Tucson Hospitality Inn

Tucson Hospitality Inn is the newest outreach project of the Mission Team.  The Inn is a home away from home for out of town patients and their families to stay while getting urgent medical treatment.  Typically the Inn serves the families of patients in the hospital, those here for extensive treatments for cancer and other serious illnesses, and those awaiting organ transplants.  For $45 per night, with up to three people in a room, it provides a safe, comforting environment for those experiencing a medical crisis. 

THI offers a safe, comforting environment in a lovely, secluded home located at 2539 Edison Street close to UMC, The Heart Hospital, The Cancer Center, TMC, and St. Joseph’s Hospital.  More than just a hotel, it projects a feeling of peace. It offers a lovely living room, a kitchen in which to prepare food, laundry facilities, a swimming pool, and separate locked bedrooms with a television in every room.  On site manager Lou Tompkins, in spite of being visually impaired, has truly created a haven for those who stay there and who are experiencing a terrible upheaval in their lives.

Unfortunately, the Inn has been operating in the red since its inception four years ago.  Individuals, mainly board members, its manager, and volunteers have kept it going by their donations of time and money, but it can’t continue to operate this way and will be forced to close.  The Inn needs help in a variety of ways:  monetary donations and donations of supplies to help offset the running expenses, support from the community in the form of volunteers to take on a variety of jobs, and an awareness campaign so Tucson and the towns in Southern Arizona know it exists.  We are working on all these areas, but there is an immediate need for volunteers to help the manager, Lou Tompkins, with varied tasks. If you’d like to help or make a donation, contact Kay Gragg.

To take a tour of the Inn, go to: www.tucsonhospitalityinn.net

The planning for the Aqua Prieta trip will be a part of the Mission Meeting for April.  Call Dee Berman for information on the Aqua Prieta Mexico for the new community center. This trip will be on April 4th leaving at 6:30 A.M. 

Don your Sherlock Holmes cap and get out your magnifying glass to solve the case of “The Reading Of Aunt Louise’s Will.”  Several relatives have been invited to dinner for the reading of the will.  Many in this eccentric family hope to gain, but have much to lose if Aunt Louise hasn’t been generous to them.  Please, mark your calendars for this fun evening which will be hosted by our youth group to help fundraise for their summer Mexico Service Project.  Tickets will go on sale soon!  Don’t miss it.

Each May, in honor of Memorial Day, funds are collected for the purpose of providing phone cards for our deployed troops to call home.  In addition, we donate funds to “Hearts Apart” family support program at Davis Monthan Air Force Base. 

Contact 520-825-1985 leave message for Dee.

This church is Visa’s sister church in Mexico.  We are currently chairing an Economic Advancement Program (Opening Doors to Success) in the Colonia La Empacadora where the church is located.  Vista has financed the construction of a computer classroom, its  furnishings and computers, and initiated a pinata factory, a pinata and party goods store in downtown Agua Prieta, in addition to a sewing program that includes the manufacturing of school uniforms, clothing, curtains and bedding.  Annually  used Christmas cards are collected at Vista for the purpose of providing the materials for the Women’s Co-op to create handmade, decorated, new Christmas cards for sale.  We also sponsor scholarships for Seminary, Community College, High School, and Jr. High students.  Each year school supplies are collected for the children in the Colonia and a Celebration of Learning Festival is held in the Fall to honor the children who have achieved a B+ or better average in the previous school year.  Each year work teams are organized for various construction and improvement projects in the Colonia.  Each winter a collection is taken at Vista to provide wood and propane for heating of the Coloina and it’s church. 

Our goal is to help this improverished Colonia to know God’s love and achive economic independence and improve their quality of life.

Contact 520-825-1985 leave message for Dee.

Creative hands is a group of ladies that meet every Friday morning at  9:00 to create children’s clothing and blankets for several community based programs for the needy in our area. New members are always welcomed, no experience needed. 

Contact Visa at 520-825-1985 leave message for Creative Hands leader.

AZ State male juvenile detention center for male offenders between the ages of 13 though 17.  Visa UMC has adopted the Chiricahua cottage, housing twenty youth.  Once a month a meeting and lunch is held at the cottage.  We encourage volunteers to acquire the clearences  necessary to enter the premises to visit, mentor, or tutor, a youth.  

Contact 520-825-1985 or leave message for CMS representative.

Food Bank; collection of food and paper goods on the first Sunday of every month.

Clothing Bank; New children clothes made by the Creative Hands group.  They make children clothing and blankets every Friday at 9:00AM. 

Golden Goose Resale Shop; We encourage the congregation to volunteer at the resale shop and donate usable goods.

Senior Center; Encourage the congregation to help prepare and serve meals to community seniors as well as deliver meals to the home bound.

Transportation Services; We encourage the congregation to provide rides as needed  to families and seniors for medical and pharmacy needs

Contact CCS 520-825-0009

CCS - 3414 East Golder Ranch Road - Tucson, AZ 85739