VIMs returned from the field

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Patt Appavoo
Diocese of Cariboo
Placement country: Madagascar
Position: Archivist
Dates:

Stories and photos:

"Wonderful memories" - May 2000
"Each one teach one" - October 1999
"Injecting a little worship into a civil ceremony" - June 1999
A week of witness - September 1998

Volunteer in Mission – Episocpal Church of the U.S.A.(ECUSA)

Dennis Berk
St. John’s Anglican Seminary
P.O. Box 20369
Kitwe, ZAMBIA, Central Africa

The Rev. Dr. Dennis Berk is a former priest of the Anglican Church of Canada. He was placed in Zambia through the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Episcopal Church in the USA. He is a full time instructor of theology at the Anglican Seminary of St. John the Evangelist.

Stories, photos & weblinks:

Website

Solomon Islands

Brother John Blyth
Melanesian Brotherhood, serving in
The Diocese of New Westminster, Canada

Father John Blyth, from the Diocese of New Westminster, was a VIM for four years and is now a Melanesian Brother, taking 3 year vows in October 1999 and 2002. Please keep John in your prayers as he renewed his vows and returned to the Diocese of New Westminster in late 2005. He remains a Melanesian Brother and lives in Vancouver.

Stories and photos:

Lose one's balance and death would follow! - January 2001
Rain and new fire - July 1998

Stuart and Margaret Brown
Placement countries:Nigeria & Cameroun
Position:
Dates: 2000-2004

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Barry & Linda Campbell
Diocese of Nova Scotia & Prince Edward Island
Placement countries: Tanzania
Position:
Dates:

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Anne Coons Patterson
Diocese of Ontario
Placement countries: Brazil
Position: English Language Secretary
Dates: 1998-2000

Stories and photos:

Street children don't just 'show up' in the street - March 1999
A joyous celebration - January 1999
Food's just about the same here - November 1998
Definitely challenging - August 1998

David & Patricia Dunnill
Diocese of Algoma
Placement country: Tanzania
Position: Consultant / Mission Education

Stories and photos:

They are true fellow travelers on the life journey of the people of Africa - June 1999

Lance & Kelli Dixon
Diocese of Toronto
Placement country: South Africa
Position: Consultant / Mission Education

Stories and photos:

iZulu: Official Newsletter of Mission South Africa

Peter Downs
Diocese of British Columbia
Placement country: Japan
Position: Training Assistant, ARI

Stories and photos:

Report of Peter Downs' Experience as a Volunteer in Mission

Iain and Olwen Elliott
Diocese of Brandon
Placement country: Tanzania
Position: Teacher
Dates: 1998-2000

From Serengeti to Ngorogoro -- on safari with an eight-year-old - March 2000
A look at life in Tanzania -- the Elliotts' photo essay - September 1999
Mother, child and doctor survived my first African caesarean section - April 1999
They just think I am a little strange - February 1999

The Rev. Stanley Isherwood

St. Joseph’s Anglican Parish

Punta Gorda Town

Toledo District

BELIZE, Central America

Mr. Stanley Isherwood is a retired priest from in the Diocese of Toronto. He departed Canada on the 28th of August and was installed as priest at St. Joseph’s Anglican Church, Punta Gorda in the Diocese of Belize on September 7th. He ministered with the people of St. Joseph’s for 16 months.

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The Rev. Tess Meadows
St. Michael & All Angels Anglican Church
Hercules Avenue, Independence
Stann Creek District
BELIZE, Central America

The Rev. Tessie Meadows is a vocational deacon in the parish of St. John the Evangelist, North Vancouver, in the Diocese of New Westminster. Tess is deacon at St. Joseph’s Anglican Church in Punta Gorda Town in Belize, Central America. Tess left Canada for her two year placement in November 2003.

Stories and photos:

Bruce and Gerry Melville

Bruce and Gerry Melville are from the Parish of St. John the Divine in Victoria, BC, Diocese of British Columbia. They arrived in Tanzania on the last day of August, 2007, to begin a year's placement as teachers at Canon Andrea Mwaka School.

CAMS is a Christian School in Dodoma, Tanzania. Students come from a range of ethnic and religous backgrounds. The school delivers the British Curriculum, teaching in English.

Bruce and Gerry extended their stay in Dodoma and returned to BC at Christmas time, 2008.

Read Bruce and Gerry's stories and view photos from Tanzania.

Shirley Newell

St. Thomas’ College

Gurutalawa,

Sri Lanka

Ms. Newell is a parishioner

at St. Matthews Parish, Hampstead, in the Diocese of Montreal. She taught English at St. Thomas’ College in Gurutalawa in the Diocese of Colombo, Church of Ceylon. She is now on her way home to Canada and her final letter from Sri Lanka is linked below, "End of Term".

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Lorna Reevely
Diocese of Toronto
Placement country: Solomon Islands
Position: Librarian / ESL Teacher
Dates:

Stories and photos:

Pudding, Melanesian style - February 2003
Synod, Solomons-style - August 2002
Return to the Solomon Islands - March 2002
A service of reconciliation - May 2001
Photos: Reconciliation service at Bishop Patteson Theological College
"I keep waiting for a typical day in the Solomon Islands, but it never comes" - March 2000

Our Lutheran Partner

Ratna, Marcus, Margaret and Maia

Margaret Sadler is the former ecumenical partner on the Partners In Mission Committee. She and her husband, Marcus, served for one year with the Lutheran World Federation in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and included us in her letters home. They returned to Canada at the end of August 2008.

Read Margaret's updates from Cambodia.

Edward & Kathleen Schmitt
Diocese of New Westminster
Placement country: El Salvador
Position: Theological Education
Dates:

Stories and photos:

VIM El Salvador, the Schmitts' website
We need to develop healthy communities, families and individuals - February 2002

Joanne Simfukwe

Anglican Church of Tanzania

Saba Street, P. O. Box 899

Dodoma, TANZANIA

East Africa

Joanne became Mrs. Jacob Simfukwe on October 28, 2006. Go to Joanne's website for more stories and pictures.

Mrs. Simfukwe is from the Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador. Joanne is our first VIM from Newfoundland. Joanne and Jacob returned to Canada in January 2008.

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Kathleen Sorensen
Diocese of Toronto
Placement country: Tanzania
Position: Teacher
Dates:

Stories and photos:

The first time I ever heard cheering in the middle of a sermon - September 2001
A wealth of God's love - April 2001

Dorothy and Ron Thicke
Diocese of New Westminster
Placement country: Tanzania
Positions: Theological Lecturers
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Stories and photos:

Work at it with all your heart - June 2000
What a difference a bit of power makes - August 1999

Uganda John Veldhuis
Diocese of Toronto
Placement country: Uganda
Position: School Inspector
Dates: 1999-2001

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Blair & Jean Williams
Diocese of Ottawa
Placement country: Japan
Position: Training Assistant, Asian Rural Institute
Dates: 2001-2002

Stories and photos:

Living, Working, and Celebrating at ARI - June 2002
A report from the frontier - February 2002
By helping the poor we can help ourselves - November 2001
People here want to return home and serve their people - July 2001

Jennifer Wheeler
Newton Theological College
P.O. Box 162
Popondetta, Oro Province
PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Jennifer is a parishioner in the Diocese of Montreal. She is working in the Library at Newton Theological College, outside Popondetta in the Diocese of Popondota, in the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea. She left Canada in October 2004 for a one year placement.

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