INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS IN BLACKSBURG IS OUR SAMARIA
We go well beyond the 16 squares of Blacksburg with missions spanning several countries. Learn more about our international missions!
![](https://storage2.snappages.site/XMJ9Z8/assets/images/13658474_1920x1080_500.png)
Blacksburg Refugee Partnership
Blacksburg Refugee Partnership supports more than 3 dozen refugees in southwest Virginia. We are especially working with an Afghan mother, and her four children.
![](https://storage2.snappages.site/XMJ9Z8/assets/images/13658520_1920x1080_500.png)
Days For Girls
A nonprofit organization that prepares and distributes sustainable menstrual health kits for girls who would otherwise miss school during their monthly periods.
![](https://storage2.snappages.site/XMJ9Z8/assets/images/13658964_1920x1080_500.png)
Guatemala
Summer mission teams work in San Juan la Laguna with Impacto Ministry, a Christian non-profit agency. Teams have worked with children, houses for low-income families, the elderly and led women’s retreats.
![](https://storage2.snappages.site/XMJ9Z8/assets/images/13693479_1080x1080_500.png)
Kyiv, Ukraine
BUMC has been in partnership with Spring of Life Methodist Church in Kyiv for over twenty-four years. We continue to support the congregational needs and their work with refugees and a refugee center throughout the ongoing war.
![](https://storage2.snappages.site/XMJ9Z8/assets/images/13658685_1920x1080_500.png)
Global Ministries Missionary
We support missionaries working both in Liberia and North Macedonia.
![](https://storage2.snappages.site/XMJ9Z8/assets/images/13658829_1920x1080_500.png)
Methodist e-Academy
and Endowment Fund for Theological Education (Europe, Africa, Philippines): Teaches theology through internet-based distance education to develop pastors rooted in the Methodist tradition and supports the strengthening of theology education in Europe, Africa and the Philippines.
![](https://storage2.snappages.site/XMJ9Z8/assets/images/13658860_1920x1080_500.png)
Rise Against Hunger
Rise Against Hunger is an international hunger relief organization that distributes food and life-changing aid to the world’s most vulnerable. We have packed meals and raised the money to send them.
![](https://storage2.snappages.site/XMJ9Z8/assets/images/13658685_1920x1080_500.png)
UMCOR
The United Methodist Committee on Relief comes alongside those who suffer from natural or human-caused disasters to alleviate suffering. We have sent volunteers and assembled and donated “flood buckets” of disaster supplies.
These Mission-oriented Groups offer more Opportunities to SERVE:
- United Women in Faith (formerly UMW): Two Circles
- Five Adult Sunday School Classes
- Children's Ministries
- BUMC Youth
- Wesley Foundation at VT
- and more
Jesus’ final words to his disciples, just before ascending into Heaven, were “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” (Acts 1:8) The disciples were commissioned to spread the Gospel beginning in Jerusalem to the surrounding areas of Judea and Samaria and - ultimately - to the ends of the earth.