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Global Mission OpportunitiesWHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOD CALLING ME TO DO?Mission Volunteer Trips Please explore the General Board of Global Ministries’ website to learn how United Methodist missions and ministries connect with each other throughout the world. The Get Connected button will help orient you quickly and will give you opportunities to sign up for news about worldwide UM missions and ministries, according to your specific interests, that will be sent to your e-mail. New in MissionsTeam to Palestine/Israel Looking For Team Members Team Leader: Diane Miller, WPA Mission/VIM Coordinator
Leah's trip focused on working with, worshipping with, and spending time getting to know both Christian and Communist Cubans alike. They heard many educational presentations concerning the embargo between Cuba and the US, Christianity in Cuba, and the government's influence in Cuba. They went to the Bay of Pigs and Havana. Leah said, "It was life changing!--It changed the way we look at Cuba, our faith, ourselves, other people from different cultures." Picture & Article Submitted by, Karen Hoffman For Young Adults (19-25) through the Global Justice Volunteers ProgramBeach Lake United Methodist Church supported Rachel Ann Barnhart, a young adult from the Owego UMC, in her summer 2007 Global Justice Volunteer experience at the Asian Rural Institute in Japan. Rachel is now a Master of Divinity Student at Union Theological Seminary and a ministry candidate in the Wyoming Annual Conference. An article about the 2007 summer Global Justice Volunteers, may be found at Additional information about the Asian Rural Institute may be found at http://www.ari-edu.org/english/index.html Volunteer opportunities for Older Adults (50+) In the spring of 2007 Gail and Jerry Reining filled the back of their pickup truck, with items donated from Beach Lake UMC, and headed to Frakes, KY, to spend a week with volunteers from across the country at the Henderson Settlement. For more information go to http://new.gbgm-umc.org/about/us/mv/programs/primetimers/ Henderson SettlementThe Henderson Settlement (located in Frakes, KY) has been receiving Campbell Soup labels from our congregation for many mànths now. The most recent shipments have supplied backpacks and school supplies for children going back to school there. Gail & Gerry Reining went to Henderson Settlement earlier this year on a mission trip. They filled their pick-up truck to the brim with supplies that were on the Settlement’s “wish list” thanks to their willingness and the giving hearts of this congregation and community. Volunteer opportunities in HaitiOrganizations that Beach Lake UMC supports:Habitat for Humanity
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Sunday, 07-06-07, Leah Buxton of Honesdale, gave an enthusiastic Moment of Mission at two morning services at the Beach Lake United Methodist Church, about her Mission of Peace trip to Cuba, associated with the Northeastern Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church. Her Mission was a peace-building oriented mission trip for youth with the goal of filling gaps of understanding between people of different cultures. There were 22 youth and 3 adults on this trip. The Mission of Peace goes to countries that the US may not have good relationships with or that may not have much of a relationship at all.
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In the fall of 2006, Beach Lake UMC began to support the UMCOR Coffee Project by serving Equal Exchange coffee during the fellowship time after the 10:15 service. Church members began to ask if they could place orders through the church. By January of 2007, the Mission Committee realized that Equal Exchange coffee, tea and chocolate was something that people in the congregation and community were buying enough of, and valued enough, that they decided to keep all Equal Exchange products in stock. Thus far people have been purchasing an average of well over $100 of Equal Exchange products per week through BLUMC. 
Unit of the General Board of Global Ministries issued an appeal to fund UM pastors in Laos, who do not have an education beyond the 6th grade, to attend a Bible training school in Thailand. The cost was $600 annually per pastor. BLUMC responded immediately by adopting a pastor. 
