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Global Missionaries

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

This moment matters in Tanzania

An Advent reflection from Rev. Rebecca Maiko, who serves Sebring-Mwanza Center in Tanzania, a center that provides access to education for children, health care for their community and peaceful collaboration with members of other faiths.
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A call to plant churches far and wide

The Rev. Juarez Goncalves, a missionary from Brazil, and his wife, the Rev. Clauri Goncalves, have coordinated the planting of seven United Methodist churches in the New England Conference.

Sent by Jesus

This second missionary devotion preparing the way for Advent and the coming of Christ into the world is written by a missionary couple, J. and T. Park.

Jesus is our living hope! 

First in a missionary Advent devotion series, Fatuma Kutela, an agricultural technician missionary from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, works with the West Angola Episcopal Area in Luanda, Angola.

Good faith and care in Covenant Partner Relationships

Cristian Schlick, a missionary from Chile serving in Mexico, expresses gratitude for Covenant Partner Relationships and the congregations that support him in ways beyond their financial pledges.

Holy Week devotions from global missionaries

Enrich your faith practice by reading a devotion on Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday from missionaries serving the church around the world.

Servant leadership

A devotion for Maundy Thursday by Yorleni Jiménez Rojas

Jesus and Mary Magdalene at the tomb

A devotion for Easter Sunday by Alison Ho Yan Lee

Let love lead

Global Mission Fellow Lily Maijama’a describes his transformation as he decided to let love lead him out of COVID-19 despair and into God’s purpose.

Peace in the darkest valley

Dr. Mark Zimmerman reflects on the story of Hari, a COVID-19 patient he treated at Patan, Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal.

There is hope

The Rev. Brooke Atchley, a Church and Community Worker in Rosedale, Virginia, accompanies her rural community through the challenges and shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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