Dunwoody UMC is traveling to El Salvador in January 2025. We will partner with Salvadorian Mission Projects led by Brian Dubberly, a United Methodist Volunteers in Mission long-term volunteer and missionary from the North Carolina conference. Brian works with churches in the United States to support the Methodist Church in El Salvador and the local people. While our work will center around a construction project and food distribution, our main work will be building relationships. As Brian says, “By living out our faith we can create a situation of open arms and not open hands. This is why your mission team is so important to create healthy, long-lasting relationships with the people that you will be serving and in return you too will be served.” Contact Rev. Garrett Wallace for more information.

A Dunwoody UMC mission team goes to Guatemala to serve Project Salud y Paz, a nonprofit with three medical clinics and an early education center. The Susanna Wesley School provides education, nutrition, and medical care for more than 50 children in preschool through first grade. Salud y Paz is a joint project of International Hands in Service (a U.S. based 501c3 non-profit organization), the Iglesia Metodista Nacional Primitiva de Guatemala and the United Methodist Church in the United States. The 2025 trip dates are to be determined.

Dunwoody UMC and the surrounding community mission team will travel to Kenya to serve at Mully Children’s Family (MCF). Established in 1989, MCF is one of the largest children’s rescue, rehabilitation and development organizations in Africa. Our team’s primary goal is to support an orphanage through relational ministry, meal preparation and light construction.