Category: Poverty

152. MissionCast – Charleston Spreads Hope in Reynosa

Mr. Jim Moreton, a member of Charleston United Methodist Church, in Charleston, Missouri, tells about mission trips he and his wife and others have made to build homes in Reynosa, Mexico.  Their trips have been organized by the Strategic Alliance Mission, which was founded by Roland & Carolyn Ashby, of New Braunfels, Texas.  Roland Ashby was a member of Charleston United Methodist Church while growing up.  The mission has built over 500 homes in Reynosa and has made a big difference in the lifes of the people who live in the poorest part of town.  This MissionCast concentrates on house building, however, there are always medical and education components to the missions.

We are thankful to Angie Moreton for the excellent pictures used in the MissionCast.

Similar mission trips maybe organized through the Office of Creative Ministries Volunteers in Mission program of the United Methodist Missouri Conference.  If you or your church would like to build homes in Mexico you may receive information by contacting Audrey Phelps, at the Office of Creative Ministries.  Phone 573-474-7155 or Email phelps@umocm.com.

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149. Alleviating Poverty One Person at a Time – University UMC

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University United Methodist Church in St. Louis has started an innovative way to alleviate poverty one person at a time.   Through an organization called Kiva they make micro credit loans to people through out the world to get them started in small business ventures.  The emphasis is on small, widespread participation in grass-roots real-time lending to people with names and faces.

 

Your MissionCast crew attended a recent meeting of the U-City Micro Credit Loan Club.  Meetings are held at the U-City public library to encourage participation by members of the University City community who are not members of the church.  The coordinators of this new ministry are Tom Mitchell and Rich Wymore, who members of University United Methodist Church.

 

The club's activities are a designated fund of University City UMC and

can be viewed on the church's webpage www.universityumc.com/ucitymicrocreditclub

 

If you or a group from your church or community would like to get in
on the action, go to www.kiva.org for general information. For specifics on the club's activities, see
http://www.kiva.org/team/ucity_microcredit_club_team or contact Tom Mitchell at ucitymicrocreditclub.tom@gmail.com

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141. MissionCast – Backpack Snacks – Grace UMC, Sullivan, Missouri

Filling Backpack SnackSecond grade teacher, Michelle Rhoads,  is interviewed in this MissionCast video as she tells about the importance of the backpack snacks outreach program of the Grace United Methodist Church.

Many school-aged children get breakfast and lunch at school during the school year.  About half of Sullivan, Missouri’s school children qualify for free or reduced lunches. Over the weekends, however, many children do not have access to food.  The Grace United Methodist Congregation is filling this gap by providing “backpack snacks.”  The backpacks contain healthy, nutritious snacks for these children to take home each weekend. Items in the backpacks include things like shelf-stable milk, pasta bowls, fruit juice, applesauce, peanut butter, mac and cheese, and granola bars.

We are so very appreciative of the Grace media team and their pastor Steve Williams for making this video and giving us permission to use it for a MissionCast.

For more information about this outreach program you may contact the Grace United Methodist Church, in Sullivan, by calling (573) 468-6010 or emailing gumc@fidnet.com

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140. MissionCast – Ludhiana Christian Medical College and Hospital – India

Ludhiana, India

As United Methodists we have a long historic relationship with the Ludhiana Christian Medical College and Hospital.  In the past we have sent missionary doctors and staff to Ludhiana to serve.  It was good visiting Ludhiana and getting a first had look as this incredible ministry of teaching and healing that is still a part of our United Methodist outreach.

I hope you will consider supporting the incredible ministry of healing.  Ask your church treasurer to send your gift to the Missouri Conference Office as a General Advance Special  #12429B (Ludhiana Christian Medical College & Hospital, India)

You can also make an online donation at our United Methodist General Board of Global Ministry website.  Just click here, read more about the project and then click on donate now.

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138. MissionCast – Festival of Sharing

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Festival of Sharing

The Festival of Sharing is all about people like Beatrice pictured to the right.  You could have heard a pin drop from where I was taping while Beatrice, now grown, told the 400 youth present at the Festival of Sharing Youthfest, about her life.  Twenty minutes of thoughful questions followed.  Beatrice lives in Uganda, Africa.  Her family could not afford to send the children to school.  It all changed when the family received the gift of a Heifer International goat.  With the income from that one goat Beatrice and her brothers and sisters were able to attend school.  She is not doing graduate studies in the United States.
The Festival of Sharing is all about making a difference in the lives of people in need here in Missouri, across our country and around the world.  It is an amazing spirit filled event which involves thousands of people making gifts for the poor through the year and bringing them to the Sedalia or one of the many Festival of Sharing sites around the state.  And it involves hundreds of volunteers on the actual days when each event is held.  This MissionCast shows a little of what happened in Sedalia.  Mark Saturday, October 16, 2010, on your calandar to attend again next year.

DVDs of Beatrice’s full presentation to the youth and the thoughtful questions they asked will be available from the Office of Creative Ministries.  Just email Dora at thackery@umocm.com

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