Resources

Forms

You may find these forms and documents helpful over the course of your mission journey.  These can be uses as templates and changed to your team’s specific needs.

Keep in mind some of these forms may be covered in the team registration process for insurance through umvim.org.  Many of these resources can also be found in the appendix of the Team Leader Handbook.

VIM Grants

Books

  • A Mission Journey: A handbook for volunteers by General Board of Global Ministries
  • Beyond Welcome: Centering Immigrants in Our Christian Response to Immigration by Karen Gonzalez
  • Consuming Mission by Rev. Dr. Robert Haynes, 2019
  • Hope Made Real: The story of Mama Arlene and the children of Urukundo by Arlene D. Brown, 2020
  • How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, 2019
  • I’m Still Here: Black dignity in a world made for whiteness by Austin Channing Brown, 2018
  • The Last Missionary by Bob Walters, 2016
  • Toxic Charity by Robert D. Lupton, 2011
  • The Team Leader Toolkit by United Methodist Volunteers in Mission; go to https://www.umvim.org/team-leader-handbook
  • The Very Worst Missionary: A Memoir or Whatever by Jamie Wright, 2018
  • When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert, 2012
  • White Fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism by Robin Diangelo, 2018

Other Resources

Flo Waybright
Conference Secretary, Global Ministries
waybright5@comcast.net

Deb Currinder
Disaster Response Coordinator
drc@susumc.org

Michelle Schwartzman
Volunteers In Mission Coordinator
vim@susumc.org