Category: Outreach

Ways We Serve Our Community and the World

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Supplies needed for Medical Missionary Trip to Guatemala

New or used reading glasses and sunglasses
Dental products such as toothbrushes and toothpaste

Our dear sister, Mabel Ezeonwu, is collecting reading glasses (new or used) and dental products such as tooth brushes and toothpaste for a medical missionary trip to Guatemala in July. Sunglasses are also welcome. 

Mabel will be leading the trip with a team of doctors and nurses, where they set up clinics and provide health care services to the local indigenous Mayan communities. Fitting clients with reading glasses makes a difference in their lives and their functionality.

Collection baskets are located in the Narthex. Thank you for your generosity.

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Tents and Supplies for Camp Unity

St. Bartholomew’s outreach committee allocated $2000 from the outreach fund for the purchase of tents, cots and other supplies to support Camp Unity Eastside.

The donation was used to create a matching fund to encourage others to help close the funding gap for sheltering and other needs.  (April 2018)

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Anglican Church Women (ACW) support Health work in Guatemala

On August 19th ACW member Mabel Ezeonwu gave a presentation to the ACW on her recent trip to Guatemala.   Her University of Washington team spent two weeks in the country training village health care promoters and putting on “pop-up clinics”.  The work was carried out with Seattle-based Guatemala Village Health (GVH). Together they visited 8 villages and reached 596 people with primary care and preventive health services.  The villages were remote—two of them only accessible by boat.  These communities have no access to health services.  Malnutrition is common.  ACW support was much appreciated and provided stethoscopes, blood pressure cuffs, batteries and other supplies which remained with the village health promoters after the team left.

If anyone wants to support this work further, Mabel provided information on three village health promoters who are looking for financial assistance so they can continue their education.  Donations can be directed to Guatemala Village Health.  Mabel presented us with a beautiful Guatemalan cross as a thank you gift. (August 2018)