MOZAMBIQUE

This is the church that met "Under the Cashew Tree" in a section of our world that needs a little help.  St. Andrew's and several other Missouri UMC's have supported the Mozambique Initiative with funds for water supplies, church buildings, hymnals, etc.

Carol P. Kreamer is the Coordinator for the Mozambique Initiative.  She may be reached at Missouri Conference Missionary Fund #7400, The United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 754, Eureka, MO 63025.  Her email address is cpkreamer@hughes.net. 

Information is also available at our Missouri Methodist Website:  www.moumethodist.org/mi. 

As Carol Kreamer says, "Prayerfully consider this opportunity."

Other churches that received this mission invitation are:

Kimberling City, Carl Junction, Mt. Olive De Soto, Hallsville, John Hayes, Mt. Washington, Ozark Chapel, Branson, Schweitzer, Wesley Springfield, and St. Peters Blue Soprings.  St. Andrew's and Mt. Olive both claim Macunye UMC as a sister church.  The others listed here are associated with other Mozambique churches.

"The Mozambique Initiative has an opportunity for you or someone from your church to go on a m ission to Mozambique to visit your partner in 2011.  Your Mozambique partner is in the Vilanculos District.  The church of Mapinhane UMC in that district is one of the unfinished chapel projects.  There is a team from Ozark UMC that is scheduled to take a mission team to Mapinhane next year (2011).  They are not the partner of the Mapinhane congregation, but they want to do some meaningful ministry and their pastor, Tony Blevins, has been to Mapinhane.  He presented the opportunity for mssion and they responded by planning a team to help work on the permanent chapel.

They offer this opportunity for you to send a member of this mission.  MI would arrange an opportunity for your member to visit your partner church while they are there.

Mapinhane has a sad story--a very, very poor church; the pastor's wife died after an extended illness in January.  Then, during our 2010 Missouri Annual Conference in June, pastor Xavier Juliao Murure died also of tuberculosis with malaria.  So this church will be served by the lay-leader and DS Alberto Mutuque until a new pastor is appointed at the Mozambique South Annual Conference in December.

I am just wondering if God has placed these sad events and the future possibilities as a call for us to engage in the partnership.  This is a place where you can make a tremendous difference in the life of a congregation that is 10,000 miles away and engage for your own congregation at the same time.  Prayerfully consider this opportunity.  --Carol Kreamer.":

To learn more, contact Carol K. at the above address or these team leaders:

Bill Blache:  kblache@centurytel.net or 417-581-7005

Tony Blevins:  tony@tonysworld.org or 417-581-6853