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—CUBA: Team members needed: April 14-26, 2009. Experience a vibrant and emerging Christian community while helping to provide much needed spiritual support. Troy Annual Conference is sponsoring this team that will work to build and/or repair church facilities with a local congregation in Cuba. The team also will participate in worship and Bible study with that local church. Biggest qualification? Willingness to help! Two team members are urgently needed. Contact your annual conference UMVIM Coordinator and team leaders Tom and Judy Bonds, Jonesville UMC, at (518)371-1547 or bondsjt@gmail.com. —dentist needed: We are in the last stages of gathering our medical team for February 12-24, 2009. We will return to rural areas near Phnom Penh. We do not yet have a dentist and one will be greatly needed! Contact your UMVIM Annual Conference Coordinator and annsutton@asbury-umc.org for more info. Rev. Ann Sutton —Visit Haifa, Nazareth, Capernaum, the Galilee region. Receive Communion on the Mount of Beatitudes. Take a walking tour of Jerusalem. Visit the Nativity Church in Bethlehem. Have lunch on the Sea of Galilee. Pray in the traditional Garden of Gethsemane. Volunteer at Mar Elias Educational Institutions (an Advance Project). Tutoring in English, light construction, desk/chair repair, painting. This is the school founded by Elias Chacour, the Palestinian Christian priest who wrote Blood Brothers. Connect with Tina Whitehead, WPA Volunteer in Israel. Team Leader: Diane Miller, WPA Mission/VIM Coordinator Date: Feb 8-21, 2009 Projected cost: $3000 Combine a week of visiting holy sites with a week of volunteering Stay in Christian Guest Houses and in homes
Contact : Your Annual Conference UMVIM Coordinator and Diane Miller, Western Penn. UMVIM Coordinator missionvim@wpaumc.org or 724-652-9182 —CAMBODIA: Medical Team to serve in Kampong Channang area of Cambodia Febuary 12-24, 2009. Please contact your UMVIM Annual Conference Coordinator and Rev. Ann Sutton at annsutton@abury-umc.org or 337-984-4211. —Taiama, Sierra Leone, West Africa: A VIM team is forming to return to Taiama, Sierra Leone, West Africa. This team will serve in a medical clinic, child malnutrition clinic, agricultural demonstration farm, church construction, local United Methodist Schools and an orphanage. The dates are December 27th 2008 through January 9th, 2009. Cost is $3400.00 and includes airfare, ground transportation, food, lodging, basic insurance and each team members contribution to the work fund. We are especially in need of a physician and an additional nurse. For more information contact your Annual Conference UMVIM Coordinator and Elyse Bell at 731.431.7674 or Joe Geary at 731.693.7901 or e-mail korimissions@yahoo.com —Medical Mission trip to India: February 4-20, 2009: Doctors, nurses, and/or non-medical volunteers are welcome to join this medical/evangelism team for 1 to 2 weeks. Tentative plan is to set up medical camps in the Sikkim area of NE India, providing first contact medical care to remote villagers. This will be the third medical trip to India, so the process is well-defined and performed. Cost for one week in India is $3170; cost for two weeks is $3940. This cost includes flights, lodging, food, and local transportation, plus a portion of the medicine costs. If you are interested or have questions, please contact your UMVIM Annual Conference Coordinator and Roger Weaver with Crouse Chapel UMC at weavrs5@roadrunner.com —Want to go on a Medical Mission to the Philippines? Philippines May28-June 10,2009. Sponsored by East UMC Colorado Springs. Medical mission and painting of high school classrooms. Please contact Rocky Mountain Conference UMVIM Coordinators, Betsy Keyack and Ann Fort at bkeyack@att.net and annfort8269@ comcast.net and team leader Liwliwa Robledo at liwliwa_robledo @yahoo.com Thanks. Pastor - Rev Ramon V Robledo 1505 E Monument St, Colorado Springs, CO 80909, Phone 719 634-2801. E-mail Address: eastumc@juno.com Church Website: —Urgent Need for Volunteers: , With winter right around the corner, the need to insulate homes affected by the December 2007 flood is critical! Families struggling with recovery are low on funds for essentials like food and heat. Without insulation, high heating costs will be too much for some to bear. Many have the materials on hand, but are unable to install it themselves. Other work is also needed, such as painting, building porches, and installing skirting on mobile homes. As an UMCOR-funded case worker based out of the Rochester United Methodist Church, it has been a wonderful blessing to watch lives change through the work of the many United Methodist volunteer teams. Please help this work continue by: · Volunteering with an UMVIM team · Providing donations to help with flood recovery · Contacting Ronda Cordill, Conference UMVIM Coordinator at r_cordill@hotmail.com or Brett DeMond, case worker at livingart@centurytel.net for more information. —LOUISIANA NEEDS TEAMS! Louisiana Disaster Recovery has significant needs for all forms of recovery teams. We have areas were ERT are still needed. Homes still have trees in them, needs for tarps, mucking out and evaluative and assessment needs from Gustav and Ike. Long term recovery teams are still needed in the New Orleans and Lake Charles areas from Katrina and Rita. Revisions are currently being made in the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Katrina/Rita response to extend to Gustav and Ike responses. The New Orleans recovery stations will phase out in 20 months. The Abbeville station will remain open due to new damage assessments from this years storms and the Lake Charles station extended. Damage from Gustav and Ike is heaviest along the coast and inland for up to 75 miles from Houma to the Texas/Louisiana state line. Several towns in this area are just now experiencing the retreat of storm surge and flood waters which covered the entire incorporated area. Damage (wind and flooding) from Gustav heavily effected the Baton Rouge to Alexandria areas. Team leaders should contact their Annual Conference UMVIM Coordinators who will work with Rev. Yvonne Dayries, Louisiana Disaster Recovery, 225.346.5193, or registering on the Louisiana Conference web site: http://la-umc.org/. Follow the prompts to registration forms. The web site also includes a number of photos and updates on the effected areas. —Texas Early Response teams: Texas Annual Conference is accepting recovery trained Early Response teams for some of the more devastated areas, but they are also accepting long term clean-up teams for those areas that are ready now. Teams can stay in various churches and need to be semi- self-sufficient. The area does have gas now, and stores are open in most areas so teams can buy food products. It will depend on the area they go to. Galveston Island is to be open next week for clean up teams, but only Early Response will be allowed there. Surfside and Freeport are in desperate need of muck out teams and debris removal. Teams must contact their Annual Conference UMVIM Coordinator and register online, www.txcumc.org, and will receive a call or e-mail back within 24-48 hours. Teams can also call directly to the Rita Recovery phone number 409.892.0140 as they are back in business, but they need to call there only if they want to work in that area. If they want to work the coastal area, they need to go through the registration system. —CAL-NEVADA UMVIM Teams: Please visit the UMVIM Cal-Nevada Conference Website to see a listing of UMVIM teams scheduled to go and serve. Go to http://cnsite.brickriver.com/page.asp?PKValue=1113 or contact Sue King at suek@calnevumc.org. —VOLUNTEER NEEDED IN Georgia: The survivors of the Mother’s Day tornadoes in Macon/Bibb County, GA are ready to finish rebuilding their homes and lives. However, many still have unmet needs and have run out of resources. An UMCOR guided Long Term Recovery Committee is functioning and located in the recently closed Aldersgate United Methodist Church in the Bloomfield area of Macon. UMCOR trained Case Managers are seeing clients, homes have been approved, funding is available to provide for supplies and UMVIM TEAMS ARE NEEDED !! There is still a lot of chain saw work and debris removal to be done. Two elderly families need roofs; other families need sheetrock work, gutters and awnings replaced and soffits repaired. More applications are being received daily for assistance with unmet needs. If your church can form a team or have individuals able to donate time and talents, please contact your Annual Conference UMVIM Coordinator and Judy Sexton, Case Management Supervisor at (478) 297-5507. Housing and meals will be arranged for teams who can come for several days. Please lend your support and blessings to help families who have lost much to be able to recover and rebuild their homes and their lives. —Hurricanes 2008: In the week after Hurricane Ike hit Texas and the Gulf Coast areas, Texas Annual Conference Bishop Janie Riggle Huie, UMCOR executive Sandra Kennedy-Owes, and conference staff visited numerous churches to assess damages, encourage church members and offer immediate help. “There has been tremendous loss here,” said Huie. “Millions need help, especially the most vulnerable.” The Texas Conference will evaluate options for expanding the Rita Recovery office in Beaumont and establishing a new presence in the Houston area to serve Ike survivors and help in rebuilding and recovery. Many in Texas are still without power and lack the basic supplies to proceed in recovery. Help affected UMC churches rebuild so that they can better serve the people most in need in their communities. You can send gifts for much-needed relief supplies or give to Hurricanes 2008, UMCOR Advance #3019695. —UMCOR Sager Brown: Staff and volunteers at UMCOR Sager Brown, the relief supply warehouse in Baldwin, La., have been busy preparing and shipping relief supplies in response to recent hurricanes. Trailers and truckloads of flood buckets, health kits and generators were sent to several locations in Texas and Louisiana for distribution to families affected by Hurricanes Gustav and Ike. A total of 9,882 flood buckets have been sent out from Sager Brown Depot, MERCI Mission Center, NC and Midwest Mission Distribution Center, Ill. Nearly 3,000 health kits were sent to five locations in Louisiana and 4,000 flood buckets were sent to eight other locations. Incoming shipments of relief supplies will go to the Texas Annual Conference to support their needs. The Midwest Distribution Warehouse also delivered 1,000 flood buckets to assist Northern Indiana where UMCOR has responded with an emergency grant to help in recovery, as well as anticipates providing case management training.There is an urgency to replenish flood bucket supplies at UMCOR Sager Brown and other warehouse locations. You can view a list of the flood bucket contents here. Please also send gifts to Material Resources, UMCOR Advance 901440. Susan J. Meister/UMCOR |
