Mission Work Experience with Team Training Session
Serve, Learn, Work, Play and Be Transformed!
Rev. R. Donald & Dorothy Dexheimer, and Team

WORKSHOP DETAILS Mar 3, 2007 (Sat 10-11:30AM) - REQUIRED Orientation Meeting @ Grace UMC, Rochester, IN (lunch provided for time of open questions) Apr 21-28 - Mission Trip to D'Iberville, MS $300 (scholarships available) Additional money needed to meals on trip there and back. Food is provided while on site. CLERGY/LAITY Skill area 3, 5, 7 or 8 - What?

Journey to D’Iberville, Mississippi, with other pastors and their spouses to serve the Seashore District in the reconstruction of homes. Interspersed in each day’s work schedule will be an educational presentation covering the various aspects of training necessary to successfully lead a work team on a domestic or international mission experience. A required orientation meeting will be held at Grace UMC in Rochester, IN, on March 3, 2007, from 10:00 – 11:30 with lunch provided.

The mission trip will begin at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 21, 2007. We will carpool to Birmingham, Alabama, and stay at a motel for the night. On Sunday morning the group will drive to Montgomery, where they will experience worship at the Frazer Memorial United Methodist Church and tour the facilities. Following lunch, the group will drive on to the D’Iberville Dormitory where they will stay. The return trip will have an overnight stay in Nashville, Tennessee.

The first educational session will be on Sunday evening with a presentation by a Mississippi Pastor discussing the uniqueness of ministering in and through a natural disaster. Monday morning, following devotions and breakfast, the team will spend time at various worksites. After lunch each day, there will be an educational presentation. These will cover:

1. Team characteristics and development for adult and youth teams,
2. Cultural considerations,
3. Health, safety and other liability issues,
4. The spiritual dimension of mission work, and finally,
5. The entry and reentry effects on individuals taking part in mission work.

Following each educational session, the teams will return to a worksite. Each day will start and close with devotions.

Each participant will receive one copy of A Training Resource Materials Notebook and a devotional guide called Prepare Your Heart.

Note: NIC Clergy and spouses have preferred registration through December 31, 2006. Non-NIC pastors and laity may call in early to get on a waiting list. For information, call Akron UMC at 574.893.7123 or email church@a-umc.org and ask for Rev. Dexheimer. After December 31, 2006, registration will be received on first come, first served basis. Space in the dormitory is limited.

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REV. R. DONALD AND DOROTHY DEXHEIMER have served in Russia for one full year and have led two short-term mission teams to Russia. In addition, they have led domestic teams, both adult and youth to Mississippi and various sites in Indiana, and assisted in leading a team to Costa Rica.