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Local Churches Outline A Mission Trip Screening Process
The arrest of ten Americans in Haiti and the kidnapping charges filed against them have raised some questions about how church organizations and missionary groups operate. Many churches tell us they run extensive background checks on those interested in volunteering. Joanna Dunn, Assistant Pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Boise, said the screening
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Mission Trips Carry Risk
I've never seen it, but I'm told that somewhere at Princeton (N.J.) Theological Seminary, there is a wall inscribed with the names of its graduates who died while in the mission field. They died from all sorts of causes, everything from disease to murder at the hands of pirates. It's intended
U.S. ministries lose workers in Haiti
As religious relief organizations work to help the living and cope with the dying in Haiti, some faith groups are mourning deaths of their members in the recent earthquake. Two United Methodist Church executives, a Lutheran seminarian and three Free Methodist Church missionaries died as a result of
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Highland Park missionary dies from Haiti quake injuries
One of the Highland Park United Methodist Church missionaires caught in the Haiti earthquake has died, the church announced Friday. Jean Arnwine died overnight in Guadeloupe from critical internal injuries sustained when a free eye clinic the missionaries were operating in the village of Petit Goave
Highland Park church volunteers at airport for evacuation from Haiti
All 12 members of a medical mission from Highland Park United Methodist have made it from the village of Petit Goave to an airport in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince and are awaiting evacuation, church spokeswoman Kim Gifford said this morning. Several of the missionaries were injured — two
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Troy missionaries safe in Haiti
Among those in Haiti spared the worst of Tuesday’s devastating earthquake were several Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students and parishioners of St. John Episcopal Church in Troy. “I was scared beyond belief for their safety,” said Cindy Schmehl of Ballston Lake, whose husband,
Highland Park Church Group In Haiti: “We’re Safe”
Very little information has come out about the conditions of twelve North Texans trapped in Haiti, but a text message from the group shortly after the earthquake lets people back home know they are alive. The team went down for a medical mission trip earlier this month. As their families here in Texas
DeRuyter church prays for three members still in Haiti
DeRuyter (WSYR-TV) – Three missionaries from DeRuyter arrived there right before the quake hit. Vern Groves, Linda Springer and Andy Clendenning have not been heard from yet. Within the United Church of DeRuyter there were 130 voices and one unified prayer of song for three people hundreds of
North Texas mission team trapped in earthquake-ravaged Haiti
HIGHLAND PARK — Members of Highland Park United Methodist Church are praying for the safe and healthy return of a 12-person mission team, trapped in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. The group left Saturday and was to return this Sunday. Highland Park UMC's global mission team has helped with an eye
Two Missionaries From Wisconsin Church Found Safe After Haiti Quake
Two missionaries affiliated with a Wisconsin church who had been out of contact following the devastating earthquake in Haiti have been found safe, FoxNews.com has learned. Betty and Huguener Bastia, pastors of the Calvary Chapel of Caneille in Haiti, had last been seen Tuesday afternoon in Port-au-Prince,
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All members of Hackettstown church group alive after Haiti earthquake
HACKETTSTOWN — There were sighs of relief and prayers of joy at the Trinity United Church in Hackettstown this afternoon where church officials and family member said they were contacted by a mission group that had gone to Haiti last Saturday. The Rev. Frank Fowler managed to make a brief telephone
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Haiti earthquake aftermath leaves N.J. churches, families waiting for word from loved ones
New Jersey residents are frantically trying to contact loved ones and friends from Haiti in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in the country that may have left thousands dead. Communications with the devastated country have been limited, leaving church members, relatives, and others to rely
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Gunfire interrupts church mission trip
A group of nine men from Church for the Harvest in Alexandria got more than they bargained for during a recent mission trip to Mexico. They not only helped remodel a soup kitchen, visited with an orphanage and brought supplies to families living in squalor, but the men were also caught in the crossfire
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MILF rebels charged with priest’s kidnapping
MANILA : Three Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels and several individuals have been charged with the kidnapping of Irish Columban Father Michael Sinnott. Two of the men were named as Saidamen Montaner and James Palwa. "We have strong evidence against them and we have witnesses,"
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Freed Irish priest ‘treated well by Muslim kidnappers’
Rev Michael Sinnott was freed in the early hours of Thursday morning. He said he was not harmed by his captors but was now "extremely exhausted". "For long periods of time we had nothing at all to do, so we sat around in the hammocks and talked at length about religion," said Rev
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