Global Impact Celebration

Goal #2 from Epworth’s Strategic Plan:

We will expand our service and missions not only to those in our community, but to those throughout the world by engaging in life-changing experiences with those in need of material resources, assistance with daily living, education, health care, and spiritual growth. We will bring people into the kingdom by exposing them to God.  We will strive to meet spiritual needs that are not currently being met by experimenting with approaches that are unique to Epworth and our congregation.

Save the Date and GO FISH!
2012 Global Impact Celebration April 20-22

Matthew 4:19. “Come follow me,” Jesus said, “And I will make you fishers of men.”

This well-known Bible verse is not just a metaphor for evangelism; it’s the catalyst for this year’s Global Impact Celebration theme – GO FISH! And, it’s quite appropriate! Epworth UMC strives to be a church that offers meaningful opportunities for our members to impact both the lives we serve as well as our own.

GO FISH! is a weekend-long opportunity for EUMC members to learn about the existing and new relationships we have formed with other ministries, missionaries and those in need. April 20-22, we will host keynote speakers and missionaries – in the areas of youth, local, regional, diversity and worldly missions – and invite any and all members of our church to learn more about our opportunities to get involved.

And, while we would love if you are called to attend the two-and-a-half day Celebration in full, we understand that our congregation has full and busy lives. That’s why our GO FISH! weekend is structured to allow you to attend the portions that meet your areas of interest or peak your curiosity. (Childcare will be provided as well.)

So, save the date – April 20-22, 2012 – watch for more details soon, and prepare your hearts to GO FISH!

Last Years Event
2011 Global Impact Celebration

After the Celebration news…

The Global Outreach Team would like to thank you for your participation in last weekend’s Global Impact Celebration. We hope you were filled up and are overflowing with the love of Jesus! Throughout the weekend, God blessed us with so many wonderful examples of ordinary people living extraordinary lives because of their faith and obedience to His call. The diversity of the mission organizations represented provided some unique and different opportunities to be the hands and feet of Jesus. We hope you caught a glimpse of some new and fresh ways you can get involved.

The Global Outreach Team will be putting together our 2011/2012 budget and determining our mission partners in the coming weeks. If there was an organization/missionary that you felt a strong connection to and would like us to pursue developing a relationship with, please contact a member of the Global Outreach Team and let them know. We want to provide opportunities for our congregation to connect and be in relationship with others. We want to develop strong partnerships in areas where members feel led to serve.

Thank you for your faithfulness in prayer and giving. Our faith promise offering of $66,450 is evidence that members are seeking God’s guidance related to their missional giving. It is so exciting to see the spiritual growth that is occurring as we learn to step out in faith and trust God.

As Keith Wheeler, Max Wilkins, and Alan Weatherly all reminded us, we are all called to be on mission with God. I think Max Wilkins said it best when he said, “You are either, passionately going, passionately sending, or passionately disobedient”. We need to pick up our cross and follow Jesus!

Please pray for Keith Wheeler’s safety as he carries his cross in Libya. Keith left the US on April 4th to travel to Libya and carry his cross through that country so that others might have an opportunity to know Jesus. Now that’s putting shoes on the feet of Jesus!

If you are looking for a deeper, closer relationship to Jesus, Alan Weatherly provided us with five outcomes that one can expect when they make missions a priority in their life. 1) God will go before you and direct your path; you will not walk alone. 2) Your relationship with God will be deepened because you will be in partnership with Him. 3) You will gladly use your resources to support missions when you find your passion 4) Your faith will blow up like a balloon, and 5) Your intimacy with Christ and people will grow. You will become less judgmental.

If you haven’t gotten involved in missions before, we hope you will consider Alan’s advice. We have lots of ways for you to engage. Please contact one of our Acts 1:8 team chairs and give it a try. You will not be disappointed. We can promise you a life changing experience! That’s an opportunity that should be hard for anyone to resist.

In His service,
The Epworth UMC Global Outreach Team

2012 Report

Global Outreach Financial Report updated Jan. 2012 (PDF)

2011 Feedback Results & Budget Review

Global Outreach Financial Report updated Oct. 2011 (PDF)

Feedback Results from the GIC 2011 Event (PDF)

Global Outreach Financial Report for 2010-2011 (PDF)

2010 Report

Click here for a PDF of the 2010 report.

Media Gallery

2011 Photo Highlights, Global Impact Celebration



2010 Photo Highlights, Global Impact Celebration

To learn more about Epworth's global outreach missions, click here.