From Pastor Kendra
June 2025 ~ World Service
Here is a question for you today. What do an extended care facility in Upper New York, a church in Kensington, Maryland, a skills center in Sierra Leone, and the Eastern Congo Annual Conference all have in common? They all receive funding from the United Meth-
odist Service Fund. Each one of these ministries are addressing the needs of their respective communities in vastly different ways, but they are all serving the work of Christ and we are helping them.
It is a fact of life that there are too many good causes out there for any one person or even any one church to support. So many gifted & called individuals and communities are doing the work that Jesus commanded us to do. We can only do so much, but when we give to the World Service Fund our donations are added to faithful United Methodists around the world to make a major impact. The people of The United Methodist Church are engaging the world by imitating the ministry of Jesus—and the World Service Fund makes our Christian outreach possible.
The UMC is building leaders like Jesus did. We’re sharing his love with those who hunger for it and shepherding those who’ve already tasted it. Like Jesus, we’re ministering among the poor. And we reflect his healing touch as we battle disease and fight to improve global
health, all through the World Service Fund.
Bishop Mary Ann Swenson explained why the World Service Fund is so very vital to the ministry of The UMC, “It is a way in which neighbor helps neighbor, and it helps Christians reach out all around the world.” She continues, “World Service Fund is everything that
defines our church. It is the way that we connect together, the way that we become powerful in our response to injustice and to poverty, and to tragedy, and to need.”
Here in Prosser we give $129.47 to the World Service Fund each month to make that work, and so much more, possible.
