Items for mission trip

Jan and were going through the donations closet and we have some items if any of you can use them at your mission sites:

• 23 sewing kits complete with the 3 yards of fabric. If you are going to conduct a sewing ministry let me know and I’ll get these to you or if they would be good as a hostess gift for a pastor’s wife, women who are cooking for the team etc.
  
• Prayer shawls – UMW members have been making prayer shawls for our teams to donate to church ministries where we serve. I have taken several to Africa and it has been a real blessing. Let me know if you need some.
  
• Canvas/cloth shopping bags. Many of our UMW and sewing groups in the Conference have been happily making “eco-friendly” shopping bags. These are really important in many areas we serve to cut down on the amount of plastic bags that end up thrown away. If you need some for your mission site as hostess gifts let me know.

Thanks for all you do! You are making missions work!

Blessings, Kathie L. Mann Director,
Partners In MissionTexas Annual Conference
5215 Main St.Houston, TX 77002
713-521-9383

Summer mission trip to Tomsk, Russia

Dear Friends of Missions,

I need your help in getting word out about the our summer mission trip to Tomsk, Russia. I would love for you to come with us but if you can't please pass information to others. Our summer trip will be July 23 to August 6 in Tomsk.We will work on Tomsk UMC in the morning and early afternoon and then spend the rest of the afternoon and evening with the children from Orphanage 4.Besides working on the church some team members will be getting supplies, buying clothes for some of the graduates and obtaining medical services for some of the children. We need a lot of help and everyone will be needed. Even if you do not do construction - you will be valuable to us. Some of the older children will also be helping on the church.The cost will be around $3200. Transportation alone runs over $2000. If I am able to get some good deals the savings will be passed on to the team.We will spend a night at the Moscow Methodist Seminary on the way in and a night at a hotel on the way out of Moscow.Please let me know as soon as possible as I am already working on tickets.

In Christ,George geobrig@yahoo.com
Houston, TX 77002713-521-9383