The RHUMC Missions committee is dedicating February to the collection of food items for the St. Paul’s Project Needs food pantry. In addition to preparing weekly hot meals for homeless and hungry persons in the South Bay, Project Needs opens a food bank twice a month. The pantry serves over 400 people monthly. Right now [Read more…]
John Elmore, Missionary in Chile
John Elmore is a missionary we supports who is assigned to the Methodist Church of Chile as mission volunteer coordinator. He and his wife, Maria Cristina Hurtado, are based in Angol in southern Chile, where he is affiliated with the Methodist Agricultural School for Mapuche Indians. John spent a dozen years in Iquique in northern [Read more…]
Ut Van To, His Mission Work in Viet Nam
The Rev. Ut To is a missionary with the The United Methodist Church assigned to Vietnam as country director and mission superintendent. Ut trains Christian leaders in developing new congregations and nurturing Christians in Vietnam. He incorporates Wesley’s model of class meetings or cell groups into the Vietnamese culture, tradition, and social settings of the [Read more…]
Red Bird Mission in Appalachia
Red Bird Mission provides spiritual, educational, health and outreach ministries for people in remote Appalachia. Red Bird Mission sits in an isolated area of three counties, traditionally under-served by state and local government agencies. Its first mission efforts, in 1921, provided a school, but the mission has become a broad-spectrum agency, serving in five areas [Read more…]
Paul Jeffrey, Photojournalist
Paul Jeffrey, photojournalist and Methodist missionary supported by RHUMC, is currently in Zimbabwe. You can follow his postings on Facebook at http://facebook.com/kairosphotos and journey with him. His blog is at http://kairosphotos.com. His most recent article posted on his blog is about South Sudan in which he tells of the history of the current violence and [Read more…]
