Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Resources Requested!

If you would like to assist or are particularly resourceful, please read below about ways you can continue to support our UMVIM trip! Below are some of the guidelines from the Haitian UMVIM hosts:

1. Teams wishing to donate medical supplies and medications should refer to the list of requested medicines and medical supplies below as developed and maintained by the EMH.  Please note that prescription medications are available and should be purchased in Haiti, to support the local community and to provide instructions in the local language.  Over-the-counter medications and vitamins can be brought in by teams, and will be distributed to the EMH clinics.
 
2. Other suggested donations include school supplies, VBS supplies and playground items (balls, jump ropes).  These items may be used at the assigned site, or distributed among the churches of the EMH.
 
3. Teams bringing donated supplies must provide an inventory of all donated items, as well as an estimated value of those items – preferably provided by email before the team’s arrival.  Inventory of medicines must include expiration dates.  Staff on the ground do not have the capacity to inventory these items.

Also, we a always use things like shovels, picks, axes, sledge hammers (without the handles - heads only), construction trash bags, regular trash bags, paintbrushes, paint roller naps, and sandpaper.

  
Medications and Medical Supplies Requested
 
Prescription Medications (Can be Purchased in Haiti)
  • Oral Anesthesia for Dental work
  • De-worming Medication
  • Antibiotics
  • Blood Pressure Medication
  • Medicated Eye Drops
Over-the-Counter Medications and Supplies
  • Pain Relief Medicines
    • Acetaminophen – For children and adults
    • Ibuprofen – For children and adults
  • Cough and Cold Relief
  • Immodium
  • Triple Antibiotic Ointment
  • Diabetes Supplies
  • Eye Drops
Vitamins
  • Children’s Multivitamins
  • Prenatal Vitamins
  • Vitamin B
  • Vitamin C

We thank you so much for your love, support, and prayers.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Haiti Newsletter!

Check out more information about where the United Methodist Church is focused as we continue into year two of Haiti work post-earthquake.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

UMCOR Hotline

Though we are venturing off to Haiti with United Methodist Volunteers in Mission (UMVIM), it's important to know that we are meeting needs in other areas both locally and abroad. To stay up-to-date on a variety of UMVIM and UMCOR (Committee on Relief) endeavors, check out the UMCOR Hotline!

Monday, April 4, 2011

Meet a Missionary Monday!

Lynette Moran, wife of our previous Monday missionary, also knows a thing or two about local mission work. As mentioned previously, Lynette and Dan worked together in a variety of settings, including in the projects of South Boston and here in Texas, mostly with adolescents from challenging home environments. Here in Texas, she too was a house parent at a cottage with eight beds, working primarily with teenage girls removed from their homes due to abuse and neglect.

She has also enjoyed the experience of mission work at other locations in Texas and Pennsylvania through Habitat for Humanity and other church relationships. Most notable, she spent time in Taos, New Mexico on the Pueblo Reserve, creating bricks from mere mud and helping a family build their home, among other activities on the Reserve.

Don't let that fool you though. She's known in her Sunday school class by her fancy high-heel shoes and loves a good time shopping for a great deal. When the wind sways just right and she has a few minutes, she also enjoys a good, long run-on sentence or two via William Faulkner. And on those rare opportunities that they can both steal away for a few days, Dan and Lynette enjoy the great middle-class comfort of a good state park for camping. Perhaps their experience constructing and taking down a campsite will be of use in Haiti!

Though born and bred Texan, Lynette is a commissioned deacon through The United Methodist Church, Western Pennsylvania conference. Though slow-going, she is continuing with the official ministry process while excitedly participating in ministry such as this mission trip to Haiti. 


After finishing with her graduate degree in theology at Boston University alongside Dan in 2006, she decided to focus her specialized deacon's field. She currently works as a teacher's assistant at Texas State University in the School of Sociology, in addition to working toward a degree in the same field.

Biblical Favorites: All of Psalm 27, ending in:"I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord (13-14)"

Friday, April 1, 2011

What difference can we make in a little more than a week?


Volunteer Management Coordinator Tom Vencuss speaks to this question after a short prayer. "...The knowledge that their plight will be taken from here to another place..."