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St. Joseph’s/MEMO Nurses Teach Senior Care in Havana

St. Joseph’s/MEMO Nurses Teach Senior Care in Havana

If you are a senior in Cuba you get a $10 pension, and a couple of kilograms of rice and beans with oil to live on for the month.   Thus almost all seniors are cared for by relatives living with them at home. The Cuban Council of Churches working with local Thunder Bay organization Medical Equipment Modernization Opportunity (MEMO) has begun a project that will provide education in senior care to loved ones at home.   Recently under MEMO’s auspices,…

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MEMO’s Spring is Busy!

MEMO’s Spring is Busy!

Hi folks, We want to keep you up to date on what we are accomplishing so you can be informed and involved. First and most exciting is that Eduardo and Marta (see previous updates) have been accepted by the Evangelical Free Church of Canada Mission (EFCCM) as career missionaries. The plan is that Eduardo will be serving at Shalom Clinic under MEMO’s auspices as the Clinic’s director’s (Teri Benner) assistant in helping with the huge job of getting the clinic up and running by…

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Our 600 Simpson St. Warehouse is “History”

Our 600 Simpson St. Warehouse is “History”

Someone has said all good things must come to an end. This is probably true except for God’s love, grace, and forgiveness. It certainly is true for our lease of the 25,000 sq ft. warehouse at 600 Simpson Street. Because of our inability to get the new owner of the warehouse to commit one way or the other to staying on a bit longer, we have decided to move out in spite of not having a definite answer. We are…

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