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Camp provides setting for experiencing God
Prayer Request
Music news and opportunities
Camp Offering
Invitation to farewell party for Ken and Sue Jameson
Pictures needed for Mexico Mission Trip
Job Opportunity, King Hill Christian Church
Website Updates
Women’s Mini Retreat - last call!
Missional Church Conversations update
Week of Compassion Update
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CAMP NEWS
Camp is in full swing with many experiencing God in fresh
ways! 1,2,3, Go! camp started today with mild weather and
enthusiastic K-2 campers. Please pray for all our campers and
staff as they pray and learn together.
Camps remaining:
Junior Camp II
July 14 – July 18 (must have completed Grades 3-5)
Chi Rho I
July 19 – July 23 (must have completed Grades 6-8)
Chi Rho II
July 24 – July 28 (must have completed Grades 6-8)
If you would like to sign up to help close up the camp on
Saturday, July 28, it would be greatly appreciated. Many
hands truly do make light work.
Abundant Blessings,
Donna Rose-Heim,
drh@nwareacc.org
PRAYER REQUEST
The youth and several adults from the First Christian Church
in Bethany as well as The United Methodist Church in
Bethany left on Friday July 6th, to head to Seminole, OK for
their mission trip. They will be serving at a work camp
doing such jobs as painting, etc. Please pray for the
group for a safe journey during their mission trip.
We offer prayers of thanksgiving for the Marshall FCC mission
trip recently concluded. Youth worked with adults at a
skilled nursing facility. Youth minister Cindy Farris says
that several of the youth became very attached to those they
served.
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Going Away Party for Ken and Sue Jameson
You are invited to a going away party for Ken and Sue on
Sunday, July 15. Worship will be followed by a carry in
dinner at noon. There will be a program at 1:15 p.m. and
reception from 2:30-4:30 p.m. Please share in this even or
send a memory for their scrapbook. For more information
contact Arleta Pulley at 660-535-6151.
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New Song! Brian Bullock, area webmeister, has written a
praise song and posted a sample on You Tube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6IqAxm9DQs.
(Also accessible from the NW Area website's Contemporary Worship
chat.) If you have a music video to share, contact Brian.
The NW Area has a YouTube membership and we'd be happy to share
your worship song-writing with others.
Area Praise Team Forming!
Among the many outcomes to emerge from CYF camp this year,
several NW Area high school youth have expressed a desire to
form a praise team with help from John Wyatt and Bill Rose-Heim.
With video training from Paul Baloche (Open the Eyes of My
Heart, Lord) and some Saturday rehearsals, we hope to be up
and serving as guest worship leaders for youth functions
throughout NW Missouri by January, 2008. We welcome any
musicians age 13 - 18 and college age musicians (vocalists,
instrumentalists) and technically gifted (sound engineering,
choreography, recording) who are willing to help mentor them to
excellence in service to Christ. Contact John Wyatt at
wyatts1990@hotmail.com or Bill Rose-Heim at br_h@nwareacc.org.
Festival of Sharing October 20, 2007
Contact:
Terri Williams
Festival of Sharing Coordinator
3009 David Drive
Columbia, MO 65202
Phone: 573/474-3332
Fax: 573/474-6898
www.umocm.com/festival.htm
Special request for buckets:
Festival Flood Buckets needed now!
There will be an urgent need for emergency clean up buckets
(content list below) for southwest Missouri , Oklahoma and
Kansas , areas, devastated by the recent heavy rains.
Churches are asked to gather together the supplies and contents
for the clean-up buckets and bring them to the Festival of
Sharing office. It is important that the five gallon
buckets have a lid that can be removed and be re-sealed to
protect the contents before, during and after use! There
is a limited number of empty 5 gallon buckets available at the
Festival of Sharing office, please call 573-474-7332, if you are
interested in filling these with the needed supplies.
The Festival trailer will be loaded with the buckets and
taken to the disaster area. Please have Emergency Clean-up
buckets to 3009 David Drive , Columbia Missouri , by noon on
Wednesday, August 22nd.
EMERGENCY CLEAN-UP BUCKET
1 five-gallon bucket with re-sealable lid
5 scouring pads
7 sponges, assorted sizes
1 scrub brush
18 cleaning towels, (reusable, like Easy Wipes®)
1 dry laundry detergent, 50-78 oz.
1 bottle liquid concentrated house-hold cleaner (i.e.
Lysol®), 12 oz.
1 bottle liquid antibacterial dish soap, (like Dawn®), 25 oz.
Clothesline, two 50 ft. or one 100 ft.
50 clothes pins
5 dust masks
2 pairs latex gloves
1 pair work gloves
1 box heavy-duty trash bags, 22-27 count (33-45 gallon)
1 bottle insect repellant (drops or lotion, not aerosol) 6-14
oz.
Please purchase all liquids in plastic bottles. Send
only new, unopened materials. Make sure lids on bottles
are tightly closed. Put all items in the plastic bucket,
making sure they are packed securely to avoid damage during
shipment. Seal closed with lid.
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CAMP OFFERING
An amazing gift of 160 acres of land for a camp and
conference center has been given to the Northwest Area by a
faithful woman of prayer, Sharon Pulliam! The land is near
I-35 and Highway 116, north and east of Lathrop. Although
the land is currently in probate, we are beginning to raise
funds to build what we believe God will use as a camp and
conference center for children, youth and adults for years to
come.
The camp offering you send with your son or daughter will
help to purchase:
5 + rectangular light weight tables
30 + sturdy light weight chairs
Gas BBQ grill
Begin raising funds for a tractor and trailer for hay
rides¸ etc.
.Be sure to watch for an announcement of dream walking
opportunities on the new property. If ideas for
development, programming or fund raising come to you in prayer,
please be sure to email them to nwareacc@nwareacc.org or call us
at 816-632-2237.
Many thanks for sharing your child with us at camp this
summer!
The Northwest Area Staff
Congratulations to the 1,2,3, Go! Camp which gave over $500
for the new camp
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Needed for Mexico Mission Trip
The Partners in Ministry Mission group will present an
overview of the ministry in the Northwest Area when they go to
Mexico. If you have digital pictures of ministry your
congregation is doing in your community, (especially things you
are doing outside the walls of the building), please send one or
two pictures to Sandi Mull at
ssm@nwareacc.org.
Sandi is also wanting to speak to someone local with
expertise about the growing problem of economic and sexual
slavery. She is gathering information that will become a
part of the conversation with our Disciples coleagues in central
Mexico. If you know anyone conversant about those issues,
please email Sandi at your earliest convenience.
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Job Opportunity
KING HILL CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Needs
A Christian person to organize and lead a
Youth Program
Must be available:
Sunday
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Wednesday
4:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Vacation Bible School
Summer/1 week
Send resume to:
King Hill Christian church
% Personnel Committee
5828 King Hill Avenue
St. Joseph, MO 64504
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Website updates
www.nwareacc.org
While you are on-line, take part in one of the many forums
offered. Converse about mission and misnistry topics
with people from around the area.
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WOMEN’S MINI RETREAT
SPONSORED BY:
WOODSON CHAPEL CHRISTIAN CHURCH
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GRANT CITY
July 13, 14 and 15, 2007 starting at 5:30 P.M. (After your
evening meal on your own). The retreat is held at Missouri
Western State University in Student Residence Hall Complex and
Nelle Blum Student Union in St. Joseph, Missouri.
The retreat is for spiritual enrichment, renewal, fun and
fellowship. The theme this year is Are You on Fire to
Serve the Lord?. The cost is only $70.00 ($35.00 if you
commute) for two nights lodging including bedding, towels, soap
and four meals (three Saturday and one Sunday).
Registration deadline is June 30, 2007 for form and fee.
Cancellation Refunds until July 6, 2007. Bring a snack to
share, comfortable clothing, personal items and your Bible.
For a registration form contact: Mary Lynn Breit
1-816-324-5214
Beverly Cadle 1-660-564-3577
Dixie Burks
1-816-539-3574
Helen Hodkins 1-816-232-2927
Rose Findley
1-816-324-1227
Linda Long
1-816-324-6176
Alice Miller
1-660-786-2234
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Missional Church Conversations
Participants from 9 area congregations met last Tuesday for
the third monthly conversation about misional church. A
lively discussion focused on what steps could be taken to
introduce these conversations into congregations.
Missional church conversations are about discerning what God
is doing in communities and experimenting with ways to join God
in that work. The movement has become important to
northwest Missouri as more and more of our neighbors are not at
all familiar with church, the Bible, God, Jesus, etc.
Churches that are mission-shaped are enjoying better success at
evangelizing than congregations that are mainly focused on their
own members.
To learn more about these conversations, visit the area
website or contact Bill Rose-Heim at
br_h@nwareacc.org
for more details. We'd like to see these conversations
going on in every area congregation.
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WEEK OF COMPASSION UPDATE
Floods continue to wreak havoc across the Midwest
Heavy summer rains and flood-swollen creeks and rivers continue
to bring headaches and hardships to scores of communities across
Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri. Flood waters have
destroyed or damaged homes and businesses, ruined valuable
crops, washed out roads, bridges and other basic
infrastructure, and affected tens of thousands of people.
Week of Compassion continues to work with Church World Service
and local community partners and with Disciples congregations,
area and regional offices to support relief and recovery
efforts. Disciples pastors, members and congregations have
rallied to respond to needs within their own communities and in
neighboring communities. On Thursday, WOC sent emergency
grants to Disciples congregations in the hard hit communities of
Erie, Coffeyville, Chanute, and Independence, KS. FCC in Erie
has at least 8 families affected and also had nearly 3 feet of
water in its facilities. If you have
information on congregations affected or community responses
being made to which WOC can respond, please contact your
area\regional office or Week of Compassion (jwray@woc.disciples.org).
Designated gifts can be made via the WOC website -
www.weekofcompassion.org or sent to Week of Compassion, attn:
Elaine Cleveland, P.O. Box 1986, Indpls, IN 46206.
All gifts will be used in their entirety for flood relief and
recovery.
Last night, North Carolina Regional Minister and Week of
Compassion Committee member, John Richardson, presented a
solidarity grant from WOC to Pastor Gary Edge and the Bethany
congregation as an expression of the whole church's concern in
the aftermath of the fire. For details, visit the congregation's
website by clicking below.
Bethany CC, Arapahoe, NC website Floods displaces thousands
in Pakistan and India Floods are also creating a humanitarian
crisis in southern Pakistan and in southern India. More than
100,000 people have been displaced in Pakistan's Sindh province.
Similarly across southern India tens of thousands of people have
been displaced, their homes destroyed or severely damaged.
In both countries most of the people impacted were already some
of the most marginalized and impoverished members of society.
Church World Service is one of the few humanitarian agencies
responding in Pakistan and is distributing emergency food
parcels, plastic sheeting and other relief items. Week of
Compassion expects to receive an appeal from CWS in the next few
days and will respond on behalf of the Disciples. In
India, long time Disciples and CWS partner and Action by
Churches Together member, CASA (Churches Auxiliary for Social
Action) is providing an emergency feeding program and
distribution of relief items to some 5000 affected families.
WOC has sent an emergency grant in response to a CWS\ACT appeal
in support of CASA's relief and recovery efforts.
Week of Compassion is now assessing the impact of the floods
and is in touch with Disciples regional and area offices as well
as congregations in Texas and Oklahoma. WOC is also monitoring
the situation with Church World Service and related local
ecumenical partners regarding larger community responses. We
have learned that the Brownwood Camp is flooded and is being
evacuated today. Also, the homes of at least three members of
Wylie CC, Abilene, TX, have been damaged. If you have
information on families affected or community responses being
made, please contact your area or regional office or Week of
Compassion (jwray@woc.disciples.org).
ACT Darfur efforts expand to eastern Chad Following the
recommendation of an assessment team last month to eastern Chad,
members of the Action by Churches Together (ACT) network have
begun emergency relief operations to thousands of displaced
persons on the Chadian\Sudanese border. As the
ongoing violence in Darfur spills over into Chad, thousands of
people are in urgent need of the most basic necessities of life.
The sites identified by the ACT team are those most acutely in
need and that have received little or no outside assistance.
The ACT response includes food relief, emergency shelter, water
and sanitation, special support of women, youth and children's
activities and psycho- social care. Week of Compassion has
sent an emergency grant from the Compassion Response Fund in
support of the ACT response.
Storms and floods in southern Pakistan have killed more than
300 people, forced the evacuations of several thousand and
caused widespread damage to property, infrastructure and crops.
After a week of violence and instability in the Gaza Strip,
thousands of families have no access to food, medical care, cash
or other basic necessities of life.
Heavy rains from a tropical depression in the Bay of Bengal
have killed more than 150 people, destroyed thousands of homes
and affected hundreds of thousands of people across several
southern states in India.
More than 4.5 million people have now fled the war in Iraq
and millions more are displaced within the country, creating a
growing humanitarian crisis throughout the Middle East.
With the violence in Darfur, Sudan, spilling over into
eastern Chad, ACT members are beginning emergency relief
operations to some 35,000 internally displaced Chadians.
Click below for the latest update on the crisis in Darfur.
Brutal Attacks Continue in Darfur Designated Contributions
Welcome With the widespread flooding in Texas and Oklahoma and
with several forthcoming appeals from Church World Service and
Action by Churches Together, WOC would be especially grateful
for designated contributions to the Compassion Response Fund.
Gifts can be made via our website by clicking on the link below
or by sending a check to Week of Compassion, attn: Elaine
Cleveland, PO Box 1986, Indpls, IN 46206. Donate online WOC
Map/Poster WOC Interactive Map Poster - Elaine is on vacation
this week but will have a complete list of this week and next
week's responses in the next WOC Update. Map for Congregations
Have a Blessed Day, Jan Shrewsbury Northwest Area
Administrative Assistant 816-632-2237 www.nwareacc.org
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