Victor Taryor, a GBGM missionary, will visit North Carolina churches March 3-17, 2014. Victor currently serves as a United Methodist missionary in Liberia, where he is the administrator of the Ganta United Methodist Hospital. He is a registered nurse by training and received a fellowship to train in public health at UNC-Chapel Hill. God has […]
Africa
Crisis in the Congo – UMCOR Responds
Calls for Prayers, Peace, and Humanitarian Aid in Eastern Congo “This is a wake up cry we express at this moment…war atrocities are now hitting home in this part of our Episcopal area,” wrote Bishop Gabriel Unda Yemba, who leads the East Congo Episcopal Area of The United Methodist Church. Over the last two decades, there have been […]
Frido Kinkolenge – Bringing Life to former combatant children
Frido Kinkolenge is a Global Ministry Missionary serving in Liberia. Frido serves some of the most vulnerable children, youth, and young adults in the world. When Frido began his work, a civil war was raging around the country. Seeing that it was children who were doing much of the fighting, killing, and dying, he began […]
10 – Fold – Imagine No Malaria
Every 45 seconds, a child in Africa dies of malaria. Millions of lives, needlessly lost each year. A continent. Entire nations…slipping away. Slipping through life’s precious net. Unless you hear the buzzing inside you. Just Imagine … It’s time we all join hands with Africa | On a personal mission to heal | Imagine no […]
Love for Liberia – Collection at Annual Conference 2011
Items to be collected at Annual Conference 2011 – follow this link! The people of the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church have a long history with the people of Liberia. It was in 1833 that Rev. Melville Cox, a NC Conference clergy member, landed in Africa as the first United Methodist missionary […]
Team Opening for ZOE Mission Team
ZOE Ministry has a handful of slots open on two upcoming mission trips to Rwanda: June 20-29 August 21-30 The trips will cost approximately $3,200 and will introduce missioners to ZOE’s remarkable orphan empowerment project. This project equips orphans to live self-reliant, faith-filled lives within three years, thus breaking the cycles of poverty and dependency. […]
Healthcare Initiatives in Africa – 10 Fold April
10-Fold April – Healthcare Initiatives in Africa ”My work with Health and Welfare has taught me not to underestimate the resilience of women and men however adverse their condition may be.” —Dr. Cherian Thomas, Director of Health Ministries for UMCOR. Help spread the word to your districts and congregations that the next 10-Fold online event […]
Plea from District Superintendent Labala in Liberia – Refugee Response
From Rev. James Labala in Liberia – Ivory Coast Refugee Crisis: My dear friends and partners: As some of you may know by now, there is fighting going on in the Ivory Coast. Gompa District has common boundary with the Ivory Coast. Right now more than 100,000 refugees have crossed over into Liberia. Our supervising pastor in the […]
Conference Mission Team to Journey to Liberia
As a part of the Love for Liberia missional emphasis, a volunteer- in- mission work team from across the NC Annual Conference will be going to Liberia this summer, with the estimated dates of July 24 – August 5. Dates might change a day or two depending on availability of transportation. Passports are required. […]
Love for Liberia – What of the Children? Ponderings of a Nail-Bender
When Jesus spoke of the children, he must have had Liberia in mind. Everywhere, in every village, in every town, on every road, there are children. Most, at least at first, will eye you warily, looking like a frightened cat, an intense stare, muscles tensed, ready to take flight from this unknown threat that we […]