Mission and Ministry

 - National and Global

National Mission and Ministry

The kind of religion which is without stain or fault in the sight of God our Father is this:  to go to the help of orphans and widows in their distress and keep oneself untarnished by the world. James 1:27  

Newark United Methodist Church is involved in the following national missions:

• Methodist Action Program's Walk for Better Housing

• Church World Service CROP Walk

Global Mission and Ministry

For Christ is like a single body with its many members and organs, which, many as they are, together make up one body. For indeed we were all brought into one body by baptism, in the one Spirit, whether we are Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free men, and that one Holy Spirit was poured out for all of us to drink.  I Corinthians 12:12-13

Newark United Methodist Church supports International Missions:

• United Methodist Missions worldwide are supported through a percentage of each week's offering and the yearly budget.

• Refugee Resettlement - Our church has undertaken nine sponsorships embracing 42 individuals: 28 from Laos, 6 from Bosnia, 4 from Togo, and 4 from Kosovo. The first family sponsored arrived in 1978. The most recently sponsored family came to Newark in the summer of 1999.

• San Francisco Libré  - our sister city in Nicaragua

• BorderLinks is a program in experimental education that provides opportunities for first-hand examination of economic and political patterns on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border that affect us all.

• United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) assists churches in direct ministry to persons in need in the areas of emergency response, hunger and poverty, and refugees and immigration.