Missions
If you would like to volunteer for an Outreach Ministry or have questions, please contact the church office at 703-793-0026.
Mission Ministries are those Outreach programs which minister to people outside the local area.
Child Rescue Centre (C.R.C.): The Child Rescue Center provides food, clothing, shelter, education, health care and a loving, nurturing environment to 46 (soon to be 70) children in Bo, Sierra Leone. The C.R.C. also supports 100 additional children living in family settings by paying their school tuition, providing school uniforms, purchasing school supplies and providing health care. In addition to financial donations, volunteers can participate as pen pals with C.R.C. students and staff, participate in the sponsor-a-child program, and have the opportunity to join one of the periodic groups who travel to Sierra Leone to provide various types of direct support. Volunteers also support the C.R.C. efforts of Helping Children Worldwide by organizing an annual golf tournament to benefit the C.R.C. For more information about the Child Rescue Centre visit http://www.childrescuecentre.org. For further information about Helping Children Worldwide visit http://www.helpingchildrenworldwide.org.
Domestic UMVIM Hurricane Relief: Volunteers provide humanitarian assistance to the victims of Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast region through financial support and work teams which travel to the region six to seven times a year for 10-12 days per trip. This Outreach program is coordinated through the Virginia and Mississippi UMVIM organizations.
Missionary Support: Floris provides financial and spiritual support to several missionaries though the United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries (GBGM). John Yambasu is working on youth and women's issues in sub-Saharan Africa. He is based in Ghana. Ted and Carla Warnock are missionaries based in Atlanta. Ted is involved in a number of GBGM projects, particularly the landmine removal effort in Angola. Carla is a nurse who serves as the medical support point of contact for all GBGM missionaries overseas.
Missions to Cuban Methodists: This outreach program is sponsored by UMVIM (United Methodist Volunteers in Mission) as an effort to restore and rebuild Methodist churches in Cuba. Volunteers travel to Cuba once a year for a period of two weeks to work on rebuilding projects and to engage in fellowship with Cuban Methodists. Floris member Aldo Gonzales is the National Coordinator for UMVIM in Cuba. For more information about this and other UMVIM projects, visit http://www.umvim.org.