On March 23, 1869, the women of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Boston, Massachusetts, organized The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society on a cold rainy day – “possibly the most famous rainy day since the flood!” Barbara E. Campbell tells the story of women in mission.

In the wake of Cyclone Idai three annual conferences in Mozambique are working to support survivors.

Whether in her home country working with UMCOR on disaster response, or in Germany working with children from many countries, Global Mission Fellow Sombo Lansana answers God’s call to mission with flexibility and a willingness to serve.

Global Ministries responds to the shootings at two Aotearoa New Zealand mosques.

The United Methodist Committee on Relief has answered God’s call to be a neighbor for nearly 80 years.

Professor Benjamin Hartley considers the legacy of Methodist mission work with migrants and refugees, a legacy that started long before the first Methodist Committee for Overseas Relief was founded in the 1940s.

The work of UMCOR is in focus for the month of March. Executive director Roland Fernandes writes of UMCOR’s reach in alleviating suffering around the world.

With the partnership of Imagine No Malaria, the mission station hospital in Quessua, Angola, developed a campaign to send trained health volunteers into surrounding communities to reach residents in their homes and villages with bed nets, prevention strategies and when to access malaria treatment at the hospital.

United Methodists around the world are commemorating the bicentennial of Methodist mission, marking the 1819 founding of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Remembering Bruce Weaver, a pioneer in the United Methodist Russia Initiative.

After World War II, the Methodist Board of Missions began rebuilding its global missionary presence. The Central Jurisdiction and historic African American Methodist institutions received the call to find couples willing to serve as global missionaries.

Dr. Albert Willicor, missionary and chief medical officer of Ganta United Methodist Hospital in Liberia, gives an update of his recent activities at the hospital.