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March 14, 2023 More United Methodist churches will have the opportunity to help immigrants, migrants and refugees living in their local communities thanks to an expanded Mustard Seed Migration Grants program from the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR). For 2023, the number of grants
The official day set to celebrate UMCOR Sunday 2023 is March 19, 2023. All are encouraged to celebrate this Sunday on any Sunday throughout the year. WHAT IS UMCOR SUNDAY? Through the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) we are able to provide hope for communities
Acknowledging the one-year anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine Let the Lord give strength to his people! Let the Lord bless his people with peace! – Psalm 29:11 (CEB) February 16, 2023 Friday, Feb. 24, 2023, marks one year since Russian forces invaded Ukraine, continuing
February 9, 2023 A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey at 4:17 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 6, 2023, the most powerful earthquake recorded since 1939. In the hours that followed, at least 78 aftershocks were reported, followed by a second earthquake of 7.5 magnitude. The
January 13, 2023 “Together we are approaching environmental justice just as what it is: It is a civil rights issue. By examining environmental requirements in conjunction with our civil rights laws, I am confident that we can do a better job of assuring fairness and
Amid challenges from an evolving denomination, multiple natural disasters, the war in Ukraine and a continuing struggle to address migration, United Methodists continued to live out their faith and serve their communities in 2022. Photographers from UM News, the denomination’s official news service, documented a
December 22, 2022 Active Waiting and Preparing“Our desire is that the war in Ukraine will end, but in this moment, they need an ambulance in Ukraine.”This is what Superintendent Ivana Procházková (Czechia) said when an ambulance, fully loaded withmedical goods, was sent on its journey
December 7, 2022 Five hundred displaced families living in Beni, a city in northeastern Congo, recently received assistance from The United Methodist Church. Fifty thousand dollars disbursed by the United Methodist Committee on Relief’s International Disaster Response program helped buy 38 tons of food, including
October 21, 2022 The United Methodist Committee on Relief has processed more than $17 million so far to help the people of Ukraine cope with the invasion by Russia, said its top executive during the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries’ fall board meeting. At the meeting,
October 13, 2022 Editor’s Note: In late May, a team from United Methodist News, the United Methodist Committee on Relief and the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries visited church refugee ministries in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and western Ukraine to share stories of the
