4/1/2019
Pastor Luke Fillmore gave the Iowa Communications Team a brief tour of the devastating flooding in Hamburg, Iowa. Fillmore is appointed in Hamburg and also the nearby town of Shenandoah and has been balancing two congregations and building new relationships. “There's a lot of trust I've already built, and there's a lot of trust being built, but it's taken a lot of humility to step back and say ‘I can only do what's been put in front of me and God has only given me so much to do,’” Fillmore ...
9/19/2017
By Audrey Young, Iowa’s General Secretary for the Iowa Board of Global Ministries It may be a good idea to bring all leftover bulk items for kits to our 2017 Ingathering, rather than holding anything over for 2018, as is the custom of some local churches. “We have been assured UMCOR will accept all of our kits from our 2017 Thanksgiving Ingathering this year. The book for next year, 2018, will reflect the changes,” stated Dan Houston, Iowa Ingathering Chairperson. The first big changes already...
