MISSION  PAGE
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1. UMW
2. All Church Mission
3. Liberia- LiberIa Mission Report
5. Local Mission-Food pantry-Thrift Shop
6. Krueger  Mission Update-Pictures
7. Other Mission Outreachs
8. Red Bird Mission

UMW
United Methodist Women have an ongoing Mission outreach throughout the year with a membership of 32. Meetings are held bimonthly with a special Prayer and Self Denial program each year at which time a special offering is given which is used to help finance women and children needs in poverty areas of the world. Members particiapate in a Secret Sister program with a catered dinner in October. A reading program is also encouraged. During the year health, sewing and school kits are put together and in October they are taken to the District meeting to later be shipped to a distribution point where they are then sent to wherever there is a need.
Below for your convenience are listed the items needed for Health, School and Sewing Kits. A drive is made annually in October for these kits and over 1000 were made by members from the Port Huron District this year. This is an ongoing year around outreach in which the UMW is involved. Our church took nine school kits, nine health kits and six sewing kits to the Annual meeting held at Bad Axe this year.
Health kits: 1 hand towel, 1 wash cloth, 1 sturdy regular style comb, 1 pair clippers, 1 large bar of soap, 1 packaged toothpaste, 1 packaged toothbrush, 6 adhesive band-aids. Wrap items in the towel and place in a zip lock plastic bag.
School Kits: 1 pr blunt scissors, 2 pads 8x11 ruled paper, 1 twelve inch ruler, 1 pencil sharpener, 6 unsharpened pencils with erasers, 1 two and one half inch eraser, 12 sheets construction paper, Box of 8 crayons. Place in a 12x14 inch cloth bag with handles. These bags can be used for back packs.
Sewing Kits: 3 yards of cotton or cotton blend solid color or print fabric, 1 package of needles, 1 spool of thread, 6 matching buttons, 1 pair scissors. Wrap sewing notions in the fabric and place in a zip lock

ALL CHURCH MISSION
In addition to the UMW we have a Mission Committee which makes Mission decisions for the church. Crystal Roggenbuck and Barbara Thompson are the Co-Mission Leaders. Missionaries shown below are some of those whom our Church helps.
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LIBERIA
Heritage has always been interested and involved in the church in Liberia. Now we have been assigned a specific church in that Country. It is the Gwissken UM church in Grand Gedeh county which appears to be one of the largest counties in Liberia. This country located on the western coast of Africa on the Atlantic Ocean, has been ravished with civil war for the past 14 years and in many parts of the country there is a lack of running water and electricity. We ask for prayers for the sister church we have been assigned and for the Pastor of this church, Rev. Samson Dartu. Also pray for the new leader of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf who was recently elected. She is the first woman to be elected the leader of an African nation. She is a Harvard-educated banker and so, her supporters say she was the perfect person to get the economy of Liberia up and running. Others also said the country needed a healing, woman's touch after being destroyed by the men.
LIBERIA MISSION TRIP REPORT
The Mission team from the District that went to Liberia were not able to visit the Grand Gedeh District where our assigned church is located because of the rainy season which made the roads impassable. However, their new District Superintendent, Rev. Fannah T. Tartieh, was able to travel to Monrovia to greet the team. There is a great need for the rebuilding of churches, parsonages and schools that were destroyed during the civil war. It is hoped that we will be able to send work teams to aid in construction and also medical and educational teams sometime in 2008. This is in the planning stages now. The visit gave them hope that they were not forgotten. More recently we have a way now to be in touch with the district superintendents from each of the three districts by Email. However, they have to travel to Monrovia (The Capital City) to receive the mail and pay for time at the cafe to download the messages. We can contact the District Superintendent from our Distirct, Rev. Fannah Tartieh at : revfannah@yahoo.com Also now, Liberia has a Radio Station. Although it is just a small 300 watt service, the United Methodists are now broadcasting in Monrovia. They currently broadcast during the daytime hours until 5:00 PM. Through it messages of healing, love and reconciliation will be broadcast to bring encouragement to the people.

LOCAL MISSION-FOOD PANTRY ~ THRIFT SHOP
The Food Pantry is open the last Tuesday of each month from 3 pm to 4 pm. The Thrift Shop is open each week on Wednesday and Friday from 10 am to 4 pm. It is located one block north of the only stoplight in Snover on the west side in the former UM church. Call the office during the office hours of 10 AM to 1 PM for further information. Phone number 810 672 9101.

LATEST KRUEGER UPDATE-April 12, 2008
Greetings from Guinea, West Africa!
It's a bright sunny day here.  It was 62 degrees this morning but will be 102 by mid afternoon.   This is the end of dry season here, four more weeks to go before it rains.  Certain flowers that bloom only in this season are brilliant  in contrast to the brown of the grass and bushes.  People are in dire straits.  Their food reserves are desperately low.  Any reserve of money must be saved for seed and fertilizer when the rains come.  People are doing their best to just survive.  It's hard to realize the struggle for life in other countries till you see their need in front of you. One lady just left here, fed and with the medicine she needs.  We also read to her the story of the sick lady in the Bible who said to herself, " If I could just touch the him of his garment, I will be made whole."  We explained how we can come to Christ and find healing for body and soul.  We prayed for her to have faith in God.  Now we pray that God will heal her and show Himself to her.  Please join with us in prayer for her and her family.  We call her  Neene, which means Mother.
     We also have another prayer request.  We have been doing our best to get the mobile clinic up and running.  We have run into two glitches.....the health department has turned down our request several times saying our request wasn't specific enough.  This is a ploy they use to extract bribes from people.  He wants Mark to give him a  computer we think or money, but we don't give bribes.  So we are
asking our prayer partners to join us in prayer. If this is God's will that we get into more of a medical ministry, may He open this guys heart to give the needed permission.    Secondly, we just found out that the government has made a new ruling that each medical work is required to have a licensed Guinean medical person on the pay roll.  We need to check on what exactly the ruling is and pray for the right person to join us.  It could be a blessing or could be a real hindrance. YOUR PRAYERS MAKE A DIFFERENCE!  So please join with us in prayer as we seek for God's direction and an open door.
    Let us know what is going on Stateside and keep us informed on prayer issues at church.  We take an extended time on Wednesday for prayer.  It is such a privilege to bring our requests to the Almighty God and know that He hears us.   Praise God for you who will stand with us in prayer to see the nations come to Him!    May He hear your requests and  answer abundantly.  May the answers He sends cause us to rejoice greatly and bring much glory to the Lord our God!  I so long to see God working  with power in our midst...don't you?  Little prayer equals little results.  Lot's of prayer equals lots of results.  "Without Me you can do nothing," He told us.  SO let's pray greatly and see God's hand move greatly in our midst!  YOUR PRAYERS MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
We long to hear from you all. 

Your missionary co-workers,
Mark and Dee Krueger