Serving Globally
There are many great ministry partners we serve alongside in our local community. However, we have also established relationships with other international ministry partners. We value our relationships with these partners because of the ways in which they seek to listen to the needs of people groups before acting. The groups below aim to come alongside people to offer spiritual and physical care in ways that are not overbearing or imposing certain agendas.
Mission Guatemala
Mission Guatemala is a 501c3 faith-based nonprofit working in the highlands of Guatemala in the community of San Andrés Semetabaj. They strive to help meet the basic needs and improve the quality of life of under-served and impoverished Guatemalan people. They’re passionate about collaborating with communities to help improve health, education, and nutrition. They also work with villages to help with community development and improvement projects.
Mission Guatemala was Founded in 2000, by Tom Heaton, a United Methodist pastor who has always had a heart for the people of Guatemala. In the spring of 2010, Mission Guatemala opened in the area of San Andres. With the help of numerous volunteers they have installed over 100 hi-energy, efficient wood-burning stoves for families, built chicken coops, playgrounds, hand washing stations and bathrooms at schools, constructed feeding centers and a community kitchen. Today, they are blessed with a medical and dental clinic and preschool nutrition center. Each day over 150 children are fed a nutritious lunch at the two feeding centers. Also available is an eye clinic and a women`s clinic.
Read more about Mission Guatemala and its ministry when you visit MissionGuatemala.com.
Zanmi Fondwa
When a family has a safe home, they can dream about a new future. Zanmi Fondwa is dedicated to creating stability in Fondwa, Haiti through housing, education and economic development. Our goal is to provide jobs for Haitians by building 40 homes in three years.
For the last 15 years, Founder Jamalyn Peigh Williamson and husband David Williamson have been working in Fondwa—a beautiful, rural, safe, hospitable community full of people they've grown to love. We want to introduce these people and this place to you. And we invite you to consider a next step, whether that's giving financially or taking a trip to see first hand the life-changing work we have committed our lives to do.
United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR)
As members of Zionsville UMC, we are part of UMCOR’s network that provides outreach/relief for those in need.
UMCOR is a ministry of The United Methodist Church, dedicated to alleviating human suffering around the globe. UMCOR's work includes programs and projects in disaster response, health, sustainable agriculture, food security, relief supplies, and more. The goal is to assist the most vulnerable people in need affected by crisis or chronic need. UMCOR reaches over 80 countries, including the US. They provide humanitarian relief when war, conflict, or natural disaster disrupt life to an extent where communities are unable to recover on their own.
UMCOR provides survivors not only with temporary relief but long long-term training and support. UMCOR spends 100% of the designated donations on the projects donors specify. As we give our time, money, and supplies we join UMCOR as the “Hands & Feet of Christ”.
In the past, Zionsville UMC has worked through UMCOR to provide relief for natural disasters. For example, Zionsville UMC collected toiletry items and prepared several hundred emergency health kits for people affected by Hurricane Katrina. ZUMC Mission teams also traveled to Louisiana and Mississippi to help rebuild homes. The impact UMCOR has around the world and here at home is great.