Tag: Food
Mission and food, the Mujila Falls perspective
![Growing cabbage in Zambia at the Mujila Falls Agriculture Center.](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/vegetables.png)
At the Mujila Falls Agricultural Center in Zambia, there is a critical relationship between the food that is grown and raised and the mission work done in the community.
Church cookbooks go online
![Cookbooks inspire bakers](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Baking-Finn-Bjurvoll-Hansen-from-Pixabay.jpg)
While churches are currently not gathering for meals together, the time will come when United Methodists can come back to the table with favorite foods to share.
Liberia University copes with pandemic
![](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/dean-yatta-young-liberia-theology-graduate-school.jpg)
The University of Liberia is struggling to re-open with e-learning this fall. Students suffer from a food crisis as well as a health crisis.
Stretching to meet needs in Appalachia
![UMCOR grant feeds hungry families in Appalachia](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Henderson-Settlement-feeding.jpg)
Henderson Settlement and Red Bird Mission, United Methodist ministries in Appalachia, have received strong support from Michigan for many years. Learn how they are coping with coronavirus.
Liberia hit by COVID-19 and hunger
![Liberia anti-COVID-19 training](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Liberia-appeal-May-2020.jpg)
Michigan’s covenant partners in Liberia have undertaken an Anti-COVID-19 campaign. Assistance is needed in their efforts to raise awareness, distribute supplies, and provide food.
Navajo Nation hit hard by COVID
![Navajo Nation and COVID](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Shiprock-Hospital-960.jpg)
The Navajo Nation ranks behind New York and New Jersey for per-capita cases. Native Americans across the U.S. are being fed and receiving care during the health crisis.
Cass in ministry during pandemic
![Taking temps at Cass Community Social Services](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Cass-Community-COVID3-1.jpg)
Cass Community Social Services has “been there” for the vulnerable residents of Detroit for decades. And the 2020 pandemic may have changed their ministry but it has not stopped it.
Love the earth while staying home
![Love the earth by feeding birds](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Bird-feeder-960-AdobeStock_313961418.jpg)
Here are a dozen ideas for changing our behaviors for the good of the earth while we engage in physical distancing at home and outdoors.
Haiti Covenant Partners confront COVID-19
![Women on the frontlines of COVID-19](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/HAPI-Dec-2019.jpg)
The Haiti Covenant Partners of the Michigan Conference are concerned about the country’s vulnerability to COVID-19. Chronic poverty, hunger, and cultural practices are challenges to the prevention of the disease.
Food, tables, and God’s nature
![Christmas table of food](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/christmas-581754_1920.jpg)
Life Around the Table promotes a diet of Food that LAUGHS. How we eat either glorifies God or does not.