Rx Consultation
May 3-5, 2013
"Preparing for Your Next Medical Mission"
Contact
Lorna JostUMVIM-NCJ
umvim-ncj@brookings.net
605-692-3390
Where
Oak Creek Community UMC
8675 South 13th Street
Oak Creek, WI 53154-2815
414 762-4600
Driving Directions
Oak Creek UMC
Workshops
#1. Gloria Borgman, RN — The Basics of Community Based Primary Health Care (CBPHC).
#2. Teresa Miller, RN — Packing it ALL in!
#3. Doyle Ellis, DDS — Dental clinics— in the field logistics / planning
#4. Debbie Hills, Deacon, Physical Therapist — Incorporating disability work into the medical mission team.
#5. Jane Dunn, RN, MS – CBPHC: Resources and Options for Implementation
#6. Patricia Magyar, UMCOR Health — workshop of her choice from UMCOR Health and how we can be partners
#7. Carol Meynen, MD & Tony Fuller — Senegal mission.
#8. Heather Nielsen—Individual Volunteer, Partnership & Volunteer Ministry Option at Salud y Paz, Guatemala
#9. Dr. Rev. Donald & Marilyn Griffith — teaching seminars at Kissy Hospital (Sierra Leone) – practicality, logistics and lessons learned
#10. Connie Ziegler, Spiritual Formation tools for mission teams
#11. Sharon Hinton, Parish Nurse programs for churches
# 12. Roger Boe, MD — Individual Volunteer program targeted at Health Care professionals
#13. Judy Bruun/Lorna Jost — UMVIM Leadership Training—Sunday afternoon, May 5, 1:00—5:00 PM
Event Schedule:
Friday PM:
12:00 – RX Steering committee meets
1:00 – optional tour of mission site (TBA)
2:00 – 4:45 registration, set up and visit displays
5:00 – Welcome, devotion— Rev. Paul Armstrong. Oak Creek UMC / introductions of speakers and workshops - Lorna Jost
5:45 – Dinner — (Carlene Wintermote / UMW/ Mission Work Area)
6:30 – Patricia Magyar - Plenary on UMCOR Health
7:45 – Travelogues (25 min. max each) - 2013 medical mission teams
1. Dr. Sang Lee, Detroit — medical mission to Bangladesh - cancelled
2. Teresa Miller, RN West Michigan — medical mission to Nicaragua
3. Jody Pratt, RN, W MI & Judy Bruun, RN WI— medical mission to Peru
4. Chuck Garrigues, WI, Honduras Mission
9:30 – dismissed for evening
Saturday:
7:00 – Coffee & Rolls (Carlene Wintermote / UMW/ Mission Work Area)
7:30 – Devotion Rev. Deborah Thompson, (invited)
8:00 – 9:00 Roger Boe, Plenary, on work at Maua Hospital, Kenya
9:05 – 10:05 Workshops (#1-3)
15 minute break
10:20 – 12:15 Workshops (#4-6)
12:15 – Lunch (Carlene Wintermote / UMW/ Mission Work Area)
Visit displays
1:15 – Skyping Mission Sites (Tom Heaton, Guatemala Mission, JoAna Dwyer, ODIM-Guatemala, Cindy Ceballos, Panama)
2:00 – 3:30 Workshops (#7-9)
15 minute break
3:45 – 5:15 Workshops (#10-12)
5:15 – 5:45 display area
6:00 – Dinner (Carlene Wintermote / UMW/ Mission Work Area)
6:45 – Entertainment by Oak Creek UMC Reach Out Praise Band
7:30 – communion
8:00 – Wrap up - Fellowship and ask questions - for those interested
Sunday AM:
8:00 AM – Traditional Worship service
10:45 AM – Blended Family service
Sunday PM:
1:00 - 5:00 PM UMVIM Team Leadership training
Healing Hands Photo: Teresa Miller
Oak Creek Community United Methodist Church
8675 South 13th Street
Oak Creek, WI 53154-2815
Phone 414 762-4600
Each year, on the first weekend of May, as spring fully takes over, the Rx Steering Committee, a program of United Methodist Volunteers In Mission, North Central Jurisdiction offers a training / learning event for medical volunteers called the Rx Consultation. It is typically hosted by a United Methodist Church actively engaged in mission. Over the past 9 years, we have moved it around the North Central Jurisdiction trying to give as much exposure as possible in all of our 11 Conferences. In 2014 we are slated to be in the West Ohio Conference.
We will be adding more pictures and information on speakers and workshops as it comes available!
We will be collecting UMCOR Health Kits for the Midwest Mission Distribution Center to pick up. Please start collecting them now!
Judy Bruun and Jody Pratt are also asking for help with these medical supplies for the July medical mission to Peru: small soaps/shampoos, nail clippers, and bandaids.
If any medical teams would like some of the diapers being sewn out of t-shirts - please let me know so I can help get them to you at this event, write Lorna Jost.
Plenary Speakers
Patricia Magyar, UMCOR Health, will be with us. She will speak to us Friday evening on her current work for UMCOR Health. Patricia has been very involved in Parish Nurse activities and Community Based Primary Health Care efforts globally (CBPHC).
Dr. Roger Boe, pediatrician, a long time participant in the Rx Consultation will present his experience as an Individual Volunteer at Maua Hospital in Kenya. Roger has been on numerous medical missions and writes extensively for the Mission Volunteers Medical Blog. Roger and his wife are from Pocatello, ID and spent several months in Kenya in the spring of 2011.
Rev. Tom Heaton, JoAna Dwyer, and Cindy Ceballos will be our featured Skype presenters. Tom is the director of Mission Guatemala and is from the Indiana Conference. JoAna is the director of ODIM (Organization for the Development of the Indigenous Maya), also in Guatemala. Cindy along with her husband is a GBGM missionary in Panama and she promotes medical teams. Each of these persons will do their best to influence you to take a medical mission to their site in the near future! And they will tell you how the United Methodist connection is working in their area.
Travelogue Presenters - Friday Evening
Dr. Sang Lee, Detroit Conference, Medical mission to Bangladesh in partnership with the GBGM Mission Initiatives.
Teresa Miller, West Michigan, veteran leader, will present unique ideas she implemented on her recent medical mission to Nicaragua.
Teresa has worked as a Labor and Delivery Nurse for 31 years, but her true passion is taking medical teams to Nicaragua. For the past 12 years she has lead 2-3 teams a year into rural Nicaragua. The teams have traveled in a variety of planes, trucks, vans, and boats to go into areas needing to see Gods love at work through providing medical care.
Jody Pratt, West Michigan, and Judy Bruun, Wisconsin, on their medical mission to Peru.
Judy and little friend Percy - a 2 ½ year old boy that needs surgery for Esophageal Atresia. I have several doctors from Children’s Hospital in Milwaukee that are willing to take him. His appointment to see the doctor in Lima is April 30th, so it will be a long wait.
Chuck Garrigues, Wisconsin, presentation of their Honduras mission activity.
Some Notes About the Workshops & Leaders
# 2. Packing It ALL In! - Teresa Miller (W MI) - Yes you can live out of carryon luggage for a 10-12 day mission trip! The more you take the harder it is for the people hosting you. Keep it simple, unpack and leave more at home. Come to my class and learn how to pack!
# 4. Incorporating disability work into the medical mission team - Rev. Debbie Hills, Deacon, Physical Therapist. Rev. Hills brings nearly 35 years of experience as a physical therapist working directly with individuals and families affected by disability to the mission field. Rev. Hills has developed and leads a local outreach project called Ramps of Hope that provides residential accessible ramps for persons in need. This program continues to grow and currently has more than 25 churches actively reaching out to their neighbors with help and hope.
# 10. Spiritual Formation Tools for mission teams (& other small groups) - Connie Ziegler, WI. Connie Ziegler has been a life-long United Methodist. She was a member of the Joyful Jesters Clown Ministry troupe in the 1990's and early 2000's and became a certified lay speaker in 2000. She has served on almost all church committees, has been the lay member to annual conference and has been a member of the Wisconsin Conference Spiritual Formation Resource Team since 2011.
A word about UMVIM Team Leadership Training
The team training helps ensure that :
1. Teams will go where invited
2. Teams will have leaders that are trained in and will convey to their teams aspects of cultural sensitivity, spiritual growth, personal relationships
3. Teams will abide by Safe Sanctuary guidelines
4. Teams will act out the three simple rules : Do no harm, Do good and Love God
The training will be held Sunday PM. You may attend this training only. Register for the event and pick this option. Arrive at the chuch ~12:45 to find the class room. Class goes from 1:00 to ~5:00 PM.
Workshop leaders are Judy Bruun and Lorna Jost.
Hotel Reservations
Please make your own Hotel Reservation
The nearest hotel to us (1.5 miles) is :
Milwaukee Airport South - Staybridge Suites
9575 South 27th Street
Franklin, WI 53132
Front desk 414 761-3800
Book online or call: 1-877 859 5095
Front desk : 414-761-3800
Rates start at $79.00 + 14.1% tax for a studio queen room - a block of rooms are reserved under Rx Consultation
Date of Arrival: May 3, 2012
Please make your hotel reservation by April 22
There are numerous other hotels in the Milwaukee Airport area that people could use with a variety of pricing options Those that are closer to the church (about 2.5 miles) are:
La Quinta Inn Milwaukee Airport / Address: 7141 South 13th Street, Oak Creek, WI 53154 / Phone: 800 753-3757 / Hotel class: 2 stars
Econo Lodge Milwaukee Airport / Address: 6541 South 13th Street, Milwaukee, WI 53221 / Phone: 414 764-2510 / Hotel class: 2 stars
Ramada Plaza Milwaukee Airport / Address: 6331 South 13th Street, / Milwaukee, WI 53221 / Phone: 414 764-1500 / Hotel class: 3 stars
The Crowne Plaza Milwaukee Airport Hotel / Address: 6401 S 13th St, Milwaukee, WI 53221 / Phone: 866 539-0036 / Hotel class: 3 stars