Featured Advance Projects
HEED Bangladesh Women and Children, Education Program
Advance #14576A:This project lifts slum dwellers out of poverty. HEED provides, pre-primary education, trains young women as teachers, raises social issue awareness, and facilitates small business loans.
The Evangelical Methodist Church of Nicaragua
Advance #14853N:Seven congregations have no buildings and meet outdoors or in homes. These churches need property and buildings to develop and continue community outreach programs, like health-clinics and feeding hundreds of children.
Living Water Society
Advance #156000: The United Methodist Church, through UMCOR, is building wells throughout Mozambique. This well is located in Bungane at Tinga Tinga UMC and provides safe drinking water for 500 children at Janene Pennel Elementary School.
Russia Mission Initiative - Ukraine and Moldova
Advance #14053A:Funds are needed for church development, pastoral education, lay leadership training, buildings for worship and ministry, publishing Christian education resources, and supporting other United Methodist churches and ministries.
United Methodist Bishop Visits Mission Institution in Fort Worth, Texas
by Barbara Wheeler
As an all-church meeting continues in Fort Worth, Texas, one bishop took time on April 24 to attend another important gathering: snack time in the after-school program.
Cookson Hills Center and The Advance Celebrate 60th Anniversaries
by Adam Neal and Barbara Wheeler4/23/08: In 1948, The Advance was set up as a mission giving channel, and two nurses opened a health clinic in Cookson, OK.
Work Sustains Women and Children in Bolivia
High in the Illimani Mountains of Bolivia's Altiplano, Justa Mamani weaves shawls in a cooperative with about 20 other women from her village of Catacora.
