Cuba

Services

SUNDAY  9 AM CONTEMPORARY SERVICE  10:10 AM SUNDAY SCHOOL  11 AM TRADITIONAL SERVICE

Methodists United in Prayer

  • Methodists United in Prayer is the covenant between The United Methodist Church in Cuba and the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church. It is the largest and most successful mission of the Florida Conference.
  • There are about 400 United Methodist churches in Cuba with about 800 mission churches.
  • The financial burden on the shoulders of the United Methodist Cuban pastors is overwhelming with their limited resources. They earn about $50 a month and must sustain their own families, maintain their churches, help maintain their mission pastors and mission churches, often feed dozens of church goers weekly, and tend to those most in need. This is about half the salary of the average Cuban family since pastor’s wives are very involved in the church and do not have a second income.
  • FUMC Plant City is one of 214 churches in the Florida Conference to have one or more sister churches to help face and ease that burden.
  • We proudly participate in the Adopt a Pastor Program and sponsor four churches and their families in the Granma province.  Our sister churches are Belic, Palma de la Cruz, Cabo Cruz, and Marea de Belic.
  • Our Cuba Mission Team has traveled to Belic numerous times carrying much needed supplies, such as personal hygiene and clothing, Spanish language Bibles, a sound system for the church, and even a water pump.

Our sister churches in Cuba need our support, both spiritually and financially, to exist and grow in a difficult and challenging socio-political environment. Our mission trips are essential for creating and maintaining relationships through personal contact and fellowship, and joyful worship of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Our United Methodist Cuban brothers and sisters say our visits are “a breath of fresh air.”

If you would like to join us and see what God is doing in Cuba or to volunteer to go to Cuba, please contact Kerri Gould or Nancy Wisgerhof through the church office.

"Estamos muy agradecidos de ustedes!"

"We are very grateful to you!"  Thank you so much for your generosity over the holidays with our Cuba Angel Tree project.  Our church was able to send a large variety of supplies, including food, socks, medicine, even lollipops and coffee!  It is difficult for us to understand the daily struggles of life for people in Cuba.  Unreliable power supply, lack of running water, inability to obtain medicine, glasses, even waterproof storage baggies.  Did you know that they add chickpea flour to their coffee to stretch the supply?  We sent a bag of coffee to the pastor in Cabo as a treat, but that pastor shared it with friends after holding a worship service in the home of a disabled brother in Christ.  In Marea de Belic, the pastor is mourning the loss of the 19 year old son, whose boat capsized while enroute to Jamaica to find work to support the family.  The church at Cabo Cruz is praying for a way to purchase the property next door because their church has outgrown their current space, which is also the pastor's house.  Ministry is multi-generational in Belic, where the pastor's daughter is also a pastor, and her husband plays piano and son plays drums for worship services.

May we learn from these churches and the way they live out Christian community every day.