Stories

Supplies picked up on bikes in North Katanga
Falling malaria rates in Kamina attributed to awareness campaign and subsidized care
The Lupandilo Hospital in Kamina, North Katanga, DRC, has recorded a 50% drop in malaria deaths over the past two years, a result of an Imagine No Malaria campaign that provides free nets, treatment and information for communities.
Sowing and reaping: the 70th anniversary of the US-2 program
Current and former US-2s share thoughts about their mission experience and becoming part of a community that has a 70-year legacy in The United Methodist Church.
Building water resources in Ecuador and Bolivia
Global Health partners with Engineers in Action to bring clean water and sanitation facilities to schools, churches and whole communities.
UMCOR supports refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in 2021
This UMCOR update, part three of a three-part series, summarizes UMCOR’s work with refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in 2021.
Building an ARK in Cambodia
A new program in Phnom Penh helps people stay out of human trafficking networks.
UMCOR aids displaced people in Congo
Tensions remain high as rebels target civilians, threatening lives and livelihoods and killing scores of people.
A new era for health care in Tunda, East Congo
Methodism was planted and took root 100-years ago among the Otetela-speaking people of Tunda in Eastern Congo. This year, United Methodists there completed construction of a new hospital.
Couple “sows the word” with their service and garden
Mission volunteers Lyn and Gene Saltzman are putting their deep knowledge of farming to use in Tennessee, planting and harvesting produce for four counties served by Reelfoot Rural Ministries.
Displaced families in Yemen receive hope in UMCOR packages
After six years of civil war with no end in sight, thousands of Yemeni families are caught in what the United Nations describes as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today.
We learned to love our neighbors
Better crops, more income to send children to school, better health – out of all the outcomes beneficiaries of the CHAD program in Cambodia receive, they rate learning to love their neighbors as number one.
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Still thanking God for Imagine No Malaria
The Imagine No Malaria program partners with United Methodist health ministries in some of the most affected and least resourced populations on earth to stop this parasitic disease from claiming more human life.
Young Ghanaian focuses on community transformation
Through Asian Rural Institute experience, Joshua Nii Ofori Suttah learns about agriculture, livestock, leadership – and himself.