The recent earthquake has created a great need for personal hygiene kits, and the current supply will be quickly exhausted. We are requesting conference churches to assemble kits in the weeks ahead. To find out what is included in a kit, click here.
PLEASE NOTE: you no longer need to include toothpaste in the Hygiene Kits because Sager Brown is now purchasing toothpaste in bulk to be added to health kits before shipping to ensure that the product does not expire before they are sent
Once your kits are assembled, you may drop them off at any of the following locations:
Tunkhannock UMC or Dorranceton UMC (Wilkes Barre District)
Chinchilla UMC or Honesdale UMC (Scranton District)
Norwich UMC or Whitney Point UMC (Oneonta District)
Vestal UMC or Endwell UMC (Binghamton District)
The Conference Center in Endicott
DONATE TO EARTHQUAKE RELIEF EFFORTS
To make a monetary donation, make your check payable to "Wyoming Annual Conference" (note "Haiti Partnership" in the memo line), and mail to:
Wyoming Conference Center, PO Box 58, Endicott, NY 13761
Or, you may make a donation through UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief). Click here to make an immediate online donation.
REMEMBER: 100% of all monetary donations goes directly to help the people of Haiti. The Ministry Shares paid by our local United Methodist Churches cover all administrative and overhead expenses!
Welcome to the Haiti Partnership!
Since 1995, the Haiti Partnership of theWyoming Annual Conference has been sending volunteer mission teams to Haiti to build schools and churches, to provide humanitarian aid, and to do God's work along side the Haitian people. So much has been accomplished and so many lives have been changed. But there's still so much left to do.
Men and women age 17 and older are invited to join the Haiti Partnership as a mission team member. This year, we are sending six teams and over 65 Volunteers in Mission, many of whom are traveling to Haiti for the first time. Each volunteer raised $1,100 for their expenses, and the Great Fifty Days Offering taken by local churches helped to pay for project costs and other ministries.
For more information about becoming a Volunteer in Mission (VIM) volunteer, click on the links at left, or email Roger Richards at PastorRoger@endwellumc.org.
Local churches are invited to participate in the Haiti Partnership by providing financial assistance or by making school bags. Check out the links for more information.
Is God calling you to serve the people of Haiti?
UPCOMING TRIPS
TEAM DATES
November 5 - 14, 2009
November 12 - 21, 2009
January 15 - 24, 2010
February 11 - 20, 2010
February 18 - 27, 2010
(Two teams - one based in Port-au-Prince,
and one traveling to a remote site.)
March 11 - 20, 2009
If you are interested in serving on any of these teams,
click on the links under "Becoming a Volunteer" on the left side of this page.
HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF THE HAITI PARTNERSHIP
Haiti has long been known as the poorest county in the Western Hemisphere. They have a very sad history of exploitation by outsiders and by fellow Haitians. But being so close to the United States, Haiti has also been a very popular site for Christians who want to be Volunteers in Mission (VIM). In any given year, as many as 100 United Methodist teams from across the country travel to Haiti.
Those who have traveled on any of these trips have been inspired by the Haitian people who work out of hope and faith rather than out of despair in the midst of their severe poverty.
Great things have been accomplished in recent years in our current project. Many lives have been touched. There are more than 140 students active in a school where there was just a field of scrub brush in 2004. Our mission is alive and growing! We pray that God will continue to use us as vessels for extending God's love to those in great need.
You are encouraged to pray for the people of Haiti and our mission with them.
