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Opportunities to serve the world around us
Chiang Mai Thailand Christian School Scholarship support. Leora Hewitt showing items from Chang Mai, Thailand trip. The contact for Chiang Mai scholarship is Noreen Rouillard.
Chiang Mai Christian School Scholarship Fund
The year 2011 represents the 15th consecutive year Wasatch Presbyterian Church has provided a $3,600 Scholarship Check to the Chiang Mai Christian School in Chiang Mai Thailand. This annual mission gift has been carefully considered and approved by Session, and represents Wasatch’s only overseas outreach mission project. Your donation will help provide a full year of education to include a nutritional well-prepared hot lunch for approximately 20 needy students. The School Administration carefully handpicks children who are orphaned, come from broken homes, or who otherwise need some measure of financial assistance. Recipients range in age from five through seventeen in grades kindergarten through twelfth grade. Thank you for helping fund a needy child’s education. A Minute for Mission was given on Sunday, February 27, and the special gift will be received on Sunday, March 6, or anytime thereafter. Chiang Mai Christian School Scholarship Fund envelopes can be found in the Sanctuary pews. Again, thanks.
Church-wide offerings:
- One Great Hour of Sharing
- Christmas Joy
- Peacemaking
- Disaster Relief Collections
- Blanket Sunday Offering in June.
Shalom in Sudan
THE NEED IS GREAT:
Decades of civil war left the land devastated. The Mabaan Tribe is one of the most under-served people in South Sudan. Safe water is a first priority. Leprosy is common, but no medicine is available. One in four children die before they are 5 years old. Malaria and various infections often lead to death for lack of penicillin.
HINDRANCES ARE HUGE:
The hospital at Doro was damaged and tanks and soldiers took over the area. In 2006, Dr. Rob Congdon, with SIM, did not have safe water, buildings, power, or staff to care for health needs. The roads were virtually impassable and flights to nearby villages were irregular.
REBUILDING IS ARDUOUS:
The rebuilt hospital opened in March of 2008, with Dr. Congdon, two nurses, a few Sudanese staff, and a Sudanese doctor. A training school for community health workers will expand services into rural areas. They hope to have the hospital fully staffed by Sudanese by 2012.
GOD’S GRACE IS SUFFICIENT
HISTORY OF SIM
The Susan Interior Mission began in 1893 with three young missionaries, one of whom was Presbyterian, and all with a desire to share the gospel in Africa. In 1980 they joined with others serving in India and Bolivia. More countries were added in 1998abd the name was changed to Serving In Mission. It is an interdenominational mission agency representing 50 denominations, serving in 40 countries.
Go to www.simusa.orq for more information.
MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE CENTER AND TRAINING SCHOOL
PROJECT NUMBER: 98018
THE GENERAL HEALTH CONDITIONS OF THIS MOSTLY RURAL
MABAAN POPULATION ARE OVERWHELMING:
IMMUNIZATIONS ARE RARELY AVAILABLE,
A GIRL IS MORE LIKELY TO DIE DURING PREGNANCY AND DELIVERY
THAN TO COMPLETE 8TH GRADE
THE MEMORIAL PHC CENTER WILL INCLUDE:
NUTRITION CENTER FOR MOTHERS AND SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN
30 BED WARDS FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN
LAB AND PHARMACY
BASIC SURGICAL CAPABILITY
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT
www.sim.orq
rncogdon@kijabe.net
ED AND RITA MORAN ARE THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN
REGIONAL DIRECTORS FOR SIM
ed.moran@sim.org
GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL
SCENE IN SOUTHERN SUDAN FROM THE PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH USA
billandress@ureach.com
For more information contact Anita Rigstad
Rrigstad@msn.com or (801) 583-1917
