The United Evangelical Mission has 15 member churches in Asia. Twelve of them are in Indonesia, the others are in China, the Philippines and Sri Lanka.
The Regional Office of the UEM is in Medan, North Sumatra. The “Asia Regional Team” consists of the Regional Coordination in Medan and the Asia Desk of the UEM in Wuppertal.

The Regional Coordinator in Medan is primarily responsible for implementing the joint programme, which has been worked out by the Council members of the Asian member churches and decided upon by the Council. The Council members of the Asia Region meet twice a year.

The Area Secretaries in Wuppertal are responsible for keeping in touch with the individual member churches and maintaining contacts between the member churches and partnership groups in Germany. The Regional Coordinator, the Programme Secretary and the Youth Worker together with a secretary and one further member of staff make up the team in the Asia Regional Coordinator’s Office. In addition the Coordination has advisors in the following fields: HIV/Aids, Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation, and rebuilding projects after the tsunami.

The joint programmes of the region include:

• the training of pastors and church workers in pastoral counselling
• seminars on project management
• dialogue of women and youth with people of other faiths
• consultation on setting up a diaconal network
• a joint programme on democracy, human rights and peace together with the Lutheran World Federation and the EMS
• a seminar for unemployed youth on the setting up of self-employed business activities
• publication of the magazine “Mission Sparks” with information about the work of the Asia Region of the UEM

In addition the UEM supports the following fields of work in the member churches:

• the development of church services, Sunday schools, kindergarten, women’s work, men’s work, youth work, children’s groups, diaconal institutions
• the training of theologians and lay preachers
• micro-credit schemes and other socio-economic development projects, lobbying for human rights, sustainable agriculture
• commitment to gender justice, project management, further training of church workers and church leadership
• communication projects
• reconstruction work after the tsunami and emergency aid projects

Indonesia is marked by great cultural and religious diversity; Christians are a minority in Indonesia as in many parts of Asia. The religious and ethnic complexity of the country is reflected in the number of  different Protestant churches to be found in Indonesia.

As a special form of cooperation the Indonesian member churches of the UEM in Sumatra/Indonesia have founded SEKBER, a joint forum. In English translation SEKBER UEM stands for „Joint Forum of the Member Churches of the UEM“. For 2007 SEKBER has planned joint programmes in North Sumatra, such as pastoral counselling courses for pastors and church workers and seminars on project management.

The member church of the UEM in the Philippines is the United Church of Christ in the Philippines. It was founded in 1948 through the merger of various Protestant churches and has been working with the VEM since 1984.
The UEM supports the UCCP in their work for human rights, the training and further training of pastors, the promotion of women, and the inter-religious dialogue - particularly with Muslims on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao.

The Methodist Church in Sri Lanka (MC-SL) was founded in 1814. It has had links with the VEM since 1970. It plays an important role as mediator in the bloody conflict between the Sri Lanka government and the Tamil Rebels, the "Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam“ (LTTE), which has cost over 65,000 lives in over 20 years.
The MC-SL also plays an important role in emergency aid and was very important for the reconstruction work after the tsunami in 2004. The UEM supports the reconstruction aid and the evangelism programmes of the MC-SL.

The member church of the UEM in China is the Chinese Rhenish Church Hongkong (CRC), which was founded in 1847 through the activities of the Rhenish Mission Society – a  forerunner organisation of the VEM – and has been independent since 1914.
The UEM especially supports the work of the church for women from China and other countries, who have come to Hong Kong as home helps and often live and work under catastrophic conditions.

The UEM also works closely with the Amity Foundation in the People’s Republic of China, a non-government organisation active in village development work, in education, pastoral counselling and also in the field of AIDS prevention. The charitable foundation, which was founded in 1985 on the initiative of Chinese Christians, has received several awards for its commitment and excellent work in Chinese society.