January - UMCOR

Concerns Mount for Missing UMCOR Workers - United Methodists throughout the world are saying prayers; donating time, talent and money; and planning relief efforts to alleviate the suffering of the Haitian people even as the church worries about the fate of some of its mission workers in the devastated nation.
Fallen Colleagues Remembered at Hotel Montana - Walking up the curving driveway to the Hotel Montana, Melissa Crutchfield stopped several time to pick flowers.
Food, Water, Housing Top Priorities for Haitians - Those are the top needs a group of 29 church and community leaders told three executives from the United Methodist Committee on Relief. Asked which is the most important, the group said all three.
Haiti Methodists Offer ‘Healing Love’ to Survivors - Clara “Jean”Arnwine, one of a team of volunteers from Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas, died of injuries she suffered after being trapped inside the Haiti Eye Clinic just blocks away from one of Denizard’s churches.
Haitian Methodists and UMCOR Size Up Needs - As the day starts to become night, mothers tend to their crying babies by the pale blue light of cell phones.
Haitians Get Keys to Clean Water Through UMCOR Partnership - In 20 minutes, Sharlene Jean learned how to save her community.
Memorial Service in New York City Set for Mission Leaders Who Died in Haiti - memorial service for the Rev. Samuel W. Dixon and the Rev. Clinton Rabb is scheduled for Thursday, February 11, at 3:00 p.m. at the Riverside Church in New York City.
Missing Mission Executive Seen Entering Destroyed Hotel - Three missing United Methodist mission executives were seen entering the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince shortly before the Jan. 12 earthquake rocked the capital, destroying the hotel.
Mission Workers Found Alive in Ruins of Haitian Hotel - We thank God for answered prayers! Reports from Haiti indicated that three staff members of the General Board of Global Ministries have been found and are alive after 55 hours in the rubble of the Hotel Montana in Haiti.
Refuge for Survivors of Human Trafficking - Anahit*, 24, lived in a small town in Armenia. She has no parents, only a sister and a brother who migrated to Russia in search of employment.
Remembering UMCOR Leader, Sam Dixon - In a service filled with references to the Wesleyan tradition, family, friends and colleagues gathered at the Edenton Street United Methodist Church in Raleigh, NC to remember and honor the life of Sam Dixon. The head of the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), Dixon died in Haiti following the January 12 earthquake.
Samuel W. Dixon, Jr.: Man of Faith and Compassion - Samuel W. Dixon, Jr., age 60, died doing what he loved to do: working for the welfare of the poor and rejected of the world in the name of Jesus Christ.
Texas Mission Leader Will Link Haiti Relief Work to US Churches - A Texas mission leader with extensive experience in disaster relief will serve as liaison between United Methodist operations in Haiti following the January 12 earthquake and the enormous response of annual conferences and congregations in the United States.
UMCOR Begins Pilot Aid Project for Haitians - Six young Haitian Methodists spent an afternoon dividing 55-pound bags of rice and 100-pound bags of beans into family-sized portions to feed more than 160 families who have had little assistance since the Jan. 12 earthquake.
UMCOR Continues to Bring Health and Hope to Indonesia - More than five years after devastating tsunamis destroyed homes, livelihoods and lives in Indonesia, the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) Indonesia office continues to partner with communities to create sustainable stability.
UMCOR Joins on-the-Ground Relief for Haiti - The United Methodist Committee on Relief and a host of other faith-based groups are on the ground in Haiti as they determine how to assist earthquake survivors.
UMCOR Justice for our Neighbors Ministry Helps Survivors of Human Trafficking - The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) is committed to preventing human trafficking and has programs around the world to empower those who have survived slavery
UMCOR Responds to the Earthquake in Haiti - A major earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti yesterday, causing widespread destruction. Millions of people are affected and thousands are feared dead.
UMCOR Staff and the People of Haiti Still Need Prayers and Gifts - Two of three staff members of the General Board of Global Ministries (GBGM) trapped for days under the rubble of the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, are back in the United States.
United Methodist Relief Executive Dies Before Rescue from Hotel Ruins in Haiti - The Rev. Dr. Sam Dixon, head of the humanitarian relief agency of The United Methodist Church, died before he could be rescued from the rubble of a hotel destroyed by the earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12.
United Methodists Respond with Prayer, Aid for Haiti - Many are feared dead in the earthquake, which had a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 and was centered about 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince.