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For Mission Monday, January 14, 2008
This newsletter is paid for through your annual conference connectional ministries giving.
Edited by Daniel R. Gangler, director of communication dgangler@inareaumc.org.
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MISSION NEWS
MONTICELLO READY FOR VOLUNTEERS TO ASSIST FLOOD SURVIVORS
The Monticello community is willing to receive trained or experienced United Methodist Volunteers in Mission to assist flood survivors cleaning their homes. The Rev. Brian Beeks, pastor of Monticello UMC, is coordinating teams of United Methodists. Faith groups for the Monticello recovery are being coordinated by an Indiana Southern Baptist volunteers group. The Monticello church will provide needed hospitality. Contact Brian Beeks at the church at 574-583-5545. Teams are needed as soon as possible.
DELPHI AREA STILL ASSESSING NEEDS
In the Delphi community, needs are still being assessed. According to the Rev. Todd Ladd, pastor of the Delphi United Methodist Church, there are more than 330 homes in Carroll County alone that meet preliminary assessment for destroyed or damaged property. Since the number of homes is so great, clean-up efforts are still in process. Community faith leaders will be meeting later this week to begin coordination of recovery efforts. As soon as VIM coordination has been organized, an e-HUM alert will be posted.
UNITED METHODIST VIM ACCIDENT INSURANCE AVAILABLE AT 75¢ A DAY
United Methodist Volunteer in Mission accident insurance is available for work teams. Forms are available through the www.nicumc.org Web site by clicking on www.nicumc.org/pdf/mi/vim/teammember/accidentins.pdf. Look under mission Volunteers. The general rule is to have volunteers send forms a month early but for disaster work, form will be received as late as the morning volunteers leave to do work. It is only 75¢ per day so, for example, if a church is sending out five volunteers, send all the forms at the same time.
CHURCHES CAN HELP FLOOD SURVIVORS IN NORTH INDIANA
Churches wishing to make monetary donations to assist victims of the recent flooding in North Indiana may send funds to:
North Indiana Conference UMC
PO Box 869
Marion, IN 46952
Note for Flood Relief in North Indiana – Account 030401
There are also other ways to help the flood survivors:
Gary Peterson, North Indiana Conference Disaster Response Coordinator, was in the flooded area last week and talked with pastors at Monticello, Delphi and Lafayette. Peterson has requested flood buckets for the Monticello UMC from the Midwest Mission Distribution Center in Illinois. The Evansville District (SIC) sent flood buckets to the Delphi UMC, which also has requested flood buckets. No other requests have come for flood relief. Disaster response volunteers wait for flood waters to recede.
Gary also asks congregations to begin assembling flood buckets in anticipation of widespread flood damage along rivers in northern Indiana. He asked that once congregations have flood buckets made, to hold on to them until a distribution center is designated in the flooded Indiana areas. Each bucket cost about $45 to assemble. Instruction for assembling flood buckets can be found online at http://new.gbgm-umc.org/umcor/getconnected/supplies/flood-bucket/.
HUNDREDS OF INDIANA HOMES DAMAGED BY FLOOD WATERS
By Jim Skillington, Disaster News
Network, Jan. 12
www.disasternews.net
Streams and rivers are still rising in parts of Indiana where many hundreds of homes have been seriously damaged or destroyed in what weather observers are calling more than a 100-year flood.
Although damage assessments will continue into next week, Gov. Mitch Daniels said Friday Indiana will ask for a Federal Disaster Declaration for “a very wide area of the state.”
Repeat flooding Friday forced some residents who had begun to clean up, out of their homes again. “We couldn’t get some places on Friday where we had been the day before,” said the Rev. Todd Ladd, pastor of Delphi United Methodist Church in Carroll County.
Ladd said volunteers planned to continue to help flood survivors Saturday as they returned to their homes.
As the water began to recede in some areas faith-based organizations were planning their response. More than 500 flood buckets with cleaning supplies were distributed by United Methodist volunteers in Indiana Friday and Saturday and meetings were held Friday in Delphi and Monticello near some of the heaviest damage.
The flooding was the result of the deadly combination of heavy December rains, the New Year’s snowstorm that left more than 8-inches of snow, 50-degree temperatures and nearly seven inches of rain on still-frozen ground. Three deaths have been blamed on the flooding.
New flood records have been set in many locations. “It was greater than a 100-year flood,” Scott Morlock, a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey said Friday.
The swollen rivers rose so rapidly it caught many residents by surprise.
An impromptu shelter was set up at the First Christian Church in Remington when water from the Tippecanoe River forced more than 50 families from their trailer homes at night, according to MaryAnna Speller of the United Church of Christ. The flood destroyed most of the trailers. The Presbyterian Church in Delphi was serving as a shelter for the American Red Cross.
At the peak of the flooding last week, the Red Cross opened seven official shelters.
Gary Peterson, North Indiana United Methodist Conference Disaster Response Coordinator, said many of the congregations of Indiana area churches will be asked Sunday to provide financial and material support to flood survivors.
The Rev. Brian Beeks, pastor of the Monticello UMC in White County said local faith community leaders met with the mayor and emergency responders Friday morning and expect to meet again Tuesday. Similar meetings were being held in nearby Carroll County according to Ladd.
Lower income residents, Beeks said, occupied many of the homes damaged in White County. Flood waters rose 3-feet higher than the record 1959 flood in that region.
Dave McDowell, Carroll County’s interim emergency management director said Friday that 200 to 300 homes in that county meet the preliminary qualifications to be considered destroyed. Year-round residents occupied most of the homes.
According to Ladd, many of those impacted by the floods do not have, or cannot get flood insurance. “The flood insurance is too high or it is not offered because we live next to the river,” said Pat Loner of Buffalo. Flood insurance with a home on the Tippecanoe River would reach as high as $1,000 per month, she added.
Weather forecasters warned Saturday that there would be a flood threat in parts of the region at least through Tuesday. And as residents return to their homes, they may be dealing with more than just mud and soggy belongings – floodwaters laced with petroleum products including gasoline have been reported in several locations.
Emergency responders in Carroll County have been busy securing as many as 50 propane tanks dislodged by the floods, Ladd added.
The Indiana Volunteers Active in Disaster (INVOAD) discussed recovery plans Friday morning and is expected to confer again on Monday, Speller said.
– Dan Gangler and Sharon Dunten also contributed to this story.
SOUTH INDIANA CONFERENCE VIM TRAINING SCHEDULED FOR MARCH 1
The South Indiana Conference announces a United Methodist Volunteer in Mission (UMVIM) Training Event scheduled to be held Saturday, March 1, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Camp Indi-Co-So, 558 Sieboldt Quarry Road in Springville, Ind. www.sicumc.org/gocamp/indicoso.asp
If you are interested in leading or participating on a mission trip this event is for you! Lorna Jost, UMVIM Administrator for North Central Jurisdiction will be the event leader. The cost is $30 per person and includes UMVIM Training Manual and lunch. Please send reservations to the South Indiana Conference – VIM Training, 1520 S. Liberty Drive, Bloomington IN 47403 by Feb. 15. For more information, please contact Jenni Walker at Jenni Walker or 812-893-1760.
EARLY DISASTER RESPONSE TRAINING SET FOR INDY ON MARCH 8
The Indiana Area of The United Methodist Church is sponsoring a United Methodist Volunteer in Mission EARLY DISASTER RESPONSE TRAINING event on Saturday, March 8 at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 100 West 86th Street in Indianapolis (one block west of North Meridian Street (US Highway 31). Coffee and snacks from 9:30 to 10 a.m., training from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. UMCOR approved trainers
Who should attend? All volunteers interested in Early Disaster Response work, pastors, District Disaster Response Coordinators. Cost $20 per person, includes lunch, snacks and materials.
For more information contact: Bob Babcock, bobbabvim@aol.com, South Indiana Conference disaster response coordinator, or Gary Peterson, gphome.1@verizon.net, North Indiana Conference North Conference.
To register send name, address, city, state, ZIP code, home phone, e-mail address, plus name of church, district and either SIC or NIC, to St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 100 West 86th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46260.
Make check payable to: St. Luke’s UMC, add to memo line “Disaster Training.”
IND. MISSIONARIES TO REPRESENT BISHOP AT BANDA ACEH DEDICATION
Longtime Indiana missionaries, Bill and Dona Lou Imler, will be representing Indiana Bishop Mike Coyner at the Sunday, Jan. 20 dedication of the new building for the Methodist Church at Banda Aceh. They will be joined by UMCOR leaders Sam Dixon and David Wu.
More than two years ago, Bishop Coyner invited Indiana United Methodists to take on the project of rebuilding the church at Banda Aceh, and Hoosiers responded with great generosity, giving their gifts through UMCOR and enabling that construction to go forward under UMCOR auspices.
UMCOR BEGINS FOURTH YEAR OF TSUNAMIC ASSISTANCE
The United Methodist Committee on Relief is working to help tsunami survivors find a “new normal” more than three years after one of the world’s worst natural disasters killed an estimated 230,000 people and displaced millions in 11 countries. In Indonesia and Sri Lanka-the countries most affected by the tsunami-UMCOR offices continue to work daily to help survivors recover whatever possible. UMCOR also provided relief and recovery assistance in Somalia, India and Thailand. United Methodists and others have contributed approximately $42 million to UMCOR’s tsunami relief response since the Dec. 26, 2004, disaster. – UMNS
ZIMBABWE ECONOMIC CRISIS CRIPPLES MISSION STATION
The sewage system is overloaded, buildings are decaying, electricity is unreliable, and economic turmoil in Zimbabwe make operating two schools, a hospital, a children’s home and church nearly impossible. Yet Old Mutare Mission, a ministry of The United Methodist Church for 110 years, is determined to continue its ministry to the people of Zimbabwe, its leaders say. Located down the road from United Methodist-related Africa University, the mission is supported primarily by student fees from its 1,000-student primary school and 1,050-student high school. However, the school fees are now set by the Zimbabwe government, so the mission is no longer able to charge realistic amounts to satisfy its budget. “We are struggling, but we are making it through, and we are surviving. We are dealing with necessities only,” said the Rev. Solomon Mudonhi, mission chairman. – UMNS
MISSION LEADERS VOICE CONCERN ABOUT KENYA
United Methodists were responding to emergency relief needs in Kenya following post-election violence that displaced up to a quarter of a million people. The violence, which also left hundreds of people dead, occurred after the Dec. 27 re-election of President Mwai Kibaki – a vote disputed by the supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga. The United Methodist Committee on Relief was assisting with relief efforts for displaced people. Through the denomination’s East Africa Conference, UMCOR was providing food and shelter to Kenyans who have fled to Uganda. Schools, churches and other structures were being used as shelters both in Kenya and Uganda. East African Bishop Daniel Wandabula highlighted the need for assistance. “As a church we empathize with all the people that have suffered from this injustice, violence, loss of lives/property, and the overall disruption of daily lives,” he wrote in an open letter sent Jan. 7. “We pray for the return of peace to Kenya, and a more lasting settlement of the conflict.” – UMNS
PASTOR’S HOBBY RAISES $85,000 FOR MOSCOW SEMINARY
The Rev. Sam Duree could be enjoying his golden years in an easy chair. Instead, the retired United Methodist pastor came up with an idea that took wing: building birdhouses to support a Moscow seminary. “I build about 35 different kinds,” says Duree, 77, of Brenham, Texas. “I wake up in the middle of the night and can’t go back to sleep, so I design birdhouses.” Duree spends about four hours a day planning, sawing, sanding, drilling, gluing and nailing cedar fence pickets in a workshop in the garage at his home. Then he takes to the road, selling the birdhouses at festivals, farmers’ markets and craft shows. Over the past six years, Duree estimates he has built about 3,000 birdhouses, raising $85,000 for Russia United Methodist Theological Seminary to train pastors in Russia and other nations in the former Soviet Union. – UMNS
NIGERIAN UNITED METHODIST BISHOP MAVULA DIES
United Methodist Bishop Kefas K. Mavula of Nigeria died Jan. 11, 2008, of an undetermined illness, less than a year after his election as bishop. He was 40.
Mavula died at the ECWA Evangel Hospital in Jos City, Plateau State, Nigeria. He was taken to the hospital Jan. 8 after complaining of stomach pains and vomiting blood. An autopsy will be performed, according to Mavula’s administrative assistant, the Rev. James Besau Vocks.
Mavula is survived by his wife, Jessica, and six sons between the ages of 4 and 19. Funeral arrangements are to be made today during a meeting with his cabinet staff. – UMNS
NEW HEALTH VOLUNTEERS BLOG NOW ONLINE
Announcing a new communication tool for United Methodist Health Volunteers! Please visit our new blog at www.umvim4health.blogspot.com .
The first time you visit the blog, you will be asked to “join”. This is free and can be done by using your e-mail address and selecting a pin number. If you are going on a health related UMVIM trip, please contact Jane Dunn at umvim4health@ameritech.net or simply leave a message on the blog. Upon request, you can be given temporary access to use blog author features, so that you may post video and photos while you are on your vim trip. Others at home and church can view your material and/or download same from the site.
FACT ABOUT ST. LUKE’S UMC VOLUNTEERS IN MISSION
This month, St. Luke’s UMC in Indianapolis is sending more than 114 people on mission trips. Twenty-six of them will be traveling to Sierra Leone, 67 to Naples for Habitat for Humanity, and 21 to Honduras.
NEWLY LISTED MISSION OPPORTUNITIES
SOUTH INDIANA CONFERENCE UPCOMING MISSION TRIPS
March 2008
March 7-16 – Bloomington District Mission Trip to Haiti
March 23-30 – Ames Chapel UMC Trip to Gulfport, Miss.
June 2008
Harrodsburg UMC to Henderson Settlement, Ky.
Youth District Mission Trip Location TBA
July 2008
July 12-19 – Mooresville First UMC to Canalli, 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.
COLUMBUS DISTRICT TO HOLD MISSION CONFERENCE FEB. 24
Feb.24, 2008 (Snow Date, March 2) 2 to 4:30 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in North Vernon, Ind.
Mission Speakers – Don and Marilyn Griffith Workshops include: Operation Classroom with Pat McDonald, How To Start A Food Pantry with Audrey Griffith, Problem Gambling and Recovery (From The Therapist’s Viewpoint) with Lawrence Erhardt, LCSW, NCGC1, Cincinnati’s only certified gambling counselor and Red Bird Mission with Robert Furgerson. For More Information Contact: the Rev. Duane A. Loos, Columbus District Director of Missions at 812-623-2382or by e-mail DUANELOOS@aol.com.
MEDICAL TEAM NEEDS NURSE PRACTITIONER FOR MAIZ, MEXICO MISSION
Our team needs either a doctor or Nurse Practitioner for our Maiz, Mexico. Medical Mission team from 2/4/-2/11/08. The good news is that this will be a freebie! Our current doctor can not go with us due to a family emergency, so those funds are available. There will be just a ‘name change’ flight charge. Members of the team will be departing from both Tampa, Fla. and Detroit, Mich. They can contact Jane Dunn at 419-376-6017 or 419-863-2908 or e-mail jspowers@gte.net.
MINNESOTA MEDICAL MISSION TO SIERRA-LEONE NEEDS PHYSICIAN
OC Ministries Minnesota Medical Mission Trips to Sierra Leone June 26-July 8, 2008. This mission needs a physician to complete the team. We will be working in a rural UMC health clinic addressing primary health concern, health education and health promotion. Another team will be going September 27-October 7, 2008. This team needs physicians, nurses and other health professionals. The mission of the fall team is the same as the team leaving in June. The cost of each trip is $2800. For further information please contact Doris Acton, RN at doris.acton@nhylandsumc.org or at 952-835-7585.
PLACEMENT REQUEST: HEALTH VOLUNTEER COUPLE
Family physician with one-year experience serving in Zaire and his wife seek a 3 to 12-month Individual Volunteer assignment. Physician is able to do minor surgery, clinical teaching and direct care. Physician’s wife is fluent in Spanish. Both have received Individual Volunteer training. Notify Roger Boe at boeroger@cableone.net for more information.
UNITED METHODIST VIMS NEEDED TO BUILD MONTANA PLAYGROUND
The High Plains Initiative on American Indian Ministries
Build a playground: May 2-5, 2008 in Pryor, Montana on the Crow Reservation
UMVIM teams will be housed in the Pryor High School Gym where there are showers available. Volunteers will need to bring their own bedding, cots or whatever for sleeping. Local churches will feed us. We are still trying to raise an addition $30,000 to do the job as originally designed, but we have enough for a good part of the equipment and will build whatever we have the money for. We are working with Luke Enemy Hunter, Supt. of Schools in Pryor along with the high school social studies and history teacher, Vern Carpenter, and the curriculum coordinator, Jennifer Hickok. The Pryor community has raised enough money for one segment of the playground, which has already been purchased.
On the last day there will be a celebration with drummers and dancers to dedicate the playground. For more information, contact: Barbara Galusha Karst, High Plains Coordinator, bgkarst@vcn.com.
PREVIOUSLY LISTED MISSION OPPORTUNITIES
TERRE HAUTE DISTRICT SPONSORING WORK MISSION TO MISS. IN FEBRUARY
Corrected contact information.
The Terre Haute District will be sponsoring a work mission to Pearlington, Mississippi Feb. 24-29, 2008. Work will be focused on continuing hurricane relief and aid to local residents. Numerous projects are scheduled for people with varying skills and abilities. For more information contact the Terre Haute District Office 812-237-0101, 800-919-8168; thdist@joink.com or Pastor Bob Kumpf 812-448-2917, Harmonyumc@verizon.net.
AFRICA UNIVERSITY SUNDAY SCHEDULED FOR FEB. 3 IN NORTH INDIANA
Africa University Sunday is Feb. 3 in the North Indiana Conference. Churches are reminded of this opportunity to celebrate Africa University. Offerings may be received for Scholarships for students at AU. Each of the nine NIC districts is raising funds for international (all-Africa) scholarships. For information, contact Ruth Ellen Stone, chair of scholarship committee, ruthellen1@juno.com.
Two recent graduates of Africa University are available to speak in churches throughout the spring semester. Mr. Bonaventure Dusabimana, now a junior-year nursing student at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, enjoys opportunities to share his experience of Africa University as well as of his survival from Rwanda genocide and subsequently achieving degrees at AU and Valparaiso University. Contact Bonaventure directly at baobaa@yahoo.com, or call 765-674-7985. Any offerings go to the host church’s AU Scholarship contribution.
Also available is the Rev. Christian Kapez-a-Kapend, Congolese 2007 graduate of AU and currently intern pastor at the Wesley Foundation, Purdue University in West Lafayette. Christian has surmounted severe challenges to attain his AU education in theology. Contact through the Rev. Lana Robyne, Wesley Foundation pastor at Purdue, lana@wesleyfoundation.org. Christian, joined by another member of the Wesley Foundation leadership team, speaks on behalf of both AU and the Purdue Wesley Foundation. Offerings are divided between AU Scholarships and the Wesley Foundation at Purdue.
– Dona Lou Imler, Chairperson, NIC AU Committee, DonaLou2@gmail.com
BRAZIL MISSIONARY AVAILABLE TO SPEAK IN NORTH INDIANA
The Rev. Stephen Newnum, a United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries missionary serving in Brazil, will be available to speak to churches in North Indiana through Jan. 31. He is being scheduled on a first-come-first-served basis, with consideration given to geographic location and travel constraints. Please be aware that if you invite Rev. Newnum to your church, there might be travel, over-night accommodations and other hospitality needs that your church possibly will need to provide.
For more information about Newnum, log on to www.Newnum.org
For more information and scheduling a date, contact the Rev. Ed Geleske at the Wakarusa United Methodist Church at 574-862-2863.
SOCIETY OF ST. ANDREW OFFERS FREE LENTEN PROGRAM ON HUNGER
The Society of St. Andrew invites your congregation to participate in I Wonder, a program of spiritual reflection, prayer and giving to feed the hungry. Each household will receive a devotional booklet of daily reflections and a coin bank for donations to the Society of St. Andrew’s hunger relief ministry. An optional Good Friday Fast is also available for use with the Lenten devotions or as a stand-alone program.
There is no charge for the Lent program. Materials will be ready in early January. Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 6. Visit www.endhunger.org/lent.htm to order a free sample Lent kit or call 800-333-4597.
HAITI SOLAR OVEN PROJECT BEING ORGANIZED FOR FEB. 26-MARCH 10
Rick Jost, husband of Lorna Jost (who is the administrator of the North Central Jurisdiction’s United Methodist Volunteers In Mission program), manages the Haiti Solar Oven project. He is pulling together a team for Feb. 26 to March 10, in a hurry! If you know of folks interested in a trip to Haiti and particularly a different type of trip (not block construction, but oven construction and teaching their use). Since it is difficult to have an orientation from afar, mature team members are requested! The project is located in Bainet, just west of Jacmel on the south coast. Cost is $1,750 which includes the project funds.
For more information, contact Rick Jost immediately with your interest at rjost@brookings.net or call 605-692-3391. Jost lives in Brookings, S.D.
UMCOR INFORMATION AS YOU PLAN AHEAD
The United Methodist Committee on Relief’s (UMCOR) administrative cost is financed through the One Great Hour of Sharing offering each year. On the fourth Sunday in Lent, United Methodists come together for One Great Hour of Sharing.
The special offering enables UMCOR to keep its promise that 100 percent of your designated gifts goes entirely to specific causes. One Great Hour of Sharing means UMCOR will provide hands-on care for people caught in the effects of storms, war, disaster and disease. Often UMCOR is the first to arrive on the scene and the last to leave. UMCOR’s ministry is all over God’s wonderful world.
Indiana United Methodists have seen the immediate results of UMCOR’s assistance in the Indiana Area most recently with disaster response relief in the Nappanee area of the North Indiana Conference following a tornado.
Please, as you plan worship for Sunday, March 2, make it One Great Hour of Sharing – and for sharing as you share the goodness of life with those who hurt. Thank you!
INDIANA AREA DISASTER RESPONSE TRAINING MARCH 8 IN INDIANAPOLIS
An Indiana Area Disaster Response Training Workshop is scheduled to be held on Saturday, March 8 at St. Luke’s UMC, 100 W. 86th Street in Indianapolis. More information to come.
HENDERSON SETTLEMENT OFFERS PROGRAM FOR SENIORS APRIL 20-26
Henderson Settlement in Frakes, Ky. through the United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries is offering an opportunity for persons fifty years and older to experience firsthand the ongoing ministry in Henderson Settlement in the Red Bird Missionary Conference through Primetimers.
The Primetimers program offers events for older adults (50 years+) which include opportunities for educational forums, cross-cultural opportunities, faith-filled reflection on the purpose of ministry and greater exposure to the work of the UMC and the church universal.
The Primetimers event at Henderson Settlement “The Life and Spirit of Appalachia” will take place April 20-26. It is open to all people 50 years and older. The registration deadline for the event is Jan. 20.
For more information and registration, please contact the Primetimers office toll-free at -877-882-4724 or by e-mail at primetimers@gbgm-umc.org or log on to http://new.gbgm-umc.org/news/events/?search=Primetimers&C=2927&I=14872
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.
UNITED METHODIST VOLUNTEER IN MISSION TEAMS NEEDED IN MEXICO
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Contact information: Jerry Hill jerry.hill@bsumc.com or call 864-320-3165
OPERATION 2008 CLASSROOM TEAMS
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Sierra Leone
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January 23 to February 11 – Kissy and Taiama, Don and Marilyn Griffith, team leaders, drdongriffith@aol.com or Griffithmarilyn@aol.com
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May 6 to 22 – Sierra Leone – Koidu Secondary School - U of I, Lang Brownlee, team leader
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June 18 to July 9 Sierra Leone – Bo Centenary School, Kay Hess, team leader, hess100@juno.com
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To Liberia
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June 24 to July 11 – Liberia – Tubman-Gray School, Ken and Kitty Decker, team leaders, ken.decker@prodigy.net or kitty.decker@prodigy.net
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October 9 to 28 – Liberia – W.P.L. Brumskine School, Lamar and Kay Ziegler, team leaders, lamar@rnthompson.com
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SOUPER BOWL OF CARING NEXT MONTH
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To register, visit www.souperbowl.org.
MINNESOTA OC VIM TRIP STILL NEEDS PHYSICIAN’S ASSISTANT
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Feb. 28-March 14, 2008.
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Please contact Doris Acton, RN, UMC Medical Outreach – Makeni, Operation Classroom Ministries Minnesota at doris.acton@nhylandsumc.org or 952-835-7585.
WARSAW, MICHIANA DISTRICTS PLAN WORK TRIP IN 2008
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March 1-8, 2008
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For more information, please contact Pastor Jean Ness at 260-856-4482 or 574-529-1044 or e-mail jness@ligtel.com.
TWO OPEN SLOTS FOR UNITED METHODIST VIM TEAM TO CUBA
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April 18-30, 2008
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For more information, contact the team leader, Larry Burke: ljrdburke@comcast.net
CAMP WORSHIP LEADERSHIP NEEDED
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Contact Carolyn Kern at Mishawaka First UMC by calling 574-255-4707.
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June 15-20
MISSOURI CONFERENCE SPONSORING HEALTH VIM TRIP TO MOZAMBIQUE
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Late June through early July, 2008, sponsored by the Missouri UM Conference
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For more information, call Tom Mitchell if you have questions or want more information. Phone 314-725-4003 or e-mail TomM8132@aol.com.
Last updated on 04/01/2008Compiled as a service of Indiana Area United Methodist Communication in Indianapolis.