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1. UMW
2. All Church Mission
3. Liberia 
4. Heritage Food Pantry and Thrift Shop
5. Krueger Mission Update
6. Other Mission Outreachs
7. Red Bird Mission

UMW-UNITED METHODIST WOMEN 
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 2010 items needed for Health, School and Sewing Kits. A drive is made annually in October for these kits and usually over are were each 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 last year. (PLEASE NOTE CHANGES. BY FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS. IT SAVES THOSE PACKING THESE ITEMS A GREAT DEAL OF WORK))
Health kits: 1 hand towel (15"x25" upto 17"x27") (No kitchen towels), 1 wash cloth, 1 sturdy regular style comb, not pocket sized,1 nail file or fingernail clippers (no emery boards or toenail clippers), 1 bath size bar of soap, 1 packaged, sealed, (single) toothbrush, adult size, 6 adhesive plastic strip sterile bandages, $1.00 to purchase toothpaste (they will purchase) Wrap items in the towel and place in a 1 gallon sealed plastic bag. (value $12)
School Kits: 1 pr blunt scissors( rounded tip), 3 pads (or loose leaf) 8x11 ruled paper, 1 30 centimeter ruler, 1 hand held pencil sharpener, 6 unsharpened pencils with erasers, 1 two and one half inch eraser, 1 Box of 24 crayons(only 24). Place in a 12x14 inch cloth bag with handles. These bags can be used for back packs. (Note: The cloth bag information was not given so assume it is the same as previous years. Check out first.)
Sewing Kits: 3 yards of cotton or cotton blend solid color or print fabric (Must be 3 yards of uncut fabric), 1 pair sewing scissors, 1 package of needles, 1 spool of thread, 5-8 matching buttons, Wrap sewing notions in the fabric and place in a sealed one gallon plastic bag. (Value $18)
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
Below is a letter from Rev. Morrison Wleh in Liberia. He is one of our main contacts in that country.
Dear Rev. Paige:Greetings in Christ.
We had a very successful annual conference with many delegates from the following confernces: Oklahoma, Detroit, Holston, Norway, Germany, the Newly elected Bishop of Sierra Leone Conference and the former Bishop of LAC, the Rev. Dr. Bannie D. Warner.

On Sunday evening, 22nd of February, I will be taking back Nana Kru delegations to Sinoe with our newly purchased vehicle(Used) with funds from the Vermilion River District.Then be back on Wednesday, February 25 for cabinet meeting on 27 of February with the Bishop. I will inform the district of your departure as district superintendent at our fisrt gathering in March and the people will not be happy. But this how the UMC works. All what you need to do is praying for one another for a successful ministry, good health and long life. Indeed, we will surely miss you as DS but not as personal friend. |
Mary and the children are doing well and God grace is with us always. Sad news from the conference: At the end of our conference, rogue broke into the room through the window in Gbarnga and took away my camera, conference documents, including 2 cell phones. Anyway, the case was reported to the local CID in Gbarnga. Whatever it was, we pray God because my life was at risk at that moment.
May God guide us always as we do ministry together.
Your brother in Christ,
Morrison 
Heritage and 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 is located on the western coast of Africa on the Atlantic Ocean. Due to a long civil war now over, 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. 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. Our District raised a total of $25,073.13 for Liberia and it has been sent to the Liberia Annual Conference of Grand Gedeh, Nana Kru and Sinoe districts. time. 

HERITAGE  ~  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.
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 NEW MISSION LETTER FROM THE KRUEGERS
Dear Praying friends, August 2010                                                                                                              
     We are now back in Guinea in our little town after what seems like a whirlwind time there in the U.S. We sincerely enjoyed our time speaking in churches in the Midwest district.  We ministered also to a great many of our Latin American brothers and sisters while in the Northeastern states. We had some great times with churches in the Southeastern district and even got to minister to some of our Canadian brethren while up in Alberta, Canada. All that in just six months!!
      We welcome all of you joining our email network now for the first time. Our hope is that you will also join us in prayer with our long time prayer partners.  
      We had a great time too with our families. Spending time with  them again.
     Now we are back with many of old friends and colleagues here and trying to be the Light of the Gospel that God desires us to be in this needy place. We had a brief two weeks with our partner's JD and Emily and family before they left the end of July to begin a year of Home Ministry. We miss them already but know that they will be used of the Lord for promoting the work here. They had the joy of seeing one of their soccer team players accept the gift of salvation just before their departure and also about that same time we prayed with one of our long time friends here to also accept God's greatest gift. We believe that God is beginning to bring a harvest to this land. This is happening in the midst of a political reformation of the government as the country is holding elections for president this summer.
    We have several different opportunities to show Christ's love here, one way has been through Dee's English classes which she has just restarted this past week. Another way is through care of sick and burn patients that come to our door for help. We are  really wanting to seek God's desires for our ministry for these next two years, not just doing what comes at us. We have decided that we are going to make prayer a priority and spend time daily seeking His desire and then let the day flow from His direction. Please pray that we will be able to continue to do this when others and especially Satan would try to derail us from this.
      There have been some nice surprises and some not so nice ones for us since getting back. We arrived here and found out that the town power station had a major technical problem and so there has been no power now for the past three months. So we are having to rely on our solar powered system for the present and that can be difficult in the rainy season when it is cloudy a good part of the day. That also means not having a freezer so we have to plan our meals around ingredients we can use fresh or canned to prepare them. We had a nice surprise in learning that we can now do internet from a little memory stick type of modem from the cell phone company. It is not fast but it works right from our home. Dee has had several health issues that have been plaguing her since our return. The latest was that she was stung by a scorpion on Friday while out visiting the shortwave radio site. She had a lot of pain for the first 6 hours but God answered prayer and she was able to sleep. Today it is continuing to get better but still not quite back to normal. We are sensing that Satan wants to use these different ailments to discourage and distract us from what God is doing here. So we ask you to join us in prayer for the following requests.
   Prayer Points:
Pray for us to remain focused and attentive to what God is leading or directing us to do.
Pray for the right Pular speaker to help us record Oral Bible stories.
Pray for health and safety as we serve here.Praise God for those that He is leading to Himself. Pray for good discipleship for them.
Pray for divine opportunities through our various ongoing activities(English classes, computer center, medical ministries).
Praise God that our daughter Rachel was able to find employment.
Pray for all of our children as they seek God's guidance as they take the next steps in their careers.
Thanks so much for supporting us through your gifts and prayers. We cannot do this work alone, we need you to be alert and prayerful for the work here in Guinea. May God bless us all as we serve Him faithfully.  Your financial support helps keep more than 800 workers with CMA on their fields of service.  Address: Christian & missionary Alliance, Box 35000, Colorado Springs, CO. 80935-3500
Through Christ's Love,
Mark and Dee Krueger