Category: VIM (Volunteers in Mission)

111. Spring Break Students Feed the Hungry

Socity of St. Andrew

Students from campus ministry groups all over the country spent their spring break serving people.  Wesley Foundation students from Missouri served rebuilding homes in Louiaiana.  MissionCast this week follows a group of students from Virgina who spent spring break in Florida gleaning food for the hungry, through the Society of St. Andrew. Jeff Baker, at the Office of Creative Ministries, serves as the Missouri Hunger Advocate for the Society of St. Andrew.  Contact Jeff to find out how to set up a gleaning project for your congregation. Tons of food that would otherwise be thrown away are gleaned each year to make their way to the tables of hungry men, women and children.  For information contact Jeff Baker at 573-474-7155 or email him at baker@umocm.com.

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110. Cassville UMC Partners With The Maratane UMC

Maratane Church

The Cassville United Methodist Church has had a covenant partner relationship with the United Methodist Church in the Maratane Refugee Camp in northern Mozambique since 2004.  In 2006 the church sent a Volunteers in Mission team to visit their partner church in Mozambique and another team will head to Maratane in 2009.  Besides their faithful pray support and the $990 per year covenant partner financial support they have an active pen pall program and at times have sent childrens books, Bibles and soccer balls.

In 2005 they raised money to build a new church building which has since replaced the building you see on this page.

To become a partner church with a church in Mozambique contact the Missouri Conference Mozambique Initiative Coordinator, Carol Kreamer, at 636-271-4455 or cpkreamer@hughes.net.

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108. The Year of Shalom – Kirkwood United Methodist Church


Children's Choir

Like thousands of other Missouri United Methodists around the state, Loren and Karen Ahaus enthousiastically reached out to their community as a part of their church’s outreach ministry.  They are members of Kirkwood United Methodist Church.  Kirkwood has launched an intensive year-long outreach program with the Shalom House, in their St. Louis neighborhood.  Shalom House is a women’s shelter.  During the year they seek to involve as many church members as possible.  All kinds of ways to serve are being offered to their members.  For this MissionCast we interview,Loren and Karen Ahaus, who responded to the request of discovering ways to better utilize and organize the receptionist area at Shalom House.

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96. Noel UMC – Rebuilding at Home and Abroad – Faye Davis

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Faye Davis

Faye Davis, received the Robert and Martha Marble Mission Award, this year at Annual Conference.  She has been the inspiration for a lot of mission activity in and around the United Methodist Church in Noel, Missouri.  In this MissionCast Faye tells about how a trip to Louisiana to work on a home that had been destroyed turned into the Noel United Methodists adapting a survivor family, a whole series of mission trips, and the rebuilding of a home practically from scratch.  But it did not stop there.  Once back home they looked around in their community and started rebuilding in their backyard.  The Marble Mission Award was initiated by the West Conference Board of Global Ministries in 1993.  The successor Global Connection Team has continued to honor people with the award each year at Annual Conference.

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92. MissionCast – Serving in India

India VillageThe Missouri Conference, United Methodist Church, sent a team of 14 volunteers in mission to India, where they served at Woodstock School, located in the Himalayan Mountains.  Woodstock School is a Christian International School.  At the school some of the team members served in the library while others served at the school’s new organic research garden.  In the picture Mary Newton, from the Theodosia United Methodist Church, interacts with village women during a mountain village tour.  For information about Missouri Conference volunteers in mission teams and projects call the Office of Creative Ministries at 573-474-7155.  Or email our Missouri Conference Volunteers in Mission Coordinator, Audrey Phelps, at phelps@umocm.com

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