Catembe Mozambique-Mosquito Net Distribution

THERE MAY NEVER BE ANOTHER MALARIA VICTIM IN CATEMBE MOZAMBIQUE!

With the help of Lafayette Park UMC,5,697 Mosquito Nets have been delivered to Catembe Mozambique.  Lafayette Park UMC raised $20,000 to purchase 2000 mosquito nets as our 2011 Christmas fundraiser.  Our friends at the Missouri Conference's Mozambique Initiative help gather the remaining funds and with our partners at the Nothing but Net's program managed the distribution of 5,697 nets to the people of Catembe.

Lafayette Park UMC has a covenant relationship with the Catembe United Methodist Church.  We support them with our prayers and a small financial to provide a pastor. But in 2011 we went even further.  Living out our promise to be a church without walls.

You can see all the photos in Picasa web album.


 

September e-Newsletter

The September LPUMC e-Newsletter is out. There are updates on last months, news on great fall ministries. Check it all out at...

• CROP Hunger Walk
• Pumpkin Patch
• Family Fun Day
• Blessing of the Animals
• HomeFirst STL Move-In Kits
• Charge Conference

Kristen Leslie to to train Navy chaplains on sexual assault ministry

In case you missed the story in the St Louis Post Dispatch . . .

Eden professor to train Navy chaplains on sexual assault ministry

09/24/2013 - By Tim Townsend ttownsend@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8221

Rev. Kristen Leslie began her 2003 book, “When Violence Is No Stranger,” with a verse from Psalms, a nod to her training as a theologian.

“It is not enemies who taunt me — I could bear that; it is not adversaries who deal insolently with me — I could hide from them. But it is you, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend...

 The book’s subject was acquaintance rape, and it got the attention of a chaplain at the Air Force Academy. The school was then reeling from a Pentagon report indicating that 7 percent of its cadets reported being the victims of rape or attempted rape. Nearly 90 percent of the perpetrators were their own classmates.

Leslie, now a professor of pastoral theology and care at Eden Theological Seminary in Webster Groves, was invited to Colorado to consult with academy leaders on how to train Air Force chaplains to deal with sexualized violence on campus.   (Continue reading . . . )