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June 2004 Marion, Virginia Mission Trip Participants
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The last week in July, thirty-four First-Centenary United Methodist Women and Volunteers in Missions traveled to Marion, Virginia, to work with Harry Howe of Project Crossroads, a ministry to the needy in a five county area of Southwest Virginia. |
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| The group divided into four work teams. Teams 1 and 4 worked with four different families in an area called Roundtop in Saltville doing exterior and interior projects on their homes including deck repair, plumbing, roof and ceiling repairs, flooring, landscaping and painting, etc. Team 2 constructed a bathroom, making it handicap accessible for an elderly couple. |
Team 3 repaired and replaced the roof of a house in Chilhowie for an ill elderly couple. Katy Conklin and Tom Murphy prepared the meals. Dennis Flaugher coordinated morning devotions and evening vespers, led by several team members. The team stayed in Marion Middle School, relaxed with a cookout at Hungry Mother State Park, and hosted a gathering of the four other work teams, coming from as far away as Connecticut, who were working at Project Crossroads that week. |
While interacting with the families they were serving, team members made new friends, shared Christ’s love in tangible ways, and discovered that it is more blessed to give than to receive. | ||
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 Sixteen short term missioners returned from a one week VIM trip to Juarez, Mexico on November 1.The work site was a complex which included the Good Shepherd Methodist Church, the Bethsada Medical/Dental Clinic, the Albuquerque Refugee Center and the church parsonage. Work projects included building a concrete driveway/patio at the church parsonage, pouring a concrete floor in an addition to the clinic, and roof and ceiling repairs to the existing clinic building. 
The team attended a Sunday worship service at a Mexican Methodist church, conducted a Bible School for children of the congregation, visited two orphanages and worshipped together in a team devotional each evening.
The last morning was spent shopping and sightseeing. Accomodations were in the Operacion-Hogar team house and meals, mostly authenic Mexican food, was prepared by the wife of the local missions coordinator. The trip was resoundingly successful and personally rewarding to all participants. |
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