NCUMC members,
Jack and Dee Boreing,
are missionaries coordinating Katrina recovery in coastal Mississippi. We continue to send teams to help in this long-term work.

MISSION NEWS


We will ship three barrels of school supplies for the kids in Sierra Leone at as soon as they are filled!

Want to help?

Praise the Lord for the work of
Joshua International Ministries!
 


for more info, contact Ruth Hall

Ways to Help in the Haiti Earthquake recovery:

• Pray for the people of Haiti and for all the first responders working now.
• Pray for Rev. Albert Melifaite and the congregation of First Haitian Church (Atlanta Roswell District). Rev. Melifaite has extensive family in Port au Prince and he has been unable to contact them. Many in the congregation are in similar circumstances.
• Give to the UMCOR advance through our church using NGA Fund 4183, Haiti Emergency. Mail to Conference Treasurer's Office, PO Box 102417, Atlanta, GA 30368-2471.
• Prepare Health Kits for survivors. A $12 kit can be a real blessing to those in recovery. Click for info on Kits.
•The latest and best UMC response information can be found on the UMCOR website and the UMVIM website and our Conference web site.
• Consider organizing a trained work team for deployment later in the year to help rebuild.  Teams now are not appropriate.
• Contact your District Disaster Response Coordinator (listed at www.ngumc.org/disaster_response) for guidelines and requirements for team work.

MISSISSIPPI

New Covenant has been working with folks in need in Mississippi, Sierra Leone, la Union, Mexico and around our community (including our new Food Pantry and BACKPACK Program) for several years.

For several years teams from New Covenant worked at homes on the Mississippi coast and with a church in Mexico, and will work again, helping families return to their homes some four years after the storm's passing.

In 7 days, by God's grace, we framed a house in our parking lot (with a lot of help from area churches!), shipped it to Mississippi, and dried it in completely. Praise the Lord! Click for more...


click to learn more!


5 years of service in Mexico

click below for pictures from the
SGA UMVIM team in June 2008
  1. slide show 1(by Joe Hamilton)
  2. slide show 2 (by Judy Wood)

Pray for our hosts, sister Juanita, our brother Ferny, and the church in la Union.

After five years of service with our brothers and sisters in la Unión we praise God for what He has done.

Our hosts in Mississippi have been powerful witnesses to God's grace through the deepest tragedies, as evidenced in the poetry of homeowner Angie Jeter of Pascagoula:

"One Hot August Day"
We all knew she was coming
all we could do is pray
for the wrath she might bring
on that hot August day.

We didn't leave because 
my family chose to stay
nobody believed what was
really coming our way.
to read the entire poem and its powerful narrative of survival, click here.

Click for more info about God's grace at work in GA & MS!
click for a slide show of your team at work

If you are interested in serving on a future team, send us an email at ncumc@newcovumc.com

NCUMC is committed to service to our community, our schools, and our children.

To learn more about how you can join us in reaching out beyond the church doors to meet needs locally, regionally, nationally and around the world, email us at ncumc@newcovumc.com