Serve Our World

Missionary Computer Fellowship

This ministry accepts computer donations and furnishes missionaries with needed technology all over the world. Computers have recently gone to Haiti, Brazil, Guatemala and Africa, and beyond. To inquire about giving a donation or serving within the ministry, contact MCF at 407.422.9265. Donations can be brought directly to 725 West Central Boulevard, Orlando, Florida 32805,  on Tuesday or Thursday (9 a.m. – 4 p.m.).

Disaster Relief

We assist local families in need following natural disasters, have taken several mission trips to areas affected by disaster and make a yearly trip to the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) facility in Louisiana. Ed and Gloria Lobnitz help coordinate our disaster relief efforts.

Mission Trips

In 2011, our church will send several adult and family mission teams. If you are interested in joining any of these teams, or getting more information, email us.

  • A teams is forming to travel to Guatemala with Faith Project International in July. This is an organization started by church members Brad and Christina Cowherd, who served in the Peace Corps in Guatemala. For more information, contact Brad at brad@infusiontea.us.
  • Our congregation has been deeply involved in a project called the Zion Methodist Children’s Home, with inspiration from Rev. Gene Zimmerman. We spent supplies and mission teams to help with the construction of a new children’s home in the Bahamas last year. If you are interested in a helping with donations or on a future trip, please contact the church.
  • A group from the Central Florida chapter of the Fuller Center for Housing will be heads to a “blitz build” week in Louisiana annually, joining teams from around the country as each group looks to build a house in one week.
  • Each fall, we send an Adult Mission Team to UMCOR Sager-Brown depot in Baldwin, Louisiana. The work is varied and generally not physically demanding. Jobs include sorting and packing donated relief supplies, office work, cutting and sewing or doing house repairs in the Baldwin area. The Depot is the processing center for Methodist relief supplies coming from churches throughout the United States, and subsequently sent to disaster areas throughout the world.
  • Our youth ministry takes four mission teams each year. Discover more about these trips in the youth section of our website by clicking here. Every summer there are four youth mission trips to places as close as Jacksonville as far as Argentina. Trips are offered to youth of all ages and skill levels. For more information and details about this year’s trips, visit Youth Mission Trips.

Pitching a Tent in Belfast

Rev. Britt and Alison Gilmore are missionaries in East Belfast, Ireland. They are connected to many members of the First Church family. Britt served as the Associate Pastor here from 2005 – 2011. In July 2011, they moved to Ireland as missionaries to the East Belfast Mission of the United Methodist Church through the General Board of Global Ministries. Follow their work and their lives through their blog.

Are you wondering where the title of the blog came from? Watch Britt’s final sermon as our Associate Pastor.

Where Does God Pitch His Tent? from First Church Orlando on Vimeo.