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At the UMCOR Sager Brown Depot each year, more than 2,000 volunteers prepare about US $3 million in supplies for shipment from the Baldwin, Louisiana, campus.

UMCOR’s Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and Food Security programs have provided latrines and piped water as well as increased watershed health through agroforestry in rural communities in countries such as Nicaragua and Guatemala.

UMCOR’s Global Migration program works to resource Methodist networks in South America to support the successful transition and uphold the dignity of the most vulnerable migrants.

Shirley Townsend-Jones, from North Carolina, is a Church and Community Worker with the Bennettsville-Cheraw Area Cooperative Ministry in South Carolina. As she works to reach out to people who are poor, abused, sick, aged and malnourished, she feels that God’s mission is being carried out through the programs of the cooperative ministry.

Asti White, from Georgia, is a Global Mission Fellow, US-2, serving with the Wesley Foundation in Kalamazoo, Michigan. His call to mission emerged along with an expanding awareness of world issues and needs that affect daily lives, such as injustice, homelessness, inadequate health care, racial tensions and poverty.

The Global Health unit is working with the Liberia Health Board to promote all six health facilities coordinated by the Liberia Annual Conference, especially to reach mothers and young children. Health staff and Community Health Workers receive on-the-job training, assistance to purchase medicines, equipment and infrastructure, and governance support.

The Imagine No Malaria program continues to support malaria prevention and control throughout Africa. Global Ministries partners with health boards in the Central Congo, East Congo, North Katanga and South Congo episcopal areas to provide a consistent supply of malaria medications and nets to UMC health facilities. The Health Systems Strengthening program supports revitalization of health-care facilities, including referral hospitals.

Global Health is committed to improving the lives of individuals with disabilities. Through the Non-Communicable Disease program, 500 Personal Energy Transportation (PETs) units have been manufactured and distributed to Zambians and brothers and sisters in neighboring countries - giving the gift of mobility.

Steven de la Cruz, from the Philippines, is a Global Mission Fellow, International, serving at Hope for Children, a ministry of Pilgrim Wesleyan Church in Lusaka, Zambia. Commitment to work in Zambia has not replaced his desire to be a pastor someday. Rather, missionary work has underscored his decision to surrender his life to God.

Environmental Sustainability is working with partners in Sudan and South Sudan to provide lighting for young girls to be able to do schoolwork at home so that they don’t have to travel dangerous paths to school at night.

The Rev. Andrew Soon Lee serves as a missionary with the Methodist Mission in Cambodia. Andrew is an ordained elder of the California-Pacific Annual Conference and feels that God has placed in his heart a love and passion for God’s people.

The Methodist Liaison office in Jerusalem connects with local initiatives, encourages theological reflection and facilitates visits for pilgrims and volunteers.

Jennifer Moore is a missionary serving as a Christian educator with The United Methodist Church in the Republic of Macedonia. In a country where Methodism’s roots extend back more than 130 years, she strives to build up the church and empower leaders to bring the love of Christ to their communities.

The Mongolia Mission Initiative plants new churches, supports congregational and leadership development, and provides a variety of community services – a sports center, English lessons for children, a thrift shop, space for women’s handicrafts and hospice care. The Rev. Chin Cho is a missionary and as the country coordinator, he oversees administration and programs, working closely with local leaders and other missionaries.

Through the work of our Disaster Management offices, UMCOR continues to partner with the UMC in the Philippines for community contingency planning, disaster relief and recovery and local capacity building.

The Global Ministries Regional office in Seoul was opened in 2017. Since then our presence has increased partner engagement and built relationships of collaboration and trust across Methodist churches in Asia. We give thanks for our ministry of presence and the ways we have embodied Christ with our work in this region.

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Global Ministries Missionaries (Number per Country)

Called to serve as pastors, teachers, doctors, nurses, social workers, church planters and in a variety of other roles, more than 300 people serve as United Methodist missionaries around the world. Due to their placements in sensitive countries and to protect them in their work, not all are indicated on the map above. Church and Community Workers are missionaries devoted to working alongside people who are disenfranchised in rural and urban poor communities throughout the United States. Global Mission Fellows serve around the world, including in the U.S. through the young adult mission movement of Global Ministries.

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Global Ministries is active in more than 130 countries and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Advance Projects (Number per Country)

The Advance, an official program of The United Methodist Church for voluntary, designated, second-mile giving, connects donors with projects around the world. The Advance projects indicated on the map cover a range of mission work, including strengthening health-care networks, training pastors, educating young children, building new churches and providing disaster relief to communities. Bishops and others throughout the church have approved these partner projects. In addition to the locations indicated, the Advance supports regional and global projects, as well as priorities of Global Ministries and UMCOR.

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Mission Initiative Countries

Global Ministries works collaboratively with church leaders around the world to plant new churches, especially where Methodism is nonexistent or new to a country or community. Mission Initiatives are the manifestation of what The United Methodist Church does in response to paragraphs in the Book of Discipline about “Missions.” The purpose of a mission initiative is to provide and develop ministry with a particular region whose potential and needs cannot be met within the existing structures and resources of an annual conference or district. A mission initiative may also be the initial stage toward the formation of a provisional annual conference. Current mission initiatives accompanied by Global Ministries on behalf of The United Methodist Church are in Central Africa Republic, Honduras, Laos, Mongolia and Vietnam.

UMCOR Disaster Management Offices & Health Boards (Number per Country)

Through a joint program between UMCOR and Central Conference episcopal areas, the Disaster Management offices serve as a results-based model to facilitate the UMCOR mandate of training and equipping the church in disaster response by enabling effective, efficient and ethical local disaster response. Working with the Global Health unit, UMC health boards and local communities develop strategic plans and propose integrated solutions to address issues of community health and wellness. Currently, United Methodist health boards coordinate work in Angola, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Liberia, Nigeria, Mozambique, Peru, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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