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NOMADS is a group of mostly seniors who move around the United States and sometimes in Central America, living in recreational vehicles while they engage in mission volunteer work. EUMC has an active group.

NOMADS Report - Winter 2009

Greetings from sunny California! After digging our motor home out of the snow, we left home December 27 and had no problems on our trip south. (Not like another NOMADS’ couple who didn’t leave Seattle till after the flooding and were delayed getting here due to I-5 being closed!) There are four couples on our NOMADS’ team, including a former pastor and missionary, Harold “Bill” Smith and his wife Roberta. The work we have been doing for Neighborhood House, the agency supported by the Board of Global Ministries and located here in Calexico, has been pretty strenuous—we swept out a basement in a warehouse with lots of debris, put plexiglass over some high windows that were broken out and repaired and painted a small bathroom. They will be using this warehouse for storage as well as for distribution and sales of clothes, household items, etc.

Then we moved to the women’s shelter which is a house plus two smaller buildings in the back yard that has also been used for housing. The NOMADS’ team was able to demolish one of the small buildings and carry all the “stuff” to a nearby dumpster as well as re-build a section of fence that originally was one wall of the house! The agency will be taking down all the buildings in the future and building a brand new facility to provide transitional housing for women and children. Because of donations provided by churches (including EUMC) and individuals, Neighborhood House was given monies to help with expenses for some of the work we are doing. The donations given to NOMADS help many agencies and churches to accomplish the work needed on their facilities. We are so thankful for the prayers and support EUMC has provided to us and the NOMADS program.

NOMADS are looking for new volunteers since they are turning down worthy projects due to the lack of help. Interested? Contact Charles & Carol Townsend.

Cookies for KAIROS
It's cookie time! The weekend of March 19-22nd will be participating on the Kairos weekend at WCCW Purdy and will need to take 100, yes 100 dozen cookies so that each inmate will get a dozen a day for three days. Please, no store bought cookies. Cookies need to be firm, not easily crumbled, i.e. choc chip, peanut butter, molasses or ginger snaps and the favorite, Rice Krispie treats. Cookies cannot be rolled or dusted with sugar or powdered sugar and no poppy seeds. Each cookie should be prayed over as they are being made and then stored in freezer bags, in Oreo style, (stacked in rolls) with the number of cookies and kind written on the bag and frozen. These cookies are needed no later than March 18th.