STORIES & NEWS
News is organized in reverse chronological order.
2008
South Carolina UMVIM help with tornado recoveryby Times and Democrat Staff (Orangeburg, SC)
3/21/08: Teams of volunteers weatherized houses and used chain saws to cut trees away from homes and other property.
Bishop Hassinger and Albany Area Cabinet VIM team to Dulac2/15/08: Beauty amid swampland in Bayou Terrebonne; a little work in the grand scheme of all that needs to be done, but life-giving to those to whom we give our little work.
Neither Rain nor Hail nor Dark of Night...by Mariellyn Dunlap
1/25/08: Eighteen volunteers from Martin Methodist College work through torrential rains to finish their tasks in Gulfport, MS.
Roofing in the Rain
by Mariellyn Dunlap
1/25/08: Martin Methodist College students and adults engage in hurricane recovery work in Gulfport, MS.
Recovering from Tropical Storm Noel in Dominican Republicby Jodi Cataldo
1/11/08: 1/11/08: Methodist volunteers used their vacation days to clean once-flooded COPA quarters.
2007
A United Methodist Free Clinic Opens in New Orleans
by Betty Backstrom
12/4/07: "Luke's House" is cutting edge ministry.
Primetimers Explore Building Global CommunityGBGM News
11/21/07: This Primetimers event provided an opportunity to further explore the meaning of globalization.
- Russian church camp to benefit from more UM volunteer teams
- Barbara Stone named UMCOR volunteer consultant
- Health Volunteers serve in new ways and places
- Operation Classroom Celebrates 20 Years of Mission
- Methodist churches raise money, remodel houses in wake of flood
- Mission group connects African orphans with WPA schools pdf *
- Helping find the way in Appalachia
- "They gave us hope when we had none" pdf *
- Memphis team goes to Bahamas pdf *
- D.C. church revives community
- Insights gained and questions raised: Global Justice Volunteers
- Kentucky team: healing hearts and homes 24 months later
- Primetimers in Appalachia
- Church disaster coordinators, volunteers form covenant
- UM teams join Eagle Pass, TX, tornado cleanup
- Primetimers return from Italy inspired to build beloved community
- Memories of Baby Canada in Zimbabwe
- Volunteers reflect on UMCOR Sager Brown
- Volunteers in Mission provide medical help in Panama
- Incredible growth of United Methodist Volunteers across 15 year span
- Mission Volunteers Board of Directors Spring 2007 Meeting
- Mission Volunteers building love around the world
- “We're so blessed” - and volunteer shares those blessings
- Milestone UMCOR-UMVIM Meeting at Mt. Sequoyah
- Children engaging in volunteer work
2006
- Views from Volunteers
- Life Is Justice to the Global Justice Volunteers
- Clinton Rabb named new head of Mission Volunteers unit
- UMVIMs to be housed at St. Mark's Center in New Orleans
- Missouri Conf. Heartland South District UMVIM in Bahamas
- Kansas East Conf. assists disaster relief in Bay St. Louis, Miss.
- Lincoln University Wesley Foundation trip to Mississippi
- International UMVIM team helps rebuild in New Orleans
2005
- Passion about poverty leads UM to work in Congo
- Bishops launch appeal to help gulf churches build anew
- Keller (Texas) First UMC's music ministry to Slovakia
- Collierville (Tenn.) UMC's team to Ocean Springs, Miss.
- VIM stories & impressions in responding to hurricane relief
- Hurricane response by United Methodist volunteers
- Buraku Liberation Center leaders visit GBGM
- Bishop Domingos of West Angola Conference at GBGM
- Mission Volunteers Directors, Spring 2005 meeting
- Mission volunteers provide more than money
- Leaders advise families planning mission trips
- Individual volunteers program offers chance to do more
- Volunteer service begins with application process
- Mission volunteers have variety of opportunities for service
- North Central NY volunteer team's mission work in NYC
- Volunteer in Mission takes journey to flood-ravaged Guyana
2004
- Primetimers study French culture, church pdf
- Mission Volunteers Board of Directors, Fall 2004 meeting
- Russia Initiative team to Stavropol builds clinic & fellowship
- California-Nevada UMVIM team in the Kingdom of Tonga
- The Individual Volunteer Program and Orientation/Training
- Louisiana team's visit to Spean Chivit UMC in Cambodia
- An individual volunteer in Armenia & Bosnia-Herzegovina
2003
- "The Year I Wasn't Bishop": Letter from Panama
- Brothers & sisters in Christ: VIM experiences UM connection
- Virginia Beach team helps in Hurricane Isabel relief
- Kingswood UM camp take-down service event
- Work teams & people of Ecuador share talents & love
- Offering a helping hand in Salem, Maine
- Letter from Bosnia
- Mozambique VIM team to Troy Conference in May 2003
- New GBGM General Secretary champions UMVIM
- Chickerings, Bowmans return from volunteer work in Louisiana
- Troy Conference Volunteers in Mission team to Nicaragua
2002
2001
- El Salvador earthquake VIM response: Hope Lutheran team from Toledo
- Experiences and insights of individual volunteers
- Post-GJV CCUN Seminar Program internships
- Pacific NW Conference VIM team departs for the Congo
- New UMVIM Training Manual published by GBGM Mission Volunteers
- El Salvador Earthquake UMVIM Response: Virginia Team
- Palestinian Center for Rapprochment between People - Beit Sahour
- RxConneXion hosts first Health Care Volunteers Consultation
- Global Justice Volunteers share stories from the field
- Working together for health thru UM Fellowship of HealthCare Volunteers
- Indiana UMVIMs help rebuild burned Arkansas Baptist Church
- Individual Volunteer from the Philippines
2000
- Howard & Joan McGlauflin, volunteers at UMCOR Sager-Brown Depot
- Epworth UMC (Gaithersburg, MD) VIM Trip to Zimbabwe
- Global Justice Volunteers: United Methodist young adults learn as they serve
- North Carolina team helps build Cavalia Hills Refuge Center in Montserrat
- Personal journal from Mission 2000 trip to Russia
- Trip to Liberia eye-opener for local woman
- Testimony of three young adults in mission to Armenia
- Louisiana UMVIM's "Takin' It to the Streets 2000"
- Northeast Pennsylvania UMVIM team in Haiti
- NOMADS Reunion 2000
- God's Call 2000
1999
- NW Texas Conference VIM trip to Mexico
- Flood relief in North Carolina
- Urgent Need for Work Teams in Belize
- 1999 SEJ UMVIM Rally
- 1999 NCJ UMVIM Roundup
- 1999 NEJ UMVIM Rally
Photos & Videos
- Buraku Liberation Center leaders visit GBGM, May 2005
- Bishop Domingos of West Angola Conf. at GBGM, May 2005
- Western Jurisdiction UMVIM Conf. coordinators, Nov. 2004
- Troy Conf. VIM trip to Vitoria da Conquista, Brazil, March 2004
- Individual Volunteer orientation/training sessions: Group photos
- North Central Jurisdiction UMVIM Conf. coordinators, Aug. 2002
- Dedication of Camp Canaan Temple in Cuba, May 2002
- North Central Jurisdiction UMVIM Conf. coordinators, Aug. 2001
- NOMADS video
- Northeastern Jurisdiction UMVIM Conf. coordinators, June 2001
- Mission Volunteers Board of Directors, Fall 2000
- Jurisdictional UMVIM Coordinators, Fall 2000
- South Central Jurisdiction UMVIM Conf. coordinators, Fall 2000
- Primetimers at UMCOR's Sager-Brown Depot, Fall 2000