MISSION WORK, OPPORTUNITIES, AND PROJECTS OF
Coronado Community United Methodist Church
New Smyrna Beach, Florida

Ecuador Medical and Dental Mission July 26 - August 3, 2008

Coronado Community United Methodist Church is a community whose mission is “Serving God, Sharing Love.”  When people join our church, they promise to support the church through their prayers, their presence, their gifts, and their service.  As we become Christ’s hands, feet, and voice in a suffering world, we find ourselves Traveling on the Wings of Grace, offering healing and hope to God’s children at home and abroad.

     Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?”  And I said, “Here I am; send me!”  Isaiah 6:8

     Whether it’s passing out vitamins and toothbrushes in a Bolivian jungle or driving nails in a Habitat house in New Smyrna Beach; reconstructing homes damaged by hurricanes in desolate Honduras or in rural North Carolina; singing and reading Bible stories with teenagers in rural Mexico or delivering Meals on Wheels to Edgewater shut-ins; or extracting a painful tooth in Guyana or mentoring an at-risk teenager from New Smyrna Beach High School, CCUMC “missionaries” find themselves carried by those wings of grace in many locations....near and far. 

     For I was hungry and you fed me; I was thirsty and you gave me water; I was a stranger and you invited me into your homes; naked and you clothed me; sick and in prison and you visited me.  Matthew 25:35-36

     Without fail, each time a missioner goes out to serve – whether near our homes or in a faraway country – each person comes home with a renewed faith, feeling as though they received much more than they could possibly have given.  We try to serve God and share love, and it comes back to us many times over.

     God has given each of you some special abilities; be sure to use them to help each other, passing on to others God’s many kinds of blessings.  I Peter 4:9-10