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Prayer Concerns
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Pearl Harbor
Presentation December 3, 2007
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The Christmas Gift
That Keeps On Giving
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Get Connected for
Youth 6th-12th Grades
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Elders’ Institute
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Advent Day Book
Available for you
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Christmas Concert
Orrick Christian Church
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MSR Events
available
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CAMP 2008 is on
Its Way! Photo Request and Dates
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Ecumenical
Legislative Breakfast Forum
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Week of Compassion
Update
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Prayer Concerns
Please keep
the Northwest Area Staff, Executive Team and Clergy
in your prayers as they meet Thursday and Friday at
Wilderness Retreat and Development Center near
Lawson , Missouri . Pray that this will be a time
of renewal, relaxation, discernment and fellowship
that will benefit the entire Northwest Area.
Martha Barr, spouse of the deceased Rev. Charles
Barr, passed away just before the Thanksgiving
holiday. Services were held at the Cameron Church
on Monday. Martha will be remembered by many for
support of ministries in the local, area and
regional church.
November 19, Marcia Kump, passed away. Some of you
may have served with her on the Ministry
Commission. She was very ready to go--in fact had
wanted to go several days ago. A memorial service
for her was held in Hanover , PA.
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Pearl
Harbor Presentation Monday Dec. 3rd, 6pm-8pm
Greetings!
If there are any
history buffs out there, be sure to come and watch a
video and hear a presentation on the attack on Pearl
Harbor on Monday from 6pm-8pm. The presentation
will be given by Wilbur Wright, a member here at
Fairfax Christian Church, who served on the USS
Oglala and experienced the attacks first-hand. In
visiting with Wilbur and preparing for his
presentation, I will say that if you have even the
smallest interest in American history, you do not
want to miss this one. Please help spread the word
about this event.
Please see attached flier, and be sure to let me
know if you have any questions.
Blessings,
Adam Magill
Fairfax Christian
Church
304 N. Broadway
PO Box 365
Fairfax, MO 64446
(660)686-2271
www.fairfaxchristianchurch.com
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The Christmas Gift
that keeps on giving
If you are looking for
a Christmas gift to honor someone you love, we
encourage you to make a donation of $10 or more to
the Northwest Area Life Long Learning Center .
Sharon Pulliam, gave us a gracious gift of 160 acres
near Lathrop. It is now our opportunity to raise
funds to prepare to build buildings, activity
centers, trails and much more that will be used by
generations to come to grow closer to God.
A Special Christmas
card will be sent to the recipient with your name
acknowledging the gift. Please be sure to include
the person(s)' name and address as well as your
own. You can send the donations to the Northwest
Area Office, P.O. Box 353 , Cameron , MO 64429 . If
you have questions, please contact the office
(816)632-2237 or nwareacc@nwareacc.org
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NORTHWEST AREA
CHURCH CAMPS PRESENT
GET CONNECTED
Featuring the new Area Youth Praise Team
Saturday, February 16, 2008 for all 6th
-12th grade youth will be a 1 day retreat
at the First Christian Church in Gower , MO.
Registration will begin at 10:00 AM. The event
runs from 10:30 AM – 4:00 PM with lunch included.
Early bird cost is $7.00 if registered by Friday,
February 8, 2008. After February 8 the cost is
$10.00. For more information call the Area Office
(816)632-2237, email nwareacc@nwareacc.org or check
out the web site www.nwareacc.org Flyers and
registration forms were mailed to each church
several weeks ago.
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ELDERS’
INSTITUTE
Held at the Rickman Center , dates will be January
25 & 26. This is a program sponsored by the
Christian Church (Disciple of Christ) of
Mid-America, Leader Development Commission. The
purpose of the Elders’ Institute is to develop a
trained cadre of Elders from our Mid-America
congregations to help them assume their roles as
spiritual leaders within their congregations.
See attached flyer.
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ADVENT DAY BOOK
AVAILABLE FOR YOU
Just to let you know of an Advent devotional that is
available for your own personal use, and the use of
congregations and church members. This Advent
Daybook comes as a free gift from several Disciples
clergy and two congregations in the N.W. Region
through a partnership with Disciples Home Missions.
You can locate a link to this downloadable PDF file
at:
http://www.discipleshomemissions.org/index.htm
On this main DHM web page the link for the Advent
Daybook file is near the top center under the
“What’s new...” section and immediately beneath the
“Two Advent resources...” sub-header.
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CHRISTMAS CONCERT
AT ORRICK CHRISTIAN CHURCH
On December 2, Mr. Jayson Moll will be performing a
Christmas concert following the morning worship.
Everyone is invited to come and listen. A freewill
donation will be taken to
benefit the Orrick community Christmas baskets.
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MSR EVENTS
AVAILABLE
Attached are flyers for events sponsored by the
Missouri School of Religion. For more information,
please contact Krystal Jacobs at (573)635-1187, fax
(573)636-2889 or email krystalmsr@earthlink.net.
UNBINDING THE GOSPEL: Led by Martha Grace
Reese who will share with participants ways to move
toward relational, authentic faith sharing – without
formulas, but hand-in-hand with God. Personal
note: I got to sit in on Gay’s presentation at the
National Evangelism Workshop in Fort Worth this
summer and I’ve read her book. Gay is a Disciple
minister who, in my opinion, does the best job at
helping us to get over our fear of evangelism. Her
approach honors our intentions to witness and serve
and offers very practical examples of how some DOC
congregations are doing excellent work in carrying
out the Great Commission. She is also the keynote
speaker for the 2008 Mid-America Elders Retreat. I
strongly encourage congregational evangelism teams
to take advantage of this exceptional opportunity! B
R-H
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION IN THE SMALL CONGREGATION:
In a weekend workshop setting, the principles and
practices of Christian education in the small church
context will be explored. The unique dynamics of
the small congregation will be assessed in terms of
their implication for Christian Education.
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CAMP 2008
We are looking for pictures to use on camp
promotional materials. The theme is “Listen! God is
Calling.” If you have a picture of kids at camp
that you think would exemplify this theme, please
send a copy to the office nwareacc@nwareacc.org.
Thank you so much for your help
The dates for the camps are as follows:
(All camps begin and end at 10 a.m.)
1,2,3 – Go!
(Completed Grades K-2)
July 16-18 or July 24-26
Jr. Camp
(CompletedGrades 3-5)
June 30-July 4 or July 11-15
Chi Rho
(Completed Grades 6-8)
July 6-10 or July 19-23
CYF
(Completed Grades 9-12)
June 24-29
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Week of Compassion Update
Highlights from the WOC
Fall Meeting
The Week
of Compassion Committee held its annual budget
meeting this week at Southport Christian Church,
Indianapolis, IN. Major financial actions included
the adoption of a 2008 program budget totaling
$2,299,000; review and approval of the 2006 audit;
authorization of an additional grant from the
Compassion Response Fund for a Church World Service
emergency food aid appeal for Zimbabwe and three
grants to CWS from the Compassion Development Fund
for an income-generating project for 1000
impoverished women heads-of-household in Egypt; a
winter camp project for displaced Roma and Kosovar
children in Serbia; and an initiative to care for
those who work with vulnerable children in several
Latin America and Caribbean countries. The Committee
also received with thanksgiving the third quarter
report from the Christian Church Foundation and news
that the WOC endowment program has now grown to more
than $2,227,000.
Also
approved was a new partnership with Disciples Home
Missions to launch the Disciples Coffee Project with
Equal Exchange, a worker-owned cooperative dedicated
to fair trade. The venture will give Disciples
congregations the opportunity to enjoy fairly traded
coffee, tea and chocolate and learn about food
security, sustainable development and free trade at
the same time. Proceeds from the initiative will
support a Disciples Hunger Relief and Food Security
Fund within WOC, which, in turn, will further
support the efforts of small-scale farmers in the
developing world. The Project should be ready for
launch in early 2008.
Committee members also received updates on Director
Johnny Wray's recent visit to Darfur, Sudan,
Associate Director Amy Gopp's leadership in the
October Woman-to-Woman trip to Bosnia and Croatia,
the upcoming April '08 WeekEnd of Compassion Event
in Nashville, TN, and a first year summary of the
Disciples Hurricane Recovery Initiative. The
Committee also gave thanks for the service of
retiring members Renee Hoke, Kingwood (TX) Christian
Church and Ruth Fletcher, Christian Church in
Montana and of the 2007 chair, Jimmy Mohler,
Community Christian Church, Kansas City, MO. Rebecca
Hale, Christian Church in the Northwest and Courtney
Richards, Geist Christian Church, Indianapolis, IN,
were welcomed as incoming members.
WOC Monitors Quake and
Cyclone
As we
are sending this update, WOC is monitoring
yesterday's 7.7 magnitude earthquake that killed at
least 2 people and left some 15,000 homeless in
northern Chile and powerful Cyclone Sidr that is
approaching Bangladesh and the Indian states of West
Bengal and Orissa with 150 mph winds. Action by
Churches Together members in India , Bangladesh and
Chile have field staff on alert. Week of Compassion
will be responding to any appeals issued for either
or both disasters.
La Casita Project Brings
Hope in
Mexico
Both in
the States and around the world, the past few months
have seen an ever growing number of disasters:
floods in Mexico , fires in California , and now an
earthquake in Chile and a cyclone in Bangladesh - to
name just a few! Through your generous gifts to the
Week of Compassion, Disciples are able to respond
and to provide aid through our many church
partnerships. There is never enough, of course, to
meet the need, but to those who do receive, there is
hope!
Much of
our giving is in the form of immediate aid - a first
response with food, blankets, medicine, etc. WOC
also seeks to respond to the long-term emergencies
and the systemic causes of poverty, need and
oppression. There are homes and communities that for
years flood with every rain storm; there are
families that have no access to doctors and medical
care; there are children who live on one meal of
rice and beans a day. For these, and for at least
one disaster area located just 2 miles across the
border from south Texas , WOC and Southwest Good
Samaritan Ministries have begun a new initiative
which seeks to provide a more permanent solution: La
Casita Project.
'Small
houses' are being constructed by Disciples volunteer
groups, replacing the mud-floor shacks with their
plastic bag roofs which exist on the former garbage
dumps of Matamoros , Mexico . Already ten such
permanent homes have been constructed, providing a
safe and dry shelter for more than 50 family
members.
The cost
of the materials is relatively low (only $3,000.00
per structure). The results are enormous! And work
groups are needed and work trips grants are
available from WOC. For more information, please
contact www.swgsm.org
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Download a Work Trip
Grant
WOC Map/Poster
