FUMC is a Global Mission Partners (GMP) Church. The vision of GMP is to expand the church’s vision of mission partnership to encompass the globe and its peoples and to spread the gospel of love and hope, by increasing covenant relationships with missionaries commissioned by the General Board of Global Ministries (GBGM).

In order to meet requirements for being a GMP Church, we are involved in supporting the missions described below.

• United Methodist Missionaries in Maua, Kenya
  —Jerri and Bill Savuto (page 18)

• The Russian Academic Director of the United Methodist
  Seminary in Moscow (page 19)

• Partners in Mission (PIM) of the Texas Annual Conference
  (page 20)

The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity.
—Mike Stachura