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Latest News (4/2/09)

URGENT NEED!!!

GUATEMALA MEDICAL SURGICAL MISSION TRIP - September, 2009 - Needs nurses and another surgeon. Contact Mark Ely, marcos@puravida.org.

McCURDY SCHOOL MISSION TRIP, New Mexico - You are invited to join a team from Salt Lake City on this mission trip, August 9-14. Contact Marilyn and Hugh Douglas, 801-571-4870.

UTE MOUNTAIN NATIVE AMERICAN RESERVATION, Tawaoc, CO - You are invited to join a team from Salt Lake City on this mission trip, July 6-10. Contact Marilyn and Hugh Douglas, 801-571-4870.

Utah – Western Jurisdictional Office, UMCOR, Salt Lake City, UT – Just opened in February 2009, this new 25,000-square-foot warehouse will primarily serve as a material resources depot to store UMCOR supply kits and will provide new opportunities for kit ministry. Volunteers are being sought to paint and clean the 25,000-square-foot warehouse. For information, call Rev. Brian Diggs at 801- 973-7250 or send an email to WestDepot@UMCOR.org. (added 2/23/09)

Click here for other 2009 mission teams you can join!

CHURCHES INVITING MISSION TEAMS!

Bethel UMC, Boulder - come and help with outside painting, landscaping, cleaning, sprinkler repair/addition and more. Showers at the YWCA. Contact Pastor Warren Napier, 303-744-9353.
EVANSTON UMC, Denver would like volunteers to help with their VBS this summer. Attendees would be mostly preschoolers and 10-15 youth older than 5th grade. Contact: Pastor Yvonne Lee, 303-722-7217, evanstonumc@gmail.com.
TRINITY UMC, Denver - would like a team to help with VBS June 22-26. Contact: Kathy Gibb, kgibb@trinityumc.org.
DeBeque, CO, UMC - would like a team to help with VBS. Contact: Pastor Roberta Botkin, 970-285-7912, 970-216-8682

Early Response Team (ERT) Training - Saturday, April 25. 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. UMCOR will be conducting training for people to become members of ERT's - Early Response Teams. ERT members are SELF-SUFFICIENT volunteers who help in the relief phase of a disaster, clearing debris with chain saws and making houses safe and secure. Training location is the Rocky Mountain Conference office in Greenwood Village, CO. If you are interested in becoming an ERT volunteer, please contact Betsy Keyack, bkeyack@att.net.

MISSION SCHOLARSHIPS - UMVIM in the Rocky Mountain Conference has a small fund for mission scholarships. Applications are due on April 1. Click here for the application form.

UMVIM TEAM LEADER TRAINING - Training will be held at Redlands UMC, Grand Junction on Wednesday, June 17 from 1-4 pm. Please contact Betsy Keyack, bkeyack@att.net to register. Please let Betsy Keyack or Ann Fort know if you would like UMVIM team leader training in your area.

Betsy Keyack (RMC UMVIM Co-Coordinator)
phone: 303-346-7057

bkeyack@att.net

Ann Fort (RMC UMVIM Co-Coordinator)
phone: 303-220-0840

annfort8269@comcast.net

Rocky Mountain Annual Conference

6110 Greenwood Plaza Blvd., Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111
Phones: 303-733-3736, 800-536-3736

April 02, 2009