Missionaries News & Stories

March 26, 2025
Global Ministries and Korean UMC celebrate missionary support milestone
The Korean United Methodist Church has achieved its goal to provide covenant relationship support for the work of 140 Global Missionaries over a three-year period.

February 26, 2025
Missionary strives to grow church in Madagascar
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Rev. Eric Kalumba, a missionary with Global Ministries, is dedicated to spreading the Gospel and establishing new United Methodist churches throughout the island of Madagascar.

February 4, 2025
Sent forth to serve
Twenty-three missionaries are now commissioned for service, sent forth to embody the love of God in 15 countries on behalf of The United Methodist Church.

December 20, 2024
Preaching Peace and Justice
The divine call to “love for our neighbor but to demonstrate it through concrete actions,” as missionary Pedro Zavala explains, is a universal call for people of all nations.

December 18, 2024
Retiring missionaries give thanks for service
Six missionaries honored by fellow missionaries and staff as they retire at the end of 2024.

December 12, 2024
Leaping for joy at what God can do
Helen de Leon Camarce tells the stories of women who found hope, love and safety through the Women’s Livelihood program in Cambodia.

December 4, 2024
The calming waterfall
Missionary Temba Nkomozepi describes the sights and sounds of Mujila Falls Agricultural Center in Kanyama, Zambia, where God provides abundant resources.

November 25, 2024
God had other plans for Tomasa
Lulu Ramirez, a missionary in Guatemala, describes the wonderful way God intervenes in life to rekindle faith, encourage creativity and set people on a new path.

November 20, 2024
Mission impossible…but for the grace of God
Leslaw Kawalec and his family have recently arrived in Ireland from Poland. At the beginning of his missionary journey, he looks to God to reveal his path.

November 7, 2024
Access to life-giving health care for pregnant moms
Global Mission Fellow Sylvia Night Wesonga offers a reflection on her work as an outreach midwife in remote villages of East Angola.

October 10, 2024
Quéssua agriculture ministry provides food for thousands
Agriculture missionary Kutela Katembo Dieudonne manages farming and animal husbandry projects that feed children and provide seedlings to villagers.

October 1, 2024
Application opens for GMF program, international track
The application has launched for the 2025-27 cohort of young adults who will serve in social justice ministries internationally through The United Methodist Church.