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1. UMW
2. All Church Mission
3. Liberia- Liberia Mission Report- 
4. Local Mission-Food pantry-Thrift Shop
5. Krueger Mission Update-Pictures-Jan 2010
6. Other Mission Outreachs
7. Red Bird Mission

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 2009 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 in 2008. 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. 

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.
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KRUEGER'S MISSION LETTER January- 2010
Dear friends and family,    We don't know where to begin this letter so probably the best place to start is the beginning.  We have been involved in a very hectic schedule the past three months.  In our ministry, we were involved in several different areas of ministry.  We held three different eyeglass clinics in three different towns during that time with the result being that over 300 people received some type of verbal and visible witness of the love of Jesus and also received a scripture portion to take home and read     Dee was involved with her English classes and Oral Bible preparation work.  She was able to use a very simple method of Christmas cookies that were the different symbols of Christ's birth to tell the Gospel to our friends and her English class students.  They were very receptive to that way of hearing the good news at this holiday season. We also have been busy helping to get preparations done for the short wave radio transmitter that will be built here in our town so that they can rebroadcast the programming from our FM station in Conakry to all of the rest of the country.  J.D. (our colleague) has been working on the preparation of the property for the installation and Mark has been helping to get the technical aspects of the signal transmission in place. 
    We were kept busy with activities right up to our departure for our six month home assignment on December 19th.  Due to the inclement weather in New York, we ended up taking four days to travel home and lost our luggage for a week.  However, we did make it safe and sound and our luggage eventually showed up without damage or theft.  We are now taking two weeks to make the rounds of seeing our kids and other family members before heading off on our speaking tours.  This time we will be speaking in the Midwest district of the C&MA specifically in the state of Indiana.  Then we will finish our tour schedule by speaking for about two weeks in the New York city area among the Eastern Spanish district churches there. (No, we haven't learned Spanish but this district desires to partner with our Guinea field.) Following those engagements, we hope to be in our own home in Fla. for at least a few weeks.        
Some have been wondering about the political climate in Guinea.  All we can say is that life goes on for the normal citizen as they just try to make their daily bread.  Eventually there will be some sort of change that will happen, either peacefully or through violence.  Our prayers are that God will be glorified in this political quandary that they're in so that our people  will be kept safe.  
    We have taken advantage of the fast internet here in the U.S. to upload a video of our medical ministries in Guinea to Mark's Facebook page so if you would like to see that here is the link for it:       
      http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1329936207244&ref=mf
Please feel free to send us an email if you would like to get in contact with us while we are home till the end of June.  May God bless and keep you as you start out this new year of 2010.  
LEFT- Dee with one of her English students,
At the top is Mark doing an eye examination
In the center is Dee with her English students
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Prayer requests: 
1.  Pray that we will hear and pass on God's messages to the churches that we minister in during the next three months.
2.  Pray that God will enable the work on the new radio transmitter to be completed by the end of March and that He will keep the short term teams safe that come to work on it.
3.  Pray for wisdom as we consider taking on new interns and apprentices to work with us in Timbi.
4.  Pray for our daughter Rebekah as she prepares to leave for a three month study abroad tour of New Zeeland, Fiji islands, Australia and China.
5.  Pray that God will intervene in the political situation in Guinea to bring about peaceful elections and transition of goverment.
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." Jim Elliot 
Through Christ's love,
Mark & Dee Krueger