Ramp Project Once Again a Huge Success!!

 

What a wonderful experience we had at our Second Annual VUMC Youth Ramp-it-up project, helping in the mission field within our own community.  The weather was perfect and the youth involved were great workers, giving 110% to getting this project done. I can’t say enough about the leaders and how well we worked together, and kept the youth involved every step of the way to get this ramp built in one day.

 

The ramp itself has one section 18’ long that comes down to a 5’ x 7’5 1/2” turn around platform, with a return section that is 11’ long. The woman we built this for, Judy, has not been able to leave her home without    assistance in 3 years. The Broome County Council of Churches, Greg Jenkins and the VUMC should be very pleased with this wonderful program, it is very rewarding, and it is amazing how this becomes a life changing moment to  someone that receives one of these ramp’s. Definitely a God moment and the glory goes to him for giving us the         opportunity to serve.

                                                                Jim Londa, Mission Team

 

 

CHOW FOOD COLLECTION - ON-GOING

Suggested items include:

(no glass containers please!)

SPAGHETTI SAUCE

PASTA

CANNED FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

CANNED MEATS

CEREALS - HOT AND COLD

CANNED CHILI

DRIED MASHED POTATOES

PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY/JAM

PACKAGED RICE

CANNED FRUIT JUICES

THANKSGIVING FIXINGS -  NON-PERISHABLE

CANNED TUNA

SOAP

SHAMPOO

TOOTHPASTE/TOOTHBRUSHES

TOILET PAPER

TISSUES

DIAPERS

THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY IN HELPING YOUR NEIGHBORS IN NEED!

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To see regular updates from Pastor Mike, in Haiti, until November 2010:     

                       www.HaitiPartnership.com
                                   

HAITI MISSION - EARTHQUAKE!

A bulletin has been prepared to help provide information about how individuals and churches can help in the wake of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. It can be downloaded from the Upper New York website, but is not specific to New York. It will serve equally to help provide information in Pennsylvania. 

Swift, Effective Relief for the People of Haiti

For years, Haiti has been devastated by hurricanes, flooding, political violence and major earthquakes. Already a country living in extreme poverty, the massive earthquake on January 12, 2010 has caused incalculable loss of human life and destruction to the homes and livelihoods of millions of people.

When disaster strikes, it can be overwhelming to know what to do and where to offer our help. The United Methodist Church is a worldwide body, and our global connections allow the church’s relief efforts to be on the ground in places where need is great almost immediately. In addition, because the administrative costs of the United Methodist Committee on Relief and the Advance (both operating under the General Board of Global Mission) are funded by the generosity of local United Methodist churches, 100% of donations given go directly to the designated relief effort.

You can help.

Financial gifts to support UMCOR’s Haiti Relief efforts can be made through your local United Methodist Church (designate Haiti Emergency, UMCOR Advance #418325 on your check or envelope) or online at www.umcor.org. You give with the security of knowing that 100% of your donation will go to support relief and development efforts addressing the disaster in Haiti.

In addition to monetary support, The United Methodist Church is working in other ways to support the people of Haiti (reverse).

Remember, you can give 100% of your gift to relief efforts through your local UMC or online at www.umcor.org.

Health Kits

Health kits are an easy hands-on way to assemble and ship some basic necessities. A health kit consists of a hand towel, washcloth, standard sized comb, nail file or clippers, bar of soap, toothbrush, 6 adhesive plastic strip sterile bandages, placed in a sealed one-gallon plastic bag.  $1 for toothpaste and $1.50 for shipping (in a separate envelope attached to the outside of the plastic bags. )

Ask at your local United Methodist Church about collecting health kits and other resources for Haiti.

VESTAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH IS A COLLECTION SITE.

Volunteers In Mission

There will be a great need for volunteers to travel to Haiti and help rebuild once the initial crisis has settled. At this time, however, it is not safe or possible for volunteers to go to Haiti. People wishing to volunteer should coordinate within local churches and contact their jurisdictional Volunteers In Mission coordinator to determine when and how to respond.

Prayer

Please pray for all of the people affected by the earthquake in Haiti, for those who have lost loved ones, and the millions of survivors still in need of medical attention, food, and water.

Pass it on

Learn more about The United Methodist Church’s relief efforts online at www.umc.org.

You can download the PDF form by going to: www.uppernewyork.org

The bulletin mentions a need for Health Kits. Mission Central, the mission warehouse located in Mechanicsburg, PA, is sending more than 13-thousand of these kits next week and would be glad for more to be able to send. For information on how to provide kits or the materials needed to create them, you can go to:

www.missioncentral.org

If you do not have access to a computer, please call the church office for copies of lists for materials for health kits and updates about Haiti. Vestal UMC will be a collection site for Health Kits. 

To contribute funds, please make checks payable to Vestal United Methodist Church/Haiti Relief or “UMCOR-Advance #418325”.

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PROJECT BROOME HOPE

The Emergency Assistance Program of the Broome County Council of Churches provides a Hope Closet to assist individuals in need of personal care items. They presently need Soap, Deodorant, Feminine Hygiene products, and razors. Items left in the Vestal UMC office will be taken to BCCC at the next CHOW pick-up.

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