Globally Supported Missions

Hope for Haiti

Hope for Haiti was formed in October of 2005 by Brian House, a former Peace Corps volunteer who served in Haiti in 2003 and 2004. Hope for Haiti’s philosophy centers on education and long-term sustainable projects, providing the foundation necessary to build self-sufficient communities. Their focus is on educating the youth, small business development, agricultural training and health education. Visit us online at www.hope-for-haiti.org
CONTACT: Brian House

The Least of These Ministries

The Least of These Ministries is a non-denominational Christian organization that is dedicated to assisting the Haitian harvesters who live in work camps (Bateys) in the Dominican Republic. The Least of These Ministries was started in 2000 as a feeding program, delivering rice and beans each week to 700 people in two Bateys. Since the program’s inception, eggs are now also distributed and people from eight Bateys are fed. Mission teams travel to the DR several (??) times each year, building outhouses in villages which previously had little or no sanitation, building churches and schools, conducting Vacation Bible School, etc. The Least of These has no paid workers other than the Dominicans who deliver the rice and beans. Visit us online at www.leastofthesemin.org
CONTACT: Steve and Ann Hull

Nan McCurdy, Nicaragua

Nan McCurdy is a missionary with the Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church who has served the people of Nicaragua since 1985. She and her husband, Miguel Mairena, also a GBGM missionary, work with the Women and Community Association - W&C (Mujeres y Communidad in San Francisco Libre, an impoverished area outside Managua). W&C facilitates community-based health and development with women, youth and children in this impoverished region of Nicaragua. W&C offers integral health and education programs focusing on prevention of violence and promotion of human rights, education, reproductive health, natural medicine, alternative nutrition and economic development. The women’s clinic promotes women’s health and family planning and prevention of cervical cancer and sexually transmitted illnesses. Their legal aid office assists abused women and youth. W&C also provides study scholarships for impoverished village youth and teachers and loans for women and women’s groups for economic development. Women are also encouraged to work, setting up businesses to help support their families in a country where the unemployment rate is over 60%. There is also a baseball organization that teaches the sport and sportsmanship to the children, a school in Managua educating some of the children who can not afford to attend the public schools.

Sakhisizwe Christian Ministries – South Africa

Mark and Alma Lawler are our supported missionaries. Their work includes food, clothing and blanket distribution; emergency relief services; Sunday School; teen Bible studies, life skills courses; after school programs, etc. The ministry was begun by a Westminster couple, Don and Judy Bixler. They remain involved in the fund-raising aspects of the ministry.

Sue Porter, Liberia

Sue Porter, a member of Reisterstown UMC, is a United Methodist missionary serving as the Dean of Nurses at the Ganta Medical Complex in Ganta, Liberia. This120-bed hospital serves 500,000 people in northeastern Liberia, mostly from hard-to-reach villages where they live on less than $600 a year. The hospital provides surgery, medicine, pediatrics and obstetrics and is the site for the training of nurses.