FMIE Project List 2024
The Fund for Mission in Europe (FMiE) has released its project overview for 2024, presenting a detailed look at the initiatives being supported across the continent. This annual publication highlights the Methodist Church's dedication to solidarity, sustainability, and community support, offering insights into the funded projects and reflecting the church's broader priorities and collaborative efforts within the European Methodist community.
Priorities of the Fund
When Methodist church leaders in various parts of Europe were asked about their priorities, they stated re-peatedly the following areas:
Working towards sustainability (WTS)
We would like to increasingly stand on our own feet in terms of personnel and content, as well as fi-nancially. Additionally, we would like to bring ourselves, as giving communities, complete with our own identities and the wealth of our faith experiences, into the worldwide Methodist family.
Education and Leadership Training (ELT)
In a time of tremendous social changes, we would like to engage in our mission tasks in creative, be-lievable ways and be „the Church for others‟. In order to achieve this aim, we need well educated pas-tors and lay leaders.
Being a learning church (BLC)
We are not called to do today, what has always been done, while using those instruments, which have always been used. Rather, we aim to forge a reliable connection to new ideas and experiences, to learn from one another, and to find new activities, which bring the timeless message of God’s love to the people of today and tomorrow.
Diaconal work (DW)
We cannot be a credible church without hearing the voices of those who cry out because of their needs. Without seeing those who already suffer silently. Without helping people regardless of their background. Without awakening a new hope for a better future. However, we do not desire to be en-gaged in ministry for the poor but in ministry with them.
This is why the Fund for Mission in Europe primarily supports programs and projects related to one of these four priorities. In the following list of project summaries you will find indications about the main priority of each project at the end of the corresponding description (WTS, ELT, BLC, or DW).