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PAGSANJAN, Philippines – A five-member Crisis Response Team sponsored by Eastern Mennonite Missions partnered with the Integrated Mennonite Churches of the Philippines from January 24-Feb. 5, 2010. The team was responding to a request for assistance following severe flooding caused by three back-to-back typhoons. Team members included Loren Bishop (leader), Michael Good, Justin Martin, Sarah Vojtasek, and Ben Siegrist. Michael Good shares this glimpse into their work. 
PUERTO MONTT, Chile – Just last month when Steve Shank, Eastern Mennonite Missions’ representative to the Americas, returned from his administrative visit to Chile, he was enthusiastic about the progress being made by the EMM team on a number of very different fronts.
PUERTO MONTT, Chile – When the massive 8.8 earthquake struck the central western coast of Chile early Saturday morning, February 27, Dustin and Sarah Gingrich, workers with Eastern Mennonite Missions (EMM), said it felt like they were “riding waves” as their house swayed from side to side for 2-3 minutes.
KURSK, Russia – Russian Baptists at the Trinity Video Seminary in Kursk, Russia, hosted Dr. David W. Shenk, a global consultant with Eastern Mennonite Missions, for 25 hours of teaching on Islam and Christianity during the month of January. 
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Thirty-two mission leaders from seven East African nations gathered in this mile-high city for two weeks of intensive cross-cultural missions training, November 23 through December 5, 2009.