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Explore how your gifts and our global partnerships connect local churches and communities in mission to alleviate human suffering around the world.

Hope Is a Choice: Responding Faithfully in a Changing World

Facing ongoing global instability, the boards of Global Ministries and Higher Education and Ministry invest in strengthening mission and ministry, prepare for organizational change, and affirm a vision of hope.
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Burundi Sunflower Project Blossoms into Changed Lives

Global Ministries’ Yambasu Agriculture Initiative empowers communities through sunflower, mushroom, and pig farming.

Turning Surplus into Sustenance

How Global Ministries’ partnership with Feeding America ® is increasing access to nutritious food for families facing hunger in the United States.

Farm Project Strengthens Communities in Congo’s North Katanga

An initiative supported by Global Ministries is boosting food security and creating sustainable livelihoods.

Yambasu Initiative Transforms Communities in Eastern Angola

With support from Global Ministries, an agriculture program boosts livelihoods and food security for more than 600 families.
Spring 2026 Board members in Nairobi

Rooted in Partnership and Hope

Global Ministries and Higher Education & Ministry hold joint board meeting in Kenya.

“This Moment Matters” Initiative disburses $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.

Pantries Across the Country Feed More Neighbors in Need

As cuts from USDA hit emergency food banks and school meal programs, and the SNAP program adds new restrictions, dedicated and compassionate United Methodist volunteers double down to increase food security in their communities with support from a Global Ministries’ Feeding Our Neighbors grant.
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Dr. Dana Lyles Appointed Executive Director of Multiethnic Ministries

New joint role will guide multicultural ministries for Global Ministries and Higher Education and Ministry.
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Global Ministries Partners with Feeding America to Address U.S. Food Insecurity

A $500,000 grant supports the reclaiming and redistribution of nutritious food.
Engineer Sabin Mulang, director of the Development and Projects Office for the South Congo and Zambia Episcopal Area, inspects corn crops at an agropastoral site in Kingandu, Congo. Vast fields of corn and soybeans are at the heart of The United Methodist Church’s initiative to combat food dependency in southern Congo. Photo by Christian Kasweka, UM News.

Church farms combat food insecurity in Congo

With support from the Yambasu Agriculture Initiative, United Methodists in the South Congo Conference address food insecurity with new church farming projects that transform lives and sow the seeds of self-sufficiency.

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