Photo: Opening of UMCOR office in Philippines, courtesy David Valera/UMCOR. Read below for more information....
* Cross-Cultural Competency in Healthcare Symposium
American patients are increasingly global in makeup. Some 50 million areculturally diverse and operate under concepts of health and medicine thatare unfamiliar to many healthcare professionals. The Cross-CulturalCompetency in Healthcare Symposium will equip healthcare professionals tosuccessfully care for some of the most distinct and underserved immigrantsand minorities in America.
Details: At Research Medical Center-Brookside Campus in Kansas City,Missouri, on Friday, October 2, 2009. Symposium Info:http://inmed.us/2009_cross-cultural_competency_in_healthcare_symposium.asp For: Physicians, Nurses, Dentists, Therapists, Physicians Assistants, PublicHealth Specialists, Residents, Pharmacists, and all Health ProfessionStudents. CME and CEU credit available.
Symposium Info:http://inmed.us/2009_cross-cultural_competency_in_healthcare_symposium.asp For more information email office@inmed.us, or call 816-835-1899 Nicholas Comninellis, MD MPH, President INMED - Institute for International Medicine http://inmed.us/"Equipping health professionals to serve in medical missions"6700 Troost Ave. Suite 224 Kansas City MO 64131-4401
*UMCOR OPENS NEW OFFICE IN PHILIPPINES
UMCOR will open an office in the Philippines on July 24 to help bring relief to a population vulnerable to natural disasters, civil conflict and extreme poverty. Based on the campus of Union Theological Seminary in Cavite, about 50 miles south of Manila, UMCOR Philippines will serve as the communications hub between United Methodist conferences within the Philippines and the US.
The office will also offer an on-site storage facility for material goods and relief supplies.
Bishops, disaster response coordinators and partner organizations will gather at UMCOR Philippines on July 21-24 to participate in a disaster preparedness training led by Melissa Crutchfield, head of UMCOR’s International Disaster Response and Lisa Jackson, head of special projects, to implement appropriate responses to different phases of disaster.
Support the new office with your gifts to Philippines Emergency, UMCOR Advance #240235.
Bishops, disaster response coordinators and partner organizations will gather at UMCOR Philippines on July 21-24 to participate in a disaster preparedness training led by Melissa Crutchfield, head of UMCOR’s International Disaster Response and Lisa Jackson, head of special projects, to implement appropriate responses to different phases of disaster.
Support the new office with your gifts to Philippines Emergency, UMCOR Advance #240235.
*UMCOR WEST OFFICE OPEN FOR BUSINESS AND INFORMATION
There is now an UMCOR Depot in Salt Lake City, UT headed by Rev. Brian Diggs. For more information about the depot and how you can volunteer there visit http://www.umcordepots.org/ or http://new.gbgm-umc.org/umcor/work/umcorwest/.
*PRAYER REQUEST FOR TEAM GOING TO SERVE IN TONGA
A Multi-Church Team to Vava’n, Tonga: July 21 – August 4, 2009
Richard Thompson from Bakersfield – First UMC will lead a team of 15 volunteers from various churches in our conference, Oklahoma and Washington to Tonga. The team will be doing medical work, construction work and an after-school program. Joining Richard will be Ofa Thompson, Rebekah Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Ray Bowles, Fred Cramer, Gerry Stratton and Scott Wallace of Bakersfield - First UMC Larry Kavinoky, Cindy Gyugyi, and Stephen Gyugyi of Palo Alto - Wesley UMC Mark Thompson of Miami, OK. and Wyatt Finn from Olympia, WA.
Richard Thompson from Bakersfield – First UMC will lead a team of 15 volunteers from various churches in our conference, Oklahoma and Washington to Tonga. The team will be doing medical work, construction work and an after-school program. Joining Richard will be Ofa Thompson, Rebekah Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Ray Bowles, Fred Cramer, Gerry Stratton and Scott Wallace of Bakersfield - First UMC Larry Kavinoky, Cindy Gyugyi, and Stephen Gyugyi of Palo Alto - Wesley UMC Mark Thompson of Miami, OK. and Wyatt Finn from Olympia, WA.
