On February 1st, 2007, eight individuals will depart on a 17-day United Methodist Church sponsored “Volunteers-In-Mission” trip to Meru, Kenya.
Our goal is to share Christ’s love in ways that make a Christian difference. We will sort and catalogue 20,000 books and textbooks, participate in morning and evening devotions and discover the remarkable freshness, love and joy Kenyans bring to Christian worship and service.
We will be working at the Meru School for Deaf Children’s new library. The building was constructed by the VIM team that Jean Warner led to Kenya in January, 2006. Team members will sort the thousands of books that we shipped to Meru last spring into stacks according to fiction, nonfiction, reference books, etc. Then they will catalogue as many books as time permits so that children can begin checking books out of the library.
While in Meru, team members will attend the official grand opening of the library to which a number of national dignitaries have been invited. They will take lunch breaks from their library work to eat a picnic lunch and then tour various local projects such as the Children's Home, the Makena Women's Coop, etc. There will be a church and community meeting on initiatives to empower Kenyan women by reducing female circumcision, polygamy and domestic violence. We will attend two church services at the historic Kaaga Methodist Church and attend several lunches and dinners with area church leaders. Finally, we will go on a two-day wildlife safari, and visit a site that serves as a community for battered women of the Samburu Tribe near Isiolo, Kenya, Our final day will be spent sightseeing and shopping in Nairobi.
We will return to Oklahoma City on Saturday, February 17.
The total cost is $3,000. This covers airfare, ground transportation, lodging, a 2-day safari and all meals in Kenya.
Jean Warner, Ph.D. is Team Leader on this mission. Warner is Co-Lay Leader at Nichols Hills United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City. She was on the first Oklahoma VIM trip to Kenya in 2005 and led the VIM team that traveled to Meru, Kenya in January, 2006.
To learn more about the trip and to sign up, contact Team Leader Jean Warner (1-405-858-0515; email jeanwarner@cox.net) or Shannon Lemmons, the International Volunteers In Mission Coordinator (1-405-530-2031 or 1-800-231-4166; email slemmons@okumc.org).
Our goal is to share Christ’s love in ways that make a Christian difference. We will sort and catalogue 20,000 books and textbooks, participate in morning and evening devotions and discover the remarkable freshness, love and joy Kenyans bring to Christian worship and service.
We will be working at the Meru School for Deaf Children’s new library. The building was constructed by the VIM team that Jean Warner led to Kenya in January, 2006. Team members will sort the thousands of books that we shipped to Meru last spring into stacks according to fiction, nonfiction, reference books, etc. Then they will catalogue as many books as time permits so that children can begin checking books out of the library.
While in Meru, team members will attend the official grand opening of the library to which a number of national dignitaries have been invited. They will take lunch breaks from their library work to eat a picnic lunch and then tour various local projects such as the Children's Home, the Makena Women's Coop, etc. There will be a church and community meeting on initiatives to empower Kenyan women by reducing female circumcision, polygamy and domestic violence. We will attend two church services at the historic Kaaga Methodist Church and attend several lunches and dinners with area church leaders. Finally, we will go on a two-day wildlife safari, and visit a site that serves as a community for battered women of the Samburu Tribe near Isiolo, Kenya, Our final day will be spent sightseeing and shopping in Nairobi.
We will return to Oklahoma City on Saturday, February 17.
The total cost is $3,000. This covers airfare, ground transportation, lodging, a 2-day safari and all meals in Kenya.
Jean Warner, Ph.D. is Team Leader on this mission. Warner is Co-Lay Leader at Nichols Hills United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City. She was on the first Oklahoma VIM trip to Kenya in 2005 and led the VIM team that traveled to Meru, Kenya in January, 2006.
To learn more about the trip and to sign up, contact Team Leader Jean Warner (1-405-858-0515; email jeanwarner@cox.net) or Shannon Lemmons, the International Volunteers In Mission Coordinator (1-405-530-2031 or 1-800-231-4166; email slemmons@okumc.org).
Read about our previous mission trips to Kenya at http://come2kenya.blogspot.com and at http://kenyavim2005.blogspot.com.
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