Florida United Methodist Children's Home at Enterprise:  The Children's Home is a residential and non-residential children's service mission dedicated to the needs of children in a variety of situations.  Once an orphanage, the Home is now a 21^st century provider of services from spiritual and psychological counseling, to tutoring and COPES training.

Check out their web site.  You  can also receive a copy of their on-line bi-monthly newsletter the Herald.  To make a donation go here.

You may contact Clark Getz, our local Conway Representative, at cagola1@aol.com.

Go to Medicine for Mali to view their web page.

Holy Ground: In accordance with a covenant established between the Methodist churches in Cuba and the Florida conference, Conway UMC is supporting a sister church, Holy Ground, in Limones, Cuba.  Holy Ground's pastor and his wife are Caesar and Yady Galano. The covenant that establishes this bond begins as follows:

"Affirming our common bond in Jesus Christ and our historical Wesleyan ties, we, the members of the Methodist Church in Cuba and the Florida Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, propose a covenant in Christ with one another. Noting Paul's words to the very diverse community gathering in a house church in Corinth, that "...we are partners in the work of service to our God..." (I Corinthians 3:9), we acknowledge our partnership for greater service to the mission of God and a stronger witness to the love of Jesus Christ".

"In prayerfully seeking God's will for our churches, we have envisioned Cuban churches restored for worship with the collaboration of volunteer teams from Florida; and Florida churches revived with Cuban teams sharing their spiritual enthusiasm and growth".

Guatemala Work Mission:  This is a work mission in conjunction with the Mike Black Ministries.  This ministry has a missionary focus of 1) working with church families including children and older adults, 2) working with youth who have been abandoned, providing housing, education and living expenses, 3) hosting short-term mission groups exposing people to hands on mission work, 4) providing radio programs to reach a variety of people, 5) working with youth in a community school, 6) ministering in Guatemalan churches, 7) providing leadership seminars for Guatemalan pastors, and 7) ministering in US churches.  This mission also includes light construction work that places visiting mission workers in contact situations that allow achievement of the mission focus.

Conway Food Pantry:  Life can at times deal extreme hardships.  To lend some hand, we operate a food pantry to help families and single people in our community with food.  We also help with rent or utility costs using monies from our Good Samaritan Fund as emergency relief, when required.  All food is donated by the church family.  The money used for the Good Samaritan fund comes through church giving - none is budgeted.

For further information, contact Helen Marshall at the church office (407-277-5010).