Serve: Global
Africa Mission Trip - FUMC Coppell hosted its first mission trip to Africa 3 years ago. We have plans to travel to Africa and form another team soon. We spend 2 weeks in the heart of the Kwa Zula Nation serving a group of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS or related violence.
Church contact: Katy Rehm, katy.rehm @gmail.com
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
- Next trip: March 13-20, 2010
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://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 Chairs: Keith and Leslie Hicks at lhicks@sabrerealty.com or contact Rev. Ashleigh Joyner at ajoyner@fumccoppell.org.