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ZOE MINISTRY:
Rwanda Mission Trip
Rwanda Mission Trip with ZOE Ministry
January 8-21, 2009
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Florida mission team members fly from
Orlando to D.C.
and spend the night at an airport hotel
Flight info: United Airlines 1260
Thu, Jan 8 - 5:26pm Orlando (MCO)
Thu, Jan 8 - 7:31pm Washington, DC (IAD)
Friday, January 9, 2009
Check in for flight to Africa and meet up with Ohio and
SC/NC team members at the gate-first time the whole team is together
Long day/night flight (15-16 hours) to Africa-D.C. to Ethiopia
Flight info: Ethiopian Airlines S C 503
Fri, Jan 9 - 9:30am Washington, DC (IAD)
Sat, Jan 10 - 8:30am Addis Ababa (ADD)
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Arrive in Ethiopia and fly to Kigali, Rwanda
Flight info: Ethiopian Airlines S C 807
Sat, Jan 10 - 10:30am Addis Ababa (ADD)
Sat, Jan 10 - 11:55am Kigali (KGL)
We will be picked up by the Lodge where we are staying for the night
which is the Gorilla’s Guest House in Kigali.
We will have a short rest,
and then meet to go over details of week,
have dinner etc.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Tour of Kigali and Genocide Memorial. The purpose of this tour is to
give us a greater understanding of the culture and the genocide.
Leave for Butare, where Epiphanie will meet us and take us to our
lodging,
which is La Petite Prince.
We will receive the
medicines that were shipped and get
organized for medical work and pharmacy.
Epiphanie will give us the rest of our schedule for the week
and brief us on our work.
Monday, January 12 - Monday, January 19, 2009
Our work week: Mornings: medical and manual labor (farming and
construction)Afternoons: travel to ZOE Giving Hope Sights to visit
children and see scope of work
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Leave Kigali-fly to Ethiopia and then change to long overnight flight to
D.C.
Flight info: Ethiopian Airlines S C 806
Tue, Jan 20 - 4:15pm Kigali (KGL)
Tue, Jan 20 - 7:45pm Addis Ababa (ADD)
Ethiopian Airlines S C 500
Tue, Jan 20 - 10:15pm Addis Ababa (ADD)
Wed, Jan 21 - 7:20am Washington, DC (IAD)
Wednesday,
January 21, 2009
Arrive in D.C.-Ohio, SC/NC, and FL teams split up to fly to their
respective homes
Flight info: United Airlines 1255
Wed, Jan 21 - 12:22pm Washington, DC (IAD)
Wed, Jan 21 - 2:41pm Orlando (MCO)
Arrive home to Orlando
General
Rwanda Information:
Time zone:
Rwanda Time Zone is GMT+2 which is 7 hours ahead of EST in the
US. Sunrise will be about 6:00 am and sunset about 6:15 pm.
Temperatures
The sun shines nearly all year round, and, whatever the season,
the mean daily temperature is close to 24 C (76F).
The minimum night temperatures is around
10C (50F) and maximum daytime temperatures ranges about 34C (94F).
Seasons
The climate of Rwanda is made up of two wet seasons and two dry seasons.
The short wet season lasts from October-November, and the main rainy
season, lasting from mid-March to the end of May. During the
dry seasons, which
last from December to mid-March and from June to the end of August,
frequent light cloud cover yields a pleasant, never stifling,
temperature.
Across Africa,
children are raising children
due to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and genocide.
ZOE Ministry
is Giving Hope
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Help
for African children orphaned by the HIV/AIDS
pandemic and genocide through
medical care,
food relief, education, and clothing programs.
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Ongoing
love and support through ZOE Ministry programs and
partnerships that bring orphans in Zimbabwe, Zambia,
Kenya, and Rwanda back into their communities.
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Prayer
Ministry, emotional healing, and the good news of
Christ’s love extended through faith communities in
Africa and the United States.
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Empowerment
for children living in desperate poverty through ZOE
Ministry’s
Giving Hope Empowerment Project providing
mentoring, vocational training, income-generating
activities to foster financial independence,
training in animal husbandry and farming, and
HIV/AIDS education and awareness.
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord;
plans to prosper you and not to harm you; plans to give
you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11
ZOE’s
Story
ZOE Ministry began
in 2004 when
Rev. Greg Jenks answered Christ’s call to reach out
to the least of these through the witness of a 15 year
old girl who had traveled to Africa to work with
children orphaned by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
With
the support of the
North Carolina United Methodist Conference, Greg
left the parish ministry to launch ZOE Ministry from his
home in Clayton, NC. Today, thousands of people have
helped meet the needs of orphans and vulnerable children
in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya, and Rwanda through the work
of ZOE Ministry.
For more information on ZOE Ministry - please contact Rev. June Edwards,
at
jedwards@firstumc.org
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