Angola West Episcopal Area

West Angola Conference youth pose for a photo during a weeklong Juventude Metodista camp in Lubango, Angola. The gathering, the largest in the group’s history, featured morning devotions, team-building exercises and a gospel concert. Photo courtesy of Juventude Metodista.

West Angola camp helps youth shine

Hundreds of young people gather for a week of fun and activities designed for their spiritual growth.

Light spills from the doorway and stained glass windows of Central United Methodist Church of Quéssua, part of the Quéssua Mission in east Angola. Established in the late 1800s by Methodist missionaries and destroyed by almost three decades of civil war that ended in 2002, the mission is being rebuilt, bringing education, healthcare and food security to people in a rural valley near the provincial capital of Malanje. Photo by Mike DuBose, UM News.

Lighting the way in Angola

Since the late 19th century, the Methodist mission station in Quéssua has supported the physical and spiritual needs of the villagers in this rural area. In April, a Volunteers in Mission team from Florida traveled to Quéssua for a variety of projects, ranging from medical to nutritional to infrastructure.

Mission and Ministry

Garbage piled on the median overflows onto a road in Luanda, Angola. A waste-collection crisis in the province intensified when the Provincial Government of Luanda suspended contracts with the companies that performed the service. Photo by Augusto Bento, UM News.

United Methodists support cleanup in Angola

With temporary suspension of contracted services, solid-waste accumulation threatens health of thousands.

Mission and Ministry

Dr. Sílvia Lutucuta, minister of health for Angola (middle left), leads a delegation from the health ministry at the Cacuaco campus of the Methodist University of Angola, which will be used as a testing and treatment center for COVID-19. Photo by Orlando da Cruz, UM News.

Church university in Angola to be used in COVID-19 fight

The United Methodist Church of Western Angola has turned over its Cacuaco campus of the Methodist University of Angola for use as a coronavirus testing and treatment center.

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