North American News & Stories

“Love Beyond Borders” webinar slated for Feb.17, 2022

Global Ministries is not the entity named in recent Atlanta media coverage of challenges being faced at a federally subsidized housing development.

Hear from Kathleen Griffith of Global Ministries’ Global Health program and Dr. David Boan of First UMC of Boise, Idaho, on the equitable vaccine distribution campaign, Love Beyond Borders.

Following a string of destructive and deadly December tornadoes, UMCOR visited with church and community leaders in Kentucky to hear of their needs and collaborate on plans for long term recovery.

Global Ministries is extending the 2022 Annual Conference Community Developers Program (CDP) cohort application process to March 4 to allow congregations more time to explore possibilities for developing new programs.

Global Ministries’ Energy Efficiency Webinar offered tonight, January 27; Speakers Include representative of church that secured $102,000 solar grant from local utility company.

General Secretary Roland Fernandes outlines the United Methodist mission agency's globally inclusive response to the COVID-19 pandemic, seeking to "do no harm" and alleviate human suffering.

Cory United Methodist Church in Glenville, Cleveland, Ohio, offers a ministry of financial education, restoring a tradition from the 1950s.

Two years after the UMCOR, CWS and JFON partnership, asylum cases are finally moving. Confusing policies and pandemic closures have kept asylum seekers with legitimate cases in limbo.

The fourth and final Advent devotion in our 2021 missionary series comes from Shiree Fetterly, a US-2 Global Mission Fellow from Michigan serving with Metropolitan Ministries in Tampa, Florida.

UMCOR supports partners in the aftermath of December tornadoes.

Roland Fernandes reflects on Christmas in light of the continued challenges of 2021, calling for all to rejoice and be joyful for “God is with us, God is near us.”