From the Global Lens: Climate Refugees
Refugees travel in a rubber boat across the Aegean Sea from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos on October 30, 2015. They were...
GBGM missionaries to Côte d’Ivoire itinerate in the PNW
Submitted by Marilyn Reid
Rev. Jean Claude Masuka Maleka and his wife Francine Ilunga Mpanga Mufuk are United Methodist missionaries with the General Board of Global...
Latin America Study Impacts at Mission u
Participants at Mission u celebrate during this workshop. The Rev. Paul Jeffrey led a session on Latin America during last year's Mission u. Register...
Save the date – Mission u is July 13-16, 2018
Mission u: What about our money?
By the Rev. Neal Christie | Photos by Jesse N. Love
What are a few topics were you taught to avoid...
Global Ministries to Commission New United Methodist EarthKeepers for Environmental Stewardship
Global Ministries will commission 67 new EarthKeepers from 23 conferences in an online service on November 19, 2019 at 8pm ET at www.umcmission.org/live. Among those being commissioned is Barb Maynes, a lay member of First UMC in Port Angeles, WA.
Wandering Uganda: Serving, Changing, Growing
Denise Belista (top left), poses with children from the local community in Uganda. Denise served as a global justice volunteer assigned to serve with...
Osias and Desiree: What is life really like as a missionary?
A Conversation with An Itinerating Missionary Couple
By Osias & Desiree Segura-April
What is itineration? Why do missionaries itinerate? What is life really like as a...
Creation Care Enhances UMCOR Ministries through Awareness and Collaboration
By Cindy Haverkamp, PNWUMC Creation Care Connector
In 2018, natural disasters caused $160 billion in damage and claimed 10,400 lives. Climate models for the future...
What moments in our lives remind us of our promise to serve?
By The Rev. Dr. Carmen Manalac-Scheuerman
Commissioned as Global Missionary of the UMC
Praise the Lord!
After almost three years, returning with my family to Philippines serving...
A reflection on exclusion and language by Paul Jeffrey
By the Rev. Paul Jeffrey
Some ten million people in the world today are stateless. They aren’t recognized as citizens of any nation. Without legal...


















