UMVIM

UMVIM Visit to Japan - May 9-20, 2011

On Monday, May 9, 2011, a three-member team from the California-Nevada Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church traveled to Japan to assess needs in the wake of the early March earthquakes and tsunami. The Rev. Motoe Yamada, senior pastor of Japanese UMC in Sacramento and a World Council of Churches Central Committee member, led the team and was accompanied by Phil Bandy, interim director of the United Methodist Volunteers in Mission (UMVIM) program for the Conference, and Norm Harden, Conference Disaster Response Coordinator. They were joined in Japan by Roxanne Bucaria, a member of Florin UMC, who currently lives in Tokyo where she works as a translator.

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