 Yarde |
 Hall |
INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana Bishop Mike Coyner announced today, Aug. 25, the hiring of Nick Yarde as the Indiana Conference Associate Director of Camping and of Ian Hall as Associate Director of Financial Services - Camping.
Yarde was the director of Camping Program for the former North Indiana Conference since 2001. Likewise, Hall served as director of Outdoor Ministries for the South Indiana Conference since 2005. Both positions become effective on Sept. 1. -- more --
Rain and severe flooding pushed into a second week in Pakistan. Already the casualties and damages were great: as many as 1,600 deaths, 2 million driven from their homes, and roads, bridges, and crop destroyed. Concern for the spread of waterborne illnesses and starvation is high as the crisis continues. -- more --
WALKERTON, Ind. – In Walkerton, the Community Pantry sits on the main street – Jefferson. The fourth Tuesday of each month, residents from the area needing food, line up with their boxes, sacks and laundry baskets. On those Tuesdays, across from the Pantry, there standing under an open tent, sometimes in weather of 9 to 90 degrees, are the people of Walkerton UMC. -- more --
MANONKOH VILLAGE, Sierra Leone (UMNS) – People needing health care in the remote communities of Manonkoh, Rokon, Maserry and Masethie in northern Sierra Leone used to be in dire straits. Pregnant women in labor and people with other health emergencies were rushed from these communities on motorbikes – the main means of transportation in rural Sierra Leone – through a 30-kilometer stretch of bad road to Makeni, the provincial capital, for treatment, sometimes during odd hours of the night. Stories abound of patients who had lost their lives to treatable ailments because their families could not convoy them in time to receive immediate medical attention. -- more --
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) – Peanut butter may be a lunchtime staple for you or your child. But it also can be a life-saver for those in Haiti living in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake earlier this year. There are some big smiles to go along with big stacks of peanut butter jars that will be heading to Haiti soon. More than 2,000 jars of peanut butter is the pay-off of two months worth of work from the youth group at Memorial United Methodist Church of Terre Haute. The youth group raised awareness and motivated others in the church to give, along with getting the word out to other congregations. -- more --
NORTH WEBSTER, Ind. – Right here – Right now – Right future, the Campaign for the Camping Ministry at Epworth Forest Conference Center in North Webster took a giant step toward reality this week with the Indiana Conference Trustees and the Conference Council on Finance and Administration (CFA) approving an Indiana Conference Camping Board request to begin construction of the first new lodge at Epworth Forest. The lodge will be located on the site of the old amphitheater with construction beginning immediately. In a conservation move, the concrete from the amphitheater will be crushed and used in the foundation of the new lodge. -- more --
