OUTREACH at Manchester Christian Church

Miscellaneous Trip Preparation Information

Sample Support Letters
Support Letter Sample 1
Support Letter Sample 2

Recommended Resources
Books
  • Foreign to Familiar - Sarah A. Lanier
  • Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help, And How to Reverse It - by Robert D. Lupton
  • Left To Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwanda Holocaust - Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • Bishop of Rwanda - John Rucyhana with James Riordan
  • We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda - Philip Gourevitch
  • A Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda - Rosamond Halsey Carr & Ann Howard Halsey
  • Cross-Cultural Servanthood - Duane Elmer
  • The Hole in our Gospel - Richard Stearns
  • Good News About Injustice - Gary A. Haugen
  • When Helping Hurts: Alleviating Poverty Without Hurting the Poor. . .and Yourself - Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert
  • Crazy Love - Francis Chan
  • UnPoverty is Possible: Grow Rich by Helping the World's Poor - Mark Lutz (Check out this interview at http://www.crosswalk.com/11636338/)
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Video (for Rwanda trips)
  • Ghosts of Rwanda - PBS Frontline special
  • Hotel Rwanda - starring Don Cheadle
  • Sometimes in April - starrring Oris Erhuedo and Debra Winger
  • Beyond The Gates - starring John Hurt and Hugh Dancy
  • As We Forgive - directed by Laura Waters Hinson

Travel Stuff
Recommended Travel Agencies:

High Point
Attn: Simon Vacula
12160 Abrams Rd. Suite 320
Dallas, TX 75243
972-284-1314 (Direct)
simon@highpointgo.com
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What To Pack:
  • For a recommended packing checklist, click here.
  • Travel adapters you need for Rwanda are shown here.
  • Travel adapters you need for India are shown here.
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Where to get immunizations:

Travel Medical Clinic
399 Daniel Webster Highway
Merrimack, NH
603-429-1271

Travel Medical Clinic
Concord Hospital
Concord, NH  
603-230-1939
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Immunizations recommended (Rwanda):

Please verify with your insurance company as to whether travel immunizations are covered or not. If not, here are the estimated fees:
  • Hepatitus A - $100 + $42 injection fee
  • Hepatitus B (optional but recommended)
  • Tetnus - cost TBD
  • Malaria - cost of prescription
  • Typhoid -  oral $63 (lasts longer) OR injection $83 ~ + $21 injection fee
  • Yellow Fever - $110 + $21 injection fee
  • Individual consultation fee - (new patient) $125 - (repeat patient) $73-$125 -- 20% discount if paid in 30 days
Cipro (or a similar alternative) is required by the Outreach Leadership Team
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Immunizations recommended (Colombia or Nicaragua):
  • Typhoid -  oral $63 (lasts longer) OR injection $83 ~ + $21 injection fee
  • Malaria (optional) - cost TBD
  • Tetnus - cost TB 
  • Hepatitus A - $100 + $42 injection fee

​Cipro (or a similar alternative) is required by the Global Leadership Team

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