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Mission to Israel: Mission Reports: Relief Efforts - Hurricane 2004
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THE VOICE OF THE LORD SAID: WHOM SHALL I SEND AND WHO WILL GO FOR US?
WE HAVE A PLACE FOR YOU! Come! Be a part of our team of volunteers who have come from all over the world to fulfill their call to:
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MEDICAL MISSIONS Ways to participate in a Friend Ships medical mission:
2. Supportive/Preparatory (short term): Non-licensed or peripheral-primary care (pre-med, medical students, nursing students, LPNs, paramedics, EMTs, X-ray techs, etc) volunteers may be of use depending upon the current needs of the medical department, either at Port Mercy or in the field. (For example, an x-ray tech might be helpful if we receive a donation of an X-ray unit and it needs to be serviced or installed.) Contact the medical department to see if your skills can be of use or if you have questions. Submit your application to the Friend Ships personnel Department. 3. Full time Friend Ships crew (2 months or more) or Friend Ships Guest Worker (less than 2 months): Join Friend Ships as a regular crewmember. Experience the profound effects of truly living by faith! You will be assigned a job based on the current needs of the organization at the time of application. The most important qualification for all available positions at Friend Ships is a willingness to work, learn, and to serve under authority with a Godly attitude and great flexibility. Positions available are subject to change according to the mission and available qualified staff. Full time crew membership does not guarantee that you will sail on a medical mission but you will be able to participate in the preparation of upcoming voyages. Submit your applications to the Friend Ships personnel Department.
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Work Teams are sent by churches and schools from near and far. Adult Work Teams and Youth Groups (14 years and older) offer invaluable assistance to Friend Ships operations. Being part of an Adult or Youth Work Team is a very important way to serve with Friend Ships. Each year, many such Teams assist at our various facilities.
Friend Ships also hosts Work Teams onboard the "Spirit" and "Spirit of Grace". Though, due to circumstances and the locations of our ships, groups may not always be able to serve at those facilities on the desired dates. Please call (337) 433-5022 or email us for more details on booking your group today. Work assignments vary but people of all skills, along with general laborers, can always be effectively utilized. Finally, Friend Ships hosts Work Teams at "Friend Ships Village" on the island of Roatán, Honduras. We especially need persons with all types of construction skills and heavy equipment operators but all skills and general laborers are welcome and are a blessing! At this location, Friend Ships is establishing a vocational training center, agricultural programs and various community outreach programs. For information on bringing or sending a Church or College Work Team to any of the Friend Ships locations, please call the Gulf Coast Office at (337) 433-5022 and ask for the Groups Coordinator. For those who want to join with us in spirit but cannot join with us in person, becoming part of the Friend Ships "Special Forces" Prayer Team is ideal. This prayer team consistently prays for the needs of Friend Ships and its staff. The Prayer Team Leader keeps the members informed of the needs and also of the answers to specific requested prayers in addition to the activities of Friend Ships. Everyone is eligible to join - all that is required is a belief that God hears and answers prayer. For information on the Prayer Team, please call the Friend Ships office at (337) 433-5022 or email us and put in the subject area, Attention: Special Forces.
DISASTER RESPONSE
Friend Ships has scheduled
Disaster Relief Training 2006 for June 26-July 1st. We invite you to
attend in order to be introduced to the various ways that the Friend
Ships team ministers to disaster victims. In this way, you be equipped
to prepare a group from your church, school or community to join Friend
Ships on the scene and become part of our team.
In order to attend the
training, register by sending us an email to let us know you are
interested. Please include your name, address and telephone number. If
you represent a group, please identify the group and if you would like
to bring others with you, tell us how many people would be in your
party. You will need to fly or drive to our facility, PORT MERCY in
Lake Charles,
Louisiana on June 26th and depart Lake Charles on July 1st. We will provide room and board for you during this
time and there is no charge for the training.
Click here to download the Disaster Response
Application or
email us for more information.
During the week, we will
introduce you to the vision for Friend Ships Disaster Response and the
various outreaches including food service, commodity distribution, chain
saw service, roofing, emergency radio broadcast and door to door
ministry. You will meet our team and learn the basics of what
conditions, accommodations, work hours and duties are like while active
on a mission.
Once we have obtain the below
information we will be contacting you with more travel details i.e.
suggested airports to flight into, directions and a brief list of
suggested items to pack for your time here at Port Mercy.
"Friends" of Friend Ships encompass a
wide variety of wonderful people who care about people in need! Friends
are private donors or churches who give money to help buy fuel or cover
the expenses of running Friend Ships.
Friends are
companies and individuals who donate goods to aid our operations or ship
overseas. How blessed we are
by their overwhelming generosity! Friends are people who encourage us
and love us; who let us know that they support the work we do. Yes,
Friends share their ideas, resources, prayers and hopes with us. That is
why we call them "Friends"!!
If you have supplies, equipment
or services to donate, please
contact
us. If you would
like to make a financial contribution, please make checks payable to "Friend
Ships Unlimited" and please mail them to our
Gulf
Coast
Office.
All donations are tax deductible and greatly appreciated!
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Staff are committed, hard working
individuals or married couples,
who
come from every continent and walk of life. They may serve for a short or
a long period of time, two months or longer. These soldiers have had
the courage to leave their comfort zones and come to live, full-time, at
one of the Friend Ships facilities, on land or at sea. They work hard every
day to gather, organize and load donated goods, pray for the needs of the
organization, distribute food, maintain and repair ships, and carry out the
administration. Some even travel across the oceans by ship to deliver blessings
around the world. Staff members are the Friend Ships core group which
make our programs possible.
Staff
are eligible to be considered for all positions at all facilities/ships of
Friend Ships. Some positions and assignments require intensive training and
only staff with a two year commitment may be considered to fill them.
A
volunteer guest worker will work alongside the staff members, sharing in
their meals and living quarters and building lasting friendships. These
kind helpers come for a day, a weekend, a week, or up to two months.
They come singly, with a friend, with a group, or with their family and
from many nations and backgrounds. Like the staff crew members, these
helpers offer themselves as "servants" to the needy of the world.
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