What can you do to respond?
🛐 Pray for those impacted.
👐 Give to support our international relief and recovery efforts. Select "Hurricane Melissa" when asked to designate your gift: bit.ly/umcoridr
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UMCOR’s long-standing relationships in the Caribbean, including recent disaster-response trainings in June 2023 and March 2025, ensure that additional aid reaches those in need quickly and effectively.

UMCOR and its regional partners are conducting needs assessments and preparing for a coordination meeting in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, on November 18–21, to plan the next phase of relief and recovery.

Further coordination is underway with the Iglesia Metodista En Cuba. These grants are in addition to those issued last week to Methodist partners in Jamaica and Haiti.

With your gifts and support, we can make an even greater impact. Together, let's respond to God's call to welcome the stranger, feed the hungry and tend to the sick.

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From Nov. 1 through Dec. 31, GBGM and GBHEM invite you to participate in our end-of-year giving campaign, inspired by our new granting and giving initiative, This Moment Matters, focusing on five vital areas of response — agriculture and food security, education, global health, migration and peace.

What can you do to respond?
🛐Pray for those impacted.
👐Give to support our international relief and recovery efforts. Select "Hurricane Melissa" when asked to designate your gift: bit.ly/umcoridr
📲Share this post to encourage others to pray and give.

We will remain in communication with the MCCA and other partners in the region as relief efforts continue. We encourage you to continue to pray for those impacted and faithfully support relief and recovery efforts, as food insecurity and the risk of water-borne illnesses will increase.

These emergency grants will assist with immediate needs, including food, water, temporary shelter, hygiene kits and over-the-counter medication.

Part two, on healthcare ministries, will be published in November.

In Part One of this two-part series, discover how, since 2018, training programs and $2.7 million in grants from UMCOR have bolstered the response efforts of the East Congo Episcopal Area, providing food, shelter, hygiene kits, a solar-powered well, psychological support and more.

We now have an option to make a direct donation to our Hurricane Melissa response efforts. To give to support those impacted by Hurricane Melissa, visit bit.ly/umcoridr and select "IDR - Hurricane Melissa" when asked to choose your preferred gift designation.

As the needs of those impacted by Hurricane Melissa become clear over the coming days, UMCOR is prepared to support the response efforts of our Methodist partners in Jamaica and the Caribbean.

Significant flooding and damage from Melissa have already occurred in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with additional impacts expected in both countries and in Cuba. We pray especially for Haiti, as Melissa’s impact will worsen the hunger crisis experienced by more than half of the country.

Melissa is a category 5 storm and is expected to have a catastrophic impact on Jamaica, with up to 30 inches of rain and a 13-foot storm surge predicted.

As we pray, we are also coordinating with the disaster response team of the Alaska Annual Conference as they communicate with the impacted villages and respond to their needs.