General Board of Global Ministries

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Equipping and transforming people and places for God's mission around the world. An agency of The United Methodist Church.

This year, we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of our EarthKeepers program, which has commissioned more than 450 United Methodists leading creation care work in their communities across the U.S. Hear from the Rev. Crystal Paul-Watson, an EarthKeeper trained in 2019.

This year, we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of our EarthKeepers program, which has commissioned more than 450 United Methodists leading creation care work in their communities across the U.S. Hear from the Rev. Morris Fleischer, an EarthKeeper trained in 2018.

This year, we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of our EarthKeepers program, which has commissioned more than 450 United Methodists leading creation care work across the U.S. Hear from the Rev. Dana Neuhauser, an EarthKeeper commissioned in 2017 from the Minnesota Annual Conference.

Rev. Dormah, a National in Mission with the Liberia Annual Conference and supported by GBGM, is answering God's call to serve hundreds of young people trapped in addiction, prostitution, and hopelessness, living in Monrovia’s back alleys and in make-shift homes amid a cemetery.

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This year, we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of our EarthKeepers program, which has commissioned more than 450 United Methodists leading creation care work in their communities across the U.S. Watch this video to hear from Cathy Velasquez Eberhart, an EarthKeeper commissioned in 2016.

For the past 10 years, Randy Hildebrant, a GBGM Church and Community Worker, has embodied his calling through his service as the director of God's Country Communities Ministries, offering food, clothing, transportation, and home repairs to the rural communities of Michigan's eastern Upper Peninsula.

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With a new reverse osmosis system funded by UMCOR, Trinity UMC in Naivasha, Kenya, is providing free and low-cost clean water to about 5,000 people, reducing illnesses caused by fluoride-rich water from the area's borehole and strengthening trust in their community. https://bit.ly/4wes19o #BeUMC

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Over the last seven years, Metropolitan UMC in Alabama has grown a food pantry that initially served five people a month into a ministry that now serves more than 9,000 families a year, with a clinic, prison re-entry, court programming, and more. But Metropolitan UMC isn't stopping here.⬇️

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