Committees, Missions & Ministry Teams

Zimbabwe communicator, Chenayi Kumuterera, shares smiles during a meeting of African communicators with the core team of United Methodist Communications during the 2019 United Methodist General Conference in St. Louis. (Photo by Kathleen Barry, UM News)

Bring the Vision into your committee or ministry team

Inspiration from across the connection to help your committee live out Love Boldly, Serve Joyfully, and Lead Courageously.

Find perspectives suited to your committee — missions, education, social concerns, and more below.

La Casita distribution center, based out of the Iglesia Metodista Jose Espada Marrero, serves as a food, first aid, clothes and furniture supply warehouse for teams deployed through out Puerto Rico helping families rebuild. The back room is filled with UMCOR buckets. Photo by Michelle Maldonado, United Methodist Communications.
Missions

UMC Vision and the work of Global Ministries

Learn about and be inspired by GBGM's work and how it connects to Love Boldly, Serve Joyfully, and Lead Courageously.

Be inspired 

Lay servant class in the Mountain Sky Annual Conference
Education

UMC Vision and the work of Higher Education and Ministry

Ideas for connecting the Vision to formation, education, and campus ministry work.

Dig Deeper

Elizabeth Knotts, 6, collects the offering at New Hope Valley United Methodist Church in Valley Furnace, W.Va. For the third consecutive year, a record number of U.S. conferences paid full apportionments to support general-church ministries. 2015 File photo by Mike DuBose, UMNS
Finance & Stewardship

Wespath's Vision of Bold Love

How faithful stewardship and financial planning tie back to the Vision's call to serve joyfully.

See Stewardship at Work

Hundreds of Korea Peace Action participants march from Lafayette Square in front of the U.S. White House to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on July 27, the 70th anniversary of the Armistice Agreement of the Korean War. The march was part of a three-day convening called the National Mobilization to End the Korean War. Photo by the Rev. Thomas E. Kim, UM News.
Church & Society

How Church and Society Supports the UMC Vision

A look at how advocacy and justice work embody Love Boldly, Serve Joyfully and Lead Courageously.

See Justice in Action


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