In addition to our prayers and our financial donations, we can put our hands together to help persons affected by Hurricane Harvey by volunteering to work with needed UMCOR kits at MERCI. Our intention is to send 2000 cleaning buckets and at least 2000 health kits to areas hard-hit by Hurricane Harvey. In order to… Continue Reading→
UMCOR Response to Peru Flooding
Many of you have seen the news about massive flooding and mudslides in Peru, which has taken 72 lives and caused 70,000 people to lose their homes. Many hospitals and businesses have been affected as well. Livestock have been lost and roads and bridges have been washed out. Rev. Rosanna Panizo-Valladares, a North Carolina Conference clergy… Continue Reading→
UMCOR Sunday March 26!
Together we do more! Formerly known as ‘One Great Hour of Sharing,’ UMCOR Sunday provides an opportunity for generously supporting the work of our United Methodist Committee On Relief. Giving to UMCOR Sunday is the only time funds are solicited for covering the costs of doing business, and assures that all gifts to UMCOR go… Continue Reading→
Giving Tuesday
Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday! Several United Methodist agencies and ministries are participating in #GivingTuesday again this year, offering churchgoers a variety of ways to contribute online. You may support a missionary or one of our ministry partners. 100% of the money donated on Giving Tuesday goes to support the ministry you select. United Methodist Committee On… Continue Reading→
Hurricanes 2012
UMCOR, the United Methodist Committee on Relief reports that Hurricane Sandy, which severely affected portions of the Caribbean and the eastern United States in late October 2012, was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record. In the US, Hurricane Sandy affected at least 24 states with gale-force winds, flooding, heavy rain, and even snow. In the… Continue Reading→
Bishops Council requests special offering March 20
United Methodist response to the earthquakes and tsunamis in Japan will be closely coordinated with churches and church-related agencies in that country, which continues to reel as the death toll continues to rise. The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) is serving as the denomination’s conduit for financial contributions. A request for an offering on… Continue Reading→
Haiti – 1 Year Later
When the 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck at 4:53 p.m., then UMCOR head, the Rev. Sam Dixon, was already in the country designing, with Eglise Methodiste d’Haiti (EMH, the Methodist Church of Haiti) and other partners, a plan to improve health ministries in the country. Dixon was accompanied by the head of United Methodist Volunteers in Mission,… Continue Reading→
UMCOR Ministers In Pakistan Flood
UMCOR reports that donations in the wake of the massive flooding covering Pakistan are not coming in and they are having to dip into a general emergency fund to respond. Flood waters continue to sweep away homes and crops and have destroyed the country’s schools, health-care centers and roads – the essence of its social… Continue Reading→