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The mission teams each year consist of about 15 to 20 people. The occupations vary from school cashier, teachers, to a retired nurse. We have a few teenagers but most are adults ranging in age from 20’s to 70’s. Most of the group has been on mission trips before, but they do have a few new members each year. Whether returning missionaries or new missionaries they are all very excited to go and share God’s love with those they may come in contact with. What we have seen is that the team members grow in their faith and in their walk with our Lord.
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The mission team traveled to Birmingham, Alabama from July 11-16, 2011!!
While in Birmingham the Mission Team worked at the Dream Center, an outreach of The Church of the Highlands in Birmingham Alabama, where they served an evening meal and attended Worship.
They helped at the Christian Service Mission in downtown Birmingham organizing Supplies for a day.
They spent the majority of their time working with Webster's Chapel Storm Troopers. Webster's Chapel was small town reminiscent of our own Baltimore. They were almost wiped off the map by the Tornadoes that hit Alabama on April 27, 2011.
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In 2008 they decided to continue their mission work locally. Local trips were planned to work at the UM Children's home and the church's Stoutsville Camp Cabin.
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In 2007 the team took another trip back to Montana to the Indian reservation, this time to Heart Butte, Montana. This church is part of the same charge that they served in 2005. They worked with the same Pastor as they worked with in 2005. The area had been damaged by high winds in the early winter of 2007, so they did repairs and served over 700 people at a youth day in Browning Montana. |
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In 2006 they went down on the Ohio River to Pomeroy, Ohio. This is a very depressed area that has many needs. Here they worked with a community center, God’s N.E.T. (Neighborhood Escape for Teens). They helped to make repairs to the community center and to put on a VBS. They also helped prepare food for the youth that came to VBS and for the teenagers that came each night to the community center. They also worked in the food pantry and thrift store that were part of the community center.
In 2005 the team went to Browning, Montana, to the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. They did work in and around the church and conducted VBS for around 40 children and then fed them an evening meal along with any family members that showed up. This meant that they fed and average of about 80-90 people each night.
In 2004 the team went to Southeast Kentucky, to Hindman UMC. While there they worked in the area painting homes and making repairs to those homes. A team of 15 were able to paint two homes and a trailer in 4 days. They also conducted Vacation Bible School each night.
In 2003 it was time to head up a mission team from New Zion. They gathered a team of 12 people from New Zion and 2 people from a church in Lancaster, Ohio and planned a trip to Anchorage, Alaska to work with East Anchorage UMC. While there they put on a Vacation Bible School, worked on the church, the church yard and visited a number of shut-ins. The team stayed in homes of the members of East Anchorage UMC. They had all ages on the mission team from 14-75. The team’s mission was to bring the love of God to the children and adults of that church and any one they came in contact with. God blessed them greatly! |
