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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:

Learn about our missionaries and how they live faith through their remarkable work. Choose a missionary's name below to visit his/her bio.
Pray for them and their ministry.
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Support a specific missionary by selecting a name from the drop-down list.
Partner with a missionary through a Covenant Relationship.

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Related News

Special grants augment mission in 51 countries: Two hundred thirty-eight United Methodist mission workers in their own countries will receive modest support grants for 2019.

One family in mission around the world: Meet the newest United Methodist missionaries! Eight people commissioned during the Oct. 13 worship service of the board meeting receive support and blessings for their new journeys in faith.

In Focus: Missionaries: Executive director of Missionary Service, Judy Chung, writes about one way Global Ministries connects the church in mission: sending missionaries from everywhere to everywhere.

Prayer, Solidarity and Courage in Mission: After securing the release of three detained missionaries this summer, General Secretary Thomas Kemper reflects on how the experience reaffirmed some of the central tenants of mission.

Global Mission Fellows: Sent out to Serve: Follow the experiences of four young adults and learn how this program impacts them and the communities they serve.

LetThemLeave: After seven weeks of detention Global Ministries and the Council of Bishops call on the government of the Philippines to immediately release Tawanda Chandiwana, and provide permission to leave for him ...

Diversity and Incarnation: A Report on a Missionary Gathering in Asia: Joseph is himself a United Methodist missionary; retired today, but still engaged in sharing the love of God through Jesus Christ with those he meets in Cambodia...

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