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UMCOR Disaster Response Updates

Get up to date on UMCOR’s disaster response efforts. Learn how you can help impacted communities around the world through prayer, service and giving.

This Moment Matters

Leadership

Global Ministries missionary the Rev. Fuxia Wang (second from right), baptizes a Chinese student at the University of Oklahoma.

Multiethnic Ministries

Serve vulnerable groups and work to fight inequality through multiethnic and racial-ethnic congregations in the United States.

Community Developers Program

A group of racial and ethnic churches across the U.S. working to strengthen The United Methodist Church’s ability to serve and partner with local communities.

Mustard Seed Migration Grants

UMCOR’s Mustard Seed Migration Grant program encourages U.S.-based United Methodist churches to engage in community-based ministries with migrants and refugees.

Feeding Our Neighbors food ministry Grants

As the hunger crisis grows in the U.S., Global Ministries has established Feeding Our Neighbors emergency food grants for U.S.-based United Methodist congregations with food ministries, pantries and United Methodist ministry partners.

Church and Conference Resources

Global Ministries’ mission theology statement guides our participation in God’s mission to restore all creation. We learn and witness to what God is doing in every land, seeking to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.

Racial and Ethnic Ministry Plans

Supports diverse communities through national and ethnic ministry plans that promote cultural inclusion and church growth.

Nationals in Mission (Persons In Mission) (NIMs)

A Nationals in Mission grants partially supplement the salary of a missional position of service …

Community Developers Program

Providing grants to racial, ethnic, and multicultural congregations to hire community developers….

Liberia University

Granting higher education institutional of the Liberia Annual Conference UMC.Describe the Need Af…

A woman receives a yellow bag of food as a part of UMCOR's Covid-19 response. She, and others around her, are wearing masks. Those delivering food stand in truck beds.

UMCOR grants make global impact on response to COVID-19 pandemic

Sheltering in Love grant campaign receives nearly $2 million in donations; expedited grant awards given to nonprofits in 43 countries

UMCOR grant to help asylum seekers find pathway to safety

Church World Service’s “Leading with Welcome” program receives $1.1 million UMCOR grant to support efforts to rebuild humane immigration system

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.

Grants to help at-risk children in Louisville

Two grants totaling $20,000 will allow four United Methodist churches in struggling Louisville neighborhoods to provide food, education assistance and

Human Relations Day grant provides equity for Glenville residents

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

Discerning direction in a new mission age

An overview of the major decisions on funding and new directions in mission programming from Global Ministries’ Board of Directors

Global Ministries Relaunches “Feeding Our Neighbors” Grant Program for 2026 

Funding available for U.S. annual conferences to support food ministries.

Faithful UMC institutions stretch to serve communities

Among the recipients of the UMCOR Rapid Response COVID-19 grants are some of the United Methodist National Mission Institutions with

New grants to help churches aid migrants in their communities

Mustard Seed Migration Grants continue UMCOR’s 80-year tradition of welcoming the stranger.
Grant application for local racial ethnic congregations to explore becoming a Community Developers Program (CDP) site.

Community Developers Program Application

Grant application for majority racial-ethnic United Methodist congregations to support leadership, church growth, ministry with the poor, and health programs.

Racial-Ethnic Local Church Grant Application

Grant application for the UMCOR Mustard Seed Migration program to help United Methodist churches in the U.S. engage in ministry with migrants in their communities.

Mustard Seed Migration Grant Application

Grant application for annual conference programs focused on racial-ethnic leadership development and church growth within multiethnic ministries.

Multiethnic Ministries Grant Application

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