Greetings Friends,

You're invited to join two new Yellowstone Conference United Methodist Volunteers In Mission teams as they continue the good works begun by the conference's recent UMVIM Hurricane Katrina team earlier this month.

Yellowstone Conference UMVIM Trip
June 21 through June 29, 2008
Lander WY UMC Care and Share Food Bank Rebuild in Lander, Wyoming

You're invited to join Elinor Edmunds, Yellowstone Conference missions coordinator, as she leads a United Methodist Volunteers In Mission Team to help the Lander, WY, UMC rebuild the Care and Share Food Bank.

The food bank helps feed families in Lander and neighboring Wind River Reservation. Its current building is too small to meet the growing demand. We will arrive in Lander, WY, on Saturday, June 21 and return home on Sunday, June 29. Our team's main focus will be putting up the roof trusses and roof for the food bank, but there are opportunities for others to volunteer in the Lander UMC Thrift Shop. Anyone age 18 through senior adults is welcome. Come, let's be in mission together as we help Lander UMC reach out to their neighbors in need.

Yellowstone Conference UMVIM Trip
November 8 through 16, 2008
UMVIM Hurricane Katrina Recovery in New Orleans, Louisiana

You're invited to join Carolyn Straub of Yellowstone Conference as she leads a United Methodist Volunteers In Mission Team to do Hurricane Katrina recovery work in New Orleans.

The team will travel to New Orleans to rebuild homes, lives and community. We will stay at Metairie UMC, to reconnect with our friends from the April 2008 Hurricane Katrina trip and do reconstruction work in New Orleans with the Louisiana UM Disaster Recovery Ministry. We will arrive on Saturday, November 8 and return home on Sunday, November 16. Anyone age 18 through senior adults is welcome. No special construction experience is needed; there's a job for everyone.

And visit the yellowstonekatrina.blogspot.com to read about this past April's Yellowstone Conference UMVIM Hurricane Katrina trip.

We're all excited about offering these new opportunities to be in mission with our sisters and brothers. For more information, please contact Elinor Edmunds, missions coordinator for the Yellowstone Conference: 406.465.8799 or elinor@yacumc.org. What great opportunities to be in mission together in 2008!