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Spring 2026 Board members in Nairobi

Rooted in Partnership and Hope

Global Ministries and Higher Education & Ministry hold joint board meeting in Kenya.
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“This Moment Matters” Initiative Disperses $24 Million To-Date

Launched in 2025, “This Moment Matters” has awarded hundreds of bridge grants to address critical gaps in need in the areas of food security, education, health, migration, and peace.

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.

Global Ministries prays for peace in Mexico 

A statement from General Secretary Roland Fernandes.

Affirming CIEMAL’s Call for Peace and Nonviolence in Venezuela

We join CIEMAL in prayer for the people of Venezuela and for all communities affected by violence.

Our Christmas miracle

Missionary Matthew Laferty offers this “transfigured and reordered” vision from Isaiah that boldly declares the future we have in the fullness of the reign of God and our hope in peace and justice in Christ.

Walking in Ixtepec

A reflection from Kimberly Lewis, a missionary with GYTTE in Puebla, Mexico: “As we prepare for this season of watching and waiting, we are looking for God in all we do and see – not focusing on the troubles of the world and who will be chosen but choosing to be with God in each moment of each day.”

Filling gaps in health ministry funding where possible

In wake of the abrupt loss of billions of dollars of U.S. foreign aid, decades of global health and development work is now at risk. Global Ministries has moved to fill some funding gaps through UMC connections to ease disruption of health services where possible.

Retreat, learning and fellowship welcomed by clergy in Honduras

The United Methodist Mission in Honduras hosts a national retreat for clergy that strengthens their calling and fellowship.

Methodist leaders convene to strengthen mission in Latin America and the Caribbean

Eighty-six participants, representing 40 partners across the region, assembled for a mission consultation held July 21-23 in Panama.

Travel ban to affect United Methodist mission and ministry

A June 5 opinion piece in United Methodist Insight titled “New U.S. Travel Ban Will Harm the United Methodist Church” raises concerns about the potential impact of the travel ban on the worldwide church.

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