Serve: Global
Africa Mission Trip - FUMC Coppell hosted its first mission trip to Africa 4 years ago. We plan to form a team to travel to Africa for mission soon. If you are interested in being part of this, please contact Rev. Susan Bryan at sbryan@fumccoppell.org.
Costa Rica Mission Trip - FUMC Coppell has been traveling to Ciudad Quesada, Costa Rica for 10 years.
- We build churches and repair schools
- Provide Vacation Bible School for the children
- We eat meals and worship together
- Our next Costa Rica trip is March 11-18, 2012
- Deadline to register is January 15, 2012
For more information about the trip, please contact one of the team leaders.
Church contact: Billy Faught, billy.faught@veizon.net or Amanda Glassey, aglassey@linbeck.com
Microfinance/Microcredit - this fairly new mission project that allows the poor (who have never had credit) the ability to get small loans that provide the first steps out of poverty.
Visit KIVA.org for more inforamtion or visit, http://www.kiva.org/team/fumc_coppell to view the First United Methodist Church Coppell site.
Church contact: Mark Alcorn, markjalcorn@gmail.com
Website: www.kiva.org
For more information about Microfinance/Microcredit:
http://www.globalpartnerships.org/sections/getinvolved/getinvolved_partnertrips.htm
http://kbyutv.org/smallfortunes/
http://www.relufa.org
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2006/press.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6259836
United Methodist Committee on Relief - a committee of the United Methodist Church (United Methodist Committee on Relief) that is dedicated to helping with disaster response.
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we collect on a regular basis flood buckets and health kits for areas or nations who are hit with natural disasters
For more information about any of these programs, contact our Mission Chair: Leslie Hicks at lhicks@sabrerealty.com or contact Rev. Susan Bryan at sbryan@fumccoppell.org.
