Posted by Icel Rodriguez on 2/20/12
At the recent Annual Conference event of the East Angola United Methodist Church (February 7-12, 2012), missionaries Leonardo and Cleivy Garcia, from Cuba, received an unexpected appointment to the Quessua church, mother of Methodism in Angola.
Posted by Icel Rodriguez on 1/3/12
The Rev. Delbert Groves and his wife Sandy are United Methodist missionaries with the General Board of Global Ministries based in Kitwe, Zambia. They serve at New Life, a center established in 2001 through the Groves' efforts, that has grown into a resource for the young United Methodist Provisional Conference of Zambia.
Here, Delbert and Sandy share words of gratitude for a fruitful ministry in 2011 and hope in the Lord for 2012.
Posted by Armando Rodriguez on 1/17/12
"Mom, don't worry about us being hungry; we have been hungry all our lives and we know how to cope. Just help us to get an education." These were the words from Jorge Mucuta, a high school student at the Boarding House in Quessua Angola, when Icel and I finished our mission term in the East Angola Conference and were heading home for good.
Posted by Icel Rodriguez on 1/3/12
The Rev. Fletcher Anderson, a retired missionary of the United Methodist Church General Board of Global Ministries, continues to serve as professor of Biblical Hebrew and other disciplines at the Methodist Seminary in Havana, Cuba. Read his latest letter here.
Posted by Icel Rodriguez on 12/20/11
The Rev. Connie L. DiLeo is a missionary with the General Board of Global Ministries assigned to the Dominican Republic. She is an ordained deacon of the Florida Annual Conference, who is developing a new congregation of young adults and youth in the village of La Hoya. In her December newsletter Connie shares the many ways in which her church community in La Hoya is celebrating Christmas
Posted by Icel Rodriguez on 12/15/11
Experienced UMVIM team leader, Dr. Dick Daily, has just returned from his most recent The Haiti Mission trip. He visited several of the sites that future teams from the Florida Conference will be working on in the Cap-Haitien area in the northern part of the country.
Posted by Icel Rodriguez on 12/13/11
Ana Ingles, president of the United Methodist Women (UMW) of the East Angola Conference visits the US at the invitation of the Wisconsin and Florida Annual Conferences of the UMC.
Posted by Icel Rodriguez on 11/17/11
The office of Global Mission of the Florida Conference is promoting several conference-wide mission trips for 2012. A limited number of partial scholarships are available.
Posted by Icel Rodriguez on 10/24/11
With the arrival at Quessua, Angola, of Rev. Dr. Leonardo Garcia and Rev. Dr. Cleivy Benitez, a new chapter in the relationship of Florida and East Angola has begun.
Posted by Icel Rodriguez on 9/23/11
Is your church interested in a week long mission trip to Cuba? There is no better time than now to prepare for a mission trip to Cuba in 2012!
Posted by Icel Rodriguez on 9/22/11
Florida missionary Jonathan McCurley brings us an update on the situation at the Asian Rural Institute in northern Japan, where he serves. Jonathan shares: "We were very excited to hear that this past Sunday one of our Japanese graduates from last year was baptized at a local church in the area she is working. This gives us hope that the seeds we are planting here are bearing fruit in many ways, including new lives deciding to follow Christ."
Posted by Icel Rodriguez on 9/19/2010
Nelson Cowan, a member of ACCESS 218, Jacksonville, participates at a Young Adult Summer Camp in Cuba as part of a Florida Conference team. Here he shares a summary of his experience.
