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UMVIM Team Leader Training

Training
Location Category: Local
Location: New Life UMC
Starts: 4/10/2010 Ends: 4/10/2010

9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (ET) Penny Krug will be the trainer for these sessions.

Who should attend? Leaders and/or participants of work teams, youth leaders

What is the cost? $15 person which includes lunch and basic materials plus $25 for VIM Training Manual (only 1 needed per church).

Topics include: How to plan a mission trip, where to go when your church wants to send a team, spiritual enrichment, being a team member, cultural sensitivity, insurance and liability forms regardless of where you go, issues of risk, and answers to questions.

Register now.

Contact: Bonnie Albert bonkay@hotmail.com

Disaster Early Response Training

Disaster Response
Location Category: Local
Location: New Life UMC
Starts: 4/10/2010 Ends: 4/10/2010

DISASTER EARLY RESPONSE TRAINING will be provided by: Disaster Response and United Methodist Volunteer in Mission Coordinators and the Indiana Conference United Methodist Church Mission Resource Team. The training will be offered Saturday, April 10 at New Life United Methodist Church near Mexico, Ind. Coffee and snacks from 8:30 to 8:45 a. Training from 8:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

UMCOR Trainer Rick Hill. Who should attend? All persons interested in Early Disaster Response work, pastors, District Disaster Response Coordinators.

Cost is $25, includes snacks, lunch and materials.

Register online here.

Download a PDF to mail in here.

For more information, contact Gary Peterson (gphome.1@verizon.net) or call 260-437-1310 or Bonnie Albert (bonkay@hotmail.com) or 219-464-1447.

Operation Classroom VIM Trip to Africa

Operation Classroom
Location Category: International
Location: Sierra Leone
Country: Sierra Leone
Starts: 5/2/2010 Ends: 5/23/2010
To Koidu - University of Indianapolis, Lang Brownlee, team leader

Operation Classroom VIM Trip to Africa

Operation Classroom
Location Category: International
Location: Sierra Leone
Country: Sierra Leone
Starts: 6/12/2010 Ends: 7/15/2010
Constructing a school for the blind –Les and Hope Law, team leaders

Operation Classroom VIM Trip to Africa

Operation Classroom
Location Category: International
Location: Liberia
Country: Liberia
Starts: 6/21/2010 Ends: 7/6/2010
Tubman-Gray School - Especially for College Students

Operation Classroom VIM Trip to Africa

Operation Classroom
Location Category: International
Location: Liberia
Country: Liberia
Starts: 6/22/2010 Ends: 7/8/2010
Teaching seminar on reading, phonics and writing (elementary level)

Operation Classroom VIM Trip to Africa

Operation Classroom
Location Category: International
Location: Liberia
Country: Liberia
Starts: 7/20/2010 Ends: 8/1/2010
Teaching seminar on reading, phonics and writing (elementary level)

Operation Classroom VIM Trip to Africa

Operation Classroom
Location Category: International
Location: Sierra Leone
Country: Sierra Leone
Starts: 7/25/2010 Ends: 8/3/2010
Construction project to be decided –Kay Hess, team leader

Operation Classroom VIM Trip to Africa

Operation Classroom
Location Category: International
Location: Liberia
Country: Liberia
Starts: 9/7/2010 Ends: 9/27/2010
Kay Zeigler and Bob Evans Leaders, Construction project to be decided