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HAITI: Interested in future volunteer teams-please complete this survey
Purpose “Christian Love in Action”. To make a Christian difference by sharing the love of Christ through our participation in short-term mission.
Task Our task is what we do with our abilities; building a church or home, providing medical care, teaching vacation bible school. Our task is always secondary to our purpose. |
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"We started bringing shoes to the kids [in 2002] and this year we bought 182 pairs. . ."
Grace Feese Cameron UMC VIM to Huancayo, Peru September 2009
"Cookson lived up to its name as temperatures rose to 105 degrees. However, I never heard a complaint from the youth team as we worked on a family home that had the roof torn off by a recent tornado and fire."
Sharon Garretson Mountain View UMC VIM to Cookson Hills, Oklahoma July 2009
Kathleen DeShon and Laura Ann Zahn clean the summer's dust accumulation from solar panels on the Bethlehem Bible College classroom and library building so they will continue to work efficiently through the winter months.
Frederick Zahn Battlefield UMC VIM to Bethlehem Sep/Oct 2009
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"Oakville [Iowa] is a small community along the Iowa river just 30 minutes north of Burlington [Iowa]. In 2008 a small dike was breached on the river and flooded the town with up to 4 feet of water. Cornerstone United Methodist Church put together a team of 14 members to help rebuild homes which were damaged."
Bernard Groharing Cornerstone UMC, O'Fallon VIM to Oakville, Iowa Sep/Oct 2009
"When we were first introduced to the family for whom we were building a house, my first feeling was one of joy that we had gone forth with our planning. Jose informed us that we were only the 4th team that had come to Juarez this year. Normally he greets 40 teams each year. It was difficult to know that Jose and our maestros have had almost no work this year, and that the families waiting for safe shelter have been put on hold indefinitely." Nance Thuer Lafayette Park UMC, St. Louis VIM to Juarez, Mexico October 2009
Members of Clinton UMC put the finishing touches on a home in Waveland, Mississippi.
Don Eaton Clinton UMC VIM to Waveland, Mississippi April 2009
"13 Members of Cornerstone UMC in OFallon
travelled to Benton UMC in Benton Mo. to install a chair lift on the
outside of the church. The lift was enclosed with a new structure to
portect it from the weather." Benard Groharing Cornerstone UMC, O'Fallon VIM to Benton UMC, Missouri April 2009 |
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