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Jesse Parcher flattens roofing nails so they won’t tear a plastic tarp while he makes emergency repairs to a storm-damaged home in Marion, Iowa. Parcher was part of a volunteer team working with Marion First United Methodist Church.
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You don’t have to become a missionary to work in mission. Volunteer as an individual or with your church or conference to serve and support the ministries of Global Ministries and UMCOR.
In the U.S., UMCOR partners with United Methodist conference disaster ministries to ready volunteer teams to deploy after disasters. Contact your conference to learn more about how to become part of a local Early Response Team (ERT).
Help those affected by floods, hurricanes and tornadoes with the overwhelming job of cleaning up. You can keep UMCOR’s relief supply kit inventory ready to go when disaster strikes.
UMCOR Sager Brown is a disaster relief supply depot located in Baldwin, Louisiana that offers mission opportunities for groups like making disaster relief supply kits and participating in community outreach projects.
Mission Volunteers are short to long-term self-funded individuals or couples. Placed at partner sites worldwide, Mission Volunteers serve in a variety of roles, from working with refugees, children and youth to serving as a teacher, pastor, camp director or health care professional.
UMVIM is the short-term volunteer sending agency of The United Methodist Church coordinated by jurisdiction. A grassroots movement that began in the 1970s, UMVIM matches laity and clergy with short-term mission opportunities locally, nationally and globally.
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McDowell County is one of the poorest in the U.S., and the communities of Anawalt, Leckie and Gary are some of the hardest hit by the current six-year water crisis. All have Methodist churches that are part of the Welch Charge.
To ease the burden of residents who have to purchase many gallons of drinking water weekly, the Welch Charge contacted the West Virginia Conference Disaster Response Coordinator, Jim McCune, for help. McCune’s United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) connection put him in touch with Global Ministries’ Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) program.
A WASH grant allowed them to obtain a 500-gallon “water buffalo.” The conference disaster response team arranged to fill the portable water buffalo from the Welch water system, the county seat of McDowell, and transport it to Gary, where residents have been supplied with refillable containers. Residents of all three towns can come to get water, and volunteers will also continue deliveries for those who need it. Meanwhile, residents, including church members, continue to advocate state and local officials for a permanent solution to their aging, compromised water infrastructure. Full Story
