Vol.030.Oct.2006 Editor: Kay Clark, E-mail: kay@norcal.org, 925-680-0538

Northern California District Church of the Nazarene,

1866 Clayton Rd., Ste. 200, Concord, CA 94520, Web page: http://www.norcal.org

Contents

Page 1 Dr. John Calhoun - Editorial

Page 2 NYI, Bible Quizzing Schedule, NYC 2007, Updates from Pastor Donabel Martin, NYI Pres.

Page 3-4 SSM News from Pastor Tim King, SSM Pres.

Page 4 NMI News from Pastor John Wilcox

Page 5-6 Thanksgiving Offering, Guatemala Work & Witness Trip

Page 7-8 Church Budgets % Paid through Sept. 29, 2006

Growing out of a healthy church we are challenged by Jesus to make disciples. Disciples (followers of Jesus) are challenged to become mature in Christlikeness (holiness) and to reproduce themselves (make other disciples.)

We now add to the emphasis of the District Church— Be Healthy, Make Disciples, Train Disciple Makers!

Dr. John Calhoun, District Superintendent

Let’s show the pastors how much they are valued, as they proclaim the word of God and care for each of you.

Dates 2006	Chapters	Host Church	District
September 30	Acts 1-4	Livermore Discovery	No. Calif.
October 21	Acts 1-8	Hayward First	No. Calif.
October 21	Acts 1-7	San Diego Mission Valley	So. Calif.
November 18	Acts 1-13	Cupertino New Life	No. Calif.
December 9	Acts 1-14	Pomona Monterey Park	Los Angeles

December 15, 2006 - NYC Deadline for Registration and Payment.

No Regional Teen Quizzer can participate at Nationals in St. Louis unless this deadline is met!

Dates 2007	Chapters	Host Church	District
January 13	Acts 1-18	Napa	No. Calif.
February 2 – 3	Acts 1-20	Portland, OR Invitational	Wash/Oregon
February 24	Acts 1-24	Concord	No. Calif.
March 17	Acts 1-28	Prescott, Arizona	Arizona/Nevada
April 28	District Finals	Livermore Discovery	No. Calif.
May 25 – 27	Regional Finals	Point Loma Nazarene University	San Diego
July 10 – 15	NYC	Nazarene Youth Congress	St. Louis, MO

Nazarene Youth Congress NYC 2007

www.waterfirewind.com

Contact Curtis Lillie with questions didicatcha9erinthere@hotmail.com

Total cost of Trip $1,100

Up-Dates on All Nighter & Coming Events

Greetings from NORCAL NYI and this is your NYI UPDATE! We start off this update with our Annual District All Nighter. This year the All Nighter went back to San Jose The Point. There were 212 people attending the event with close to 20 churches present. We are grateful for Pastor Amer Khokhar’s leadership in this event. Mark your calendar now for next year’s All Nighter September 7, 2007.

Speaking of calendars, here are a few more dates for you to mark:

Saturday November 11^th is our next council meeting. It will be held in Monterey, CA. We are asking for all of you involved in Youth Ministry in your churches to attend these meetings. I will send you the meeting minutes, but it is here where the whole group comes together for encouragement and where discussion takes place that’s important. Be there: Living Hope Church of the Nazarene 9:30 a.m. This is going to be an all day event.

(Phone: 831-375-4414, address: 1375 Josselyn Canyon Rd., Monterey, 93940)

As you may be very aware, most of the people doing youth ministry on our district are lay people who are passionate about teens. On December 2^nd at 10:00a.m., we will be offering workshops for those of you involved in youth ministry. Reserve this date on your calendar and keep a look-out for more information in the very near future.

Thank you so much for all of you involved in youth ministry on our district. A couple of weeks ago I got a phone call from David Hartke, International Director of NYI. He called to let us know how proud he is of what we are doing on our district in how we are reaching out to all our churches. He wants to continue to dialogue with us in how we are breaking down boundaries of ethnicity and culture as well as socio-economic walls. Be encouraged, you are making a difference in the lives of our teens and in youth ministry throughout USA/Canada.

Blessings,

Pastor Donabel Martin

NYI President (E-mail: donabelcmartin@sbcglobal.net, 707-648-1986)

At least 25 of from our district attended the Willow Creek Leadership Summit this past August.  Your Sunday School Ministries Board encourages YOUR PASTORS AND KEY LEADERS to consider attending this FIRST CLASS leadership training opportunity.  Next year's Summit is August 9-11, so plan now to attend!  See www.willowcreek.com for details.

ADULT MINISTRIES:

You will most likely find some helpful information on the newly update Adult Ministries Connection Website.  Here is the link: http://www.amc.nazarene.org/.

CHILDREN'S MINISTRIES:

Lynnette Medina, Children's Director from Concord Christ Community Church, is our new Children's Quizzing Director.  Contact her at (925) 689-2417, e-mail: soccermonlynette@yahoo.com for quizzing resources and meeting schedules (above in this newsletter under NYI Information).

Rev. Tim King, Sunday School Min. Chairman

New Life Church of the Nazarene, Phone: 831.444.6064

1164 Monroe St. #5, Salinas, CA 93906

Dimes For Africa… It Is Never Too Late to Start Saving Dimes!

Are you aware that there is a web site with stories and statistics about our Dimes for Africa? For example in the 2005-2006 church year, 43 churches gave 1,417,000 dimes. How does one dime for one person for one-day work? 1,417,000 dimes fed 1,417,000 people for a day. 1,417,000 dimes fed 3,882 people for an entire year.

It takes $37 to buy 100 pounds of corn meal that will feed the average family for one month. Your heart will be affected by just spending a few minutes on the web site. Hearing from one of our missionaries from Africa as well as just how the Lord uses ordinary people to do extra ordinary things. Check it out: http://dimes.norcal.org/index.htm.

Update on the Jesus Film Ministry

JESUS Film Harvest Partners (JFHP) and the JESUS film ministry continue to impact lives as many learn about the story of Jesus for the first time.

Reported evangelistic contacts from January 1998 through August 2006 have now topped the 40-million mark (40,525,355). Of these contacts, 6,953,252 (17.2 percent of contacts) have indicated decisions for Christ. In addition, there have been 2,193,358 (31.5 percent of decisions) initial discipleship follow-ups. In addition, 9,700 new mission churches have been started and 14,230 new pastors are in training.

Prayer Request Regarding the Jesus Film Ministry

JFHP and JESUS film team members ask for continued prayer as film equipment is shipped by an ocean container to teams working in six high-risk gospel-resistant countries. The equipment includes video projectors, generators, sound systems, DVD players, and discipleship materials for 98 large screen teams. These teams have been using 16-millimeter equipment for more than 5 years. Additionally, 24 small screen teams will be launched. Some of them will use a “backpack” of equipment including projector, DVD player, and tabletop speakers. Some of them will use only a DVD player for smaller groups. Two “backpacks” contain DVD players that will be powered by solar panels.

Start praying now; ask the Lord what He would have you give to Him for the Thanksgiving Offering for World Evangelism. The holiday of Thanksgiving is a time that we can honor God by expressing our thankfulness to Him. One way we can do this is by giving to the Thanksgiving Offering for World Evangelism. This offering provides support for almost 750 Nazarene missionaries and ministries in nearly 150 world areas.

GAUTEMALA…and what a mala!!

Twenty people. Five ladies. Fifteen gentlemen. Six youth. Three senior pastors. Two youth pastors. There were six churches representing the Northern California District: Antioch First, Cupertino New Life, Palo Alto CrossRoads, Pittsburg, San Jose Cambrian Park, and Santa Cruz. Three countries. Seven thousand miles. Five working days. One church built. One parsonage built. Two Vacation Bible Schools conducted. Three hundred thirty-four children came. Eighty-eight adults came. Two Sunday services preached. Two impromptu choir medleys sung. One hundred blankets given to children. Two chairs broken. One chair breaker. Nineteen near-death experiences on road to and from Coban. Two fantastic missionaries. Manny. Cindy. Six casualties of the “flow.” Five hundred seventy-three tortillas consumed. Nineteen great devotionals. Nine hundred ninety-one laughs. And, oh yeah, one United States dime found. You know who. More details can be found at www.nazarenesj.com. Pictures included. God was pleased. God’s Kingdom was increased. Twenty Nazarenes returned more on fire for Him and His Mission than ever before. Can’t wait until our next trip. Don’t be left out. Please pay your World Evangelism Fund. Can’t leave home without it.

District Work and Witness Guatemalan Style

Your District Work and Witness team have returned from Guatemala having built the initial structure of a parsonage for the Pastor’s family in the town of Santa Cruz and a church for the Nazarenes of Coban.

Some of the team bending rebar in the Seminary Shop that is used to create the initial structures for the new churches in Guatemala. The team bends and welds the rebar, and then the sections are taken by truck to the church/parsonage site to be put together. The churches end up with a structure that has a roof to protect them from the elements. As the church is able, they will then finish their church with concrete blocks for the walls and floor.

The church structure to worship under! The wooden structure was where the church had worshipped. The team built around and over the old church that had been constructed without a roof.

Russia Here We Come!

Would you like to travel to Eastern Europe next summer either in late June or July and be able to minister with Nazarenes your District’s Work and Witness team in a project? Contact our District Work and Witness Coordinator, Bob Kilpatrick at bobknaz@yahoo.com or call his office at 408.377.0432. The team is reaching capacity, so if interested do not delay.

Church Budgets - % Paid through Sept. 29, 2006

Churches	World Evgel	P & B	Dist	Edu	SSM
Alameda New Beginnings	35	100	82	0	0
Antioch Family	87	103	106	59	100
Arcata	29	0	0	0	0
Castro Valley	0	0	8	0	0
Clearlake	26	8	7	8	7
Concord Christ Community	8	20	24	25	9
Crescent City	50	50	58	58	35
Cupertino New Life	54	52	48	48	51
D. C. Western Korean	0	0	82	0	0
East Bay (Hana) Korean	0	0	100	100	100
El Shaddai	0	0	0	0	0
Eureka First	32	32	52	45	55
Fortuna	25	14	14	14	14
Fremont Central	42	40	40	40	40
Gilroy Cornerstone	0	0	0	0	0
Hayward First	0	0	0	0	0
Hayward Korean	0	0	100	100	100
Hayward Spanish	0	0	0	0	0
Livermore Discovery	71	70	58	85	65
Marin Hamilton Community	100	100	100	25	100
McKinleyville Naz. Family	0	0	0	100	100
Monterey Living Hope	49	50	52	49	100
Napa	5	0	0	0	0
Oakland Bayview	0	0	100	100	100
Palo Alto CrossRoads	60	58	62	57	62
Petaluma Hillside	37	34	47	33	46
Pittsburg	74	78	53	53	100
Salinas New Life	37	15	6	8	0
Salinas Oasis	100	100	100	100	100
San Bruno Oasis	0	0	100	0	0
San Ramon Christ Com.	26	36	54	14	65
Santa Clara	34	60	63	60	60
Santa Cruz	43	0	24	0	0
Santa Rosa	50	50	50	50	50
S. F. Chinese	50	50	60	60	60
S. F. Chinese Gospel	0	0	100	100	100
S. F. Golden Gate Com.	0	0	0	0	0
S. F. New Life	0	0	62	0	0
S. F. New Start Ministries	0	0	100	100	100
S. F. Sunset Chinese	0	0	0	0	0
S. J. Cambrian Park	52	54	50	62	0
S. J. International Christian	48	50	35	68	35
S. J. Valley	100	152	123	100	100
Sonoma Valley	23	87	30	18	0
Sunnyvale	65	100	55	36	100
The Point	38	0	24	2	0
Ukiah Valley First	38	0	100	48	100
Vallejo First	67	42	41	41	41
Vallejo Filipino	0	0	0	0	0
Vallejo Korean	0	0	100	100	100
Watsonville	50	56	65	55	69
Willits	73	22	51	39	100
Total Percentages (%) Paid	38	36	41	36	38