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Tell the story of your mission experience

Send a photo or two and story about how your team experienced God’s presence on your recent mission trip to LeKisha Reed.

UMVIM Team Leader Training

Opportunities for team leader training are available upon request. Contact the Indiana Conference VIM Coordinator to schedule a VIM Team Leader Training to come to your church, cluster or district.

Recovery/rebuild teams are needed after disasters

VIM Teams are needed for the rebuild following a disaster. Please check the following sources for places that may need teams.

• Indiana Conference Disaster Relief
• North Central Jurisdiction Disaster information
• Southeast Jurisdiction information

Places where VIM teams have been invited

VIM teams are ones who respond with love and compassion to any project that invites them to partner with them.

• List of all the USA Project list
• International Project List

VIM Insurance

Mission teams should go out with some kind of supplementary accident/health insurance. If your local church policy does not cover your team members, these two opportunities are open for teams.

• UMVIM Accident Insurance through GBGM which covers accidents only for 80 cents per day - click here. 
• Accident/health insurance for international teams only through North Central Jurisdiction UMVIM - click here. 

File a VIM Team Leader report upon your return

Statistical and summary information is requested from team leaders on each mission trip. Please file a copy with your local church to be used as data for the charge conference documents each year.

Forms

• Guidelines for UMVIM teams working with the Eglise Methodiste D’Haiti
• Volunteer Data Form (PDF, 1.06 MB)
• VIM Insurance Information
• VIM Team Member Forms (PDF, 135 kb)  
• Mission Team Report (PDF, 118 kb)to be completed by the team leader and submitted to the Conference)