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Scioto Valley Women Ministers of W/S and CLPs met at St. Theresa’s Conference Center for a joyous retreat at the end of March.
Their leader was Rev. Betty Meadows, General Presbyter of Mid-Kentucky Presbytery in Louisville.
Participants included Janice Hilkenbaumer, Charlene Baughman, Kristin Schutte, Linda McClanahan, and Sharon Sauer with Betty Meadows. The women also got together at Don Pablo’s to celebrate Cinco de Mayo and are making plans for a summer cookout at Carol Weiss’ in August.
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Congratulations and best wishes to The Rev. Carol Weiss on her recent retirement from Condit Presbyterian Church!
The “Rev. Mrs.”, as she was fondly called, enjoyed a church full of grateful and tearful church members and friends as she said goodbye to her Condit family the last Sunday in March. (photo attached)
A Way to Give Help to Myanmar/Burma
Dear Friends and folks who pray for us,
You are seeing on the news what is happening in Myanmar/Burma. Due to security concerns I cannot give particulars about groups and people, but through some folks at Payap University we have a little footpath into the disaster.
Here is what our folks are saying:
“We want to help victims and affected villages in Myaung Mya township area, which is located in the Irrawaddy Division. In our last meeting with some teachers, we have decided to select five volunteer students who would like to serve in affected villages and do not have money for airfare to go back to Myanmar. We will try to raise funds for their airfares. These students will be going to help in villages in Myaung Mya township which is in Irrawaddy Division. According to some news reports, the military has been transferring the victims from Laputta to Myaung Mya. Therefore, we will be able to help the people there who are really in great need.
For those who would like to know in more details, please go to Room G103 at Graduate Building. You will be provided with more information. For everyone’s safety, please do not mention the names or forward the emails unless necessary.
Sincerely,
PMSF Committee”
A TESOL student adds:
“I just wanted to pass along some news on the area that our students are focused on assisting. Below are some excerpts from news articles that mention MyaungMya Township, where our students know the local pastors and leaders and will be sending their aid.
As you can see, according to news reports, MyaungMya has become the first point of relief and the transit point for refugees coming from the devastated southwestern Delta Coast, that includes the Laputta area where, at the least, 10,000 have died. This area is also the furthest in the flooded Delta area from Yangon, so its remoteness may also be a point of vulnerability for the people. From other information I have seen there are also many Christians and ethnic Karen people in this area.
So, in addition to our students having good and trustworthy connections in the Delta, the area they are sending aid to is perhaps one of the areas of greatest need and a natural logistical center from which extensive assistance will be carried out in the weeks and months ahead.
The link below has maps of the area. MyaungMya is located just above Laputta, in the bottom left corner.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/LPAA-7ECQHX?OpenDocument
There are many good agencies to donate to including World Vision with whom we may work. But if you would like to support this tiny local effort, you may. If you donate more than $200 send a check made out to Payap University and send it to me, Esther Wakeman, Payap University, Chiang Mai 50000, Thailand. I’ll get it put in the fund. If you send less than $200, make the check out to me, and send it to my parents: Al and Thelma Wakeman, 4753 State Route 12, Pandora, OH 45877. They’ll let me know the totals and we’ll make a check here to Payap University. This saves on expensive check cashing costs in Thailand.
Thanks for your prayers, too; they are most needed and desired by our friends at Payap directly affected by this immense tragedy.
