Project Backpack has a goal of adopting 10 Honduran churches this year and provide the tools needed to strengthen discipleship. This ministry is partnering with the Alabama Honduras Medical Educational Network (AHMEN) to provide teachers with a backpack full of materials to teach children about Jesus and God's word. http://www.umcna.org/postdetail/7390671
On Feb. 1 students & young adults are invited to learn about short-term &long-term, local & global mission opportunities through @umcmissionGT http://www.umcna.org/postdetail/7298309 Know a student or young adult with a call to change the world? Invite them to the Generation Transformation event on Feb. 1 at the UNA Wesley Foundation. It will be an opportunity for them to learn about short-term and long-term, local and global mission opportunities for young people through the United Methodist Church. http://www.umcna.org/postdetail/7298309
Young People in Mission, a camp experience with hands-on mission opportunities for youth and young adults between the ages of 12 to 24, will be held June 28-July 2, 2015, at Lake Junaluska. This incredibly connectional event brings together representatives from United Methodist General Boards and Agencies, as well as leaders from a variety of mission projects. This allows participants to connect with the numerous ways they can engage in Methodist missions.
On Sunday through Tuesday, February 8-10, 2015, some 2,000 volunteers will gather at Canterbury United Methodist Church in Birmingham to assemble a half-million meals for school children and orphanages outside the U.S as part of the the church’s fifth annual Stop Hunger Now campaign.
Rev. Earl Freeman shares how God led members of Winfield First UMC to hold a fashion show to raise money for Habitat for Humanity. The show raised $9,000 to help insure a safe, happy home for a local family.
Through an adventure lasting almost three years, Cove UMC and partners completed the first well in the history of the remote Pokot tribe in Kenya. Finding and delivering water on Mount Paka, a long-extinct volcano, was something the Kenyan government, the colonial British, or any other world relief agency had never attempted.
