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United Methodist Missionaries--from everywhere to everywhere!

In more than 60 countries around the world, United Methodist missionaries come from many places and backgrounds and witness and serve in dramatically different locales and cultures.

They engage in a range of activities and professions including pastors, educators, congregational and leadership developers, regional coordinators for UMCOR, agriculturalists, health coordinators, and doctors.

Ways you can help support United Methodist Missionaries:


  1. Learn about our missionaries and how they live faith through their remarkable work. Choose a missionary's name below to visit his/her bio.
  2. Pray for them and their ministry.
  3. Share news of United Methodist missionaries at your church. Use these featured resources to help.
  4. Give to missionaries serving around the world.
  5. Support a specific missionary by selecting a name from the drop-down list.
  6. Partner with a missionary through a Covenant Relationship.

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Featured Missionaries

Sergio Tristán
Tristán, Sergio
#541002 - Sergio Tristán is serving through the National Plan for Hispanic/Latino Ministries in the Kansas West Annual Conference as a missionary past ...
Peña-Nazario, José Roberto
#14026Z - Rev. Jose Pena is is serving with the Honduras Mission Initiative.
Meridith Whitaker
Whitaker, Meridith Kay
#982994 - Reverend Meridith Whitaker is a Church and Community Worker serving as the director of Cookson Hills Center United Methodist Mission, a miss ...
Haigler, Nicholas
#3021336 - Nicholas L. Haigler is a mission intern with the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church, serving initially as se ...
Charles Tran
Tran, Charles
#3021133 - The Rev. Charles Tran is a missionary with the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church, serving in Southeast Asia ...
Kenneth Koome Nkando
Koome Nkando, Kenneth
#15148Z - Kenneth Koome Nkando is a missionary assigned as the mission financial officer in the East Angola Annual Conference in Africa.
Pascua, David
#13965Z - David Pascua is academic dean and professor for Union Theological Seminary in Cavite, Philippines.
Hodges, Skip
#3021318 - The Rev. Dr. T.D. Skip Hodges is assigned to work with the Evangelical Methodist Church in Bolivia (EMCB).
Lourdes Magalhaes
Magalhaes, Lourdes
#3019619 - Rev. Lourdes Magalhaes is serving through the National Plan for Hispanic and Latino Ministries with a Brazilian congregation in Harrison, N ...
Pierce, Lyda
#09542Z - The Rev. Dr. Lyda Pierce serves as a United Methodist missionary for Hispanic/Latino Ministry Development in the Pacific Northwest Annual Co ...
Devoid, Alexander
#3021333 -Alexander D. Devoid is a mission intern with the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church, serving initially at Acc ...
Whitney Peters
Peters, Whitney
#3021496 - Whitney Peters is a mission intern initially serving in the areas of communications and volunteer coordination with Acción Médica Cristiana ...
Paul Webster
Webster, Paul
#11865Z - Paul Webster is serving at the Mujila Falls Agriculture Centre in Kanyama, Zambia.
Hoover, Jeffrey
#07989Z - Jeffrey Hooever is a professor at the University of Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Elaine LaVan
La Van, Elaine
#3021514 - Elaine M. La Van is a US-2 missionary serving at the Women’s Shelter at the Navajo United Methodist Center in Farmington, New Mexico.
Shaw, Adam
#3021347 - Adam Shaw
Evelyn Erbele
Erbele, Evelyn
#10832Z - The Rev. Evelyn Erbele is a missionary with the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church currently assigned as copa ...
Hillary Taylor
Taylor, Hillary
#3021492 - Hillary Taylor is a mission intern serving at Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
Boyle, Timothy
#05041Z - The Reverend D. Timothy Boyle is assigned to teach at Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya, Japan.
Soraya Montano
Montano, Soraya
#3021137 - Soraya Montano is Church and Community Worker in 2009, assigned to Esperanza Viva (Living Hope) Community Center in Mason, Ohio, which is p ...
Ramirez, Carlos
#3021528 - The Rev. Carlos Ramirez is a missionary serving as coordinator of Hispanic/Latino Ministries in the Oklahoma Annual Conference.
Purscell, Koni
#982931 - Church and Community Worker serving in the Big Stone Gap District of the Holston Annual Conference in Southwest Virginia.
Canafax, Susie
#12108Z - Susie Canafax is serving as the Mission Interpreter for the Southeast Jurisdiction of the United States.
Ut To
To, Ut
#14175Z - The Rev. Ut To is a missionary with the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church assigned to Vietnam as country dir ...
Jacques Kazemb Kambol
Kambol, Jacques
#3021495 - Jacques Kambol is a mission intern initially serving with the Shade and Fresh Water Project of the Methodist Church of Brazil.
Seckel, Kevin
#14284Z - Pastor of the New Hope English-speaking Fellowship of the United Methodist Church in Frankfurt, Germany.
Samuel, Serna
#3021130 - The Rev. Serna E. Samuel is a regional missionary with the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church, working with ...