Coordinating and preparing volunteers for short-term service

Connecting and empowering short-term volunteers to be servants of Jesus Christ around the world.

GOALS: to empower servants of Jesus Christ as short-term missionaries (volunteers) to meet the needs of the world. OBJECTIVES: 1. Provide team leader training for each Annual Conference. 2. Establish and strengthen connections between UMIVIM Volunteers to various UMIVM sites throughout the world. 3. Engage more young people and those with diverse ethnic backgrounds in serving as short term missionaries. 4. Increase awareness of the UMVIM program throughout the jurisdiction. 5. Develop a connection between the Annual Conferences and UMCOR in the work of disaster preparedness and recovery after the disaster has occurred. 6. Increase the education of the Annual Conference Coordinators and Leadership Teams to help promote UMVIM throughout the jurisdiction. Outcome Measures: 1. Number of volunteers and teams serving in various capacities. 2. Number of Team Leaders Trained 3. Number of Youth and Young Adults serving in mission 4. Number of Persons of Diverse Ethnic Background serving on teams. 5. Number of Missions Volunteers (Individual), Global Justice Volunteers, Nomads, etc. Timeline: Throughout the next quadrennium.