Since 2013, The United Methodist Church of Vista has been honored and grateful to work with 63 Community Partners. In a short 12-year period, the congregation has been privileged to invest almost $3,500,000 in this vital work. We welcome and celebrate the opportunity to continue our Community Partner Program during 2025.
We have prayerfully established the following areas of focus for the 2025 Program:
 
Global/National
    • Conservation
    • Ecology/Environment
    • Opportunities for women/children globally
    • Vaccination and health education in the global community
Local/community
  • Human trafficking
  • Homelessness and its causes
  • Food Insecurity
  • Gun violence
  • Emerging ministry needs in our UMC sister churches
Physical/mental health
  • People with disabilities
  • Suicide prevention
  • Loneliness/Isolation
  • Addiction programs for addicts and families/friends of addicts
  • Health education
  • Conflict resolution classes
  • Crime among young people
  • General Safety
Online Application
Paper Application
 
 
 
Please note that if you fill out the online application, you are not required to fill out a paper application. However, you must e-mail some documents to outreach@umcvista.org. 
 
For our paper application, please send a copy along with the requested documents directly to outreach@umcvista.org 
When completing the attached application we offer these helpful notes:
 
  • Funding will be limited to $7,500.00 per application.
  • We highly recommend the United Methodist Church Social Principles be reviewed before submission. As a United Methodist Church, we follow the Social Principles including those pertaining to justice and inclusiveness. You can see those social principles here. 
  • Our congregation focuses funding on the personal impact a program will have. We advise including examples in your request.
 

For further information please contact Beth Brainerd Hallock at outreach@umcvista.org.