Reconciling United Methodists and Friends : ANOTHER GREAT YEAR OF SPIRITUAL AWAKENINGS - Coming Out As Sacrement - Take Reconciling on the Road - Believe out loud - Called to Witness
Please send this on to friends, pastors, church staff, parish nurses, health professionals, missions persons, education persons, caring persons in your local churches!
On the heels of the HAPPY news on the heels of the AIDS walks in NE -- raising $20,000 Statewide with the help of folks like you and me -
we rec'd the SAD news yesterday from Andrew Brackett of Kearney NAP and Jordan Delmundo of NAP / NE AIDS project in Omaha below.
Sadly we need to let you know that there will be a Waiting list again for the Drug Assistance of clients with HIV AIDS in NE (we were hoping this would not happen again)
I will send out Andrew's note and attachment separately through Open Hearts News - send prayers and make a faith resposne to this Waiting List coming Oct 15.
See Jordans link in his note - the HIV AIDS Action notice.
Also see the GREAT article in UM connect yesterday (below on a link) about the AIDS walks in NE 2011 with photo, 2011 HIV AIDS story by Andrew Brackett, link to our GRANT for local churches and UM groups and more !
THINGS WE CAN DO / actions, faith responses to the Waiting list starting oct 15 in NE : see Jordan's short note below
1) Contact your neareset NAP center and get info for your faith community / church -
2) Become an AIDS Ambassador for your local church, leadership -
3) Apply for a GRANT- NE UMC WORKING FOR AN AIDS FREE WORLD GRANT - in your local church: there is a New Grant available each year to local NE UMC churches and groups that are selected -
they are due NOV 1, 2011 : www.umcneb.org/AIDS for the link on the GRANTS and printing them out to apply this year.
Meet with your pastor, missions group, ed committee, parish nurse, health group, HIV AIDS task force, health professionals, teachers, Sunday school class, UMW or friends: to write a "WORKING FOR AN AIDS FREE WORLD GRANT" in your local church or group to help with the Waiting list :
Start a special fund and projects to help with the Waiting List and ongoing support for NAP centers with medical emergency funding :
To print the short GRANT Application forms, go to www.umcneb.org/AIDS and it is due Nov 1, 2011. See directions on the link.
The Grant funding comes from Special Offerings this fall and Dec 4 in NE UMC for UM Global AIDS Fund #578 -- 25 % of all offerings for UM Global AIDS fund are to stay in NE for local church or UM group AIDS projects -- if the offerings are sent to Lincoln Conference Offices : to the Conference Treas, 3333 Landmark Circle, Lincoln, NE
Contact : Maureen Vetter : mvetter@charter.net or Andrew Brackett : andrewb@nap in kearney about the TUMC Emergency HIV AIDS Fund and projects at Trinity UMC, G Island which gives assistance for medical emergencies of clients in Central NE through NAP Kearney - to GIVE to the TUMC Emergency fund this fall and during the holidays: write checks to TUMC, put TUMC Emergency HIV AIDS fund in the memo: mail to Trinity UMC, 511 N Elm, Grand Island, NE 68801 We now have an HIV AIDS testing site through the church and other projects.
4) do a special fundraising event to assist with medications for clients on the Waiting List : dinner, silent aucton of Basket of LOVE, have a fall offering, do a walk or run, bike-a-thon, trike-a- thon, have a benefit concert, variety show, talent show - Contact your nearest NAP center to see how your church can collaborate with NAP - www.nap.org5
5) Contact funding sources you know, tell your friends, get to know where testing is done in your area and have a speaker come to share at your church, write a letter to the editor with an action.
6) Send prayers to persons battling HIV AID in NE and around the globe - and GIVE to the UM Global AIDS Fund through your local church : send to Lincoln Conference offices - mark Global AIDS : Conf Treas, 3333 Landmark Circle, Lincoln, NE
STOP AIDS NE, Center for the Church and Global AIDS, UN AIDS and more!
8) Find a way to make a faith response to this Waiting List in NE! Walk in the AIDS walk next Sept or have your own walk this fall at your church -- or do pledge sheets for GETTING ACTIVE 4 AIDS 4 an AIDS Free world! Put out this challenge for a month or a weekend! Make your own pledge sheet with pledges going to UM Global AIDS fund in NE -
send gifts to Lincoln Conf offices, Conf Treas for Global AIDS account #578.
Maureen Vetter and Bill Black, Co Chairs, UM Global AIDS Fund Task Force for NE UMC, part of Risk taking Mission and justice team of NE UMC
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Hey Maureen,
I just found out that Nebraska will be instituting a waiting list to the ADAP (AIDS Drug Assistance Program) effective October 15th. I just wanted to share this with you and with any other advocates you feel may be interested in this news. I wrote a quick blurb about it on my policy blog here:
Please let me know if you, or anyone you know would be interested in teaming up on some advocacy on this issue. I will be targeting our federal policy makers.
Thanks for all that you do!
Jordan Delmundo MPA, MSW
Grants and Public Policy Manager
Nebraska AIDS Project
250 S. 77th St. Suite A
Omaha, NE 68114
Below - SEE HIV AIDS WALK Article from UM Connect yesterday : Grant info, pics, 2011 HIV AIDS Story for NE UMC and friends : from Andrew Brackett to share in local chruches this fall!
Click on the link below to read this edition of UMconnect online:
