disaster response

Disaster Relief

Cyclone Idai survivor Geshem Makufa, 55, is being treated at United Methodist Mutambara Mission Hospital in the Chimanimani District of Eastern Zimbabwe. He is pictured with his wife, Tandiwe Makufa. Photo by Kudzai Chingwe, UMNS.

Church embraces cyclone survivors in Zimbabwe

United Methodist offer physical and emotional support as relief efforts continue in hard-hit areas.

Mission and Ministry

A doctor examines a child at a camp for people displaced in flooding in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai, near Beira, Mozambique. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings, please do not reuse.

‘We thank God because we are alive’

United Methodists gather to support cyclone survivors as relief efforts ramp up in hardest-hit areas of Mozambique.

Mission and Ministry

Lydia Chimonyo Girls High School students carry buckets to gather water at a borehole in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe. There is no running water at the school since Cyclone Idai damaged the school’s water plant. Photo by the Rev. Duncan Charwadza.

Church mobilizes to help cyclone survivors

Cyclone Idai left a path of destruction in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, killing at least 180 people and damaging United Methodist schools, churches, hospitals and homes.

General Church

Members of the Commission on a Way Forward converse as they complete their final commission meeting on May 23, 2018, at the Upper Room chapel in Nashville, Tenn. Photo courtesy of Maidstone Mulenga, Council of Bishops.

Unity struggle is major story of 2018

Commission on a Way Forward wraps up and The United Methodist Church prepares for momentous special meeting.

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