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The annual Winter Slam youth retreat is coming up February 4-6, 2011. This annual retreat, which has been held for about 20 years now, will take place in southwest Pennsylvania at the Laurelville Mennonite Church Center near Mount Pleasant, Pa.
You can read all about it on the UB website–schedule, speakers, musicians, how to register, etc. There are a variety of items you can download.
Bring some teens from your youth group for fun and spiritual inspiration.
Jennifer Blandin, Global Ministries staff in Macau, returned to the States on November 3 for an extended furlough. Beginning in January 2011, she will be available to speak to United Brethren churches and other groups about what has happened in Macau during the past three years.
Jennifer also plans to complete her Masters degree by August 2011, which is the reason her furlough is being extended.
This building at Jamaica's Malvern Camp needs to be rebuilt.
This is what the new building at Malvern Camp will look like.
As already announced, a series of work teams will head to Jamaica in January and February 2011 to help rebuild the dining hall/activity center at Malvern Camp. This is a 50/50 partnership between Global Ministries and the Jamaican churches.
These dates remain available for volunteers:
January 22- 29
January 29 – February 5
February 5-12
February 12-19
We’re looking for team leaders and about 7-8 people per week. Cost per person will be $225 plus airfare to and from Montego Bay. Contact Donna Hollopeter for more information.
Thirteen Huntington University students will be taking the plunge next week to help those in need in the Chicago area.
The trip, known as Urban Plunge, is sponsored by the Joe Mertz Center for Volunteer Service on campus and will take place Nov. 19-21.
“Our purpose for the trip to Chicago is twofold,” said Grace McBrayer, director of first-year students and volunteer services. “First and foremost, it’s to engage in service in these organizations and to the people in need there, but it’s also to create an educational opportunity for our students to encounter a culture, community or people that may be different for them.”
The students will work with various service organizations including:
“I think it will be a shock to some, uncomfortable for many, and different for all of us. I also think, however, that it will be a good learning experience,” said Dana Lancaster, a junior at HU and the student organizer of the trip.
The students attending the trip are:
From Sam Suman, senior pastor of Trinity UB (Fostoria, Ohio): ”
A scheduled four-day revival spontaneously expanded to an eight-day outpouring of God’s Spirit on the UB church in Fostoria, Ohio. God’s people were willing seekers around the altars each evening. The final Sunday morning service ”shook” with the Presense of God’s Spirit. The transforming power of the preached Word of God brought all of us to our knees.
“This was an extention of the spiritual renewal that is gripping the church in Fostoria. This past summer we saw the salvation of three persons over the age of 55. God is still reaching people that the statistics say are unreachable. A renewed missionary zeal is gripping the ”old folk” at Trinity UB.”
Jim Woodward, a member of First UB church of Findlay, Ohio, didn’t think his city was living up to its Congressional designation as Flag City USA. So he contacted the Downtown Findlay Improvement District, which bought 186 2×5-foot flags. Woodward then joined inmates from the country jail to install the flags around town in time for Veterans Day.
WTOL ran an article about Woodward on its website, with an accompanying video. Woodward is a barber in Findlay.
Two women from the Golden Spring UB church in Jamaica are participating in a mission trip to Zimbabe, in southern Africa, November 18 – December 4, 2010. Miss Paulette Anderson and Miss Trician Sang will be involved in teaching, teacher training, and construction at a school in Zimbabwe.They each need $3000 (US) to cover the trip expenses. The $3000 covers airfare to and from Zimbabwe, a contribution to the project, and all expenses once landed (visa, taxi fares to and from the airport, food, and lodging). You are invited to help contribute toward their expenses.
Billy Simbo, bishop of Sierra Leone Conference, sent this update on his wife, Mamei, who has been hospitalized in Abington, Pa., for the past nine weeks.
I am happy to report to you that yesterday, Friday, November 5, Mamei was discharged from Abington Hospital to Brookside Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Roslyn, Pa. She has made enough progress with her medical care that the hospital deemed that what she now needed was support and rehabilitation, and she can get that outside of the hospital.
So after 9 weeks and four days, we left Abington Memorial Hospital at around 7:30 pm to transition to Brookside. This is a very nice long term-care facility that Mamei came to last year after her second knee surgery. Many of the staff remember her, and they have been to her room to renew acquaintances. We are happy to leave the hospital behind after such a long period of admission.
Mamei will have kidney dialysis three times a week for the foreseeable future. Her kidneys are not producing any waste, so dialysis must take place to get rid of toxins in her blood. Brookside has arranged for outpatient treatment. This means ambulance rides to the dialysis center 3 times weekly.
We are grateful to all of you who have been praying with us from the very beginning of this whole episode in our lives. We thank all of you who have supported us in various ways, letters, phone calls, email, and personal visits either at home or at the hospital It has been a blessing to have all of you as our base of support.
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Thank you for your willingness to take on our prayer support.
In addition to the nearly 1300 people who receive the Connect email:
Global Ministries strongly recommends the Perspectives class, which is taught in various locations throughout the country.
Catch the vision for God’s glory, his heart for the nations and the advance of his kingdom to the edges of the frontiers. This course will broaden your understanding of how you are connected to the global church in bringing the glory of God to every tribe, tongue, and nation.
Three classes will be held in northern Indiana beginning the second week of January:
Berne: First Mennonite Church
Sundays, 6:00 – 9:15pm, beginning January 9, 2011
Contact: Luke Johnson 260.849.2932Bluffton: Life Community Church
Mondays, 6:00 – 9:15pm, beginning January 10, 2011
Contact: Chad Flechter 260.307.6043Columbia City: First Church of God
Tuesdays, 6:00 – 9:15pm, beginning January 11, 2011
Contact: Heather Ward 260.229.0106
There are 15 lessons divided into 4 sections with classes that meet once a week. Different instructors will offer a wealth of experience from week to week and various levels of study are offered from an interest level to certificate or college credit.
The UBGlobal website tells more about the classes, with some videos you can watch to learn more. In addition, brochures are available from the Global Ministries office.
