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World Missions Team
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “See,
the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them as
their God; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be
with them; he will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will
be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for
the first things have passed away.” And the one who was
seated on the throne said, “See, I am making all things
new.”
~ Revelation 21 ~
Committee Coordinator: Tanner Lovelace
world@congregation.chapel.duke.edu
The World Missions Team seeks to provide opportunities for members
of the Congregation at Duke University Chapel to experience
and take part in God’s work through domestic and international
relationships, and mission trips. Presently, the International
and Domestic Ministry team has ministry relationships with
groups in Haiti, Costa Rica, and Bethlehem.
In the summer of 2009, the Congregation plans to take a mission
trip to Haiti to work with Family Health Ministries (familyhm.org).
Costa Rica
The Congregation partners financially and in service with
United Methodist Missionaries Wil and Yolanda Bailey of United
Methodist Volunteers in Missions in Costa Rica.
Wil, a Duke Divinity School graduate, hosted a work team from
the Congregation in October 2003, when our group worked at
Iglesia Metodista, San Isidro to build "dormitorios" at
the church. These dormitories will be offered to people from
the rural communities without money or lodging who come to
San Isidro for medical treatment.
In October 2005, the Congregation sent a team to do construction
on a church sanctuary in Esparza, Costa Rica (near Puntarenas).
During this trip, our group helped paint the sanctuary and
parsonage, tile a bathroom, and perform general repairs
and construction to the sanctuary and parsonage.
Visit Costa
Rica Missions Projects for more information.
Haiti
The Congregation partners with Family Health Ministries financially
and through service and prayer. The vision of Family Health
Ministries is to honor God's second great commandment in Matthew
22 to love our neighbors as ourselves. Family Health Ministries
is a multi-ethnic, Christian, faith-based, nonprofit organization
dedicated to developing long-term relationships with individuals,
families and communities in need. It works with community
leaders to establish culturally relevant programs in the areas
of women's health, children's health, public health, primary & secondary
education, spiritual support, in the areas of Haiti, Honduras,
Tanzania, the Gulf Coast, and North Carolina.
Visit Family Health
Ministries for
more information.
2002 Haiti Mission Trip:
We traveled to Port-au-Prince, Haiti in May 2002 in conjunction
with Food for the Poor. Our group worked primarily at the Village
for the Poor School, helping to paint, build, and interact with
the more than four hundred children. During this trip, we made
visits to several orphanages, and schools run by The Lazarus
Project and Food for the Poor.
2004 Haiti Mission Trip:
In May, 2004, we traveled to Haiti with Family Health Ministries – a
local organization involved with mission efforts in different
locations of Haiti. Our team assisted local workers to complete
the foundation for a medical center in Blanchard outside City
Soleil. This facility, when complete, will be the first medical
facility in a city of over 250,000 residents! Generous donations
from the Christmas offerings at Duke Chapel have helped fund
this effort.
2006 Haiti Mission Trip:
In February and March of 2006, we again traveled to Haiti
with Family Health Ministries. This trip our group went
as part of
a medical team which put on a medical clinic in Fondwa,
Haiti that received almost five hundred patients throughout
the
week. Additionally, we visited with students from the
local orphanage
and school.
Presently, the Congregation is facilitating a Sponsor a
Student program which seeks to connect persons in our
community with
students from the school visited in Fondwa, Haiti.
2008 Haiti Mission Trip:
In October of 2008,
the Congregation sponsored a trip to Haiti through Family Health
Ministries. The group painted the second
floor of the Blanchard Health Clinic, and also spent time traveling
through other FHM locations in Leogane and Fondwa.
Bethlehem Imports Project
Each year, the World Missions team sponsors the sale of wood
carvings from Bethlehem Imports: beautiful hand-carved, olivewood
ornaments, nativity sets, and figurines imported directly
from Bethlehem. Proceeds go directly to support Christian
Palestinian artisans and their families in Bethlehem. A small
portion of the proceeds will also go also to support local
mission efforts. Sale of these items takes place after the
Sunday Chapel services during the first few weeks of December.
World Missions Contact: world@congregation.chapel.duke.edu
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