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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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In this You Tube video about the Syracuse Westside Urban Mission (SWUM), Church and Community Worker Olga E. Gonzalez speaks on the importance of connecting the church and community.



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Featured Missionaries

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.
Peña-Nazario, José Roberto
#14026Z - Rev. Jose Pena is is serving with the Honduras Mission Initiative.
Archie, Deborah
#3020924 - Deborah Archie, Esq., is serving as a Church and Community Worker with the Community Development for All People Corporation (CDC) in Columb ...
Quigg, Stephen Paul
#07994Z - Stephen Quigg is the coordinator of Global Ministries-related aviation ministries.
Purscell, Koni
#982931 - Church and Community Worker serving in the Big Stone Gap District of the Holston Annual Conference in Southwest Virginia.
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 ...
Deb Keeney, UMC Missionary
Keeney, Debbie
#982014 - Debbie C. Keeney is a Church and Community Worker serving as director of the thrift, vintage, and fair-trade shop of United Methodist Minist ...
Canafax, Susie
#12108Z - Susie Canafax is serving as the Mission Interpreter for the Southeast Jurisdiction of the United States.
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 ...
Boyle, Timothy
#05041Z - The Reverend D. Timothy Boyle is assigned to teach at Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya, Japan.
Coffey, Francis
#3021162 - Francis is executive director of Mary's Cradle Maternal and Infant Resource Center in Bluefield, West Virginia
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 ...
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 ...
Hoover, Jeffrey
#07989Z - Jeffrey Hooever is a professor at the University of Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Paul Webster
Webster, Paul
#11865Z - Paul Webster is serving at the Mujila Falls Agriculture Centre in Kanyama, Zambia.
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 ...
Hillary Taylor
Taylor, Hillary
#3021492 - Hillary Taylor is a mission intern serving at Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
Prim, Joy
#3021344 - Joy Prim is a mission intern serving initially with Mission for Migrant Workers in Hong Kong, SAR, P.R. of China.
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.
Christian Zigbuo
Zigbuo, Christian
#3021493 - Christian Zigbuo is a mission intern serving as a peace advocate associate with Initiatives for Peace in Mindanao (InPeace) on the island o ...
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 ...
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 ...
Shaw, Adam
#3021347 - Adam Shaw
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 ...
Howe, Amanda
Amanda Howe is a missionary serving as a Church and Community Worker in the East Central District of the Florida Annual Conference.
Rodney Aist
Aist, Rodney
#3021391 - The Rev. Dr. Rodney L. Aist is assigned to work with the Methodist/Waldensian community in Milan, Italy and vicinity.
Sarah Mckay
McKay, Sarah
#3021517 - Sarah McKay is a US-2 missionary serving as campus and community liaison for mission and justice at the Wesley Foundation serving Florida I ...