"Haiti" Mission Scheduled for August ! 

Maple Street UMC                            Rev. Don Meadows                                Telephone:
438 E. Wheeling St.                            411 Baldwin Dr.                                           Office
Lancaster OH 43130                          Lancaster OH 43130                             (740) 687-6384

Missions At Home Pumpkin Pickers

Missions Abroad

Missions Committee Blankets

Global Ministry BAKE SALE

Volunteers In Mission

Margaret Hepner, Sue Mendell and Kathie Fosnaugh work together in making dresses for the children in Haiti.  Another sewing day was held Feb. 21, 2001.

Courtney and Sabrina Montanye model dresses being made by the ladies for Haitian children

Gay Seifert cuts cloth for dresses

Members of the Maple Street Missions Committee celebrating the Blanket Sunday Offering are (from left) Janet Meadows, Jim Shoemaker, Bonita Shoemaker, Ariana Whaley, Helen Parcels, Estella Flowers, Melinda Noland, Norma Woltz, Judy Haley, Norma Lytle, Mary Ricketts and Brett Ricketts.  Also at the meeting on Feb. 12, 2001 was Chuck Haley, who had to leave before the picture was taken.  Other members of the committee are Joyce Melick, Nancy Ward, Jim Lehman, Robert and Eleanor McBroom, Mike Williams, Paula Morrow, Brenda Kincaid and Todd Noland.

Maple Street Folk Answer Call for 'Hugs' Challenged to give warm "hugs," Maple Street United Methodist Church  will give at least 146  as big as a blanket.  The special offering on Feb. 11 was $730, which will go to Church World Service.  It is one of the more popular efforts at Maple Street. The next major emphasis for the Mission Committee will be the One Great Hour of Sharing Offering -- which enables the United Methodist Committee on Relief  (UMCOR) to conduct its immediate reaction to disasters world-wide.

  A 'Volunteer in Mission' urges you

The  purpose of this partnership is to send a team of medical people to Nuevo Progreso, Mexico, four times a year to provide  basic medical care to the people of this  impoverished community. It is a small border town just across the Rio Grande River from Mercedes, Texas.

While the people of this small community are very close-knit and loving, they are barely scraping out a living in unbelievable conditions of poverty.  Most of them live in a simple one-room home, small shacks of scrap wood with no electricity or running  water.

The  clinic  in  Nuevo  Progreso  is called "Branches of Faith  Medical Clinic."  It is totally free and located in a  non-denominational church.  Volunteers see medical cases  ranging from diabetes and its complications, hypertension, dermatitis, parasites, worms to pregnancy.  Each mission team   includes physicians, nurses, pharmacists, translators, a cook and  general helpers.

Volunteering is a life-changing experience.  Your life will never be  the same.  Be willing to make yourself available.  Then God will open the doors and direct the path you should take.  It could be  Nuevo Progreso, Mexico, another country, or in your own  neighborhood.

I  encourage you to be willing to leave your comfort zone to risk the unknown and let go of fears and doubts.  Once you make the commitment, God begins the miracle of  change in you. Your focus becomes more of God and less of youself.

My first mission trip was to Nuevo Progreso, Mexico, in September 1998, then again in October 1999.  I am planning  to join a team in the year 2000.  The mission trips to Mexico  and sharing my nursing skills is teaching me to be a better servant in the name of Jesus.  Not to seek selfish gain but for Jesus to be glorified.
 
 

	Missions Work Team had bake sale booth at Farmers Market in July	Mission Work Team Bake Sale click on pictures to make them bigger
	Janet Meadows, seated right, is chair of the Missions Team... With her is Diane Nusser	THE SECRET: Why churches can be so successful!  Margaret and Ed Robbins (at right), Ramona Franks and Helen Parcels shop at the bake sale to buy back what they helped provide.
Despite a danger of profits being consumed on the spot, the Mission Team earned more than $230 to help underwrite their 2002 projects without using budgeted funds.  Oh, keeping inventory in hand at right is Mitch Nusser, chair of the Finance Mission Team and Diane's better-half.		Daughter Whitney Nusser (standing right) tells dad how it is done, as he begins setting up the canopy for the Mission Work Team Bake Sale at the Farmer's Market.  Also pictured are (from left) Helen Parcels, Janet Meadows and Diane Nusser.

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