Mission and Service to the World

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One member, a nurse, recently returned from Guatemala where she served with Missionary Ventures Canada, an ecumenical organization. She was generously supported by individual members and she is sharing her pictures and experiences with the congregation. </b></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Eritrea</U></b><B> is another country that continues to receive support since our pastor's wife made a mission trip there two years ago. The recent war has devastated these people who are among the poorest of the poor countries in the world.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>In past years our Youth Group and individual members participated in </b><B><U>Medical Missions to Central America</U></b></div> <bR> <div> <B>The weekly offering of the church school children is given to a different mission each year. </b><B><U>Sleeping Children Around the World</U></b><B> being a recent one.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>These are only a few examples of the ways that Central United Church people support the mission of the church to the wider community and the world.</b></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></b></div> <div> <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="What We Do"><U><B>Back to What We Do</b></U></A><B>      or      </b><A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Music Ministries"><U><B>Next Page</b></U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>