FUMC has a Missions Council. The role of the Missions Council is to support missions initiative of the church and to encourage involvement of the congregation in missions.

We take seriously the mandate of Christ to address the needs and pains of hurting people. This we do in a variety of ways:

• Alternative Christmas - Throughout the year, but especially during the Advent season the Missions Council sponsors Alternative Christmas which is a way for individuals to support mission projects and programs in our community and around the world, in the name of a loved one. Share the SPIRIT of Christmas!
• Global concerns of this congregation are attended to through its contribution of nearly one-quarter million dollars annually for causes beyond the local church, including helping our denomination support over 850 missionaries in their various ministries around the world.
• Covenant Missionaries - We are supporting two couples in the mission field.
  Joseph and Lydia Templeton - innercity Los Angeles. They provide legal assistance for the disadavantaged, and Lydia directs the Children, Youth and Family Collaborative which provides mentoring and tutoring to youth in foster care.
  Eunice Arias and Luis Aramayo - church planting and nurturing in Guatemala. Eunice and Luis work with their local community as well as with surrounding churches. They can now reach even farther as they have a new vehicle provided, in part, through memorial fund monies from FUMC.
• Iware District of Nigeria Partnership - We continue to communicate and pray with and for our sister churches in the Iware District of Nigeria UMC. Communication is difficult but we continue to support them with prayer and with financing for preschool and elementary school.
• Gulf Coast Partnership - Since the devistation of the Gulf Coast due to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, FUMC has partnered with Bethany UMC in New Orleans to help rebuild facilities and ministries. In addition to this specific partnership, FUMC has sent several work teams that have not only worked at Bethany but at surrounding church and homes in the area doing much needed repair work and clearing.
• Upward Bound House - a housing development for senior adults and families in transition, is an outreach and mission program of this church. Family Place opened in the spring of 1997, and Senior Villa opened in the spring of 2000.
• Health Ministry - An experienced registered Health Ministry Nurse is on staff who utilizes her nursing and spiritual commitment in a healing ministry within the church community and who represents the church staff on the Health Ministry Council.
• Food Drives - We have four food drives each year. They benefit the Family Place Food Pantry, the Westside Food Bank and the Imani Unidos AIDS Project food bank of Faith UMC, Los Angeles.
• Big Sunday - Each May the Los Angeles area has a work day throughout the city and surrounding areas. FUMC is represented well each year and participation continues to increase.
• Community Thanksgiving - We participate in the feeding and grooming of the homeless and hungry on Thanksgiving Day. We promote and encourage our congregation to get involved with by donating/preparing food or assisting on-site.
• Holiday Tree Project - Each year FUMC supports a local group of children and families by providing them with Christmas gifts, often much needed practical items as well as toys and clothing.
• Camp Colby - is a United Methodist Camp located in the Angeles National Forest. Each year, groups of FUMC utilize the camp for retreats and we also send a group to help with clean-up in the early spring before campers arrive for the summer.
• The Social Concerns Council is a group within FUMC which helps to coordinate and encourage faith-based volunteerism in the realm of social concerns and social justice, and to promote education about and discussion of social issues.
• We support Nothing But Nets.