MAP Costa Rica
MAP Costa Rica is our newest mission project. We will take three trips in 2012 to La Suiza, Costa Rica. Our spring trips will be to finish constructing a dorm for mission teams. The summer trip will be for our youth to provide evangelism, a Vacation Bible School for the surrounding community, as well as do light construction projects.

Firm Foundations Romania
FIRM FOUNDATIONS ROMANIA serves to help families and children in high-risk situations and very poor living conditions. Their main project is the Hospital Project that supplies diapers for the abandoned and semi abandoned babies. FFR also runs an international volunteer program to assist the hospital staff of Brasov Children's Hospital in caring for the children. The teenage girls mentor program started with the hope of providing a few hours of care and love for girls who are discriminated from society. With the rate of abuse, and teen pregnancy growing, there is such a need to reach out to the youth of the Roma (gypsy) communities. Many of these girls are forced into a life of motherhood before they even have a chance to graduate high school. For information on how you can support this organization visit www.firmfoundationsromania.com.

Haiti - Medical Missions
MEDICAL MISSION TO HAITI. Plans are being finalized for this trip in the spring of 2012. Contact Rev. Judy Tefteller if you are a medical professional interested in serving in Haiti.

Mission to Mexico
MISSION TO MEXICO is our outreach to Carbonares, a small fishing village in the state of Tamaulipas. We provide medical, dental, eyeglasses and construction at the local Methodist church over a 4-6 day period. We have treated as many as 300 persons in two days of medical clinics. We are currently not sending any teams into Mexico but are providing funding for on-going construction projects. We also provide yearly support for the pastor of the church of Carbonares.

Email Rev. Judy Tefteller for more information about international missions.

We support numerous missionaries, several of whom were raised right here at KUMC and have now stepped out to serve Christ in international missions. They are:

Lowell and Claudia Wertz -- We have supported their Joy in the Harvest mission in Kigoma, Tanzania, for 16 years. They provide aid to the refugee camps, educational opportunities for the people and transport for medical care. Our church built the first Methodist church in the capital of Tanzania, Dar es Salamm. A team of doctors and nurses held clinics in Kigoma in 2006 and 2008 and another medical trip is planned for the Fall of 2011.

Ashley Ward -- grew up in KUMC and is now serving in mission through Young Life in Czechozovakia. Ashley works with youth in BIble studies, ski camps and summer camps.

Marlon and Jessica Obando (another KUMC member)-- are serving in Costa Rica with MAP Costa Rica.. Their ministry focuses on bringing the gospel through home churches in the Turrialba area. One of their primary projects is to reach out to the youth of the area. We are planning at least three trips to Costa Rica in 2011.

David and Shannon Goran -- are United Methodist missionaries in Liviv, Ukraine. Their primary focus is with students and the local university. The provide Bible studies and ESL classes for students. They are with the General Board of Global Missions of the United Methodist Church.

Willie Berman -- the missionary in Mexico who arranges all of our trips. Our church supports Willie and collaborates through him with the Iglesia Metodista, the Methodist Church in Mexico to bring needed medical and dental clinics and to build houses and churches in villages. Willie is an "in-country" missionary with the General Board of Global Missions of the United Methodist Church.

Julian Sierra -- is the pastor of Iglesia de Mar de Galilee in Carbonares, Mexico. Julian and his family provide spiritual support for the community as well as host the various mission teams.