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For Mission Monday May 12, 2008
This newsletter is paid for through your annual conference connectional ministries giving.
Edited by Daniel R. Gangler, director of communication dgangler@inareaumc.org.
DEATH NOTICES
IRENE TAUBER, widow of the Rev. Karl P. Tauber (NIC), died Sunday, May 11, 2008. Visitation will be held Tuesday, May 13, from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. at Mater Funeral Home, 52780 M40, Marcellus, MI (269-646-2144). A memorial service is scheduled for Wednesday, May 14 at 11 a.m. at the Marcellus UMC, 197 W. Main St., Marcellus, MI (269-646-5801).
Survivors include: Three daughters, Pat Peircey, Ark.; Sharon Zurbrigg, Ajax, Ontario, Canada; and Karel Woerner, Lafayette, Ind. Condolences can be sent to Ruth Cobb, P.O. Box 50, Marcellus, MI 49067. Memorials can be given to the Marcellus UMC.
PATRICK L. FULBRIGHT, retired pastor (NIC), died Sunday, May 11, 2008. Visitation will be held Wednesday, May 14 from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the McCombs & Sons Funeral Home, 4017 Maplecrest Rd., Ft. Wayne, IN (260-426-9494). A memorial service is scheduled for Thursday, May 15 at 2 p.m. with visitation from Noon to 2 p.m. at the St. Joseph UMC, 6004 Reed Rd., Ft. Wayne, IN (260-485-9681). Survivors include: His wife, Sherry (Fort Wayne District UMC Administrative Assistant), 4612 Bradwood Terrace, Ft. Wayne, IN 46815.
FOR THE LATEST IN DISASTER NEWS
AND RECOVERY LOG ON TO
www.disasternews.net and
www.gbgm-umc.org/umcor
THIS WEEK’S EVENTS
MISSION TO CUBA HAS AN OPENING FOR MAY 17-28 TRIP
- Please contact Neil Vander Linden (ngvl@charter.net – 864-859-3652)) for further information.
MISSION NEWS
MORE THAN 20 KILLED IN TORNADO OUTBREAK
More than 20 people were killed Saturday evening as a strong line of severe storms and tornadoes rushed across the mid-South, destroying and damaging hundreds homes and leaving a wide path of destruction in its wake. Some of the worst damage and most of the deaths were reported in northeastern Oklahoma and southwestern Missouri. It was the deadliest tornado outbreak in Oklahoma since May 3, 1999 when 44 people were killed in that state.
In Picher, a confirmed EF 3 tornado ripped through a 20 square block of town, killing at least six residents but many were still missing and many more are injured. While ‘night sun’ lights were brought in once darkness fell over the town near the Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas border, and searching was expected to continue all night, the true picture probably won't be known until later in the day Sunday. The National Guard has been called out in order to secure the perimeters of the damage areas. At least 10 people died in southwestern Missouri after the storms plowed through, Susie Stonner, a spokesman for the Missouri Department of Emergency Management, reported. Most of the deaths and injuries occurred along the Interstate 44 corridor that connects Oklahoma with the St. Louis, Mo. area.
Severe storms also hit near Stuttgart, Ark., where emergency responders said the storms damaged a number of homes and businesses. Several people were reported to be trapped in the rubble Saturday night.
Sunday morning, damaging tornadoes were reported in Georgia.
More information will be sent through e-HUM as reports are received. For more information, log on to www.diasternews.net. – Disaster News Network
UMCOR STARTS RESPONSE TO MYANMAR CYCLONE
As the death toll rises in Myanmar, the United Methodist Committee on Relief is planning its response to the devastating cyclone in Southeast Asia. As of May 7, more than 22,000 were presumed dead from the cyclone, which struck May 3 and wiped out entire villages. Another 41,000 people are missing, according to Myanmar’s state-run media. A U.S. diplomat based in Myanmar said the death toll could exceed 100,000, with another 70,000 missing. UMCOR is working on relief efforts with its partner Church World Service and has established UMCOR Advance No. 3019674, Myanmar emergency, for donations. Donations can be made online at http://new.gbgm-umc.org/umcor/. Checks also can be dropped in church offering plates or mailed directly to UMCOR, PO Box 9068, New York, NY 10087-9068. Credit card donations are accepted by phone at (800) 554-8583. – UMNS
MYANMAR CYCLONE BLOG
This is a place for you to offer prayers, litanies, hopes, and other forms of intercession… with all who are suffering, all who are seeking to help, and all who may stand in the way. http://blogs.gbod.org/myanmar -- General Board of Discipleship
NORTH INDIANA CONFERENCE MISSIONS SAYS THANKS FOR FLOOD BUCKETS
The North Indiana Conference Mission Committee thanks all those who responded to a plea for flood buckets earlier this year. In early January North Indiana experienced flooding in the Lafayette District, Delphi, Monticello, and Remington communities. The pastors in this area were quick to requested 300 flood buckets to be brought over from Midwest Mission Distribution Center in Chatham Ill., a regional depot for UMCOR, as well as flood buckets from the Evansville District in the South Indiana Conference. In addition 200 Health Kits were also supplied by MMDC.
In February the North Indiana Conference Missions Committee put a plea for churches to assemble flood buckets in hopes of replacing those they had sent us after the flooding.
Churches all across northern Indiana responded to this call and filled buckets. Churches like Trinity UMC, Bluffton First UMC, and many others in the Huntington District assembled 80 flood buckets. At the same time churches in the Lafayette and Logansport areas were filling flood buckets to more than 100 flood buckets. On April 1, Midwest Distribution Center picked up the flood buckets collected at Bluffton First UMC and at the Monticello UMC.
Other churches continue to assemble Flood Buckets to help with disaster relief. North Scipo, Columbia City, and the Huntington District Missions Fair assembled a total of 86 additional flood buckets. A week hardly goes by that we do not hear of a natural disaster happening somewhere in America or the world. We can be thankful that we are a part of a church and organization like UMCOR that responds to the needs of the world. – NIC Missions Committee
MOHAWK CHURCH DEVELOPS RELATIONSHIP WITH CAMP MONETO
Pastor Greg Pimlott of the Mohawk UMC in the Indy East District says his congregation is developing an exciting relationship with Camp Moneto, a South Indiana Conference camp near Nashville, Ind. For several years in a row, the Mohawk youth have gone to Moneto for a winter retreat. This past fall their youth went for a work weekend to Moneto and repainted the main lodge. Pimlott said volunteers from Mohawk went this past Saturday to do some landscaping around the lodge and cabins. Last time they went, several of the youth who attended the retreat returned as volunteers on the work weekend. Facility Director Denny Flaherty at Moneto said one of the biggest things the camp needs now is labor, but that very few churches have contacted him about coming to work. Pimlott said, “It’s really exciting to watch the folks that go down come back fired up about Camp Moneto and about mission work, too.” -- Mohawk UMC
TWO NEW DISASTER RESPONSE EXECUTIVES JOIN UMCOR
Two new staff members joined the United Methodist Committee on Relief based in New York City in April. Melissa Crutchfield is a staff executive for international disaster response, and Sandra Kennedy-Owes is executive secretary for domestic disaster response. A lifelong United Methodist, Crutchfield most recently worked for Aurora Associates International, where she specialized in capacity building through education for women and in education for refugees. Kennedy-Owes, who will be based in Mobile, Ala., has worked in the disaster response field for more than 25 years, most recently with the Alabama West Florida Conference Disaster Recovery Ministry. She is a member of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. – UMNS
RELIEF AGENCY ISSUES 100-TON CHALLENGE
The United Methodist Committee on Relief is challenging United Methodists to help farmers earn fair prices for their crops by participating in UMCOR’s 100-Ton Challenge. The 12-month campaign encourages United Methodists to help increase the amount of fairly traded coffee, tea, chocolate and snacks purchased through The UMCOR Coffee Project and its partner Equal Exchange, a 100 percent fair trade, worker-owned cooperative. UMCOR’s 100-Ton Challenge will begin May 10 in observance of World Fair Trade Day and will end on May 9, 2009. The goal is to increase awareness about fair trade in United Methodist churches everywhere and leverage fairly traded products to help promote better lives for farmers in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the United States. To order, call Equal Exchange at 774-776-7400 or go online at www.equalexchange.com/. For more information, visit http://new.gbgm-umc.org/umcor/. – UMNS
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE RELIEF COORDINATOR TO ARRIVE IN MYANMAR
A coordinator for Church World Service from New York City is expected to arrive in Myanmar on May 9 to begin preparations for cyclone relief efforts there. The United Methodist Committee on Relief is partnering with CWS on emergency relief for the nearly 1 million people estimated to be left homeless after Cyclone Nargis struck the Southeast Asia nation on May 3. Up to 100,000 people may have died, and tens of thousands are missing. According to news reports, the first seven tons of U.N. relief supplies arrived in Myanmar by air on May 8, and U.S. officials said they appeared to be close to an agreement with the military government there to send in aid. Priority needs have been identified as food, plastic sheeting, water purification tablets, basic medical kits and bed nets. UMCOR has contributed to the CWS fundraising appeal, which raised more than $50,000 in less than a day and has been expanded. – UMNS
TEENS HELP HOMELESS WITH FASHION SHOW
At first glance, they appear to have little in common—students modeling the latest fashions and, just a few miles away, dozens of homeless men and women walking the streets. But the youth group from Centenary United Methodist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C. is raising money for the Love Thy Neighbor ministry, which holds block parties for the homeless. “We began calling it Love Thy Neighbor out of the Matthew passage that says, ‘love your neighbor as yourself,’” explains Lisa Waugh, 18, a high school senior in charge of the second annual Friends for Fashion show held at a local country club. The shows raise about $10,000 a year for the outreach. – UMNS
ALLOW FOREIGN CLERGY AT OLYMPICS, HONG KONG LEADER SAYS
A Hong Kong Christian leader says Chinese authorities should allow foreign Protestant clergy and faithful to serve as volunteer chaplains at the Olympic Village, to ensure the quality of the August games in Beijing, according to Ecumenical News International. “We have applied to send (Protestant) foreigners to serve as chaplains at the Olympic Village, but until now there has been no positive response. We believe they may have turned down our proposal,” Johnny Yiu Yuk Hing said on May 5. He spoke after a prayer meeting for the Olympic Games six days earlier, the day the Olympic torch arrived in Hong Kong.
“At the last Olympic Games (in Athens), there were about 30 Protestant chaplains from different countries to serve, but we understand there are no foreign volunteers being admitted at the Beijing Olympics in August,” the general secretary of the Hong Kong Sports Ministry Coalition said. “Until now, there have been only three local Chinese admitted as chaplains.” – UMNS
NEWLY LISTED MISSION OPPORTUNITIES
CWS IN INDIANA NEEDS ASSEMBLERS, ITEMS FOR SCHOOL KITS
Church World Service in Indiana, based in Indianapolis, needs volunteers to assemble 3,000 CWS School Kits. Volunteers are needed from Friday, May 9 through Thursday, May 22 – weekdays from 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturdays 9 a.m.-Noon and Wednesdays to 7 p.m. The kits are being assembled at the A. Arnold Relocation warehouse at 5220 West 76th Street in Indianapolis, just east 71st Street exit off I-465 on the city’s northwest side.
A few tasks can be performed seated, but most require standing and walking. Children and youth are welcomed if they bring adult help with them. Light snacks and drinks will be provided. No food facilities are on site, but all-day volunteers are welcomed to bring sack lunch or eat at nearby restaurants.
Kit contents still needed include: blunt children’s scissors, spiral or cloth bound pads of paper (70 page count preferred) and money for the processing fund. These items can be shipped or delivered. If shipping, use UPS or similar delivery service. Items should be sent to: A. Arnold Relocation, CWS Kits Project, 5220 W. 76th St., Indianapolis, IN 46268. Delivery can be made through May 12, Monday – Friday from 9 a.m-4 p.m.
For more information call 317-923-2938 (in the Indianapolis calling area) or toll-free 888-297-2767. For a pamphlet with more information, log on to www.cwscrop.org/indianakentucky/pdf-files/2008SchoolKitDeliveryInstructions.pdf.
MISSION TEAM NEEDS VOLUNTEERS FOR HAITI SOLAR OVEN PROJECT
Summer 2008 – Haiti Solar Oven Project UMVIM Team
Have you been considering joining one of our solar oven mission teams to Haiti? We make every effort to field three United Methodist Volunteers In Mission teams per year with up to 12 volunteers per team. Requests also are starting to come from churches and conferences that wish to send out an entire team, rather than the usual one or a few persons from the same place. The immediate need for volunteers is this summer with our next trip July 1 through July 14. We are seeking a full contingent of volunteers. If you have you been contemplating a mission to Haiti, now might be the perfect opportunity! Don’t hesitate to call or write with questions. Interest does not imply obligation and, unless you’ve already participated on a previous team with this project, you are bound to have questions. Contact Rick Jost at 605-692-3391 or e-mail rjost@brookings.net.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO TEACH ENGLISH TO POLISH YOUTH
Poland needs volunteers in mission to teach English to Polish Youth A few spaces have become available on a team that will be teaching English to Polish youth this summer, July 3-21. The team will be helping Polish youth improve their English skills at a camp in southern Poland. Both youth and adults can apply. Becky Jenkins will be leading her sixth team. She can be contacted at Midland (Michigan) First United Methodist Church at 989-835-6797 or by e-mail at bjenkins@fumcmid.org. – NCJ VIM
REMINDER
NORTH INDIANA CONFERENCE TO HOST TEACH UM FAIR AT GARY JUNE 14-19
The North Indiana Conference UMVIM network in conjunction with the Marquette Park UMC, Gary, Ind., the teachUM steering committee of UMVIM-North Central Jurisdiction and the General Board of Global Ministries are pleased to hold a very special teachUM Fair at the Marquette Park UMC on June 14-19, 2008. Members from each of the participating groups will lead workshops on topics targeted towards volunteers from the education and teaching fields. Marquette Park has offered its facilities and volunteers to host the event and as an outreach of this Fair, event participants will conduct a Vacation Bible School for three evenings at the nearby Hispanic Community of Lake Station.
The event is billed as a way to increase your comfort level in cross cultural teaching experiences
Special guests include:
- UNA JONES, Executive Secretary Mission Leaders, UMW, General Board of Global Ministries, NY
- REV. DIONISIO SALAZAR, Asst. General Secretary Hispanic/Latino Ministries, General Board of Global Ministries, NY
- BETH FERRELL, RN, Mission Interpreter in Residence for the North Central Jurisdiction, IL
- NANCY EUBANKS, General Board of Global Ministries Consultant for Individual Volunteers, TN
- GINA RIENDEAU, North Indiana Conference Staff for Missions and current Individual Volunteer in Zambia
- JOE AND CAROLYN WAGNER, directors of Operation Classroom and Operation Doctor, IN
- REV. ANTHONY DIOH, education secretary of UMC in Liberia
- BONNIE ALBERT, UMVIM Coordinator for North Indiana Conference.
Please write umvim-ncj@brookings.net for the registration form with schedule details and a flyer. Consider joining us and helping disseminate this information to persons that you think might benefit and be interested in these workshop topics.
PREVIOUSLY LISTED MISSION OPPORTUNITIES
OPERATION CLASSROOM NEEDS YOUR HELP FOR SCHOOLS IN AFRICA
Operation Classroom will have a yellow truck on the north side of the Elliot Hall of Music at Purdue University in West Lafayette for loading your ingathering supplies during the North Indiana Conference session. Plan to be a part of the ingathering of supplies and materials needed for Operation Classroom schools in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Here is what is needed:
- For HOME ECONOMICS (Sewing-Tailoring) – Sewing and tailoring supplies, embroidery supplies and Crochet supplies, cloth remnants.
- Cooking supplies – Measuring cups, measuring spoons, cooking spoons and ladles, cookie cutters, spatulas, rolling pins.
- For children: Children’s multi-vitamins, children’s Tylenol, Cream of Wheat, Enfamil and Similac
- 1,000 needed – 1 toothbrush (single brushes only in original wrapper, 1 large tube of toothpaste (4.5 oz or larger, expiration date must be 6 months or longer), bath-size bar of soap small bath towel
- For schools – copy paper, soccer balls, tennis shoes (can be used, if in good condition) YES and ET KITS, notebooks, solar calculators and other school supplies.
- Choir and pulpit robes, communion ware, United Methodist Hymnals, 1964 edition of the Book of Worship.
- OC recently was able to purchase more than 24,000 boxes of chalk for 30 cents a box so this need as been taken care of.
CAMP COUNSELORS NEEDED FOR ELEMENTARY CAMP JUNE 15-20
Ted Jansen, pastor at First UMC in Auburn, is a Co-Director of an Elementary Camp this June 15-20 at Camp Lakewood. He needs guys and gals who would be willing to serve as counselors. They must be 18 years or older and willing to enjoy the outdoor setting as a way of sharing their faith with children 3rd grade through sixth grade.
If you know of any contacts who would be interested in getting some more information please contact me at tedj@mchsi.com or at the office at 260-925-0885. He will make the follow-up calls to the contacts you give him. He appreciates any and all publicity and contact information you can give this great camp.
MISSION OPPORTUNITIES REMINDERS
More information about these opportunities as well as a listing of ongoing projects and contact information can be seen at www.inareaumc.org/general_info/mission_opportunities_listings.htm, which has all the details for these opportunities.
BOOKS OF WORSHIP NEEDED IN SIERRA LEONE
- Requests for the 1964 Book of Worship
- Send it to Joe Wagner, Operation Classroom, Inc., PO Box 246, Colfax, IN 46035, call 765-436-2805, e-mail ocmisson@frontiernet.net or Web site www.operationclassroom.org.
FIRST YEAR MEDICAL RESIDENT SEEKS INTERNSHIP IN AFRICA
- Contact Annetta, at netta365@hotmail.com.
PENNIES FOR PEACE MISSION PROJECT IDEA FOR THIS SUMMER’S VBS
- For more information, contact Operation Classroom at ocmisson@frontiernet.net or log on to www.operationclassroom.org
POTATOES FOR VACATION
- For more information and to order the material, go to www.endhunger.org
SEWING MACHINES NEEDED IN SIERRA LEONE
- For more information, call the Bloomington District office at 800-919-8161 or 812-339-1445.
UMCOR’S SAGER BROWN DEPOT NEEDS HELP WITH KITS
- For more information, log on to www.umcor.org and click on “Help Sager Brown Deliver Kits of Hope.”
UNITED METHODIST VOLUNTEER IN MISSION TEAMS NEEDED IN MEXICO
- Contact information: Jerry Hill jerry.hill@bsumc.com or call 864-320-3165
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION AT CENTERVILLE, IOWA
- Contact the church office at 641-856-3862 or the Trustees Chair at 641-895-0381.
SOUTH INDIANA CONFERENCE UPCOMING MISSION TRIPS
- June 2008
- Harrodsburg UMC to Henderson Settlement, Ky.
- Youth District Mission Trip Location TBA
- July 2008
- July 12-19 – Mooresville First UMC to Calnali,, Mexico
- Summer 2008
- Bedford First UMC to Louisiana
- South Indiana Native American Mission Trips
- September 2008
- Sept. 20-27 – Ames Chapel UMC to John’s Island, S.C.
- Sept. 22-29 – Mooresville First UMC to Henderson Settlement, Ky.
MISSION OPPORTUNITY – TRAVEL TO MEXICO WITH COLUMBUS D.S.
- June 14-21
- For more information including a brochure visit the Columbus District Web site www.coumc.org or e-mail Brian White.
OPERATION 2008 CLASSROOM TEAMS
- To Sierra Leone
- June 18 to July 9 Sierra Leone – Bo Centenary School, Kay Hess, team leader, hess100@juno.com
- To Liberia
- June 24 to July 11 – Liberia – Tubman-Gray School, Ken and Kitty Decker, team leaders, ken.decker@prodigy.net or kitty.decker@prodigy.net
- October 9 to 28 – Liberia – W.P.L. Brumskine School, Lamar and Kay Ziegler, team leaders, lamar@rnthompson.com
OPERATION CLASSROOM SCHEDULES MORE WORK TEAMS THIS YEAR
- Bo Centenary School – June 19-July 11. For more information contact Kay Hess at: hess100@juno.com.
- Itabuna Methodist Church, Brazil – June 27- July 11. For more information, contact Carolyn Wagner.
- Henderson Settlement – July 20-26. Applications are due March 12. For more information contact Anne at annekumeh@aol.com
- W.PL. Brumskine UM School – Oct. 4-19. Kay and Lamar Zeigler are the team leaders. Contact the OC office or Tom at ttillett@ralis.com or more information.
PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIOLOGIST NEEDED FOR LIBERIAN VIM TRIP
- June 19-July 5
- Cost is $3,500
- Contact: Team Leader, Julie Warren, steadleaze@charter.net or call 817-453-2682 or 817-975-9216.
INDY WEST PACKING PARTY CHANGE
- From May 18 to June 21 from 9-11:30 a.m. at Avon UMC, 6850 E. US 36, Avon, 46123.
MINNESOTA MEDICAL MISSIONS TO SIERRA-LEONE NEEDS PHYSICIAN
- June 26-July 8, 2008
- September 27-October 7, 2008
- For further information please contact Doris Acton, RN at doris.acton@nhylandsumc.org or at 952-835-7585.
MISSOURI CONFERENCE SPONSORING HEALTH VIM TRIP TO MOZAMBIQUE
- Late June through early July, 2008, sponsored by the Missouri UM Conference
- For more information, call Tom Mitchell if you have questions or want more information. Phone 314-725-4003 or e-mail TomM8132@aol.com.
NORTH INDIANA SCHOOL OF CHRISTIAN MISSION
- Drive-In Day is Wed., July 9
- School is Wed. evening, July 9 through July 12
- Registration deadline is June 30
- Classes:
- I Believe in Jesus--Leader Rev. Dr. Derek Weber
- Giving Our Hearts Away: Native American Survival--Leaders Susan Jennys, Rev. Evelyn Taylor-Haney, Rev. Jon Walters, and La Donna Weber
- Israel-Palestine--Leaders Rev. Dr. James Dwyer, Robert Epps, Dona Lou Imler, and Nancy Myers
- Yo-Pe-Mi-Ca (youth)--Leader Rev. Jeaninne Walker
- Chi-Mi-Ca(children)--Leaders Mary Margaret Willbanks and Joan Schell
- Further information can be found on the following web site: www.gbgm-umc.org/nicumw/scminformation.html
OPERATION UTAH INVITES VOLUNTEERS TO UTAH MISSION TO NAVAJOS
- July 9-21
- For more information, contact Scott or Anita Pattison by phone at 260-347-0056 church or 260-347-3621 home or e-mail them at gspattison@sbcglobal.net
KOKOMO CHURCH INVITES OTHERS TO UTE INDIANA NATION VIM TRIP
- July 17-July 29
- If you are interested in finding out more information about this opportunity call the cell number below. I look forward to hearing from you! Seeking God’s Horizon, Paul Rogers, cell phone: 765-863-0127.
SMITH VALLEY UMC MISSION OPPORTUNITY AVAILABLE
- Cartagenta, Colombia, South America
- July 19-26
- Contact Pastor Joe for more details at 317-432-6706
SOUTH INDIANA SCHOOL OF CHRISTIAN MISSION SCHEDULED FOR JULY
- July 26-Super Saturday Session
- July 27-30 Weekday School.
- For more information check out the “Southwind” newsletter by logging onto: www.gbgm-umc.org/sicumw/
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR GULF PORT HURRICANE RECOVERY IN AUGUST
- Gulf Port, Miss., Aug. 9-17
- Contact Peg and Arley Ellingson, 203 S. 1st Ave Hinton, IA 51024, phone: 712-947-4551(h), 712-947-4553 (o), 712-203-8068 (c) or e-mail: pellingson@usa.net.
MARION CHURCH INVITES VOLUNTEERS TO JOIN IN BUILDING HOME
- Mt. Olive UMC in Marion will be hosting Crossroads Missions who will be presenting Help Build Hope, a worship and community building, while constructing a home, experience August 22-23, 2008
- If you are interested in helping, please contact Joy Wickline at 765-661-8761.
MADISON CHURCH PLANS MISSION TRIP TO ENGLAND IN SEPTEMBER
- Sept. 22 through Oct. 1
- For more information, call Debi Partridge at 812-273-4601 or email her at partridge2@verizon.net. The price for this trip is $3,000 and the team is almost full.
DETROIT CONFERENCE VIM TEAM PLANS TRIP TO HAITI FOR NOV. 7-14
- Nov 7-14
- Contact Curtis Bartz, 313- 278-4849 or jbartz@mich.com for information and an application.
TWO MISSION DISCOVERY OPTIONS AVAILABLE FOR CHRISTMAS BREAK
- Spice Island, Grenada
- Dec. 26 to January 6, 2009
- Cost is $1,600
- Application deadline: Aug.1
- Contact Beverly Nolte, bnmedical@aol.com, (515-237-8544)
- Curacautin, Chile
- Jan. 9-19, 2009
- Contact Oscar and Joyce Carassco, ocarrasc@umcnic.org, (847-931-0710 X 10)
- For application and more information on both of these teams, log on to www.gbgm-umc.org/northcentralvim/mission_discovery.html or write to umvim-ncj@brookings.net.
WARSAW DISTRICT PLANS 2009 MISSION TRIP TO LIBERIA
- Jan. 10 through 24, 2009
- If you are interested, call the Warsaw District Office at 800-783-6111.
Compiled as a service of Indiana Area United Methodist Communication in Indianapolis.
Last updated on 05/12/2008