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Famine and Relief Fund 2000 Grants | 2001 Grants |
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January 5 - Mud slides in Venezuela have destroyed thousands of homes and killed thousands of people. Bishop Roger Haskins requested The Fund to make a grant to the Maturin Free Methodist Church. Members will collect food and closing donated by the Venezuelan people, and will transport them to needy areas. | $4,500 | |
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February
11 - Bishop Leslie Krober called from Mozambique where torrential rains
were causing the worst flood in 100 years, destroying bridges, roads and
homes. Five conference superintendents could not attend the celebration
of becoming a General Conference. Emergency funds needed immediately. |
$56,000 | |
| April
10 - Missions Director Henry Church reported that the entire water system
at the Lundi Mission in Zimbabwe was out because of flooding and help was
needed to make repairs. |
$10,000 | ||
| April
22 - Bishop Bya'ene asked for food for Burundi refugees in Tanzania.
Missionary Jim Stillman will oversee the distribution. |
$6,000 |
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| April
27 - Because of no rain in three years, crops have failed in the Bugesera
area of Rwanda and some Free Methodists are starving. Missionary Phyllis
Sorter asks for a truckload of beans and rice. |
$13,720 | ||
| May
4 - Crops were destroyed and homes and churches were under water in
the Philippines. Philippine Free Methodists collected funds, food and clothing.
Bishop Jim Tuan reported the need. |
$3,000 | ||
| May
15 - Pastor Baraza of Kenya asked for funds to buy beans and rice for
6,000 needy Free Methodists in Kenya. |
$13,720 | ||
| July 6
- New work in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia is expanding. Dr. Tim Teusink
reported on Ethiopian Humanitarian Project for a select village to make
the area self-sufficient by providing food, water wells and an agricultural
teaching program. |
$10,000 | ||
| September
8 - As a result of fighting between rebels and government soldiers,
600 Free Methodists from Gishingano and Gasenyi, Burundi, left their homes.
Bishop Buconyori asked for help in providing shelter, food and medicine. |
$5,000 | ||
| September
27 - Missionaries Paul Guazon and Polly Ho needed rice for Free Methodist
flood victims in Cambodia. Bishop Joseph James requested The Fund to make
a grant. |
$2,000 | ||
| October
12 - Church leader Narendra John reported 20 families had lost everything
because of flooding in India. |
$2,000 | ||
| October
17 - Bishop Buconyori of Burundi asked for help
in providing food and blankets for displace people near FM mission stations,
and to relocate Rev. Nzigo, a Burundi refugee now in Nairobi, back to Bujumbura
to provide additional leadership. |
$8,000 |