Save May 7-9 for Annual RxConnexion in Des Moines

The 2010 annual RxConnexion Consultation offers many new, exciting learning opportunities for individual volunteers and health teams.  The details of the conference are:

Place:  Walnuts Hills United Methodist Church

12321 Hickman

Urbandale, IA 50323

Date: May 7-9, 2010

Cost: $75.00 + lodging (early bird)

$100 + lodging after April 19, 2010

Cost includes: fees for special guests, materials, Friday dinner, Saturday lunch and dinner, snacks and fair trade coffee or tea.  Breakfast is not included. Area hotel rooms are on hold at a $58 rate until 4/19.

Fees may be associated with:

  ECHO agriclture based training

Focometer Training

Leadership Training Manuals - $25

Invited Faculty (not yet confirmed) are: Rev. Gesner Paul, President Eglise Methodiste d'Haiti, MCCA, Dr. Roger Boe, retired Health Consultant for Individual Volunteers and GBGM, Robert Rabb, UMVIM Coordinator for Columbia.

Confirmed Faculty: Rev. Karen Nichols Dungan, Assistant to the Bishop of Iowa Conference; Patricia Magyar, Executive Secretary for UMCOR - Health; Teresa Miller, President Board of UMVIM-NCJ; Beverly Nolte/Ann Hartman, Iowa Conference; Rick Jost, Solar Ovens and missioner for Haiti;
Joanne Reich, GBGM, Child Protection and Community Assistance Officer; ECHO project staff, Ft. Myers, Fla; Lorna Jost, UMVIM-NCJ Coordinator; Jane Dunn, editor/creator GBGM Health Blog;

Curriculum offerings will include: Incorporating Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Care; Medical Needs in Haiti; Parish Nurse Training on Disaster Response & Community Health; Iowa's Nigerian Partnership, Solar Ovens; Medical Professionals as Individual Volunteers;  Medical Teams to Columbia, Child Protection Issues; Incorporating Community Based Primary Health into Volunteer Work; Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization (ECHO) and UMVIM Team Leader Training.

For more information or to register go to the Rx webpage and select RxConnexion drop down menu.