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Summer ’08
Twenty-five kids and six adults are preparing to spend a week
helping the needy in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, June 9-13, 2008. The cost of
the trip can sound imposing -- $10,300 – but ZUM’s willingness to chip is
legendary! Each student will pay $100 and raise the rest of their necessary
funds through various fund-raising activities.
We will be traveling in vans, staying in a church
overnight on the way there and back, and then bunking in army-style huts at the
beach at Mission on the Bay’s Christ Episcopal Church. The youth will be
assigned various jobs while on site, depending on skill levels. They’ll travel
to their work sites at 9 a.m. every day, and then return about 4:30 p.m. Dinner
and worship will be in the evening.
ZUM WORKERS TRAVEL TO KENTUCKY
By Kim D.
Camp O Cumberland in southern Kentucky saw
its first team of ZUM workers arrive on Monday, October 1st. The Redbird Mission
site is part of the United Methodist Conference.
Fourteen ZUM workers went down the first week in October in
three shifts with the final team returning late on Saturday evening, October
6th. ZUM workers have made previous trips to Redbird and are familiar with its
needs.
The remote site, sandwiched between two mountains, needed
some additions and upgrades to be completed by the ZUM workers.
Work included adding a 10x10 office to a house that was built
around 1999. By the end of the week the addition was roofed, sided, and dry
walled ready for dry wall mud and paint.
The second project involved replacing the shingled roof on
the girl’s dorm building with a metal one. The original roof held too much
moisture in the dense vegetation and needed a more durable roofing solution.
The final project had the men installing an air conditioner
to the supply building.
Tim A. was happy to report there were no injuries and the
group spent their evenings enjoying group fellowship and the beautiful setting.
Thanks to all the gentlemen who took their time, talents, and
tools out of state to assist in such a worthwhile cause.
CHURCH MISSIONS COMMITTEE NEWS
Be sure to look over the missions bulletin board in the hallway to the
fellowship hall. The Missions Committee has done a wonderful job of displaying
the various missions our church supports with our prayers and money from the Ft.
Wayne area to Kentucky, to Haiti to Africa. There are pictures of ZUM people and
others we know who work in the mission fields.
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UMCOR PROJECT
(UNITED METHODISTS COMMITTEE ON RELIEF)
ZUM HEALTH KITS
In memory of all of those who lost their lives in the September
attacks, we are collecting HEALTH KITS. These kits will be distributed
around the world to
people in need through UMCOR.
Each kit will include:
1 hand towel
1 wash cloth
1 regular size comb (not pocket-size)
1 nail file or nail clipper
1 bath size bar of soap in original wrapper
1 large tube of toothpaste (no sample size or travel sizes)
1 toothbrush in original sealed package
6 adhesive bandages (Band-aids)
Please place all donated articles into the MISSION TUBS IN THE
FELLOWSHIP HALL. The kits will be constructed, if not already done so,
and shipped to UMCOR for world-wide distribution.
Each kit is to be constructed by wrapping the new items in the hand
towel, tie it with string or yarn, place the bundle into a sealed,
one-gallon plastic bag with a zipper closure. |
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