World Service
When United Methodist congregations pay their apportioned askings they participate in God’s work around the world…and right in their ow n parish. The World Service Fund is the heart of our church’s ministry together. Through this fund you become a partner with the church’s agencies to be in mission and ministry at home and around the world. The effects of World Service ministry are making a difference across the globe.
World Service is God’s people reaching out in love and compassion in the name of Christ. It represents a call and a challenge to each United Methodist. The World Service Fund provides basic financial operating resources to four general program boards, four general commissions, and the General Council on Ministries. No congregation alone can do w hat w e do together in World Service; sending missionaries across America and around the world, providing pension benefits for deaconesses, supporting United Methodist Communications, and funds for the General Council on Ministries. World Service provides literature and resources for the entire church.
World Service is the basic financial underpinning for most of our day-to-day denomination wide work. Through this fund United Methodist churches strengthen evangelism efforts, foster church growth, and nurture spiritual development. Our congregations have been enriched with worship, retreat, and camping resources, leadership training and stewardship development. The fund also supports specific work with children, youth, singles, students, persons w ho are physically challenged, adults and older persons.
Mission workers and others who serve Christ and the UMC around the world are helped through this fund. Certification for our chaplains, Christian educators, communicators, and musicians is made possible through the monies raised for this fund. The fund has allow ed the general church to create a United Methodist presence in mass media and make new communications technology accessible to the church. Through this fund w e demonstrate our commitment to God’s reign through ministries of peace and justice, and efforts to build a church and a society inclusive of all people.
January 13 2010 09:37 am