longer having to source water from contaminated rivers, streams and wells, four villages draw clean potable water through newly built water towers with pump and wash stations.

Hurricane Maria successes help Methodist Church of Puerto Rico save Fiona lives

In Puerto Rico, over 1 million people have registered with FEMA seeking assistance.

Recent UMCOR grants for Ukraine address relief, health, housing and safety

As the war in Ukraine escalates, UMCOR engages with more partners inside and outside Ukraine to care for war-weary people whose lives have been disrupted and overburdened with loss. Since July, more than $14 million in new grants have been approved to continue United Methodist war relief through UMCOR.

Report of the general secretary to the board of directors

God’s sure mission in uncertain times.

United Methodists bring light and hope to Florida with solar energy

Conference Disaster Response teams from the Florida and North Carolina annual conferences explore the benefits of mobile solar-powered generators while responding in real time to power needs in Florida after Hurricane Ian.

UMCOR helps local partners respond to Hurricane Ian

Hurricane Ian, whose maximum sustained winds of 150 mph tied it as the fifth-strongest hurricane on record to strike the United States, made landfall in Florida on Sept. 28, 2022.

Contact Information

Have questions? Send us an inquiry and we’ll get back to you promptly. Please direct all media inquiries to Susan Clark, chief communications officer for Global Ministries and UMCOR.

General Inquiries

info@umcmission.org

Media Inquiries

Susan Clark, Chief Communications Officer
media@umcmission.org
800-862-4246