Disaster Response Update: More Work Sites Open
More work sites are now open and ready for volunteers. Help is needed from those trained in early response and those who are not. If you would like Early Response Training, current dates are...
View ArticleDisaster Response Update: Be the Hands & Feet of Jesus Christ
“Some places are just bereft of volunteers.” So speaks Ann Huffman, Disaster Response Volunteer Coordinator for the NCCUMC, in an article published November 6th in The News & Observer. Though the...
View ArticleDisaster Response Update: New Training Dates for Early Response Teams – Need...
Thanks to your willingness to be the hands and feet of Jesus Christ, we are getting more volunteers, but we still need more. Churches throughout the conference are hosting training sessions for Early...
View ArticleGiving Tuesday
Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday! Several United Methodist agencies and ministries are participating in #GivingTuesday again this year, offering churchgoers a variety of ways to contribute online. You may...
View ArticleNC Conference Staff at Work in Lumberton
Last Monday, about 28 staff members and spouses of the NC Conference in Garner traveled to Lumberton to join other volunteers helping those affected by Hurricane Matthew. Those 28 included staff from...
View ArticleResponding to the Wildfires
UMCOR KITS NEEDED In addition to our ongoing efforts to respond to victims of Hurricane Matthew, we want to assist our neighbors to our west who have been impacted by wildfires. Here is a request from...
View ArticleDisaster Response Update: Richard Petty Motorsports at Work in Lumberton
As news reports circulated about the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Matthew, Kenneth Lankford, lead mechanic for Richard Petty Motorsports, wanted to help. When he approached the others on the...
View ArticleAttention MERCI Volunteers!
We normally have a MERCI workday on the First Saturday of each month. But because of the forecast of inclement weather across our Conference area, we will not be opened tomorrow. Our Governor has...
View ArticleDisaster Response Update: Arms Around a Family
In the words of Pastor Herbert Lowry of Chestnut Street UMC in Lumberton, “Hurricane Matthew left a vast array of destruction, displacement and depression in Robeson County, especially in our community...
View ArticleDisaster Response Update: Fletcher’s Chapel UMC Sponsors Families
Did you see the article titled Arms Around a Family, published January 12th on the NCCUMC website? Well, the women from Fletcher’s Chapel UMC in Durham did, and they called a meeting of the whole...
View ArticleDisaster Response Update: The Work of Volunteers…In Numbers
According to Wilson Rogers, operator of the NCCUMC Disaster Response Call Center, volunteers have completed about 44% of the requests called in to the center and are going strong completing the...
View ArticleDisaster Response Update: Another Workday for Conference Staff
Twenty-five NCCUMC staff members traveled to Lumberton on January 26 to assist with disaster response work. Many of these folks have spent previous days volunteering at Hurricane Matthew worksites,...
View ArticleUMVIM SEJ Updates and Local Opportunities!
United Methodist Volunteers in Mission Southeastern Jurisdiction are pleased to announce that they have a new director, and they have many mission team opportunities available. Information updates can...
View ArticleMERCI Warehouse Workday
~Use your President’s Day missionally! We will not have a regularly scheduled third Thursday workday at the MERCI Warehouse this week, but come by and help on Monday, February 20, from 9 a.m. to 3...
View ArticleUMCOR Sunday March 26!
Together we do more! Formerly known as ‘One Great Hour of Sharing,’ UMCOR Sunday provides an opportunity for generously supporting the work of our United Methodist Committee On Relief. Giving to UMCOR...
View ArticleRadiant Hands and Feet – One Saturday in January
John’s house on Martin Luther King Drive in Lumberton had been growing mold since Hurricane Matthew flooded the area in October. Water had breached the house up to waist high and left a nice layer of...
View ArticleUMCOR Response to Peru Flooding
Many of you have seen the news about massive flooding and mudslides in Peru, which has taken 72 lives and caused 70,000 people to lose their homes. Many hospitals and businesses have been affected as...
View ArticleNorth Georgia Conference Sends Volunteers…and This Time It’s Personal
Last week, March 20-24, volunteers from the North Georgia Conference of The United Methodist Church (NGC) were busy in Lumberton making the noises that Early Response Teams make: clanging, banging, and...
View ArticleVolunteers Needed for “Rebuilding Blitz Week” (April 23-28)
The Site manager for the Tarboro/Princeville area worksite has requested 50 volunteers during the week of April 23-28, 2017, in order to complete the rebuilding of three residences that were damaged by...
View ArticleA Sofa? “That’s Strictly a Luxury”
“Frisco Mo” is a hardy man who defines self-reliance. At 87, he loves telling his seafaring stories and reliving adventures from years as a fisherman. Living on Hatteras Island when Hurricane Matthew...
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