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Missionary News -- May 2001
By Hope Barnes
BINOCULARS …
Really, I feel like I have just returned home with a pair of binoculars, through which I viewed missions in the Muncie District.
I am a member of our District Committee on Global Ministries. What a privilege. Each year at our April meeting, we spend the day doing our district Advance Special Visitation and in early fall we visit our Muncie ministries that receive support from the Conference.
This past Monday morning, at a very early hour, ten members from various churches over the district gathered at Gethsemane Church for devotions, and directions for our day's tight schedule. Then we parted. Half drove to Portland to visit four sights which had been suggested to us as new ministries to recommend to the Conference for Advance Special status. The other half visited locations in Muncie. We all met back in Muncie and had lunch together at the Muncie Mission. In the afternoon, we returned to Gethsemane Church to finish our business under the leadership Chairperson Audra Piner.
It is one thing for me to drive up and down the streets of Muncie on an ordinary day, rushing to the post office, library or bank, hardly noticing nearby sights. It's quite another story to slowly walk up the steps and inside the Muncie Mission to observe its routine; to visit its Attic Window and the old Apartment House which the mission is transforming into a transitional home called Potter House; to talk with those inside Cambridge House; to see the sleeping room and food pantry at Christian Ministries.
Yes, I came home Monday night feeling as though I had viewed it all with my binoculars. Actually, God's binoculars, which gave it a different perspective. I highly recommend this process to other districts, if you haven't been following this routine.
MIKE AND SHIRLEY DOMINICK …
Newsletter editors for Ken and Debbie Vance, have sent out a letter in regard to helping the Vances with their plans to return to Africa after their extended medical leave and home assignment. Persons wishing to help may make donations to the Marion Mission Storehouse, P.O. Box 38, Marion, Ind. 46952 (an Advance Special) or North Indiana Conference UMC, P.O. Box 869, Marion, Ind. 46952.
LOWELL AND CLAUDIA WERTZ …
Missionaries in Tanzania Africa, wrote in March that daughter, Kimberly, had been seriously ill with both malaria and typhoid fever. What could have been tragedy was avoided due to the self-sacrificing and dedicated work of two American missionary doctors from the Baptist Mission Hospital in Kigoma. With good medicine and prayer Kimberly was soon better.
Lowell wrote, "No words can describe what it meant to us. We are reminded how God uses people. We owe so much to these missionary doctors, their staff, and the Christians who support their work! May God bless every person supporting missionaries committed to sharing and showing Christ's love."
In an April 5 e-mail, Lowell wrote that his family was in South Africa for a month to rest and to visit doctors.
ANN GIRTON …
Coordinator of Operation Classroom and VIM in Liberia, recently returned to the States. She will be here until mid June and will speak at OperationClassroom breakfasts at both Indiana annual conferences.
JAMES H. SALLEY …
Associate Vice-Chancellor for Institutional Advancement for Africa University, continues to amaze me as I follow his footsteps in the many A.U. periodicals I read. He works on two continents at once, from both his office at A. U. and his office in Nashville, Tenn. at the Board of Higher Education and Ministry.
I was first impressed with his numerous talents when I met him at A.U. two years ago, and then again that same year when I heard him speak at Annual Conference. With energy and creativity, Mr. Salley is continually setting up programs and meeting people to see those programs carried through. In the most recent A.U. periodical arriving in my mail, James Salley's enthusiasm surfaced between the lines. Because of my interest, I read on and learned about A.U.'s Honorary Alumni Association.
Honorary members can be added by sending an annual membership gift of $50, or a lifetime membership of $500. With the investment Indiana United Methodists have made in the school, and the enthusiasm we feel about the response from grateful students, of course, many from Indiana will want to become Honorary AU alumni members.
Last updated January 14, 2004