UMCOR –  Sunday, March 24 we will collect an offering supporting UMCOR’s work of alleviating human suffering around the world including disaster relief and supplies, disaster risk reduction, health, and humanitarian development. Gifts to the UMCOR cover UMCOR’s costs of doing business. This helps UMCOR keep the promise that 100 percent of any gift to a specific UMCOR project will go toward that project, not administrative costs. The UMCOR Sunday offering is the primary funding stream for the administrative costs of UMCOR. Learn more here. 

Methodist Home for Children – Sunday, July 28 we will collect an offering for the children served by MHC – children who come from empty homes, failing in school, looking for acceptance in all the wrong places. Neglected, abused, traumatized. Children deserve a safe, loving home where they can thrive and live to their full God-given potential. At Methodist Home for Children, we build on strengths, nurture goals, create opportunities, and prepare children and families to shape their own futures. But the needs of those in our care extend far beyond the basics. They require more than a quick fix. What started as an orphanage in 1899, has evolved and expanded to provide the best in evidence-based services for children and families throughout North Carolina regardless of religion, race, or socioeconomic status. Removing kids from bad situations is just the start; we want to break self-destructive cycles and point children and families toward a positive future. We rely on private gifts and grants to support the many programs that prepare children in crisis to reach their full, God-given potential.
We work so that all in our care – children and families – have the hope and the skills they need to build healthy,
self-sufficient, and productive lives. “We see hope in each one of them – and you bring that hope to life. Thank you for believing and forgiving.”

World Communion Sunday – October 6, we partner with other UMC congregations in a special offering to support young adults and make a global impact for Christ. Half of the offering benefits World Communion scholarships for graduate students from the U.S. and other countries. The remainder assists Ethnic Scholarships for U.S. and international undergraduate students in the U.S. and Ethnic In-Service Training.
These funds are administered by the General Boards of Higher Education and Ministry and Global Ministries. The United Methodist Church, the world and our communities are in a time of transition. Together God’s church can be a beacon to navigate the ongoing global trauma of the COVID pandemic, the impact of a tumultuous political climate in the U.S. and the anxiety of a looming denominational separation. Now, perhaps more than ever, we are called to be part of extending healing and hope that can guide us to becoming a new creation in Christ. Through our gifts and support, we partner with God and God’s people to strengthen Christ’s loving presence in a hurting world. United Methodist Special Sunday celebrations invest in servant leadership, community building, and ministries of peace with justice. Concentrating our resources to support shared ministries equips us to step into a grace-filled new beginning with faithful determination.