Initiatives and Appeals

We mourn with our brothers and sisters their great losses while we embrace this opportunity for United Methodists to show commitment to our faith and to one another.  Together we can restore mission and ministry while moving into a strong future.  Please open your hearts and your wallets to the Katrina Church Recovery Appeal (#818-001). [learn more about this appeal]

The Initiative on Children and Poverty has been the commitment of the Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church since 1996. This commitment  represents the bishops' sense of the call and nature of God; the depth of the bishops' concern for children and the impoverished; the new directions resulting from deppening global relationships; and the bishops' belief that the church is to be where God is. The church, therefore, must be in community with children and the poor -- as Jesus said, "the least of these." [learn more about this initiative]

The Hope for the Children of Africa appeal provides relief and reconciliation to thousands of children and families who have suffered and lost so much from war across the continent; and rebuilds United Methodist churches and restore ministries, with special attention to the physical, social and spiritual well-being of the children. [learn more about this appeal]