Dear friends,

What a wonderful opportunity we have to be a global church. We are truly in ministry: from everywhere to everywhere, global and local ministries are coming together to reflect God’s mission — the true mission history and mission theology in the 21st century.

In our efforts to represent the church God expects us to be, we must be in partnership in mission around the world, not only because it is our purpose to serve others, but also in our obedience to do what God has called us to do and to be what God is expecting us to be.

Theologian and missiologist David Bosch says, “Mission is finding out what God is doing and joining in.” What we do in faith and as partners with others is multiplied to heights we could never imagine, because God is present. What seems unreachable and impossible takes on new life. We become living witnesses of the power experienced as we extend our talents and gifts in mission around the world.

One of the ways we extend mission around the world is through The Advance, the designated giving arm of the church. Since 1948, The Advance has raised funds to transform communities and individuals across the globe. The Advance has helped channel over 3 million gifts totaling more than $1 billion to thousands of ministries and projects around the world.

Through The Advance, we support church development, disaster response and relief, health, economic empowerment, social justice, water and sanitation, women and children, mission personnel, food and agriculture projects and much more. Additionally, our missionaries are on the front line living out their call to be doctors, teachers, pastors, social workers, church planters, evangelists and so on.

I encourage you to join in God’s mission by supporting Global Ministries missionaries and Advance projects. Consider this great opportunity to join in what God is doing.

Use this catalog as a tool to help you see more clearly the heart of mission, through your individual and collective gifts.

With blessings and thanks for your generosity,

Thomas Kemper General Secretary, General Board of Global Ministries About The Advance The Advance (officially “The Advance for Christ and His Church”) supports the worldwide mission of The United Methodist Church through the General Board of Global Ministries and the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR). The areas of impact include food and agriculture, disaster response and recovery, education, health, economic empowerment, social justice, water and sanitation, women and children, mission personnel, evangelism and church growth, and migration.

The Advance is the official United Methodist program for voluntary, designated, second- mile giving. The Advance program is based on relationships and accountability. Projects need to demonstrate that they are working in partnership with the communities where they serve. Projects are expected to show alignment also with the priorities of the bishop (or other church leadership in the region where they work. Projects should also demonstrate a relationship with donors, United Methodist churches, and conferences. This shows that the project has a defined United Methodist audience and donor appeal (donors who are willing to give through The Advance).

Advance projects are vetted and approved by the bishop or church leadership in the country where the project is located, Global Ministries staff and leadership team, and The Advance Committee. The Advance Committee includes representation from each U.S. jurisdiction, members of the General Board of Global Ministries Board of Directors, and agency staff. The Advance team, members of the General Board of Global Ministries, work to tell the stories of missionaries and projects, and report on how giving makes an impact in the lives of people and their communities.

Since its founding in 1948, 100 percent of all Advance giving goes to the designated mission project or ministry. The Advance has channeled more than 3 million gifts totaling more than $1.6 billion to thousands of ministries and projects around the world.

3 Advance giving

Missionary Service

Biblically rooted, historically formed and inclusive, Global Ministries recruits, places and supports missionaries from different countries and cultures in a range of ministries. It helps to identify and assist people who respond to God’s call to mission and volunteer service by providing training, resources and support for personnel in multiple contexts, including service in the United States. It celebrates mission service “from everywhere to everywhere.”

Global Ministries has more than 300 missionaries in some 60 countries; they are pastors, teachers, doctors, social workers, community developers, church planters, evangelists and others engaged in both United Methodist and ecumenical ministries.

Global Mission Fellows, ages 20 to 30, from all over the world, engage in mission outside their home countries. They devote two years to immerse themselves into a new community that links their faith with justice making. Areas of focus include: peace education, conflict resolution, environmental justice, economic development, indigenous rights, and women’s and children’s rights.

The World Service Fund apportionment, along with Advance gifts to missionaries, strengthen the role of these ambassadors of love and grace in diverse lands and cultural settings, but gifts from World Service support less than a third of the cost. Your gifts to The Advance are critical to the full support of missionaries. They allow Global Ministries to provide salary and benefits to every missionary.

4 UMCOR

The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) for more than 75 years has responded to the emergency and chronic needs of the most vulnerable people without regard to religion, race, nationality, gender or sexual orientation. Founded in 1940, its original constituents were Asians and Europeans displaced by World War II. Today, UMCOR is the humanitarian relief and development arm of The United Methodist Church operating as a not-for-profit (501(c)3) organization under the auspices of Global Ministries.

Through its work, UMCOR: • Strengthens and transforms people and communities; • Alleviates suffering and advances hope and healing; • Responds to needs caused by disasters, natural and human-caused, including wars; • Supports churches in direct ministry to those impacted by disasters; • Provides training, supplies and funding to conferences that are responding to disasters; and • Addresses the root causes of poverty through awareness, advocacy and action.

UMCOR specializes in solutions that help people become self-reliant.

UMCOR provides a range of relief supplies including school kits, cleaning buckets and hygiene kits for distribution after disasters. It operates two relief-supply depots located in Louisiana and Utah and works with a network of depots around the United States.

UMCOR’s recent financial information can be found online at www.umcor.org, and older records are available upon request. UMCOR has a four-star rating from Charity Navigator, America’s largest and most used independent evaluator of charities. 5 6 Achieving Global Health

Global Ministries’ vision of abundant health promotes physical, emotional and spiritual well- being for all. The Global Health unit and related Advance projects aim to “create abundant health in economically vulnerable communities by protecting children and disadvantaged adults from preventable causes of death and disease.” The agency works in partnership with thousands of communities and health workers through community-based health programs, while also assisting more than 300 United Methodist- and Methodist-related hospitals and clinics throughout the world.

Global Health objectives include: • Strengthening existing programs of community education about the location and use of health services. • Increasing availability of health interventions to the most at-risk populations. • Improving the quality and scale of health-care services offered through church-related hospitals and clinics.

Key activities include: • Capacity-building to better equip faith communities and their leaders to fully participate in efforts to improve health and transform local health services. • Cooperation with mission partners in employing a holistic approach to meeting the ongoing health needs of the most at-risk populations. • Assisting local churches, districts and annual conferences to develop and sustain ministries of health, healing and wholeness. Evangelism and Church Growth

Mission Initiatives plant and nourish new faith communities, notably in areas with no previous or with historically interrupted Methodist presence. More than a dozen mission initiatives in Asia, the former Soviet Union, West Africa and Central America have resulted in hundreds of new congregations over the last quarter century. The newest initiative is in the Central African Republic.

7 As the global population pushes toward 7 billion people, human need grows. In Africa, Asia, and Latin America, educational and employment opportunities have improved, but they still lag behind those of North America and Europe. Women and children, though they play an increasing role in raising family incomes, are seriously affected by poverty.

Global Advance projects cover a wide range of mission work, including abundant health, the control and treatment of preventable diseases, job training for abused girls, disaster relief, agricultural development, nutrition projects, and efforts to achieve peace and justice worldwide. These projects aren’t limited to a specific region, but have a global reach.

8 Disaster Response, International Leadership Development Grants GLOBAL Responding quickly to meet emergency needs Preparing clergy and lay individuals to serve around the world their communities upon completion of their Agricultural Resources for 982450 studies Impoverished Farmers in Central 982468 America/Caribbean E-Readers for Theological Creating community gardens to reduce hunger Education Living Gifts: Heifer International and poverty Providing digital books to teachers and students Working with communities to end hunger and 982447 at United Methodist colleges of theology poverty 3022191 982532 Caretakers of God’s Creation Caring for God’s creation, integral to what it Faith-Based Advocacy to End Material Resources means to be disciples of Jesus Christ Hunger Enhancing the purchase of emergency-response 3021583 Advocating to the nation’s decision makers to and disaster-relief supplies end hunger 901440 Children, Poverty and Violence 982325 Supporting projects that address issues of child Migrant-Worker Rights poverty and violence Foods Resource Bank (FRB) Supporting programs that protect and uphold 14680A Alleviating world hunger by supporting migrant-worker rights smallholder agricultural programs 14681A Children’s Ministries 982493 Empowering children and families to reach Mission Volunteers (Individual their full potential by tackling the root causes of Abundant Health Volunteers) poverty Increasing access to health interventions in Helping individual volunteers finance their 982027 economically vulnerable communities mission service 3021770 982465 Church Planting for New Mission Initiatives Global Migration Missionaries Around the World Establishing more than 400 new congregations Addressing the global refugee and migration Providing salary support for the United Methodist and faith communities outside the United States crisis missionary community serving in more than 60 400400 3022144 countries 00779Z Church World Service, Blankets Global Ministries — Where Most and Tools Needed Mobility Worldwide MO — Providing congregations with resources to Supporting mission work through church Columbia Carts (formerly known support disaster response and rights-based partners wherever the greatest need exists as PET) community-development projects around the 01138A Providing mobility in three models for leg- world handicapped persons in developing countries 982810 Health-Care Volunteers 982665 Participating in post-conflict development and Church World Service, CROP economic renewal Nationals in Mission (Persons in Hunger Walk 982832 Mission) Providing assistance for hungry people Providing support for innovative ministry and 982380 Imagine No Malaria essential needs by well-qualified indigenous Supporting UMC-affiliated programs in malaria workers Contain Your Joy education, prevention and treatment 12122L Funding humanitarian shipments to UMCOR- 3021190 supported programs Refugee Response, Church World 982730 International Disaster Risk Service Reduction Supporting projects and advocacy initiatives Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Responding to hazards that minimize death and that assist refugees, immigrants and internally Ministries economic loss and help communities recover displaced persons Developing leaders, worship and missions with, from disaster 982540 for and by the deaf, hard-of-hearing and deaf- 3021952 blind 982562

9 www.umcmission.org/advance Restorative-Justice Ministries United Methodist Volunteers Supporting community-based restorative-justice In Mission — North Central programs to bring healing and systemic change Jurisdiction 982670 Training, educating and resourcing volunteers for short-term Christian service Rural Chaplains Association 901375 Advocating ministries in rural churches and communities carried out by lay and clergy rural United Methodist Volunteers chaplains 982740 In Mission — Northeastern Jurisdiction Providing training, education, best practices and Support for International resources to promote short-term mission work Volunteer Coordinators 982760 Supporting local persons as Volunteer in Mission coordinators in international settings 3020761 United Methodist Volunteers In Mission — South Central Sustainable Development Jurisdiction Transforming and strengthening global Providing UMVIM/disaster mission education, communities through long-term recovery leadership development and more following disasters and the transition into 901455 sustainable development 3021951 United Methodist Volunteers In Mission — Southeastern UMCOR — Where Most Needed Jurisdiction Supporting programs that fight hunger and Coordinating and preparing volunteers for short- poverty, assist the displaced and respond to term service disasters 901875 999895 United Methodist Volunteers in UMCOR Sager Brown Mission — Western Jurisdiction Providing opportunities for both short- and long- Coordinating and preparing volunteers for short- term volunteers to engage in hands-on mission term service 901515 901463

UMCOR Water, Sanitation and World Communion Scholarships Hygiene Program Providing scholarships for advanced study to Supporting communities to meet needs for clean increase leadership development in church and water, sanitation and hygiene around the world society 3020600 982161

United Methodist Children’s Fund World Hunger and Poverty for Christian Mission Empowering families and communities to create Educating children about mission and allowing self-help and sustainable solutions to food them to contribute to children’s projects insecurity 3021113 982920

United Methodist Global AIDS Young Adult Mission Service Fund Programs Combating HIV/AIDS globally through prevention, Supporting young adult missionaries, i.e. Global education, support and capacity development Mission Fellows, of The UMC around the world 982345 13105Z

10 www.umcmission.org/advance Tremendous population growth, enormous health needs and widespread civil war create ministry challenges in Africa. More than 400 Advance projects and missionaries focus on church growth, prevention of diseases such as malaria and HIV/AIDS, poverty alleviation, conflict resolution and education. The United Methodist Church relates to all parts of Africa, but its major presence is south and east of the Sahara Desert.

11 Quessua Agriculture AFRICA Training the community in new agricultural CONGO techniques (DEMOCRATIC AFRICA REGIONAL 3022272 REPUBLIC) Quessua Mission Boarding School Africa University Farm Expanding the boarding facility to accommodate, Agriculture and Development Development guide, mentor and teach vocational skills to Center Developing Africa University’s farm to improve orphans Eradicating poverty and improving nutrition and instruction for agriculture students and area 11638N economic capacity farmers 3021586 3021027 Quessua Women’s Training Center Educating women in literacy, Christian Agriculture Project Aviation Assistance Program teachings, hygiene, nutrition and entrepreneurial Developing an agriculture center in Central Providing assistance for United Methodist skills Congo aviation ministries flight programs 11639N 3022148 14260A Quessua Mission Care and Feeding of Street Living Well with AIDS Providing infrastructure in agriculture, health, Children Empowering and enabling people to understand nutrition, education and developing the Providing shelter for vulnerable children HIV/AIDS and its impact on the community surroundings 12780A 3021529 105625 Central Congo Resource Center UMCOR Sustainable Agriculture Supplemental Salary for Pastors in Building a resource center for training sessions, and Development East Angola meetings, events and activities Improving farm practices and nutrition of small- Supplementing pastors’ salaries to increase the 3020674 scale farmers mainly in rural communities in number of pastors and improve living conditions Africa 3021453 Central Congo Wings of Caring 982188 Providing transportation support for United Methodist medical, evangelical and relief ZOE: Helping Children Help CAMEROON outreach 08595A Themselves Empowering vulnerable children to overcome Cameroon Mission Initiative poverty through a three-year empowerment Preaching and interacting with other existing Child Action Initiative program churches and alleviating human suffering Educating HIV/AIDS orphans, providing micro- 982023 00344A credit for women, farming, building clinics and installing wells 3021036 ANGOLA CENTRAL AFRICAN Children’s Ministry Evangelism in REPUBLIC Central Congo Bom Jesus Clinic Ministering to and with children teaching the Establishing a clinic to assist a community near Central African Republic Mission gospel in music, activities and Scripture the Kwanza River 3022147 3022082 Initiative Supporting mission work through church partners wherever the greatest need exists Congo (DRC) Development East Angola Evangelization Supporting emergency relief and development Rehabilitating the postwar church, restoring 3021993 programs congregations and winning more members to 198400 Christ 15061A Congo Restoration Creating sustainable families with income and Pastors’ Salary Support in West education for brutalized women and orphaned Angola children Supplementing pastors’ salaries to increase the 3021212 number of pastors and improve living conditions 3021394

12 www.umcmission.org/advance Diengenga Trade School, Lodja Kapanga, Congo Scholarship Museba Village United Methodist Providing secondary-level education specializing Providing scholarships for Methodist youth in Church Building in electric, mechanics, masonry and carpentry Kapanga to develop leadership and technical Providing a place of worship, education and 3021397 skills feeding children 3022270 3021580 East Congo Aviation Ministry Purchasing a new aircraft for the East Congo Katanga Methodist University at North Katanga Wings of the Episcopal Area Mulungwishi Morning 3022141 Preparing leaders in theology, education, Providing an aviation ministry that serves the psychology, information technology and church East Congo Church agriculture 08597A Reconstruction 14433A Restoring and renovating local church buildings Nyembo Umpungu Mission and parsonages Katanga Methodist University at Projects 3021926 Mulungwishi, Professors’ Salaries Improving primary health care for the population Providing salaries for national university 11071A Fresh Water for Central Congo professors Providing fresh-water wells for villages in 14432A Samuteb Memorial Hospital in Central Congo Kapanga 3022271 Kindu Orphanage Improvements Providing quality medications, equipment and Caring for the physical and spiritual needs of training to improve health conditions in Kapanga GO-UP Groundbreaking Primary those whose parents were killed in war or by AIDS 00596A School Construction in DRC 15138N Building a primary school for boys and girls Shungu Clinic of Ntambo and the surrounding villages of DR Kinshasa Orphanage Reopening Assisting people to access health care at a clinic Congo Rebuilding an unoccupied building to reach in Kamina 3022294 orphans 3020662 15100N Goma Orphanage Southern Congo Wings of the Establishing an orphanage in the Goma area Kisangani Mission Station Improving facilities that house a health-care Morning 3021399 Reaching remote areas with medical care and facility, schools, church and orphanage at the supporting the church leadership mission Information Communication 08596A Technology for Development — 3021401 ICT4D Support to the Democratic Enabling access to information technology Kivu Minority Evangelism Consolidating evangelism within Banyamulenge, Republic of Congo Rural appropriate for church institutions Development Project 3022269 Barundi and Bavira minorities in South Kivu 3021930 Communicating, planning and implementing tools for partners concerned with development Jamaa Letu Boys Orphanage 3022293 Mulungwishi Area Clean-Water Operating Expenses Providing buildings and care for orphans Projects The English-Speaking School of 3021034 Maintaining water wells for the Mulungwishi area to provide clean water in South Congo Lubumbashi 3022298 Educating children in English to enable them to Jamaa Letu Girls Orphanage become future national and international leaders Operating Expenses 10337A Providing hope and care for orphans Mulungwishi Theological 3021071 Seminary Developing and educating national clergy The Hands and the Heart of Christ 05773A Orphanage Home Kamina Methodist University Caring for vulnerable children and the needy Providing education in a post-conflict setting within the orphanage through skill training 3021452 Mulungwishi Women’s School 3022085 Equipping women for ministry and to empower other women Kamina Orphanage 08112A UMCOR Aviation Project Providing shelter, family warmth, education and Replacing and refurbishing aircraft used in UMC a Christian environment for abandoned children ministry and mission 14398A 3019626

13 www.umcmission.org/advance COTE D’IVOIRE KENYA Rural Women and Young Girls Leadership and Empowerment (IVORY COAST) Project African Rural Institute (ARI) Raising rural women entrepreneurs and leaders Construction of New Churches in School for sustainable livelihoods Helping parents raise educated sons and 3022287 Missionary Districts daughters for gainful employment Building new churches in Cote d’Ivoire’s seven 15176N missionary districts Training and Curriculum 3021989 Development AIDS Orphans and Community Ensuring MCK children have qualified teachers, Development Project for Dabou Health, Maua Hospital pastors and a 14-year curriculum by 2020 Providing food, tuition, uniforms, shoes and 3022264 District medical care for 1,600 children orphaned by Providing empowerment of Dabou population for AIDS development of the district Youth Ministries in Kenya 140161 3022268 Training youth on the dangers of drug abuse and teaching leadership skills to be deep-rooted in Evangelism and Church-Planting Alternative Rite of Passage God’s work Providing a Christian alternative to genital 3022265 Project mutilation as rite of passage to girls and young Developing leadership for church leaders, clergy women and laity 3020448 3021990 LIBERIA Center for Health and Hope: The Primary and Secondary Schools Bishop Judith Craig Children Gift of HOPE Construction Providing essential care for 100 AIDS orphans in Village Constructing and providing schools in urban and Meru, Kenya Providing basic needs, education, counseling rural areas within newly evangelized districts 3022289 and health care to orphaned children 3021943 11820A Living Hope High School Radio Ministry Providing a Christian education for orphaned Bopolu United Methodist Mission Broadcasting radio ministry for evangelization and vulnerable children in the Central Bungoma Station and social development District Providing holistic services through the church, 3020725 3021425 school and clinic for transformation of the world 3022282 Maua Hospital Service Fund GHANA Providing lifesaving inpatient health care for the Brighter Future Children Rescue critically ill Center Program Ghana Water Projects 09613A Helping ex-child soldiers, prostitutes, rural teen Providing communities, schools and clinics with mothers and poor children build better lives boreholes or filters for safe drinking water Ministerial Training 3020790 3020588 Providing financial assistance for 10 young aspiring ministers for theological training Camphor United Methodist Transforming Rural Community 14453A Mission Lives by Increasing Access to Providing education, health care and agricultural Quality Health Care Mission and Evangelism Ministry training to help people recovering from war Enabling at least 20 rural communities to gain Providing church sanctuaries and motorbikes for 12548A access to quality health care MCK pastors and evangelists in remote areas 3022288 3022278 Construction of New School Buildings Vocational Education for Rural Providence Children’s Home Constructing primary schools in rural Constructing homes and a clinic serving orphans communities to improve the lives of children Young Women in Ghana whose parents died from HIV/AIDS Providing rural girls with vocational education to 3020670 3019212 help them become productive members of society 3022290

14 www.umcmission.org/advance Feeding of Homebound Elderly Operation Classroom — Liberia MOZAMBIQUE and Training Caregivers Improving secondary education through Providing basic care services to 500 elderly partnership with The United Methodist Church people in Liberia Bungane Secondary School and 3020646 3020494 Women’s Training Center Improving education and materials for a Ganta United Methodist Hospital Scholarships for Elementary, women’s training center in the community Providing quality and affordable health care in Secondary, College and Seminary 3021656 the rural north Education 15080N Providing scholarships for active members of Cambine Theological Seminary United Methodist churches Supporting the only United Methodist seminary Ganta United Methodist Mission 15125B in the region Station Program Support 12572A Educating the community on agriculture Sheltering the Children of John sustainability Dean Town Carolyn Belshe Orphanage Center 14369T Building and furnishing two dormitories for boys (CBO) and girls attending school in rural John Dean Improving care, education and future for General Health and Ministry Town 67 orphans of war or HIV/AIDS in Cambine, Constructing a new hospital, improving existing 3021654 Mozambique facilities and providing health education 3020657 3020622 Water for Life Constructing wells to provide clean water Chicuque Rural Hospital Girls’ Dormitory and toilets to improve the living standards in Providing health care for 500,000 people in the Providing a dormitory to accommodate communities province of Inhambane vulnerable women enrolled in vocational training 3020811 09734A in Monrovia 3021062 Dondo Orphanage MALAWI Caring for children who have lost their parents Healthy Women, Healthy Liberia due to HIV/AIDS 3020476 (HWHL) Alleviation of Poverty Providing women’s preventative health education Providing food, modern farming methods and and medical clinic services in Margibi County agricultural training for the communities Girls’ Advocacy Program Advocating for girls and sensitizing communities 3022266 3021415 against early marriages 3022307 Hope for the Deaf Skill-Training Church Development Program Constructing new church buildings and Providing skills training for hearing-impaired parsonages to increase the welfare of the Shelter for Displaced Widows Giving shelter to widows who have been rejected persons members and the pastors from their homes by their late husbands’ 14365A 3021414 relatives 14507J Liberia Reconstruction Projects Leadership Development Supporting reconstruction efforts of the Liberia Educating and training laity and clergy as part Episcopal Area of the capacity-building program The Center of Hope (HIV-AIDS) Educating to combat HIV/AIDS, sexually 15126N 3021416 transmitted diseases, tuberculosis and malaria with an emphasis on human rights Liberia University Malawi Provisional Annual 15031A Granting higher education institution of the Conference Liberia Annual Conference The UMC Supporting provisional annual conference Tsalala Women Training Center 3022302 expenses associated with more than 100 churches and 25 pastors and Program Department Providing a training center and program My Heart’s Appeal for the 00203A department for Tsalala Women Intellectually Disabled 14509A Establishing a campus in Monrovia, Liberia, to address the needs of the intellectually disabled 3022086

15 www.umcmission.org/advance NIGERIA SENEGAL June Hartranft Memorial Primary School for Girls Meeting basic human needs for impoverished Banyam Theological Seminary Agriculture Program students and staff and increasing educational Providing scholarships to cover food, travel, fees Assisting farmers in improving yield and resources and education becoming economically self-sufficient 3021929 10318B 14517A Lowell and Ruth Gess UMC Eye Gwaten Comprehensive Secondary Anti-Poverty Initiative (API) Hospital School Helping underprivileged women become micro- Offering quality eye care and surgery to the Building and staffing a secondary school to entrepreneurs community and training eye professionals prepare children for college 3021544 09229A 3021631 Church Construction in Senegal Manjama United Methodist Jalingo UMC Orphanage Securing land and building United Methodist churches Health Center Providing education and construction of Providing primary health care and outreach 14519N secondary school for the orphaned and less programs for a rural population privileged 13760N 3021070 Prison Ministry Assisting women and teenage boys to re-enter family and society and providing vocational help Mercy Hospital Nigerian United Methodist Providing a hospital and community-based 14524A Nursery-Primary School at health care Gwandum 15173A Providing quality education for children and Senegal Mission Initiative Supporting pastors’ growth in leadership and youth Operation Classroom — Sierra 3021594 pastoral care, and providing congregational development Leone 12594A Improving secondary education through North Conference Agricultural partnership with The United Methodist Church in Development Program Sierra Leone Improving the economic and physical health of Senegal Wellness Project 12922A Helping to build healthy communities through members of the North Conference of UMCN medical examinations and well-balanced meals 3022275 14525A Prosthesis Program Providing artificial limbs, rehabilitation aids and North Conference Ron Wilmot appliances for amputees Wheels For Senegal 982580 Comprehensive Junior Seminary Purchasing vehicles for rural ministry in Senegal Secondary School(RWCJSSS) 3021937 Constructing a comprehensive secondary school Regina Bangura School of Nursing for students Converting an existing building into a nursing Women’s Skills Center school 3022273 Teaching sewing and cooking skills to women to 3021642 help lift their families out of poverty North Conference UMCN 14526A Secretariat Compound Sierra Leone Water and Housing the North Conference offices, United Development Ministry Methodist Computer Institute and future SIERRA LEONE Providing clean water, medical care, education buildings and spiritual inspiration for the community 3022274 Child Rescue Center 181000 Providing a holistic, faith-based program for vulnerable children United Methodist Community RWANDA 14377A Radio Conducting radio broadcasting to empower Integrated Community Programs communities with lifesaving and life- True Vineyard Ministries Inc. transforming information Constructing a facility and a sheep farm that for Maternal and Child Health, 3020550 assist in the sustainable employment of widows UMC Kissy General Hospital 3021303 Providing comprehensive health care 14536A

16 www.umcmission.org/advance SOUTH AFRICA South Sudan Emerging Church Emmanuel Center for Women and and Nursery-School Construction Children, Tarime Supporting the construction of needed church Creating a safe haven to educate and build self- John Wesley Community Center and school facilities esteem for women and children Providing education, food and support for 3021297 3021924 vulnerable children and orphans with AIDS 3021238 South Sudan Financial Ilula Orphan Program Management Training Providing education and care for HIV/AIDS Phakamisa Providing access to microloans for women in 17 orphans, as well as AIDS testing for the Uplifting women and children through training in churches community early-childhood education and caregiving 3021289 15159N 14154A South Sudan Health Empowering Morogoro Pastors’ School Seth Mokitimi Methodist All Lives (South Sudan HEAL) Building a school where pastors will get a Seminary Supporting health education to prevent illness diploma level Providing pastors with leadership skills and and support local health workers’ efforts 3022261 practical vocational ministry skills 3021298 3021410 New Churches Construction in South Sudan Pastor Support Dar es Salaam Southern Africa Methodist Receiving pastor salary support for five years to Building a church for worship for believers Volunteers In Mission help develop church income-generating projects of Dar es Salaam Sharing the love of Jesus Christ through 3021431 3022267 volunteer teams 14363A South Sudan Shalom Ministry Susanna Wesley Education and Bringing hope to orphaned and vulnerable Health-Care Center, Morogoro children of South Sudan Training women in skills and educating children, SOUTH SUDAN 3020787 enabling the women to be self-sufficient 3020705 Animal Livestock and Beekeeping Strengthening the Future of South Using animal husbandry and beekeeping to Sudan through Education Tanzania United Methodist improve the community’s economy and food Training and equipping unpaid teachers and Complex, Guesthouse and security volunteers in 14 village schools Reception, Dar Es Salaam 3020638 3021433 Constructing a guesthouse and center for visitors, missionaries and volunteers Buckeye Clinic in South Sudan 12635N Providing maternal and child health-care SUDAN services in rural areas Tanzania Women Development, 3021282 Sudan Development Orphans and Vulnerable Children Assisting the country through emergency and Schools Developing Leaders for God’s long-term development projects Training and assisting women, orphans and Future Vision in South Sudan 184385 vulnerable children for UMC growth and for their Developing leaders for discerning God’s vision for lives the church in South Sudan 15051A 3022260 TANZANIA The Next Generation Ministries in South Sudan Agriculture Angel House Orphanage and Tanzania Helping farmers in 17 churches to decrease Empowering youth by providing essential poverty and hunger through sustainable School training for leadership development and ministry Caring for orphaned/abandoned children to agriculture 3022281 3021296 educate a faithful, self-sufficient generation 3020452 Wesley College and Education South Sudan Development Assisting South Sudan through emergency and Church Construction and Center Providing training and teaching opportunities for long-term development projects Development, Lake Zone pastors and church leaders 3021793 Striving to equip the church to be self-leading, 3021925 self-replicating and self-sustaining 3021923

17 www.umcmission.org/advance Wesley Preschools and Primary ZIMBABWE Zimbabwe East Annual Conference School Medical Clinics Revitalization Providing vulnerable children with an education Upgrading five health facilities to bring medical 3020704 Africa University Scholarships services to rural communities in east Zimbabwe Assisting bright African students with 3022161 insufficient financial means to attend Africa ZAMBIA University 3021028

Building Church and Community Babyfold at Old Mutare Fairfield Resource Centers Children’s Home Creating funds for a self-sustaining place to Caring for abandoned children by providing love, provide spiritual, life and work-related skills clothing, food and education 3022283 11713T

Bwafwano Care Providers Basic Essentials for Africa Caring for and supporting orphans and vulnerable children in Kitwe University Students Providing basic essentials to students attending 3021211 Africa University 3020619 Kafakumba Pastors’ School and Scholarship Ishe Anes Project for Training pastors four to six weeks a year for eight years in spiritual formation and holistic ministry Underprivileged Children Increasing literacy and employment 11438A opportunities and improving health to reduce poverty Lord’s Mountain Orphanage 13071A (formerly Front Porch Orphanage of Zambezi) Mutambara Mission Hospital Providing children with stability by meeting their Providing comprehensive health care to more needs physically, socially and spiritually than 140,000 people 14420T 3022286

Mujila Falls Agriculture Center Nyadire Mission Hospital Addressing hunger and poverty with sustainable Renovations agriculture and leadership training Renovating hospital departments to meet 15016A national health standards and improve patient care New Life Center, Zambia 3022276 Ministering through projects such as PET handicap bike, educational classes and Old Mutare Hospital Family and community health 15057A Child Health Unit Providing 70 hospital beds to a very active maternity unit with about 60 babies Pastor Education and Salary 3022277 Support Supplying salary support for first five to Safe Communities Projects seven years of church plants and 80-percent Providing hope and supportive rehabilitation for educational scholarships youth and young adult victims of violence 3022284 3021538

Tudikwashi — Empowering Zimbabwe Development Women and Children Supporting humanitarian efforts, emergency Empowering women and children to improve relief and long-term development their status, well-being, self-esteem and quality 199456 of life 3020777

18 www.umcmission.org/advance Asia/Pacific is the most populous region in the world. In all but three of the 55 countries of Asia/Pacific, Christianity is a minority religion (the Philippines, Tonga and Fiji are the exceptions). United Methodist Mission Initiatives are planting churches and developing leadership in Cambodia, Laos, Mongolia, Thailand and Vietnam. Ecumenical relationships are also strong, including collaboration with the East Asia Christian Council and the Amity Foundation in China.

Significant mission efforts include church development, pastoral training, health care, promotion of human rights, peace activities and humanitarian relief.

19 Street Children Ministry ASIA AND Creating educational opportunities for street INDIA children to improve their quality of life PACIFIC 14921A Isabella Thoburn College — Programs for Postgraduate and Women’s Empowerment and Professional Studies AFGHANISTAN Leadership-Training Project Educating students using advanced technology, Providing leadership training and empowerment thus enabling them to compete in the job market for women 12438A Community-Based Health and 3020789 Development in Afghanistan Lee Memorial Girls’ High School Training paramedical health workers and female Youth Leadership Development Educating orphaned and destitute girls, enabling educators to serve people with disabilities as Equipping and empowering Cambodian them to reach their full potential well as girls Methodist youth to be disciples of Jesus Christ 00679B 3020522 3021606 Leonard Theological College, Jabalpur CAMBODIA CENTRAL ASIA Preparing people for ordained ministry and specialized ministries through postgraduate Cambodia Methodist Bible School Central Asia Mission Initiative research Scholarship Fund Supporting new churches through leadership 09954B Providing scholarships for aspiring pastors to training, ministry with the poor and health-care gain theological training programs Ludhiana Christian Medical 14917A 14939A College and Hospital Building relationships through student Cambodia Mission Initiative scholarships, children’s health care and medical Supporting new churches, pastors’ salaries, CHINA equipment leadership development and outreach ministries 12429B 00230A Amity Printing Press — Bibles and Opportunity School for the Christian Literature Cambodia Women’s Livelihood Providing free ethnic-minority language Bibles Mentally Challenged Children — Projects for ethnic-minority Christians New School Building Providing gifts of livestock and tools for women 11422A Providing free special education support to to create self-sustaining livelihoods underprivileged children 3020788 Happy Children’s Home of China 3022145 Providing housing, food, clothing, education and Children and Youth Scholarships medical care for 23 children Opportunity School, Nappalayam Awarding scholarships to children and youth 14582A — Educational Support for enabling them to improve their quality of life Mentally Challenged Children 3020791 The Project of Summer Youth Educating and rehabilitating mentally Camp for the Orphans challenged children Christian Education and Providing orphans an opportunity to 3021613 Curriculum Development communicate with other children from different Training church school teachers and pastors and institutions Rural Health and Community developing curriculum for children 3022295 Development Project of Clara 3021536 Swain Hospital, Faridpur Providing medical care, purchasing equipment, Community Health and HONG KONG, SAR, making renovations and subsidizing salaries Agricultural Development 01075A (CHAD — Cambodia) P.R. OF CHINA Transforming churches and communities through Scholarship for Children for holistic community development Mission for Migrant Workers Education at Mabel Jones Hostel 14916A Providing welfare assistance, temporary shelter, Providing shelter and education for children in advocacy and organizing work among migrants need 14241A 3021653

20 www.umcmission.org/advance Sharanam Shelter for Abandoned MALAYSIA Mission Engagement in Nepal and Vulnerable Children Supporting mission engagement in Nepal with Hope for New Life the Baguio Episcopal Area which includes Nepal Providing education, health care and Reaching out to Vietnamese migrant workers as a district recreational activities for at-risk children through social, legal and educational programs 3022308 3020548 3021232 Warne Baby Fold, Bareilly Tansen United Mission Hospital Preparing children for entrance exams at MONGOLIA Offering free medical care and assistance professional schools to patients and providing needed hospital 3021561 equipment Before and After School for 13421A Children and Youth JAPAN Providing homework and educational assistance United Mission to Nepal to poor children and youth Integrated Community- 3021406 Asian Rural Institute Development Project Implementing annual training in leadership and Media and mass mobilization to promote social sustainable agriculture skills for rural leaders Detention Center Ministry programs for people living in remote areas Sharing Christian teachings with people in the 220450 3021568 detention center 3021053 Tengokuya Cafe (Heaven’s Cafe) Providing counseling, inexpensive meals, PHILIPPINES tutoring and outreach ministry for the community Grace Hospice Providing hospice home care for members of the 3021663 Ulaanbaatar community living with advanced 2016-2020 BEA Aldersgate cancer Mission Conference 14928A Focusing on two areas of focus: global health LAOS and leadership development Learning Center for Children 3022306 Language and Vocational Training Providing a children’s day care center, enabling Center parents to be employed to improve their lives Asbury Scholarship and Classroom Establishing a center that offers quality 3021076 Fund education, training and scholarships Providing scholarships for elementary, high 3021548 Mongolia Mission Initiative school and college students Supporting evangelism, new-church plants, 3021056 Laos Church Building leadership and congregational development, Establishing a center that offers quality education and health-care initiatives Faculty and Staff Development, education, training and scholarships 00209A SPMCI 14926N Providing training for faculty and staff at SPMCI 3022279 Laos Mission Initiative NEPAL Supporting church and community development, Kapatiran-Kaunlaran Foundation pastors, leadership development, education and Nutrition Project for Urban Inc. lay formation Providing temporary shelter, education and skills 14927A Communities Improving the health of women and children in training for women, children and youth marginalized urban communities with better 3020581 Seed Project nutrition Offering loans to women to start small 3020440 Leadership Development Program businesses for Harris Memorial College 3020462 Reintegration of Women with Developing faculty, staff and students by Mental Illness providing scholarships for higher education Women, Children and Youth Restoring the dignity of abandoned mentally ill 00519B Ministries women and reintegrating them into families and Educating women, children and youth to improve society leadership and literacy and develop job skills 3021936 3020470

21 www.umcmission.org/advance Methodist Rehabilitation and Southern Philippines Methodist THAILAND Forest Development, Tumanding, Colleges, Scholarships and Meals Arakan Providing scholarship and meal assistance for Operating a woodworking cooperative to aid 30 needy students coming from Davao Episcopal Thailand Mission Initiative participants both materially and financially Area Supporting planting of new churches, pastors’ 14629A 14035B salaries, leadership training and outreach ministries Renovation of UMC Headquarters Wesley Divinity School 00403A — Philippines Central Conference Philippines Scholarship Program Renovating the 36-year-old UMC building, Providing scholarship aid to poor and deserving the headquarters of the Philippines Central Master of Divinity students VIETNAM Conference 3021931 3022041 Bibles for Vietnam Raising funds for printing and distributing Save Our Schools, Protect Vietnamese Bibles Indigenous Life 3021647 Supporting community learning centers for indigenous children in Mindanao, Philippines Vietnam Mission Initiative 3022305 Supporting congregational development, pastors’ salaries, economic development and building project 14932A

22 www.umcmission.org/advance The 47 countries of Europe form a complex historical, cultural and religious tapestry. Centuries of national and sectarian conflict have given way today to considerable economic and social cooperation. Though Methodism traces its roots to 18th-century Great Britain, contemporary Europe is highly secularized.

Russia, the Baltic countries and other parts of Eastern Europe are church-growth areas. Projects and ministries focus on education of pastors and lay leaders, evangelism, children and youth and economically marginal groups.

23 EUROPE AND ESTONIA GERMANY EURASIA Baltic Methodist Theological International and Migrant Seminary Scholarships Ministries: Europe Supporting theological education for serving the Providing leadership development and outreach ministry needs of The UMC in Baltic countries materials/programs for a growing, diverse ALBANIA 15021B migrant population 3020450 Albania In Mission Together Baltic Mission Center Strengthening and expanding the mission and Reaching out to the diverse community with contributing to societal transformation Christian teaching through the local church HUNGARY 00207A 10923N Church Building in Miskolc Salary Support for Ministers Providing a suitable building for the growing ARMENIA Supporting salaries for ministers appointed to outreach ministries of the mission-oriented serve the UMC national church in Estonia church Armenia Development 13526A 3022301 Participating in post-conflict development and economic renewal Hungary In Mission Together 250225 EUROPE AND Strengthening the mission and social activities EURASIA REGIONAL in The UMC in Hungary with the help of volunteers AUSTRIA 00175A Leadership Training in Central and Southern Europe English-Speaking United Training pastors and laypersons in leadership LATVIA Methodist Church in Vienna and theology Offering worship and ministry in English to 15063A multinational migrants and local community in Camp Wesley Vienna Methodist E-Academy Offering Methodist churches and ecumenical 12001A Teaching theology through internet-based groups a facility for summer camps and winter distance education to students throughout retreats Europe 15160N BULGARIA 3021181 Hope Center of Latvia Ministry with Roma People in Offering mothers-to-be a loving home Bulgaria In Mission Together atmosphere where they can prepare for the birth Supporting the church through leadership Central and Southern Europe of their child training, church planting and outreach to the Supporting various ministries, including spiritual 3020447 marginalized growth, education, self-support and integration 00223A 3020676 Latvia In Mission Together Enabling the sustainability and growth of The UMC in Latvia after 50 years of occupation CZECH REPUBLIC 00235A

Czech Republic In Mission Salary Support for Pastors Together Providing salary support to local pastors in the Developing partnership between U.S. and Czech reemerging church United Methodist churches 14706A 00399A

English-Speaking United Methodist Church of Prague (ESUMC Prague) Establishing and growing the UMC congregation for English speakers living in the Czech Republic 3021543

24 www.umcmission.org/advance LITHUANIA RUSSIA SERBIA

Family Development Projects Camp Voronezh Serbia In Mission Together Developing healthy Christian families through Improving the facilities of a camp that hosts Working in partnership with the national church support services, job training and after-school annual events for women and children by funding pastors’ salaries, outreach and programs 15179A building construction 14934A 00229A Christian Leadership for Young Lithuania In Mission Together Adults SLOVAKIA Supporting church development, pastors’ Raising a new generation of Christian disciples salaries, pastor and lay leadership, training and 14278A outreach Slovakia In Mission Together 12168A Eurasia Church Planting and Providing partnership programs for churches from the U.S. to be connected with churches in Mission Projects Slovakia Pastors’ Salary Support Planting new churches, where The UMC has no 00236A Providing salary support for the pastors of the presence in Eurasia area Lithuania United Methodist Church 3022297 14715A Eurasia In Mission Together — UKRAINE Summer Camp for Lithuanian Russia and Belarus Children and Youth Funding pastors’ salaries and church ministries Eurasia In Mission Together — Providing a Christian camping experience for and establishing new churches Ukraine and Moldova children and youth 11510A Funding pastors’ salaries and church ministries 13555A and establishing new churches Ministry for Spiritual Formation 14053A Providing opportunities for spiritual formation MACEDONIA for pastors and church members in Eurasia University Student Ministries 3022296 Shaping a new generation of post-Soviet youth Macedonia In Mission Together through Christian faith Supporting mission outreach in the United Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy 14055A Methodist churches in the Republic of Macedonia Social Ministries 00220A Providing food assistance, health care and economic empowerment to marginalized people UNITED KINGDOM in Moscow POLAND 3022146 Forthspring Encouraging relationship building between Poland In Mission Together Moscow Seminary — Scholarship Catholics and Protestants through program Supporting partnerships between United and Academic Support settings Methodist churches in the USA and Poland Preparing servant leaders for ministry in the 3021932 00408A Wesleyan tradition and transforming Russian society 12174A ROMANIA Publishing Christian Literature Translating and adapting UMC-written resources Romania In Mission Together from English into Russian Strengthening and expanding the church and 14275A contributing to the transformation of society 00211A

25 www.umcmission.org/advance Latin America and the Caribbean form a multicultural, multilingual region. Economic conditions vary widely, as do educational opportunities, health services, nutrition and sanitation facilities. Global Ministries relates to a variety of churches, including autonomous Methodist denominations and ecumenical organizations. In Latin America and the Caribbean, United Methodist missionaries are placed in collaboration with indigenous churches.

26 Senior Adult Ministries in Bolivia LATIN BOLIVIA Providing support for senior adults in a new assisted-living center for orphaned parents AMERICA AND Andean Rural Health-Care 3020535 Program CARIBBEAN Providing family primary health-care services Thiu Rancho Project in low-income, urban and rural communities in Providing Christian-formation courses for Bolivia Methodist pastors and youth and education for 10158A children ANTIGUA AND 12309A BARBUDA Bolivian Pastors’ Endowment Fund Urban Santa Cruz Children’s Gilbert Agricultural and Rural Expanding a permanent endowment to produce Ministry a steady income to support salaries for Bolivian Providing child care and educational services for Development Center (GARD pastors families in need Center) 3021291 12320A Teaching vulnerable youth market-relevant skills so they can be economically competitive Church Projects in Bolivia Vehicles for Evangelization, Social 401420 Establishing church projects for evangelization, Service and Other Church Needs expansion, construction and growth Purchasing vehicles, motorcycles and bicycles New Nathaniel Gilbert Initiative 3021621 for church programs and activities Preserving the historic Nathaniel Gilbert property 00430S where Methodism in the Caribbean began Engineers in Action 3020603 Facilitating potable water, sanitation and Wholistic Development of Women irrigation for remote indigenous villages Improving the quality of life for women through 3021535 leadership development and life-skills building ARGENTINA 07779A Health and Educational House of Prayer for All People Development of Children — Work-Team Coordination and Acquiring a building to house worship services Emmanuel-Luz de Vida Methodist Mission Promotion and related community activities Church Coordinating VIM teams, developing mission 3021287 Improving the spiritual, physical and educational opportunities, promoting projects and connecting development of children churches Williams C. Morris Middle 3020459 3020468 School Expansion — La Boca Neighborhood Health Projects in Bolivia Continuing construction to expand the William Providing health services and clean water for BRAZIL Morris School in the neighborhood of La Boca improved health 3021635 3021633 Advancing Food Security through Organic Agriculture in Brazil Methodist Children’s Home Reducing hunger among farming families BELIZE Providing a permanent home for abandoned and through training programs orphaned children in a family and God-centered 3020559 Belize Methodist Church Camp setting Providing a safe meeting place for the UMVIM 15154A John Wesley Medical Boat teams, youth church camp and others in Belize Providing medical and dental assistance for 3022262 National Christian Formation and villages in the Amazon Children’s Ministry 14753A Belize Methodist High School Creating and publishing contextualized Bolivian Scholarship and Construction Methodist children’s Sunday school curriculum Methodist Foundation for Social 05916A Fund and Cultural Action Constructing a high school to build youth Operating and raising support for social projects leadership and congregational development Pastoral Salaries in Bolivia and the conference camp 3021922 Providing economic support for national and 3022090 diaconal pastors’ salaries 05912A

27 www.umcmission.org/advance Shade and Fresh Water Helping at-risk children and teens develop CUBA EL SALVADOR character through a national after-school network Aid for the Coordination of Pastoral Support within the 11580A Volunteers to Cuba Evangelical Methodist Church in Coordinating and managing the efforts of El Salvador (IEMES) volunteers who travel to Cuba to work with the Providing regular salaries for pastors CHILE church 3021574 982860 El Vergel Methodist Agricultural School Construction GUATEMALA Building two new classrooms and a dining hall DOMINICAN in a 90-year-old school REPUBLIC Indigenous Women’s Vegetable 3021579 Gardening and Leadership Project Lost and Found: Children of the in Guatemala Fundación Crescendo Training Mayan indigenous women in vegetable Providing quality residential and community Dominican Republic Educating children, youth and women on gardening, food production and leadership in services for adults with disabilities Christian and community ministry Guatemala 14056A 3021935 3021566

Solar Oven Partners UMC Mission Guatemala COLOMBIA Empowering people to use solar energy to meet Implementing health, education and nutrition their cooking needs programs in the Lake Atitlan region Church Buildings for the 418812 3019214 Colombian Methodist Church Purchasing land to build a church and Water@Work: Providing Clean ODIM Guatemala (The parsonage Water in the Dominican Republic Organization for the Development 3020764 Implementing community-based water- of the Indigenous Maya) purification systems in impoverished Offering quality health care and access to Health Promotion in Colombia communities education in two villages in the highlands of Providing health care to improve the quality of 3021988 Guatemala life in the community 3022039 3021638 ECUADOR Pura Vida Creating a brighter future for children in COSTA RICA Building Churches and Guatemala 3021094 Parsonages, Ecuador Accessible and Inclusive Providing and repairing churches and Theological Education for Latin parsonages for pastors’ families to facilitate Stove Builders of Guatemala Promoting health and self-sufficiency by America and the Caribbean their ministry 3021546 teaching Mayans how to build fuel-efficient, (TELAC) vented stoves Providing access to accredited theological 3022040 education for students in the region Integral Ministry for Children, 3022263 Ecuador Attending to the spiritual, educational and HAITI Agua Viva Serves health needs of at-risk children and teenagers Providing clean water to those in need 3021530 3021984 Christian Education and Pastoral Support in Ecuador Evangelism in Haiti Providing a supplement to achieve a fair and Striving toward a church strong in faith and just salary for pastors faithful to its call to stewardship 3021092 3021658

28 www.umcmission.org/advance Grace Children’s Hospital and JAMAICA NICARAGUA Pediatric Clinic Caring for and creating hope for children and families suffering from tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS PAPA’s Ministries (Pastors and Acción Medica Cristiana (AMC) and chronic illness Priests Available for Service) Empowering poor communities through 418520 Equipping local church with leadership leadership and capacity-building for health and development and mission training for development Haiti Children Project sustainable outreach 14846A Providing a Christian home to homeless children 3021286 3020507 Amanecer Mobile Health Clinic Providing free health-clinic services to 60 remote Haiti Education Program LATIN AMERICA towns with a dentist, doctor and medications Educating children of Haiti through Methodist AND CARIBBEAN 3021921 schools 3021649 REGIONAL El Porvenir: Clean Water, Healthy Nicaraguans Haiti Hot-Lunch Program Encounter with Christ in Latin Empowering rural Nicaraguan communities to Providing hot meals three times per week to improve their standard of living through water America and the Caribbean 525000 more than 22,000 students Promoting promotional funds for the Encounter 418790 with Christ Permanent Fund 14729A Evangelical Methodist Church Haitian Artisans for Peace Development Program International Supporting construction, long-term Transforming Haiti through the empowerment MEXICO sustainability projects and a rotating loan fund and advocacy of women 14853N 3020490 Church Growth Promoter for Evangelical Methodist Church of Integrated Community Health Methodists Nicaragua Programs Supporting tuberculosis control, vaccines, health Coaching strategies for church growth culturally Improving the quality of life, education and education and community-based family health and historically relevant for Hispanic Methodists well-being of pastors, congregations and care 3022285 communities 418847 14854A Give Ye Them to Eat Training villagers to become self-sustaining Women and Community HONDURAS through agriculture Serving women and youth through human 07629A rights, health, loans and preventive educational opportunities Blessed Scholarship (Becas con House of Mercy Orphanage 13285A Bendiciones Inc.) Providing a loving, safe, God-centered home for Providing school supplies, uniforms and abused, neglected and homeless children education for children and less-fortunate 15175A Hondurans PANAMA 3020486 Manos Juntas Mexico, A.C. Church Development and (Hands Together Ministry) Honduras Mission Initiative Providing better housing, health care and Community Health in Santiago de Supporting pastors’ salaries, church educational opportunities for those in need Veraguas partnerships, leadership development, ministry 3020527 Planting a new church and establishing and construction a community health-care program for the 12928A Mexico’s Coordination and indigenous population 3021573 Logistics for Missions Juan Wesley School Sponsoring At- Hosting UMVIM teams with medical, evangelism, Risk Youth in Honduras work in orphanages, construction and children’s Cienaguita Ngobe Community Educating at-risk youth in Honduras ministries Health Project 3022280 3022291 Promoting health, literacy, economic, cultural and community development and empowerment 14969A

29 www.umcmission.org/advance Panama Methodist Camping PERU URUGUAY Ministry Providing an optimal place for the transformation of lives through Christian camps Leadership Training for Women Children at Risk and similar spiritual growth opportunities Empowerment and Community Teaching children to achieve a healthy life and 3020651 Work prevent abuse, reaffirming their well-being Promoting the leadership development of women 14899A Walter Reitz Child-Development in the rural communities of the Puno Region Center 3022304 Providing preschool, day care and afterschool study programs for children Strengthening the Work of 14859A Indigenous Pastors and Lay Evangelical Leaders Strengthening the evangelizing and social work PARAGUAY in the South Andean Inca District 3022303 Mary Jo Phillips Methodist Center of Asuncion, Paraguay Day Care Wesleyan Theological Seminary Serving children 2 to 4 years of age in a very Providing education in pastoral and lay impoverished area of Asuncion leadership at a seminary of the Methodist 3022038 Church of Peru 3020693 New Horizon Methodist School Providing education, recreation, music and art in an impoverished area in Paraguay 3021089

30 www.umcmission.org/advance The Middle East is not a precisely defined geographic area. It includes parts of southwest Asia (Iran, Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia) and north Africa (Egypt, Libya), as well as Turkey. Arabic is the language of the majority, and Islam is the dominant religion, although Judaism and Christianity also originated there. Constant conflict, some of it ethnically based, undercuts political and economic stability and often affects global prospects for peace.

Most Advance projects are located in Israel/Palestine and include schools, human-rights projects and services for the disabled and children. All United Methodist missionaries in the region are in Israel/Palestine.

31 Leadership Training for Christian MIDDLE EAST Youth in Liberation Theology Supporting Palestinian Christian youth through trips, Bible study, workshops and volunteering ISRAEL/PALESTINE 14909A Mar Elias Peace Study Center Augmenting Food Production and Provide scholarships and interfaith educational Income in Times of Siege: Urban programs for future peacemakers in Israel/ Gardens Palestine Augmenting food production and income for 3020532 women in Gaza, Palestine, through urban gardens Shepherd Society 629001 Providing short- and long-term humanitarian as- sistance and development aid for the Palestinian Bethlehem Bible College people Training Arab Christian leaders to serve and 3020439 strengthen their church and community in the Holy Land The Four Homes of Mercy for 12017A Disabled Serving people with special needs by providing Department of Service to Pales- them with appropriate services and a loving tinian Refugees — Middle East home Council of Churches 3020711 Advancing human rights, health, education, self-realization, income generation and world Wadi Foquin Narjis Community recognition Development Project 14908A Providing community-development projects for residents of Palestinian villages in the West Hope Secondary School Bank Educating and boarding disadvantaged children 3021565 from the West Bank in a caring Christian envi- ronment Wi’am Community Empowerment 12018A and Conflict Transformation Advancing a culture of peace and acceptance Jerusalem Princess Basma Center while promoting nonviolent resolutions to conflict for Disabled Children 14910A Empowering children with disabilities through comprehensive rehabilitation and inclusive education 14238A

Jerusalem School Bethlehem Equipping tomorrow’s leaders to influence the Arab world with the message of hope through education 3022292

32 www.umcmission.org/advance North America encompasses great political, economic and religious diversity. Canada, Mexico and the United States are its major countries. With the exception of a few projects that cross the U.S.-Mexico border, Mexico is considered regionally part of Latin America. While the United States has the most advanced economic and technical capacity in the world, issues such as poverty, limited opportunities and racial-ethnic discrimination persist. Advance projects and United Methodist missionaries in North America seek to break the cycle of poverty and to open opportunities for all.

33 Community Developers Program Girdwood Chapel UMC NORTH Providing grants to racial, ethnic and Constructing a new facility and providing multicultural congregations to hire community mission and ministry to surrounding AMERICA developers communities 982143 931007 UNITED STATES Cookson Hills Center United God’s Country Cooperative Parish Methodist Mission Coordinating church efforts to spend less time Providing relief, education, health care, on survival and more time making disciples African American Methodist employment opportunities and cottage industry 3020435 Heritage Center (AAMHC) 582161 Preserving, protecting and promoting the history Good Works Inc. and stories of African Americans in The UMC Covenant Education Center: Connecting people from all walks of life with the 3020514 Native American Day Care poor so the reign of God can be experienced Supporting a faith-based day care operating on 194382 Alaska Churches the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico Subsidizing an array of local church and 581262 Heart and Hand House Inc. conference missions in the Alaska United Offering encouragement and assistance to in- Methodist Conference Delta Grace crisis, low-income families 931027 Matching mission teams with those in need of 391361 home repair within the Mississippi Delta Appalachia Service Project Inc. 3021985 Help for Babies, Children with (ASP) Disabilities and Seniors Inspiring hope and service through volunteer Disability Ministry Providing essential health supplies to babies, home repair in central Appalachia providing accessibility and program grants, children with disabilities and seniors 982050 resources, education and advocacy to annual 3021419 conferences and congregations, so people with Appalachian Ministry Network disabilities can participate at all levels in United Henderson Settlement Building and connecting ministries, and Methodist churches. Creating opportunities for better lives through providing education and training relevant to 3021054 Christ-centered service Appalachia 773365 982041 Disaster Response, United States Supporting UMCOR’s response to disasters Hispanic-Latino Ministry Birchwood Camp 901670 Challenging Fund Building community on holy ground by providing (National Plan for Hispanic and program spaces, staff housing and energy Disciple Bible Outreach Ministries Latino Ministries) efficiency National Inc. (DBOM) Promoting the development and strengthening of 931068 Strengthening Bible-study ministries in churches new and existing Hispanic/Latino ministries and prisons 982620 Christ House Medical Services 3022088 Providing comprehensive health care and Homelessness in the United States supportive services for sick, homeless men and Downtown Ministries, First United Providing startup assistance for new and women Methodist Church innovative church-based ministries with 381215 Providing a daytime shelter, food, showers and homeless people services for the homeless 982385 Church and Community 3020487 Ministries House of the Carpenter Supporting Global Ministries mission personnel Four Corners Native American Providing for basic human needs such as food serving the poor and disenfranchised in rural Ministry and clothing, and providing life-skills education and urban areas in the U.S. Developing churches and fulfilling outreach 391392 982147 project goals on the reservation 581254 Jackson Area Ministries Clinton Indian Church and Creating partnerships to improve the quality of Community Center life within the Appalachian counties of Ohio Rebuilding a relationship between The United 194431 Methodist Church and the people of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes 3020757

34 www.umcmission.org/advance Jeremiah Project Mississippi United Methodist Red Bird Christian School Empowering middle-school students and Choctaw Mission Providing career and college preparation, providing home repairs for God’s people in need Progressing toward health and wholeness and spiritual growth and Christian leadership 3021220 developing Choctaw leadership development 761544 773728 Jubilee Project Inc. Addressing the needs of the whole person Mountain T.O.P. Red Bird Clinic Community through direct services and empowerment Meeting physical, social, emotional and spiritual Health programs needs through service and love in Appalachia Providing health programs for low-income 781350 3022087 underinsured and uninsured people in remote mountain areas Just Neighbors Ministry National Justice for Our Neighbors 773724 Providing immigration legal services to low- Creating a welcoming community by providing income immigrants and refugees in northern immigration legal services, education and Red Bird Mission Virginia advocacy Empowering and advocating justice through 803002 901285 spiritual, educational, health and outreach ministries Kingdom House Children’s Native American Children’s Fund 773726 Services Assisting approximately 250-300 school-age Preventing abuse and neglect, and providing children with school clothing and offering VBS Red Bird Missionary Conference child care and other health and social services supplies Church and Outreach Ministries 561320 583581 Meeting community needs and developing disciples through holistic ministry in rural Leadership Training on Faith and Native American Comprehensive Appalachia Justice for Students and Young Plan 773978 Adults Developing leaders and churches within the Providing ecumenical leadership-training Native American community Refugee and Immigrant Support programs on faith and justice for Christian 982615 Service of Emmaus students Supporting more than 600 refugees and 3022299 Native American Ministries of the immigrants each year in Albany, N.Y. North Carolina Conference 3021057 Lydia Patterson Institute Sharing resources with 13 Native American Providing quality education and forming congregations for programming, evangelism and Robeson County Church and bilingual and bicultural leaders for the church leadership Community Center Inc. and society 791001 Providing emergency assistance with utilities, 531523 housing, clothing, food, furniture and tutoring Oklahoma Indian Missionary 791742 McCurdy Ministries Community Conference Construction Project Center (formerly known as Fund SIFAT (Servants in Faith and McCurdy School) Assisting churches who need help in Technology) Sharing educational ministries to help students construction or repairs to worship spaces or Sharing God’s love in practical ways through and families succeed in school and in life other places service, education and personal involvement 581479 583633 982812

Methodist Border Friendship Oklahoma Indian Missionary Society of St. Andrew Conference Parish Partners Salvaging fresh produce to reduce hunger and Commission improve health of people in greatest need across Promoting friendship, fellowship, evangelism Providing salary support and health benefits for the U.S. and mission along the U.S. and Mexico border pastors, enabling them to focus on the work 801600 10759O 583634 Oklahoma University Wesley Strength for Service Methodist Border Mission Providing a daily devotional primarily to military Network Chinese Fellowship Providing ESL and Bible study classes to newly personnel Providing shelter and care for women, children, 3021221 refugees and immigrants, using church arrived Chinese families in the Oklahoma City partnerships area 3021081 3022084

35 www.umcmission.org/advance The Big Garden United Methodist NOMADS Improving nutrition and building community Providing volunteer labor for U.M. organizations through gardening needing construction, remodeling and repairs 3021107 982658

The Center for Victims of Torture Willow, Alaska, United Methodist Helping torture survivors rebuild lives and Church restore hope through health care, service and Serving impoverished, rural communities around advocacy Willow, Alaska, with spiritual and physical needs 171142 931511

Tree of Life Ministry Willow Church and Community Serving the American Indian community Ministry 123615 Working in partnership with area churches and groups to meet emergency needs of families Unalaska United Methodist 931520 Church Outreach and Community Ministry Ministering to the Bering Sea fishing fleet, processors, stranded crew members and the community 931855

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