UMCOR volunteers offer assistance after a crisis until a new normal is established within the community?
Because you help fund the ministry’s overhead on UMCOR Sunday, donations can go directly to those in need as crises arise. This support enables UMCOR to stay long after a disaster, focusing on long-term recovery and sustainable rebuilding. Through strong partnerships with local organizations, they ensure recovery efforts are community-led and effective. They provide case management to help individuals and families rebuild, secure resources, and restore livelihoods. UMCOR also invests in training, infrastructure, and reconstruction, strengthening communities for the future. Recognizing that recovery goes beyond physical needs, they offer emotional and spiritual care through counseling and pastoral support. Committed to holistic recovery, UMCOR remains until a "new normal" is established, ensuring communities not only recover but thrive.
ABOUT UMCOR SUNDAY (UMCOR)
In response to the devastating global effects of World War II, the 1940 United Methodist Church's General Conference established a relief agency called United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR). This agency was created to respond to the needs of human anguish by working globally to alleviate suffering and advance hope and healing. UMCOR is organized into programmatic areas focused on U.S and international response and recovery, sustainable development, global health and migration. Each area is founded on the belief that positive sustainable change is best done alongside and in support of communities. Your generosity on UMCOR Sunday underwrites the “costs of doing business,” allowing UMCOR to keep the promise that 100% of any gift to a specific UMCOR project will go toward that project, not administrative costs. The work of UMCOR is managed through the General Board of Global Ministries.
