Vol.034.Jan.2007
Editor: Kay Clark, E-mail: kay@norcal.org,
925-680-0538
Northern
Web page: http://www.norcal.org
Contents
Page
1 Dr. John Calhoun
Page 2 Pastor’s
Day, February 9, 2007, Gen. Sec., Jack Stone, Releases Stats on Denomination
Page 3 NYI
News
Page 4 Rev.
William McMahon Passes to Heaven,
Page 5
Page 6 Special
Greetings from Nazarene World
Page 7 -9 NMI
News, Pray for Our Men & Women in the Military from District
"Be Healthy, Make
Disciples, Train Disciple Makers"
Dr. John H. Calhoun, District
Superintendent
This month we emphasis the
first of the three challenges in our theme for this year-Be Healthy!
By now, each church should
have conducted the Church Health Survey.
This tool will allow for a closer look at the areas of church life that
need most attention.
Those of you that have
already taken the survey need to keep focused on implementing change that is needed
that comes from your health survey.
We will publish to the
District Assembly the status of each church in this area.
P. S. This
is the year for 100% payment on budgets.
Guest Speakers: Dr. J.
K. Warrick, Gen. Super., and Dr. Keith Wright
“A Cultural Transformation:
Missional Pastors and Missional Churches”
Date: Friday, February
9, 2007
Where:
Phone: 707-648-1986
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 2:30
p.m.
Cost: $5 for Lunch
Clergy Services
will give CEU credits for the day.
Contact Kay at the district office to reserve your
reservation either by calling 925-680-0538 or e-mailing her at kay@norcal.org.
Reports show total membership for the church now stands at
1,622,669. There are currently 18,690 churches in the denomination, of which
14,567 are organized. The church also welcomed a total of 111,683 new Nazarenes
in 2006, and 687 new churches were organized.
For breakdown of details go to: ncnnews@ncnnews.com.
Southwest Region NYI Winter Meeting
Date: Jan.
29-31, 2007
Location:
Who: NYI District Presidents and other leaders.
What: Regional Planning Meeting
On
Monday evening Jan. 29th we are inviting all Northern California Youth Workers
to a catered dinner at the
Mark
Your Calendars:
- NYI Council
Meeting -
- Southwest
Region Dinner -
- Multi-Cultural
Day -
- NYC Q&A
– Petaluma, on March 9; 7PM; inf. call
- NYI Council
Meeting: April 21, TBA 10PM-3PM
- NYI Convention,
The Point San Jose; May 4-5 more information on the way!
- Mid-High/Jr.
High Camp, June
- NYC:
- Sr. High
Camp, July
- District All
Nighter, September 7
We ask that you would continue to pray for NYI on our district.
Pray for our students and our leaders.
Serving Christ and the Church together,
Donabel C. Martin
707.648.1986
707.712.940
Rev. William
McMahon, Elder - Passes to Heaven
Rev. William McMahon,
one of our long-time pastor’s and elder’s on the Norcal District went to be
with our Lord on December 29, 2006. He and Ellen were married for
69 years, and he celebrated his 90th birthday.
Rev. McMahon arrived on
our district in 1955 and ministered in
Ellen McMahon is now
residing with her daughter, Ruthada Bumgartner at 4421 Wyman Dr., Sacramento,
CA 95821.
News from The Point (
We just
had the highest attendance of the church's history at
Two new
ways for us to show Christ's love (inventing new ways to love people for
Christ's sake):
1. We
have begun a Community Center ministry Tuesday through Friday. It offers
citizenship classes, ESL, and exercise groups. There are future plans to expand
the activities offered and the target audience. Many who come
are atheists and have reason from their past experiences to not trust
institutions. However, in the past two weeks, for the first time, two people
from our Community Center accepted Christ's offer of forgiveness of sins. One
said, "we see that you people are doing this from your heart." Thanks
be to God!
2. We have begun a weekly, after school,
Kids Club, at a nearby public elementary school. This is a movement in the
Dr.
Christ Comm. Korean Celebrated 8th Anniversary
On September 30th through October 1st,
Rev. Paul Chung was one of our guest speakers (he retired at
the 2006 district assembly from our
There were 57 members that celebrated together. After the service, we had a “big dinner” with
an array of wonderful Korean food.
We thank God for what he has
done for us!
Rev.
(L-R) Angela
Cheon, Sook Ja Chung, Jan Calhoun, Dr. John Calhoun, Rev. Paul Chung, &
Rev.
New -
Our District Superintendent,
Dr. John Calhoun and his wife Jan, attended a celebration at the
Rev.
(Left to Right)
Rosario with husband, Rev.
Special Greetings from Nazarene World
Beginning January 2007, I will be
distributing an electronic World Mission
Leadership Newsletter from my office to selected leaders within all
the various World Mission areas. We are extremely excited about this new
endeavor. This leadership letter is designed to encourage these leaders,
provide resources for the development of their leadership skills, and promote
in them a desire for personal and spiritual growth.
Check out the World Mission website at www.nazareneworldmission.org!
May your
New Year be blessed by His holy presence!
Dr. Louie Bustle
Director of World
Nazarene Theological Seminary 2007 – Offering
A reminder
– Sunday, January 28th is the official date for the offering.
40-Day
Adventure Coming
I know
you are attempting to help your congregation make a meaningful connection
with God’s Word. Some help is on your
way!
For the
Pentecost season (immediately following Easter), Sunday School Ministries is
offering churches a 40-Day Bible-Listening Adventure. We will be partnering with Faith Comes by
Hearing and the American Bible Society to offer FREE audio New Testaments to
every person in your congregation. These
New Testaments will be in MP3 format on CDs and will play on a computer or an
MP3 player (some of your new cars are now equipped). Watch your January mail for more details.
In the
meantime, you may wish to consider PURCHASING a pre-loaded New Testament on an
MP3 player, from Faith Comes by Hearing.
For the order form, see the attached file. If you will be purchasing an MP3 player,
please advise Pastor
Rev.
New
(831.444.6064)
“Dime A Day”
Have you been saving and collecting
dimes for
We rejoice with all of you for the DIMES
you have given this year to help the starving people in the Horn of
God bless you! (In alphabetical
order...)
Clearlake 4,000 (...and counting)
Fortuna
2,850
McKinleyville 4,343
SF
Chinese 4,300
SJ Cambrian 15,051
SJ The Point 30,034 (...and counting)
Willits
1,477
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Churches 139,958
D.T.M. = Developing Tomorrow’s
Missionaries
Do you have a child, teenager or young
person in your church with a call to missions?
If so, make sure that Rick Cole has their name, so that the District and
the
World Evangelism Fund
The church year is rapidly coming to a
close, have you participated in helping make sure our missionaries get a
paycheck each month. It is important
that everyone do something monetarily to help spread the word about Jesus. The World Evangelism Fund is one way that you
can help, for we have missionary families around the world that are depending
on us.
A- ALABASTER Offerings help to build buildings all around the
world!
L- Let's have EVERY CHURCH
participate this February!
A- Announce the February DATE you've
chosen for the Offering!
B- Be enthusiastic about
the POSSIBILITIES your Offering will provide!
A- Allow your YOUTH
and CHILDREN to assist you in the promotion!
S- Set your GOAL high and work
hard to reach it!
T- Take the time to fold and
distribute the Alabaster BOXES!
E- Every church can order more boxes
through NPH!
R- Recruit a TEAM to help you
count the coins, and order a pizza!
Pray for our Men
and Women in the Military
Please
pray for “Abner Valenzuela” (Elder on the Norcal Dist.), and son of Revs. Andy and
Ricareda Valenzuela (Pastors at the
Pray for
Rev. John and Jeanne Ford’s son (Pastor at the
If you
have someone special in the military that you’d like us to pray for, please
send the information to kay@norcal.org.