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Disaster Relief
Elias Torres (left) and Vinicius Maciel clean up flood damage from Hurricane Helene at Cedar Key (Fla.) United Methodist Church. Church members are beginning the long, slow recovery following Helene’s devastating storm surge and flooding in the southeastern U.S. Conferences are busy supporting survivors. Photo by Mike DuBose, UM News.

United Methodists offer relief after Helene

Church members are beginning the long, slow recovery following Helene’s devastating storm surge and flooding in the southeastern U.S. Conferences are busy supporting survivors.
Disaster Relief
Items to aid flood victims in Tanzania are organized in the Masai District by volunteers from the local United Methodist church. With financial support from the United Methodist Committee on Relief, the church helped 250 families affected by the disaster. Photo courtesy of the North Katanga Episcopal Area disaster management office.

Church brings vital aid to flood victims in Tanzania

The United Methodist Church — with support from UMCOR — came to the aid of hundreds of families affected by devastating floods in Tanzania.
Disaster Relief
John Lusulu, financial assistant with the United Methodist Committee on Relief’s disaster management office in eastern Congo, helps a young woman carry food during a distribution operation for people displaced by war in Goma, Congo. Each household received one month’s food aid and essential non-food items. Photo by Chadrack Tambwe Londe, UM News.

Church helps thousands of displaced families in Congo

Financial support from UMCOR helped to provide food, necessities and feminine hygiene items to more than 12,500 people displaced by war.
Mission and Ministry
The Rev. Caleb Mbaz (left), coordinator of the Disaster Management Office for the South Congo Episcopal Area, carries a box containing vegetable oil for inmates at  Kasapa Central Prison near Lubumbashi, Congo. Joining him are Disaster Management team members Kasongo Kilundu Olivier and Louise Tshiwengo. The United Methodist Church in Southern Congo distributed more than 16 tons of food and other supplies to the prison with support from the United Methodist Committee on Relief. Photo by Christian Kasweka, UM News.

Church helps feed prisoners in Congo

With support from UMCOR, United Methodists in Southern Congo provided food and other supplies to inmates at a Kasapa prison. Church leaders also brought a message of hope.

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