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GREENLAND ICELAND Jennifer Moore is a missionary serving as a Christian educator with The United SWEDEN FINLAND NORWAY Methodist Church in the Republic of 3 Macedonia. In a country where Methodism’s 1 2 3 RUSSIA ESTONIA roots extend back more than 130 years, UNITED 2 1 LATVIA KINGDOM she strives to build up the church and 7 5 DENMARK LITHUANIA 2 empower leaders to bring the love of NETHERLANDS Christ to their communities. IRELAND BELGIUM GERMANY BELARUS 1 POLAND The Mongolia Mission Initiative plants new 1 1 6 CZECH REP. 5 1 churches, supports congregational and leadership 1 1 UKRAINE development, and provides a variety of community Asti White, from , is a Global Mission SLOVAKIA AUSTRIA 1 2 services – a sports center, English lessons HUNGARY KAZAKHSTAN Fellow, US-2, serving with the Wesley Foundation SWITZERLAND 3 1 MOLDOVA  for children, a thrift shop, space for women’s in Kalamazoo, . His call to mission emerged 1 ROMANIA FRANCE SLOVENIA MONGOLIA handicrafts and hospice care. The Rev. Chin Cho along with an expanding awareness of world CROATIA SERBIA 4 4 is a missionary and as the country coordinator, he issues and needs that affect daily lives, such as UZBEKISTAN oversees administration and programs, working injustice, homelessness, inadequate health care, BOSNIA & HERZEG. BULGARIA GEORGIA MONTENEGRO KYRGYZSTAN closely with local leaders and other missionaries. racial tensions and poverty. PORTUGAL SPAIN KOSOVO MACEDONIA ARMENIA NORTH 2 AZERBAIJAN 1 TURKMENISTAN KOREA ALBANIA 1 TURKEY TAJIKISTAN ITALY GREECE 59 60 SOUTH JAPAN 8 KOREA 2 8 CYPRUS SYRIA TUNISIA Shirley Townsend-Jones, from , LEBANON IRAN

3 Photo: Chin Cho ISRAEL/PALESTINE IRAQ is a Church and Community Worker with the MOROCCO AFGHANISTAN 12 Bennettsville-Cheraw Area Cooperative Ministry JORDAN 1 in . As she works to reach out to PACIFIC people who are poor, abused, sick, aged and KUWAIT NEPAL malnourished, she feels that God’s mission is PAKISTAN OCEAN being carried out through the programs of the ALGERIA LIBYA 4 5 BHUTAN GULF OF cooperative ministry. 1 The Global Ministries Regional office in WESTERN  EGYPT Seoul was opened in 2017. Since then At the UMCOR Sager Brown Depot each year, MEXICO MEXICO SAHARA SAUDI ARABIA INDIA BANGLADESH our presence has increased partner more than 2,000 volunteers prepare about 5 6 CUBA BAHAMAS TAIWAN engagement and built relationships of US $3 million in supplies for shipment from 1 3 TURKS & CAICOS ATLANTIC OMAN collaboration and trust across Methodist the Baldwin, , campus. 10 MYANMAR churches in Asia. We give thanks for our DOMINICAN OCEAN (BURMA) 1 3 ministry of presence and the ways we 1 REPUBLIC MAURITANIA  have embodied Christ with our work in JAMAICA 3 BELIZE MALI this region. HAITI 3 LAOS 2 4 2 ANTIGUA & BARBUDA NIGER SUDAN 5 4 2 SENEGAL YEMEN The Methodist Liaison office HONDURAS THAILAND ERITREA in Jerusalem connects with 5 1 2 2 7 1 CHAD VIETNAM 2  local initiatives, encourages 1 GUATEMALA ST. VINCENT & ST. LUCIA 2 GAMBIA BURKINA theological reflection and CAMBODIA 12 6 Through the work of our Disaster EL SALVADOR NICARAGUA THE GRENADINES BARBADOS 3 FASO facilitates visits for pilgrims 8  Management offices, UMCOR continues 2 GRENADA 9 1 4 5 1 DJIBOUTI UMCOR’s Water, Sanitation and Hygiene and volunteers. 1 3 to partner with the UMC in the GUINEA BISSAU (WASH) and Food Security programs TRINIDAD & TOBAGO BENIN  Philippines for community contingency have provided latrines and piped GUINEA 3 8 SOUTH SOMALIA planning, disaster relief and recovery

COSTA RICA Photo: Megan Klingler SUDAN water as well as increased watershed CÔTE and local capacity building. GUYANA SIERRA LEONE SRI LANKA D'IVOIRE

1 Photo: Katherine Hills Uzoka health through agroforestry in rural 2 1 VENEZUELA 3 10 The Global Health unit is working 11 6 ETHIOPIA communities in countries such as 1 5   PANAMA with the Liberia Health Board to  1 1 CENTRAL AFRICAN Nicaragua and Guatemala. SURINAME 4 1 promote all six health facilities LIBERIA REPUBLIC PACIFIC FRENCH GUIANA 8 TOGO coordinated by the Liberia Annual 1 23 The Rev. Andrew Soon Lee serves  2 OCEAN Conference, especially to reach as a missionary with the Methodist MALAYSIA COLOMBIA mothers and young children. EQUATORIAL GUINEA Mission in Cambodia. Andrew is an 2 1 Health staff and Community Health UGANDA ordained elder of the - Workers receive on-the-job training, Pacific Annual Conference and feels SINGAPORE Environmental Sustainability is working CONGO KENYA ECUADOR assistance to purchase medicines, that God has placed in his heart a equipment and infrastructure, and with partners in Sudan and South Sudan 3 GABON 12 love and passion for God’s people. governance support. to provide lighting for young girls to be RWANDA Photo: Asociacion Bienestar Progreso Desarollo 3 able to do schoolwork at home so that 5 PAPUA they don’t have to travel dangerous NEW GUINEA paths to school at night. DEMOCRATIC BURUNDI INDONESIA REPUBLIC 2 1 The Imagine No Malaria program continues 1 OF CONGO TANZANIA UMCOR’s Global Migration program  to support malaria prevention and control 13 works to resource Methodist networks in 40 16 9 throughout Africa. Global Ministries partners South America to support the successful with health boards in the Central Congo, 5 4 1 BRAZIL transition and uphold the dignity of the   East Congo, North Katanga and South Congo most vulnerable migrants. 1 episcopal areas to provide a consistent supply 8 4  of malaria medications and nets to UMC health facilities. The Health Systems Strengthening INDIAN PERU ANGOLA MALAWI program supports revitalization of health-care 3 1 8 4 3 3 facilities, including referral hospitals. ZAMBIA 1 OCEAN 1  SAMOA 8 12 THE UNITED METHODIST  1 E  U FIJI Q 1 I 12 7 B Global Health is committed to  M 2 BOLIVIA A Z improving the lives of individuals Photo: Carmen Mollo O with disabilities. Through the Non- 15 1 9 M NAMIBIA  Communicable Disease program, 500 ZIMBABWE MISSION MAP ATLANTIC 8 Personal Energy Transportation (PETs) units have been manufactured and BOTSWANA distributed to Zambians and brothers 2 OCEAN TONGA

CHILE MADAGASCAR and sisters in neighboring countries -

giving the gift of mobility.

2 1 1 Steven de la Cruz, from the Philippines,

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PARAGUAY is a Global Mission Fellow, International, SOUTH serving at Hope for Children, a ministry

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Global Ministries Missionaries Advance Projects (Number per Country) Mission Initiative Countries  UMCOR Disaster Management Offices &

(Number per Country)  Health Boards (Number per Country) The Advance, an official program of The United Methodist Global Ministries works collaboratively with church leaders 

Called to serve as pastors, teachers, doctors, nurses, social Church for voluntary, designated, second-mile giving, around the world to plant new churches, especially where Through a joint program between UMCOR and Central Conference workers, church planters and in a variety of other roles, more connects donors with projects around the world. The Advance Methodism is nonexistent or new to a country or community. episcopal areas, the Disaster Management offices serve as a than 300 people serve as United Methodist missionaries projects indicated on the map cover a range of mission work, Mission Initiatives are the manifestation of what The United results-based model to facilitate the UMCOR mandate of training around the world. Due to their placements in sensitive including strengthening health-care networks, training pastors, Methodist Church does in response to paragraphs in the Book of and equipping the church in disaster response by enabling

countries and to protect them in their work, not all are educating young children, building new churches and providing Discipline about “Missions.” effective, efficient and ethical local disaster response. indicated on the map above. E disaster relief to communities. Bishops and others throughout The purpose of a mission initiative is to provide and Working with the Global Health unit, UMC health boards F Church and Community Workers are missionaries the church have approved these partner projects. In addition develop ministry with a particular region whose potential and and local communities develop strategic plans and propose R R devoted to working alongside people who are disenfranchised to the locations indicated, the Advance supports regional and needs cannot be met within the existing structures and integrated solutions to address issues of community health and in rural and urban poor communities throughout the United O E global projects, as well as priorities of Global Ministries and resources of an annual conference or . A mission wellness. Currently, United Methodist health boards coordinate States. UMCOR. initiative may also be the initial stage toward the formation of a work in Angola, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, H M Global Mission Fellows serve around the world, provisional annual conference. Tanzania, Liberia, Nigeria, Mozambique, Peru, Philippines, Sierra including in the U.S. through the young adult mission W umcmission.org/advance Current mission initiatives accompanied by Global Leone, Zambia and Zimbabwe. E movement of Global Ministries. Ministries on behalf of The United Methodist Church are in Y Central Africa Republic, Honduras, Laos, Mongolia and Vietnam. umcmission.org/umcor V R umcmission.org/missionary E E R All data as of March 2020 Global Ministries is active in more than 130 countries and umcmission.org/globalhealth V To order additional copies go to: Y E headquartered in , Georgia. W H O umcmission.org/store. Stock #GM540020-R 3/20 ERE T

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