Explore Our Work

Global Ministries connects The United Methodist Church in Mission through a variety of programs, partners, and campaigns:

• Working 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.
  
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• The United Methodist Development Fund (UMDF) provides first-mortgage loans to United Methodist churches, districts, and mission institutions.
  
• Explore our work in countries around the world - Africa, Asia and Pacific, Europe and Eurasia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East, and North America.
  

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• The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) responds to natural disasters and addresses issues of hunger, health, and immigration, including uprooted people.
• The Advance enables people to support projects and missionaries throughout the world in order to strengthen and sustain one another.
• The website ministryWith.org explores Global Ministries' focus area on poverty through a variety of media to educate people about what it means to be in ministry with others.
• B1 is a 24-hour fasting event for youth which raises money to empower the poor and disempower unjust systems sustaining poverty in our world.