Jamaican Spring
Building Relationships in Panama--two articles by Richard Lord.
New World Outlook's freelance photographer hooks up with a Volunteer in Mission group from Florida working in the town of Bath in Jamaica, and a combination medical and construction team from Tennessee working in Bocaron, Panama. Through interviews with team members, he discovers why team members volunteer for these trips--and keep returning year after year.
An Army of Volunteers, Texas Style by Christie House.
The Texas Conference recuits almost 2000 youth and adults every summer to work in the U.M. ARMY, a service corp of volunteers who work to improve the housing of low-income people in the Houston area. They develop more than strong muscles and tanned arms--they grow in the spirit as well.
Lee and Bonnie Adkins share their experiences from three mission trips they took last year-- to Mozambique, Bosnia, and as part of the very first volunteer team from the United States to Bulgaria.
Nomads--Workers on a Mission by Dayton Heins.
Have R.V. and tools--will travel. Heins reports on the experiences of his parents, who have
joined the ranks of retired Nomads On a Mission Active in Divine Service (NOMADS), a group that travels south in the winter and whose members volunteer their services to aid mission institutions.
Miracles in Palestine by Bob and Peggy Hannam and Shirley Jones.
United Methodist missionaries report on volunteer teams that have come to Israel to serve the Palestinian community in the occupied territories. Palestinian Christians passionately ask for United Methodists to support the Christian presence that has lived in Palestine since the time of Christ.
Sharing God's Love in Bosnia, Boyce Bowden.
The conference communicator for Oklahoma tells the story of a woman who vounteered to work on a team going to war-torn Bosnia. His interview reveals what she told her family to convince them, "I'm not crazy."
Cross-Cultural Mission Discovery by Linda Rhodes.
The Northern Illinois Conference turns mission volunteers upside-down (or inside-out) when they bring mission volunteers from Zimbabwe, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico to work on projects in the United States with Illinois youth in the Chicago area.
Ken and Iweeta McIntosh describe the first mission volunteer experiences that they coordinated in Hong Kong this year. No place is too far for mission volunteer travel, even the other side of the world.
In the Mission Stories column, Suzanne Paul discovers how volunteering in mission brings a whole new twist to life when participants begin the work after their retirement.
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