Each year the Desert Southwest Annual Conference includes a mission focus that individuals, churches, and their surrounding communities can donate to in collaboration for greater impact.
IMPORTANT NOTE: You may bring your church's product donations to the main lobby of Annual Conference and drop off at the tables located there. The Inn staff will be picking up your donations daily. Should you be bringing gift cards, please give to Billie Fidlin....
by Maritza Velazquez On the night of September 19, 2023, my husband and I were Passing along Terrace Street in Nogales, AZ. (a border city next to Mexico) at approximately 7:50 PM when we realized there was a group of 15 people who already had a permit to be...
Recently Rev. Sandy Stratton Johnson reached out to inquire if the Conference Asylum and Border Ministries Fund was available to assist in her work to bring humanitarian aid to people crossing our southern border. This fund is current and will be financially...
For safety reasons we will keep both the author and location of this site confidential. This is the first in a series of articles, supporting our Annual Conference Mission Project: Asylum Aid and Border Ministries Fund. Greetings Friends, I am grateful to have...
During the most recent Sessions meeting (planning body for Annual Conference), members agreed that this year’s mission project would focus on support for churches engaged in asylum and border mission. In the coming weeks we will announce items that may be donated to one or two organizations who work in this same area.
We have the final accounting of donations turned in to our Conference Treasurer, Matt Kuss, for the 2023 Mission Projects. You'll remember we had three areas of focus this year: Ukraine Relief, RIP Medical Debt, and Disaster Relief for Turkey/Syria. Our grand...
One of the most valuable publications our denomination has is the UM News Daily Digest. Content covers a wide range of news from a global perspective, and the online edition from Thursday, April 27th was no exception. This issue includes an update article on...
On April 16th, CBS Sunday Morning ran an excellent piece on RIP Medical Debt. As their intro narrative states: "At any time, one in five American households bears medical debt, the cause in a majority of U.S. bankruptcies. Since 2014, the charity RIP Medical Debt...
As I began to write this article, the phrase “war torn” came to mind. According to the Oxford Dictionary, war-torn is defined as: (of a place) racked or devastated by war. The Encyclopedia Britannica (yes… it's still around but online) states: very badly harmed or...
On February 25th, ABC News reported that approximately 13 million Ukrainians had been driven from their homes. Eight million refugees had been welcomed to various countries in Europe. According to the latest report from the International Catholic Migration...
