Blogs

 With so much attention focused on Haiti Recovery, many of us have lost site of the many opportunities and needs for mission volunteers in other areas. If you feel called to join a mission team to Haiti, answer that call. But the needs are also great in Zimbabwe and four teams from Western PA will go there this year. 

Western PA Mission/Volunteers in Mission Director Diane Miller details ways to help relief efforts in Haiti. UMCOR emergency kits needed!

Erin Eidenshink is a member of Mars UMC and is serving as a General Board of Global Ministries missionary in Mongolia.
To read Erin's Blog "Once Upon a Time in Real Life"  click here

Erin sends Thanksgiving greetings from Mongolia, where a swine flu quarantine is still in effect.

Michael Airgood, of Kane First UMC in Western PA, is serving as an  Individual Volunteer in Mission in Mongolia.
To read "Michael's Missionary blog" click here.

Erin Eidenshink spent her first weeks in Mongolia settling in and adjusting to the cold weather.

Western PA Conference Missionary Tina Whitehead returned to the Jerusalem one week into Ramadan, the holy of month of prayer and fasting for Muslims, brings thousands to pray at Al Aqsa Mosque in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.  She describes the hardships she sees pilgrim endure to get to the holy site through additional Israeli barriers, checkpoints and security measures.