General Board of Global Ministries

HOW WE WORK Connection is at the core of our work. Global Ministries connects The United Methodist Church, its people, and congregations to partner with others engaged in God's global work, which takes place in a variety of settings, countries, and cultures. HISTORY As the international United Methodist mission organization, the General Board of Global Ministries carries within it the mission legacies of eight earlier denominations. The Methodist movement stretches back to the Rev. John Wesley (1703-1791), an English pastor, theologian and evangelist. Methodism first started as a revival movement within the Anglican Church of England, a church that Wesley never left. GLOBAL MINISTRIES MISSION AND VISION The mission of the General Board of Global Ministries is to equip and transform people and places for God s mission around the world. Our four mission goals are: 1. Make disciples of Jesus Christ; 2. Strengthen, develop, and renew Christian congregations and communities; 3. Alleviate human suffering; 4. Seek justice, freedom, and peace. As the mission and humanitarian assistance agency of The United Methodist Church, Global Ministries leads The United Methodist Church in equipping, strengthening and transforming people and communities for God s mission around the world. In its work of making disciples of Jesus Christ, Global Ministries envisions and facilitates mission so that churches and faith communities grow and flourish; justice, freedom, peace, health and well-being prevail across racial, cultural, national and political boundaries; and people of all faiths live in dignity and security, even when they face humanitarian disasters and their aftermath. Through mission, The United Methodist Church realizes its greatest unity, and through mission and being in mission together, society achieves its greatest potential.