Operacion HOGAR VIM Team Prepares for October Trip

Once again the Lafayette Park UMC Volunteer In Mission team is gearing up for a trip to Juarez Mexico. The team will head south to work with our friends at Operacion HOGAR to build safe housing for a family in Juarez.

For more details contact Nancy Thuer or Jim Wilder.

To read more about last years mission, check out this post . . .

Good Luck Aaron & Caroline!

From Worship-Ash Wed 2010

All of us at LPUMC want to thank Aaron and Caroline Ban for the time they spent with us while working with the young adults. And the choir will be short a couple great voices. You have been a blessing to us and we will keep both of you in our thoughts and prayers.

Aaron Ban, will be the new pastor at St. Peter's Evangelical United Church of Christ in Granite City, IL beginning September 12, 2010. This will be a part-time position and he and Caroline will be living in the Pastor's residence.

At the present time Aaron is traveling and is in Seattle working with a Pastor whose ministry is working with the homeless. On August 15, Aaron will travel to Georgia for a 3 day conference and then he and Caroline will be packing and moving from Webster Groves to Granite City.

Aaron wants everyone to know that, "Caroline and I are grateful for the time we spent at LPUMC, a church community that embraced and nurtured us both."