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Missionaries

Explore how missionaries expand the witness of God already present in people and places worldwide. 

This moment matters in Tanzania

An Advent reflection from Rev. Rebecca Maiko, who serves Sebring Mwanza Center in Tanzania, a center that provides access to education for children, health care for their community and peaceful collaboration with members of other faiths.
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Building bridges across cultural divides

Missionaries Kirk and Nicole Sims serving in Prague support both the challenges and blessings of the greatest migratory movement Europe has seen since World War II.
A course of study for new church leaders considering pastoral ministry.

Teaching from the Heart

A. Broncano believes that even in places where Christians have major challenges being accepted, the benefits of loving, caring Christian communities prevail.

Leaving country and kindred to follow Jesus

Global Mission Fellow Carlito Alberto incorporates much of what he learned at the Quéssua mission in Angola into his work placement in Cameroon.

Christ: the guiding star in Bennettsville

Arabia Sweet, a Church and Community Worker in South Carolina, describes the many ways she sees Christ at work in Bennettsville, South Carolina.

In Cambodia, holistic mission thrives

With relationship at the center of mission, Andrew and Janice Lee, missionaries in Cambodia, are seeing their ministries of health, education and discipleship thrive.

Christ knows the great leader you will become

Missionary Janice Lee sees God at work in Youlika Vann, a young woman who has become an integral part of the work of the Methodist Church in Cambodia.

Application opens for GMF program, both tracks

The application has launched for the next cohort of young adults who will serve in social justice ministries in the U.S. and internationally in 2024-26.

Where is he?

Missionary Rev. Luis de Souza Cardoso affirms the need to give children and youth opportunities to practice Christian love within their communities.
Missionaries Joy Eva Bohol and Jean Claude Masuka Maleka laugh during the consultation’s closing session. (Photo: Adam Bowers)

Consultation reexamines principles of missionary service

On Aug. 1-3 in Atlanta, Global Ministries convened a group of missionaries, mission staff, board members and ecumenical partners to reexamine and renew its practices of missionary sending.
The Rev. Grace Choi served as a community health worker in the outreach programs of Harris Memorial College in the Philippines. Here she visits with children in the Upper Javier neighborhood of the town of Taytay. (Photo: Paul Jeffrey, 2012)

Help me to love with your love

The Rev. Eunha “Grace” Kim Choi from Korea has served as a missionary since 2001, with 18 years in the Philippines as a Global Missionary and five years in Atlanta, Georgia, as a Missionary in Residence.

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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.

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Susan Clark, Chief Communications Officer
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