The little girl's name is Miracle. She came to our eye clinic in Limon in 2007. I offered to hold her while Mary fitted her mother with reading glasses. I guess that Miracle wanted some glasses of her own because she immediately whipped mine off and began to play with them.



Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Mutual Empowerment Seminar

United Methodist Volunteers in Mission
Mutual Empowerment Seminar
May 12-14, 2011 SIFAT Training Campus


This workshop is an invitation to mission volunteers to:
Engage in reflection and dialogue about the impacts of volunteer service: who is impacted and how?
"Consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds" (Hebrews 10:24) for lasting change
Explore key components of mutual empowerment:
Community development and appropriate technology for impoverished communities
Spiritual transformation for volunteers-seeing the world with new eyes

The target participants are United Methodist volunteers interested in the concepts of community development including health, agriculture, water, sanitation and appropriate technology. Emphasis is working WITH the impoverished of our world, both locally and globally and in spiritual growth for volunteers.


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