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December 1, 2006
MISSION NEWS OF
SOUTH INDIANA CONFERENCE
Edited by Elsie Miller
World AIDS Day is Friday, December 1
World AIDS Day is Friday, Dec. 1. You can help spread awareness about
a disease that affects 40 million people world-wide and how United
Methodists are responding by having an AIDS Day Awareness Sunday.
Information and resources are available at UMCOR’s World AIDS Day 2006
web page http://new.gbgm-umc.org/umcor/newsroom/hotline/#aids. Please
also consider giving to the United Methodist Global AIDS Fund, UMCOR
Advance #982345, as a way to observe this important day. – UMCOR Hotline
Volunteer Help Needed at Baker Chapel UMC in DeGonia Springs,
Indiana
Volunteers are needed to help hang drywall. If you have a strong back
and are willing to help out for a day or two, please contact Elsie
Miller at South Indiana Conference Center, 800-919-8160, ext. 221 or
emiller@sicumc.org.
Volunteers are being scheduled into April 2007. If you would like to
check if a specific work day or week is available for your mission team,
please contact Elsie. Updates and volunteer registration forms may be
found at the Indiana Area UMC Web site at
www.inareaumc.org, and at the
Baker Chapel UMC Web site at
www.bakerchapel.org.
If you would like to help fund this project, please send your gifts
to South Indiana Conference, P.O. Box 2267, Bloomington, IN 47402-2267,
note on the memo line – Baker Chapel Rebuilding Fund. One-hundred
percent of your donation will be used for the Baker Chapel United
Methodist Church and are tax deductible.
The UM Youth Home in Evansville Awarded the IYI Compassion Award
The United Methodist Youth Home in Evansville, Ind. was one of 22
community and faith-based nonprofits to win the Indiana Youth
Institute’s (IYI) Compassion Capital Fund Award. As a winner, the Youth
Home will receive up to 120 hours of coaching and technical assistance
from IYI. At the end of the coaching period, the Youth Home will be
eligible to receive a financial award of more than $20,000 to expand
programming for young people.
The Youth Home is currently serving 19 young women and 3 babies. If
you would like to help make this a special Christmas for the residents,
please visit the Youth Home’s Web site at
www.umyh.com or call 812-479-7535.
Literacy Tutors Needed at Fletcher Place Community Center
Fletcher Place Community Center, a mission outreach of the United
Methodist Church, is in need of literacy tutors. Located at the corner
of State and Prospect Streets in Indianapolis, Fletcher Place serves
their community through literacy programs, emergency aid (hot meals,
food pantry, free clothing store), a preschool, life skills, computer
skills, job retention workshops, a library for children, and a summer
program for young children. For those interested in being a literacy
tutor or supporting their other programs, please call 317-636-3466 or
visit the Fletcher Place Web site at
www.fletcherplacecc.org.
Generators Are Needed at Sager Brown Depot
The UMCOR Sager Brown relief supply depot distributes millions of
dollars of emergency supplies, clean-up tools (including generators),
and basic necessities to displaced persons, storm survivors and
volunteers all over the world. According to Charles Maddox, director of
Sager Brown, at one time the depot had 20 generators available to loan
out. Supplies have been depleted over the last two years and now the
supply of generators has run out.
“Churches can donate a generator or the money to buy one,” said
Charles Maddox, Sager Brown director. “We need to let our connection
know that major disasters like Hurricane Katrina exhaust our resources
and they need to be replenished.” Sager Brown needs 5000-watt,
gas-powered generators. Maddox estimates that they cost between $500 and
$800 each. You can give cash gift for a generator through UMCOR Advance
#901440, Material Resource Ministry/Generator.
Other supply needs at UMCOR Sager Brown are sewing kits, flood
buckets, bedding (new and in its original packaging), school bags and
layette kits. Information about what’s in a kit, the value of a kit, and
how to process and ship can be found on the Sager Brown Web site,
www.sagerbrown.org (click on Top
Supply Needs).
Louisiana UM Disaster Recovery Ministry offering Partnering with
Churches
The Louisiana Church Partnering Program provides churches throughout
the country the opportunity to develop an individual relationship with a
church or church group that was affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Through this program, churches are “partnered” to provide assistance in
a variety of ways. It is the hope that these partnerships will forge
deep and lasting relationships that will benefit both groups. For more
information, please visit the Louisiana Storm Relief Web site,
www.laumcstormrelief.com,
or by contacting Kathy Masey at the Disaster Recovery Ministry office at
225-346-5193 or by e-mail at
stormrelief7@bellsouth.net.
420,000 Volunteer Hours Recorded at Trinity UMC in Gulfport,
Mississippi
According to Katrina Relief Coordinator Courtney Allen at Trinity UMC
in Gulfport, Miss., since Hurricane Katrina, volunteers from across the
country have logged almost 420,000 hours. What began as a clean-up
effort has now transitioned into rebuilding. Volunteer labor is needed
for installing new insulation and sheetrock as well as painting in homes
damaged by the storm. Further into the rebuilding process, volunteers
skilled in plumbing, electrical and finish carpentry work will be
needed. For more information, please contact Courtney at
callen@trinityumc.com or at
228-863-2717, ext. 21.
Thank yous to the following Indiana area United Methodist Churches
are noted on Courtney’s Web site: Old North UMC, Central Barren UMC, Mt.
Vernon First UMC, Ft. Wayne Hope UMC, Southport UMC, Crown Point First
UMC, Crown Point Aldersgate UMC, Morgantown UMC, New Haven UMC, and
Randy Anderson and Team.
Request from Missouri for Tornado Recovery Teams
United Methodist Volunteers in Mission (UMVIM) teams are needed in
2007 in Caruthersville to rebuild homes that were damaged or destroyed
in the tornados of 2006. Each team will be one of many UMVIM teams from
Missouri and other states doing community disaster response. Our work is
first with those in a community who are the most vulnerable persons: the
poor, the disabled and those who will have the hardest time recovering
(including relocation assistance). Uninsured and under-insured
homeowners will receive financial assistance to repair and rebuild their
homes. For other information, please contact Joe Bartelsmeyer, Missouri
UMVIM Coordinator by calling 573-474-7155, or Barbara Stone, UMVIM SCJ,
by e-mail at
bartelsmeyer@umocm.com.)
Save Our School! A Plea from Red Bird Mission School
Red Bird Mission School, an institution of the General Board of
Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church within the Red Bird
Missionary Conference, is experiencing a budget shortfall due to a
decline in giving which could ultimately result in closure. Red Bird
Mission School provides a high quality education in a Christian
environment for 270+ young people in the Red Bird Mission area.
Veronica, grade 11, wrote, “Here, there is only one judge and that is
God. It doesn’t matter what you wear or what your last name is. Everyone
likes you for who you are. God has a reason for this school to be here,
and he has a lot of work to do.” If you would like to help support the
Red Bird Mission School, please give to The Advance #773726/Red Bird
Mission, #773728/Red Bird Mission School Tuition, or #773724/Red Bird
Clinic (medical and dental clinics, and public health services). For
more information, please visit their Web site at
www.rbmission.org or call
606-598-3155.
Opportunities for Young Adults through Global Justice Volunteers
Program
The Global Justice Volunteers Program (GJV) provides young adults
(ages 18-25) the opportunity to put their faith into action through
short-term mission, traveling to another country to live and learn
alongside people who are working for change within their communities. As
a GJV, you volunteer with 1-2 other young adults and serve for a term of
2-3 months. Upcoming terms are June 3 – August 10, 2007 (applications
are due by January 15, 2007), and mid September – mid December, 2007
(applications are due June 1, 2007). Need based scholarships are
available. For more information, please visit the GJV Web site at
www.gjv.info or call 212-870-3825.
Bishop Mike Coyner invites all of us to join him in setting aside
time to be directly involved in the mission work of our church –
“Mondays for Mission.” If you need assistance in starting a mission
program for your church, please contact the South Indiana Conference
Center at 1-800-919-8160.
Elsie Miller, Administrative Assistant, UM South Indiana Conference,
1520 S. Liberty Dr, Bloomington, IN 47403-5167, 812-336-0186, ext. 221,
Fax: 812-336-0216, toll-free 800-919-8160,
emiller@sicumc.org.
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2006 by Indiana Area United Methodist Communications.
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