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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.

Mission hospitals give hope to expectant mothers

The Mother, Newborn and Child Health departments at Old Mutare and Mutambara District mission hospitals in Zimbabwe have undergone remarkable transformations, resulting in better care for pregnant mothers. Missionary and midwife, Florence Mefor, worked to connect United Methodist partners across the world for support in this endeavor.
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Missionaries promote peace for the Korean Peninsula

2020 marked the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. Missionaries Jin Yang Kim and Adam Shaw share how Methodists can contribute to the ongoing peace and reconciliation process.

Educating for peace in pan-African relations

Missionary Jane Kies reflects on how God uses her role as an English teacher at Africa University to foster peace and confidence in the lives of students in their academic careers and beyond.
PHOTO: COURTESY ADAM SHAW

Peace with justice for the Korean Peninsula

Striving for justice in Central America

Cristian Schlick is a global missionary who works with migrants from Central America and Mexico in El Salvador. He was commissioned in June 2019 after serving for two years as a Global Mission Fellow, also in El Salvador, focused on human rights issues.

Transforming the world in a rural cooperative ministry

Shirley Townsend-Jones, a Church and Community Worker missionary in South Carolina, works with a rural African American cooperative ministry. Her ministry pulls together people from nine churches to face challenges, transform their communities, and celebrate the small victories of each day.

“We treat, but God heals”: missionary couple serves hospital in Zimbabwe

Emmanuel and Florence Mefor from Nigeria serve as a doctor and midwife at Mutambara Mission Hospital, providing care for more than 140,000 people in the region.

New missionaries blessed in virtual service of worship

On Wednesday, April 29, a global virtual congregation blessed 21 new United Methodist missionaries. They come from eight countries and will go forth to serve in 15 countries.

Lessons from missionaries on staying connected

Dr. David Scott examines what we can learn from missionaries amid the coronavirus restrictions. Missionaries have long experience in putting love into action in unfamiliar settings. In this third and final reflection, he considers how focusing on concrete acts of service helps to cultivate a sense of compassion that keeps us connected to the world around us.

Along the U.S. southern border

Last Lenten season, we participated in the Immigration Immersion program on the southern border.

Walking in Ixtepec

A reflection from Kimberly Lewis, a missionary with GYTTE in Puebla, Mexico: “As we prepare for this season of watching and waiting, we are looking for God in all we do and see – not focusing on the troubles of the world and who will be chosen but choosing to be with God in each moment of each day.”

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