2011 Kenya Mission

A Lakewood team of ten had an amazing mission to Kenya in July of 2011.  Eight of us had been to Kenya before and two got to experience the beautiful people of Kenya for the first time.  The mission took the team to Nairobi, Maua and surrounding villages, and the Masai Mara.    In Maua we [...]

2011 Haiti Mission

A team of 8 from Lakewood had the amazing opportunity to go on mission to Haiti and participate in the Haiti Response Plan, which is organized effort of the Methodist Church of Haiti and UMVIM to help the people and communities of Haiti recover from the devastating earthquake of January 2010.  Our team’s assigned work [...]

Lakewood Team Goes Back to San Leon to Help in Ike Recovery Program

A team of 9 went back to San Leon TX on December 6, 2010 to support the ongoing Ike Recovery Program that has been in place since Hurricane Ike came ashore in September 2008.  This team was assigned to work on the trailer home of Ms. Rosa and her family.  Ms. Rosa’s trailer home had [...]

May 2010 Costa Rica Mission

A team of 10 traveled to the beautiful country of Costa Rica in May.  There were 6 on the team that had not ever been there, and 4 had been there before on missions or business.  This year we worked on a different project than the previous two years, we were in the Puntarenas area [...]

Welcome to Lakewood UMC Missions

We hope that this site will give you a better understanding of LUMC’s missions program.  Here you can read short reports and see pictures from recent missions (below), learn about missionaries and mission projects that Lakewood supports (see adjacent page above) , as well as leave your comments for others to share.  Please take a few minutes to look around.  [...]