Outreach Global
MISSION HAITI
• Grace UMC has partnered with The Institute of Grace, its Executive Director Jean Filostin, and Rev. David Graves since 2018.
• A mission team from Grace traveled to Haiti in 2018 – including Pastor Jim Miller, his wife Betsy Miller, daughter Lauren, and Rose Hayden
• The focus of our support has been for the Merger Primary School (150+ students) and Miracia Hospital providing both school and medical supplies.
• With the civil unrest in Haiti, the planned mission trip in 2019 was canceled (“Do Not Travel “order)
• To present, Grace UMC continues its monetary support of the mission: supporting the salaries of two teachers at the school ($1,000 each), the provision of school uniforms and food for students, and shipping expenses ($1,500) for both school and medical supplies and equipment.
MISSION COSTA RICA
• Robyn Wilbur is a homegrown Methodist mission volunteer living and working in Santa Rosa de Pocosol, Costa Rica.
• Prior to the global pandemic, Robyn taught English at community schools, tutored for exams, and volunteered her services at the local Senior Center.
• During the pandemic Robyn, her husband Eduardo, and daughter Kaleena have volunteered to assist food and water distribution.
HUREE UNIVERSITY- MONGOLIA
• Huree University was founded in 2002 through Methodist missionary outreach and now ranks in the top 10 of Mongolia’s nearly 100 universities.
• Huree is Mongolia’s only private university with a Christian orientation that focuses primarily on science and technology.
• While formal religious education is prohibited in Mongolia, many students become Christians before graduating through Christian witness of faculty and fellow students. (10% entering students/80% before graduation).
• In 2020, Grace Church sponsored a student, Erdenebulgan Udval ($1,000 in tuition/$200 hot lunch program).
• 2021-2022: In honor of former District Superintendent JW Park’s ministry, Grace is now sponsoring another student’s tuition and lunch ($1,200 Serving Budget).
MISSION MEXICO – “Give Ye Them To Eat”
• Re-establishes Grace UMC’s mission relationship with Nan McCurdy and her missionary husband Miguel Mairena.
• She and Miguel worked for over 20 years with women and youth in San Francisco Libre, Nicaragua.
• “Give Ye Them To Eat” in Puebla, Mexico is to strengthen the capabilities of marginalized people and communities to meet their basic needs, and to determine and sustain a just and integrated development process.
• They provide training in appropriate technologies, sustainable agriculture, and health so that people can improve their lives.
• Their farm and training center is in Tiancualpican (2017 earthquake).
• 2021: Nan has offered “virtual mission journey” opportunities in the form of 2 hour zoom meetings.
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