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September 28, 2005 Hurricane Relief Update -- Be the hopeEdited by Daniel R. Gangler, director of communication SOUTH INDIANA CONFERENCE OFFERS TWO VOLUNTEER IN MISSION WORKSHOPThe South Indiana Conference has scheduled two Volunteer in Mission Workshops (Oct. 11 and 13) for those planning to go to the Gulf States to help in relief clean-up efforts. The first VIM workshop will be held Tuesday, Oct. 11 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Centenary United Methodist Church, 14340 Old State Road in Evansville. If you plan to attend this workshop, please call the church office at 812-867-3920 so that ample materials are prepared for the workshop. This workshop will be led by the Rev. Randy Anderson, who has spent time in Gulfport with hurricane relief efforts earlier this month. The second VIM workshop will be held, Thursday, Oct. 13 at the Carmel United Methodist Church, 621 S Range Line Road. If you plan to attend this workshop, please call the church or Elsie Miller at the South Indiana Conference Center at 800-919-8160 so that ample materials are prepared for the workshop. Churches of South Indiana Conference, if you have been invited to take a mission work team South to help with relief efforts, please contact Elsie Miller at the Conference Center (emiller@sicumc.org or 800-919-8160) and inform her of your plans. For all churches planning to send VIM teams to the Gulf Coast, please send Elsie Miller a team list that includes names and addresses of volunteers, where specifically you are going, the dates of arrival and departure, and if there are spaces available for others wanting to volunteer to join your team. South Indiana Conference Hurricane Disaster Relief Contact information:
NORTH CONFERENCE TO HOLD VOLUNTEER IN MISSION SEMINAR OCT. 15The North Indiana Conference Volunteers in Mission will present a day-long seminar titled "W.O.W. 2005: Winning Our World through Volunteers in Mission" Saturday, Oct. 15 from 8:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Epworth Forest Conference Center in North Webster, Ind. Four breakout sessions include: Church growth in Ukraine, Florian Stecuich; Costa Rica missions, Charles Strong; Primetimers, Ruth Ellen Stone; Planning a mission trip in the U.S.A. (counts as two breakout sessions); Teach UM, Kathie Clemenz; Jamaica Mission Experience, Dewey Miller; Redbird/Henderson Settlement, Mike Wolff; Touching Romania, Jane White Stevens; Africa University Update, John Huie; Roatan Island mission, Nancy and Tom Reuille; NOMADS, Lynn Powers; Hopkins Park Project, Tim Delahaunty; RxConneXion, Penny Krug; Hispanic Mission projects, Oscar Ramos; Youth Mission trips; McCurdy School, Forrest Bowers; Fundraising ideas; and Operation Classroom, with Joe and Carolyn Wagner. Cost $10. For more information and registration, send to North Indiana Conference, WOW Registration, P O Box 869, Marion, IN 46952 or contact Bonnie Albert, NIC VIM coordinator at bonkay@hotmail.com or call 219-464-1447. GULF CONFERENCES ASK YOU TO CALL AHEAD IF YOU PLAN TO COME SOUTHIf your church wishes to take a team to Katrina affected areas, please call ahead before you plan your trip:
MISSISSIPPI IN DESPERATE NEED OF HELPSt. Paul UMC in Ocean Springs, Miss. desperately needs help. They are in need of like new blankets and bedding/pillows, paper towels, bleach, baby food and juice, mops and brooms. These items will be transported hopefully this Saturday by volunteers from the Bloomington District. Vincennes will be sending a work team October 23-29 to this same area. St. Mark's UMC in Bloomington will be collecting these items for Ocean Springs. Please get these items to the church by Friday. For more information, contact St. Mark's at 812-332-5788. SPEEDWAY UMC YOUTH TO ASSEMBLE FLOOD BUCKETS AT MALL CONCERTSpeedway UMC youth are offering a benefit concert this Sunday, Oct. 1, at the Speedway Shopping Mall on Crawfordsville Road. The hope is to attract shoppers and supply them with flood bucket materials. Shoppers will be encouraged to go to nearby Kroger, Dollar Tree, CVS to purchase supplies and bring them back to the concert while the youth assemble the buckets. Pray that this is effective. Associate Pastor Scott Tyring says it's been a lot of work trying to get the property management to support his event on their turf. DONATION NUMBERS ASSIGNED FOR HURRICANE RITA ADVANCE SPECIALDonations to support the United Methodist response to Hurricane Katrina can be made online at www.methodistrelief.org and by phone at 800-554-8583. Checks can be written to UMCOR, designated for "Hurricanes 2005-Katrina, Advance No. 982523," or "Hurricane Rita, Advance No. 901323," and left in church offering plates or mailed directly to UMCOR, P.O. Box 9068, New York, NY 10087-9068. Contributions may also be designated for a specific state affected by the hurricanes. HERE ARE DATES OF SOUTH INDIANA CHURCHES BOUND FOR THE GULF STATES
If your church has scheduled at trip and is not listed here, please contact Carolyn Ellis, South Indiana Conference VIM Coordinator, with dates and destination of the trip. Her phone numbers are 812-882-2716 and 812-890-7455. Thank you. LATEST INFORMATION FROM THE NORTH CENTRAL JURISDICTIONAL OFFICEFrom Lorna Jost, Administrator, UMVIM-NCJ, 928 4th Street, Office #2, Brookings, SD 57006, umvim-ncj@brookings.net, 605-692-3390; Fax 605-692-3391 Gulf Coast Conferences STORM CENTER TOLL-FREE PHONE NUMBERS NOW AVAILABLE
West New Orleans needs Volunteers NOW! From Kristin Sachen, UMCOR -- Louisiana is now are ready to accept 200 volunteers. If you can go NOW for clean up jobs, call the LA Call Center at 877-345-5193. There are 4 pastors looking for help and they have up to 200 beds and showers. PLEASE do not go without scheduling with the Call Center. Within 48 hours, they anticipate more openings in Slidell. Also, UMCOR Sager Brown needs good phone bank people (able to follow explicit instructions), warehouse workers. Important quality -- ability to follow instructions, and do not make up your own rules. There are leaders doing good jobs, but problems arise when volunteers think they know better. Call USB to schedule at 800-814-8765. Team players only. UMCOR Report: Find out how your dollars are already at work through UMCOR's latest Report to Donors of UMCOR Advance #982523, Hurricanes 2005: http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor/print/reporttodonors/KatrinaReporttoDonors.pdf. Regarding Medical Personnel - From the Louisiana Storm Center e-mail: the Louisiana Dept. of Health and Hospitals is coordinating all medical teams. I'm not sure if they require Red Cross training or not. Their contact information is: 225-763-5740, Physicians Direct Line: 225-763-5766, Lisa Deaton (contact person): 225-763-5770, www.helpthemnow.net VOLUNTEERS NEEDED IN GULFPORTThose churches and individuals interested in volunteering for relief work in Gulfport, Miss., please contact the Rev. Randy Anderson in Evansville. Anderson is coordinating Volunteer in Mission efforts with the Trinity United Methodist Church in Gulfport, Miss. Please call Anderson at 812-867-3920 or by e-mail at pastorrlanderson@aol.com. HURRICANE KATRINA RELIEF TEAM LEAVING NEXT WEEK FOR GULFPORTThe Rev. Mark Need of Columbia City, Ind. will be leading a Work Team to Gulfport, Miss. Oct. 2-8. This team will be doing heavy clean-up work and all participants must have current Tetanus shot. Cost is approximately $157 per person. Contact Mark for more information or to volunteer 260-244-7671 or mneed@ccumc.us INDY CHURCH FEDERATION SEEKS EIGHT VOLUNTEERS FOR HOUSTON PROJECTThe Church Federation of Greater Indianapolis announced a "Family-to-Family Volunteer" project being done in conjunction with the Interfaith Council of Houston, Texas. This is a three-month full-time volunteer program which promotes building relationships and support for displaced families now located in Houston, Texas with church families to help integrate these families into the Houston area communities and culture. According to the Rev. Angelique Walker-Smith, executive director of the Church Federation of Greater Indianapolis, the volunteers need excellent communication and organizational skills, strong faith-based background (teacher, mentor, pastor), and prior management experience in dealing with people of various economic and social backgrounds. For more information, contact the Church Federation of Greater Indianapolis at 317-926-5371. A NOTE FROM SUSAN HEITZMAN UPON RETURNING FROM KATRINA COUNTRYLillian, Steve and I just got back from Katrina. Actually, we were as far as the beach at Gulfport, Miss. where the eye of the storm came through -- thus Katrina (means purity) made landfall twice there. We went with a South Indiana Conference Volunteers in Mission team. We worked with the United Methodist Committee on Relief. The leader of our team was the Rev. Jim Byerly of Scipio UMC. One important thing was that Rose Acres Farms donated 60 dozen eggs that we took down in coolers supplied by Kiwanis and iced by the Amick family. The eggs were mostly used to feed workers who were tearing out drywall in wind-driven rain-damaged houses of Gulfport. However, a little lady, whose house was still underwater, came to the church for food and was thrilled when we gave her eggs. She could not eat the heavier meals fixed by Red Cross or the church. She got sick, probably from sucking ice made with bad water, while she was waiting in line to get gas in the extreme heat. She knew she needed protein, and she cried with joy when we gave her the eggs. ONLINE RESOURCES FROM THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHFor online hurricane relief resources, information, worship and prayer aids, contact information and online links in The United Methodist Church , log on to http://archives.umc.org/interior.asp?mid=9888 Get UMCOR updates online at www.umcor.org # # # If you know someone who has yet to sign up for e-HUM, they simply need to send a blank e-mail from their preferred e-mail account to add@inareaumc.org. e-HUM Alert copyright 2005 by Indiana Area United Methodist Communications. |
