Homelessness

Social Concerns
Ice Angels volunteers from First United Methodist Church in Moore, Okla., serve lunch one Wednesday every month at a large lot near downtown Oklahoma City. Started by a United Methodist couple, Ice Angels has grown from handing out water to providing food and other services for unsheltered people. Serving (from left) are Monty Bower, Gabriel Krows, Linda Dowling, Linda Starling and Jo Bower. Photo by Boyce Bowdon, UM News.

Ministry begins 15th year of serving the thirsty

Started by a United Methodist couple, Ice Angels has grown from handing out water to unsheltered people under a bridge to providing food and other needed supplies and services with the help of a network of local churches, nonprofits and businesses.
Social Concerns
Clay Apartments in Detroit consists of one two-story building with an elevator and will include 42 one-bedroom units for formerly homeless men and women with special needs. Wespath, the denomination’s pension and benefits agency, invested $805,000 in the building. United Methodists see a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on homelessness as a reason to increase efforts to build more affordable housing. Photo courtesy of Wespath.

US Supreme Court ruling puts focus on housing

United Methodists see reason to increase their efforts to care for homeless people, including building more affordable housing, after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld ordinances that make sleeping outside a crime.
Social Concerns
Jim Patterson. Photo by Mike DuBose, UM News.

What we can, and cannot, do for the homeless

The landmark General Conference that took place April 23-May 3 in Charlotte, North Carolina, was set amongst a thriving downtown with a homeless problem. Those two things are connected if United Methodists are true to their convictions.
Disaster Relief
Fire engulfs the Malicha camp for internally displaced people on Aug. 19 in the South Kivu province in Congo. The United Methodist Church of Eastern Congo is appealing for help for 45,000 people left homeless by two fires in the Malicha and Bushushu camps. Photo by Philippe Epanga, courtesy of the Bureau de Gestion des Catastrophes de la Région Épiscopale du Congo Est.

Fire ravages two camps for displaced people in Congo

The United Methodist Church of Eastern Congo is appealing for aid as 45,000 people are left homeless by two fires in the Malicha and Bushushu IDP camps in South Kivu.

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