UMCOR News & Stories

From initial relief to long-term recovery, learn how UMCOR connects survivors to the help they need to rebuild their lives.

As the war in Ukraine continues, UMCOR works with the Mines Advisory Group to save lives at risk of injury and death from unexploded ordnance.

An UMCOR Mustard Seed Migration Grant encourages a church to stretch further into mission with local immigrant communities. Here’s how three churches used their grants.

With support from the Yambasu Agriculture Initiative, two greenhouses at Zimbabwe’s Hanwa Mission are helping to fight climate change and grow education at the mission’s schools.

Working with several partners on the ground in Gaza, Global Ministries, through UMCOR, releases new grants to meet basic human needs among Gazan Palestinians.

Spring report awards United Methodist Committee on Relief highest A+ rating

The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) continues to meet the needs of vulnerable populations around the world through a strong network of partners.

Co-sponsored by Global Ministries, an Earth Day service and vigil called the global church to greater stewardship of creation.

The church in Eastern and Southern Congo ran awareness campaigns on conflict and violence before, during and after the country’s recent elections with the help of funding from UMCOR.

Hear from conference disaster response coordinators on what their partnership with UMCOR means to them.

As human attempts to stop the war in Gaza continue, Palestinians ask Christians to pray, believing that God will find a way forward even when the path is not clear.

UMCOR's grant to the Methodist Church of Mexico is assisting communities in Acapulco devastated by October 2023's Hurricane Otis.