Category: Disaster Response

192. MissionCast – VIM to Haiti – Nora Jones, Team Leader

VIM Haiti

Rev. Dr. Nora Jones, pastor of Samaritan United Methodist Church, in St. Louis led the first Missouri Conference Earthquake response VIM team to Haiti.  Her team served on compound of the Methodist Church and School in Millier, which was located at the epicenter of the earthquake.  MissionCast interviewed Nora at Samaritan UMC where she told about her VIM team’s experience.

 

If you would like to join or lead a VIM team to Haiti just call the Office of Creative Ministries as speak with Audrey Phelps.  (Phone: 573-474-7155 / Email: phelps@umocm.com)  Our teams serve at the direction of the staff of UMCOR and the Methodist Church in Haiti.  We anticipate that many VIM teams from Missouri will be needed to help rebuilt Haiti over the next ten years.  You may also help financially by sending your contributions through your church using the designation:  UMCOR Haiti Relief #418325.  Or you may contribute on line at gbgm-umc.org/umcor

 

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184. MissionCast – National Preparedness Month – Cameron UMC Is Prepared

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September is National Preparedness Month. In this special edition of MissionCast we feature Cameron UMC. The congregation has been very intentional about preparedness and has reached out to the community with sheltering and feeding after disasters. In this MissionCast Rev. Paul Zimmerman walks us through their new edition showing how from the very beginning they had in mind making it useful to their community after disasters.

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181. MissionCast – Rain of Compassion – UMCOR – Pakistan Flood

Pakistan Flood



UMCOR (the United Methodist Committee on Relief) is calling for a “rain of compassion.” Worse than the earthquake in Haiti and Chile and the tsunami combined, the flooding in Pakistan is displacing millions of people. Whole villages have been washed away. The immediate need is for food, medical services and temporary shelter. There long-term recovery needs are staggering. The United Methodist Committee on Relief is working through its partners in Pakistan to bring immediate relief. We can all help by receiving special offerings and making individual gifts to the UMCOR Advance #982450 – Pakistan Flood. As always 100% of the gift goes directly to respond to the needs of individuals and families in Pakistan. All administrative costs are taken from other funds. Send your gifts to the Missouri Conference, 3601 Amron Court, Columbia, MO 65202.


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156. MissionCast – Christ in the Debris – Kevin Fisher – Liberty UMC

ChristKevin Fisher from Liberty United Methodist Church is one of our conference’s very committed and active responders when disasters strike.  He has helped build a very effective disaster response team at Liberty United Methodist Church.  The Liberty team has taken a FEMA trailer and converted it to a fully equipped kitchen from which to serve food after a disaster.  Governor Nixon even invite Kevin to be an honored guest during his 2010 State of the State Address.  What we didn’t know about Kevin until recently is that he can do wonders with wood.  Liberty United Methodist Church just dedicated a wood mosaic head of Christ that Kevin hand carved.  Kevin calls it “Christ in the Debris.”  All of the wood was debris from disasters before Kevin worked his magic.  Kevin says that while working in the field after a disaster they are constantly meeting Christ among the disaster survivors.

MissionCast interview Kevin Fisher at Liberty United Methodism Church and brings you his story.  Click here for information about what disasters the various kinds of wood were taken from.
If you would like to become active in disaster response or if you would like to train a team from your church to do this you may contact Jeff Baker at the Office of Creative Ministries.  Phone:  573-474-7155  Email: baker@umocm.com

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155. MissionCast – Missouri Health Kits for Haiti – Packed at Fairview UMC

health kitsOver 15,000 health kits for Haiti were contributed by congregations from across the state.  The Office of Creative Ministries organized about a dozen drop-off sites around the church.  All of the kits were processed and boxed into shipping boxes for delivery to Haiti at Fairview United Methodist Church in Columbia.  The kits were then delivered to Little Rock, Arkansas and are now on their way to Haiti to be distributed to earthquake survivors.

We are thankful to Rev. Nick Campbell for taping and producing this MissionCast.
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