If you’d like to get involved in missions and have questions, please reach out to Brandon Dirks, Minister of Missions & Outreach. Please EMAIL or call 704.714.9378.

As our partner school, each year we raise funds and in-kind donations to provide training opportunities for faculty, needed school supplies for underprivileged kids, celebration events for the teachers, and volunteer math tutors through Heart Math Tutoring. Sign Up Here

A Christian-based residential recovery for men and women struggling with the disease of addiction. The DOVE’S NEST is an opportunity to help prepare and serve a meal on the second Monday of each month from 11am-1pm. EMAIL Elaine Foster to help serve. REBOUND prepares and serves breakfast the 2nd Monday of each month from 5:30am-7am. EMAIL Sam Moran to help serve.

Formerly known as Urban Ministry Center and Men’s Shelter of Charlotte, the newly formed Roof Above combats homelessness by providing assistance, meals, and shelter. Service opportunities include preparing and serving meals, being a host, and assisting with program needs. Click HERE to see Roof Above’s new Men’s Shelter. To serve, EMAIL Chad Kelley or EMAIL Tom Foster.

What’s Next is dedicated to walking with our at risk youth neighbors throughout their teenage years. Check out their sweet video which highlights PUMC where this daily work occurs (click HERE). Many service opportunities are available in helping shape a brighter future for these teenagers. EMAIL Jordan Dreiling, EMAIL David Parr, or EMAIL Denny Hammack to serve.

PUMC is renewing our financial partnership in 2023 with Crisis Assistance Ministry (CAM) to provide direct aid to persons experiencing a financial crisis with utilities or rent. By financially partnering with CAM, we can better help those in our community in need. Click HERE to learn more about this partnership.

There are an estimated 50,000 displaced or homeless young adults in the Charlotte area! On Ramp resource center hosted by The Relatives has a tremendous success rate in helping these young adults 17-24 years old make the successful evolution from displaced youth to being an independent adult. Through case management and structured support, the center empowers young adults to find employment, education and housing opportunities, ultimately leading to independence.

PUMC supports the United Methodist Committee on Relief providing disaster relief and response trips to the southeastern United States and beyond. Tornado, flood, hurricane, and wildfire relief is nearly a constant need and we are eager to support and resource relief efforts as they arise.

PUMC continues to invest mission support and volunteers in Haiti to help establish clean water initiatives, provide economic loans to Haitian women and several communities in northern Haiti, provide medical mission teams that treat more than 3,000 patients per week, and educational projects and funding to help advance generations towards a more prosperous future.

Wanda Musgraves has helped our brothers and sisters in Haiti by ensuring they have access to quality Health Care and clean drinking water. Listen to the stories she shares with the Metro District Sights and Sounds Podcast by clicking here!

A two-year pilot program for the Cap Haitian Ministry Center (CHMC) was originally funded by Providence UMC. The onsite office provides structure and support to our ministry partner Dr. Eugene. In 2017, the CHMC successfully launched and is now supported by an independent non-profit and funded by many contributing members including churches, universities, other non-profits and individuals. Providence UMC is now one of the contributing partners.

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Jamie and Holle Wollin and their boys (Thomas, Eli and Luke) serve Christ in Albania. Holle is teaching at GDQ International Christian School – a school of volunteer teachers that serve the children of missionaries and local Albanian families. Jamie is serving in an impoverished area of Tirana where he has set up an auto mechanic and skill-training workshop to train, mentor and disciple young unemployed men. Drugs, gangs and constant feelings of hopelessness strain the lives of many young men and families in this area. Jamie serves in this very community sharing compassion, hope, and the love of Christ.

For more information, please contact their Providence UMC liaisons, Jim & Susan Wollin via EMAIL

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Dan and Courtney Randall (and their children: Cera, Calib, and Caden) are United Methodist Missionary Advocates with the General Board of Global Ministries serving in the Western Jurisdiction. They seek to build upon and strengthen the connection s between United Methodists in the western part of the US and the United Methodist missionaries and projects around the world. Primarily they have a passion to connect with key areas of health, education, women and youth empowerment, and social justice.

For more information contact their Providence UMC liaison, Bruce & Barbara Kenyon via EMAIL

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