Gulfport Mississippi

Work teams are still needed to rebuild Hearts and Homes.

Jennifer Barbee Wilder

Jennfier Wilder has served through the General Board of Global Ministries as a teacher at Red Bird Mission School since 1992. She currently teaches first grade. She is married to Allen Wilder, who served Red Bird Mission School for 20 years. They have two children and are members of Jack's Creek UMC.

Stephen and Dianne Springer

The Rev. Stephen Springer is an Associate in Mission Service with the Board of Global Ministries. He is assigned to the Red Bird Missionary Conference where he serves as pastor of Thousandsticks United Methodist Church. He holds degrees from Pennsylvania State University and Virginia Polytechnic. Dianne Springer, also an Associate in Mission Service assigned to the Red Bird Missionary Conference, serves as Coordinator of Volunteer Services and Manager of the Community Clothing Store. Her degree is from Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, NJ. The Springers have three married children and four grandchildren.

Jamison and Susan Brunk, GBGM missionaries

The Rev. Jamison Brunk is a Home Missionary with the General Board of Global Ministries assigned to the Red Bird Missionary Conference. He serves as pastor of the Booneville/Clifty/Warrens Chapel United Methodist Circuit. He has degrees from Otterbein College and Asbury Theological Seminary. Susan Brunk, also a Home Missionary, serves as a nurse at the Family Resource Youth Service Center of Owsley County. She holds a BS degree in nursing from Grand Valley State University. The Brunks have two sons.

Family Mission Trip to Upper Sand Mountain Parish

Great family, youth, or group trip; mission opportunities for children as young as five up to folks with great grandchildren!  Everthing from working in the thrift shop, canning food, working in the organic garden, fixing up senoirs housing to buiding new affordable homes is available.

Upper Sand Mountain Parish is a cooperative ministry of ten small membership, rural United Methodist Churches serving near 1000 square miles of Southern Appalachian Alabama. The cooperative seeks to strengthen member congregations that they may better serve their members and to provide local and global opportunities for them and others to become involved in service and community development ministries.

College Rebuild Trip to Galveston, Texas

Galveston, Texas - Mission Restore 2009
May 10-16, 2009
We are calling out college students from Wesley Foundations, United Methodist colleges, and anywhere in Georgia to join the team for Mission Restore 2009. We are heading to "ground zero" on the island of Galveston, Texas to help restore the homes and lives of people affected by Hurricane Ike in 2008. There is much recovery work to be done, and we need your help. Mission Restore is May 10-16, 2009, and the cost is $160 per person. For more information, click on www.gahied.com/MissionRestore09.html or contact your Wesley Foundation director or United Methodist chaplain. Rev. Karen Kagiyama is coordinating registration statewide. Email Karen at wgwesley@westga.edu. Hope you will be a part of the Mission Restore team! 

Sager Brown Mission Trip

The UMCOR Sager Brown Depot in Baldwin, La., is the headquarters for UMCORs relief supply operations. Approximately $4 million in supplies are shipped each year from the Baldwin, La. campus. More than 2,000 volunteers that come through Sager Brown each year make these shipments happen.

Locally, UMCOR Sager Brown reaches out to the Baldwin community through a housing rehabilitation and food distribution, engaging volunteers in projects that help families and the elderly.