The annual Peninsula-Harbor CROP Walk will be held on Sunday, May 20, at the South Coast Botanic Garden. Join us for this time of fellowship and exercise as walkers raise money for a variety of both local and international organizations fighting hunger. Registration begins at 10:00 a.m. with the actual walk scheduled for an 11:00 a.m. start. A table [Read more…]
Got Shoes?
During May, the Missions Committee is looking for your gently worn used and new shoes to benefit the Toberman Neighborhood Center. Collection bins will be placed in the Narthex and the Church Office to gather the footwear that just doesn’t quite get worn any more (or perhaps never did). Anything with soles attached and without [Read more…]
UMCOR Sunday-March 11
The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) lives out a mission to alleviate human suffering. UMCOR provides humanitarian assistance in more than 80 countries when war, conflict or natural disaster strikes. On Sunday, March 11, we will have a special offering to help underwrite UMCOR’s “costs of doing business.” Funds raised will help UMCOR keep [Read more…]
Hanging of the Greens
Before the month of November is over, we will be in the Advent Season! The Worship Committee invites you to get into the holiday spirit by helping us transform the church. There will be several opportunities for you to join us: Saturday, November 28th, 8:30-10:30 am – Decorating the huge Narthex tree Saturday, December 5th, [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…]
