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Children and youth from Terra Nova village in Quéssua, Angola, join in an effort to combat malaria by filling in low-lying areas that collect water where mosquitoes can breed. The campaign was led by Ben Jacob, a professor from the University of South Florida, who served with a Volunteers in Mission team from the Florida Conference of The United Methodist Church.

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Women in Honduras gather to explore God’s purpose and calling for their lives and form a new National Board of Methodist Women.
Women in Honduras gather to explore God’s purpose and calling for their lives and form a new National Board of Methodist Women.
Women in Honduras gather to explore God’s purpose and calling for their lives and form a new National Board of Methodist Women.
As students face mounting financial pressures from cuts in student support programs on U.S. university campuses, the General Boards of Global Ministries and Higher Education and Ministry will offer campus food and hygiene insecurity grants for United Methodist-related colleges to help provide food and essential supplies to their students.
Missionary Ellyn Dubberly teaches at a Methodist school in Central America, where the school and the students who study there continue to grow.
James and Grace Cho, missionaries with the Mongolia United Methodist Mission, offer an update on plans for how the 20-year-old mission initiative will transition from a mission to a self-governing faith community.

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Women in Honduras gather to explore God’s purpose and calling for their lives and form a new National Board of Methodist Women.
Women in Honduras gather to explore God’s purpose and calling for their lives and form a new National Board of Methodist Women.
Marcharkelti McKenzie, a US-2 alumna, reflects on her service in the Global Mission Fellows program and how it continues to inform her growth and development today.
Holy Week becomes a time for fellowship and play for grade-schoolers in Liberia. Every year for the past several years, the Rev. Jacob Nathan has organized and led a camp for grade school children.
A statement from the Inter-Ethnic Strategic Development Group, a coalition represented by the five racial ethnic caucuses of The United Methodist Church, urges public officials to discontinue the use of the racially loaded term “China/Chinese Virus.”
Join Thomas Kemper, general secretary of Global Ministries, as he begins a series of conversations that highlight global mission during a pandemic.

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