The purpose of the Mission Committee is to make our congregation aware of both Local and Foreign Mission activities and needs. Keeping our local congregation up to date on PRAISE and PRAYER Items of missionaries supported by our local church. We want to challenge the local congregation with opportunities and possibilities of personally GOING,SENDING, FINANCING and PRAYING during these days of opportunities to spread the GOSPEL OF God’s Love. "The Missions program of Mount Nebo United Methodist Church is an Outreach that started many years ago. When the word Missions is used it is referring to an Outreach Program including Home and Foreign missions. An annual Missions Conference is always an exciting week. A special Youth night is planned with a meal, fun time and then closing with a Missions speaker from a local or foreign ministry. Over the past few years we have seen our youth take part in various outreach ministries - some close to home and others to Georgia, New Jersey, and Florida. The adults also have the opportunity to hear from various missionaries and again from local and foreign fields. This past year we heard from those who work with Wycliffe Bible Translators and backup personnel serving with JAARS who help keep the planes flying and the printers working. We had speakers from the General Board of Global Missions of the United Methodist Church,Good News Movement, The Mix at Arbor Place (local), Sports and Cultural Exchange, AIM Intl (HIV AIDS outreach), Bridges of Peace (working with Christians and Jews) and Christar (serving Muslim countries). The theme of the Conference was "Crossing the 21st Century World". All who attended were blest and challenged as we heard of the needs and how God was meeting those needs. We saw that HIS Church was growing and being used to reach out to others.The first Sunday of each month, during the Sunday School opening, is dedicated to mission updates with praise and prayer items from the missionaries or others who can give a testimony of how God has used them during a mission trip. Every Sunday our Church Bulletin has a paragraph or two from one or two of the missionaries we support regularly as they share their prayer needs and praises. We strive to keep in touch with them as well and with what the Lord is doing in their place of work. We support 12 different missionaries working in Bolivia, Germany, Namibia, Ecuador, Alaska, and in several locations around the U.S.A. Kurt and Cynthia Zimmerman work in Bolivia as teachers in an International School in Santa Cruz under World Gospel Mission.

(http://www.wgm.org/cms/Missionaries/cmsMissyShow.asp?did=150) We also support Meredythe Scheflen, now retired, who started an elementary school and developed it into a high school and then a university. (Web site for the University:http://www.wgm.org/cms/Ministries/cmsMinistryShow.asp?did=402 ) She continues to live in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, at the University under World Gospel Mission. Ruthie Bassett works in the home office after serving in Haiti for many years. Africa Inland Mission (AIM) has 4 couples/organizations that we support. Mick and Suzanne Rineer work in Namibia as country director for AIM. Margaret Rineer runs the Missionary Kid (MK) Home near Philadelphia forMK college students who are in the USA while their parents are still serving overseas.

http://www.rva.org/directory/detail.html?alumid=1700) Then there is theTimothy Academy, an elementary inner city school in Philadelphia which has small class sizes, teaches religion and has after school care. (Website for the school is :http://www.timothyacademy.org) Also under AIM is Jerry Rineer, retired missionary, who continues to serve the Lord around Lancaster County. Gene and Pam Horst under Send International work in Alaska as teacher and librarian, respectively, at Glennallen’s Alaska Bible College. Global Outreach Mission has Sue Brodish as a teacher in a preschool in Germany. Bill Aukamp, one of our own, works as a missionary under AMF in Piedmont, South Dakota as a church planter. Sharon Ranalli is director and teacher of eight Bible Institute Centers which prepares native Ecuadorians for leadership in the Highland Quichua Indian churches.

http://www.gcc.org/directory.asp?type=missionary&mode=detail&id=15) We also continue to support Jim and Polly Browne, retired New Tribes missionaries. We are thankful for the opportunity and privilege to support those who are serving on the front lines of missions. Thanks be to God.