Vol.053.January.2009

Dr. John H. Calhoun, District Superintendent, E-mail: jcalhoun@norcal.org

Northern California District Church of the Nazarene

1866 Clayton Rd., Ste. 200, Concord, CA 94520,

Editor: Kay Clark, E-mail: kay@norcal.org, 925-680-0538 (District office)

Web page: http://www.norcal.org

Contents

Page 1 Dr. John Calhoun, Making Disciples, Training disciple Makers

Pages 2-3 Year-To-Date Percentages – 10 Month Budgets 2008

Pages 4-8 Updates on Churches and Pastors

Pages 8-9 Sunday School Ministries International (SDMI)

Page 9-11 Nazarene Missions International (NMI)

Pages 11-12 Men’s Advance Retreat, and Calendar

Dr. John H. Calhoun, D.S.

Let us return to an earlier emphasis. Who is discipling you? Who are you disicpling? Let us not grow weary in well-doing. Let us be steadfast "to make Christlike disciples in the nations."

JHC

Year–to-Date Percentages 10 Month Budgets 2008

1	Churches	WEF	P & B	Ed	District	SSM
2	Alameda New Beginning	90.5	112	35	60.75	0
3	Antioch Family	106	100	100	100	100
4	Arcata	9.03	0	0	0	0
5	Berkeley Ch Plant	100	100	100	100	100
6	Casa De Oracion	0	0	0	0	0
7	Castro Valley	73.41	100	0	28.92	0
8	Clearlake	35.5	24.26	64.51	62.19	13.44
9	Concord Christ Com.	36.99	36.88	85.67	64.67	65.46
10	Crescent City	20.67	46.6	21.42	45.92	100
11	Cupertino New Life	90.23	90.36	100	100	100
12	Daly City Korean	0	100	64.76	100	0
13	East Bay Korean	0	0	0	0	0
14	Daly City El Shaddai	0	0	100	100	100
15	Eureka First	27.98	0	48.85	100	100
16	Fortuna	50.11	42.51	0	32.77	100
17	Fremont Journey of Faith	50.57	195	90.14	93.28	93.1
18	Gilroy Cornerstone	0	0	0	0	0
19	Haneul Sori Korean	0	0	0	0	0
20	Hayward First	0	0	0	0	0
21	Hayward Samoan	0	0	0	0	0
22	Livermore Discovery	100	46.58	41.66	43.81	45.68
23	Manna de Cielo	146	100	100	100	100
24	Marin Hamilton	0	100	0	0	0
25	Marin Haitian	0	0	0	0	0
26	McKinleyville Family	17.28	0	0	0	0
27	Monterey Living Hope	75.07	75.07	75.07	75.49	100
28	Napa Living Vine	26.09	0	0	0	0
29	Oakland Bayview	71.45	0	100	100	100
30	Palo Alto CrossR	93.44	96.4	104	104	104
31	Petaluma Hillside	15.5	66.13	75.02	76.73	100
32	Pittsburg First	41.1	100	85.24	87.21	100
33	Salinas New Life	54.04	34.82	77.4	72.6	0
34	Salinas Oasis	9.01	0	0	9.61	0
35	San Bruno Oasis	0	0	0	0	0
36	SF Chinese	60	71.4	80	80	80
37	SF Christian Gospel	0	0	100	100	100
38	SF Golden Gate	0	46.89	0	100	0
39	SF Gldn Gate Fellowship	0	0	0	0	0
40	SF Hosana	0	0	0	0	0
41	S F New Life	0	0	47.07	100	100
42	S F New Start	0	0	100	100	100
43	S FSunset Chinese	0	0	100	100	100
44	SJ Cambrian Park	76.95	81.79	85.01	84.96	12.62
45	SJ International Chris. C.	128	116	0	0	0
46	San Jose Valley	55.31	100	75.19	97.63	100
47	San Ramon Christ Com.	40.62	25.25	7.01	45.47	100
48	Santa Clara	58.21	92.6	92.58	98.69	88.06
49	Santa Cruz	50.04	76.9	39.85	43.95	0
50	Santa Rosa	67.24	58.37	58.52	67.22	59.01
51	Spiritual Fountain	0	0	0	0	0
52	Sonoma Valley	15.62	58.58	16.73	11.61	0
53	Sunnyvale	24.64	100	0	0	100
54	The Point	81.2	0	0	50	0
55	Ukiah Valley First	51.82	0	90.15	100	100
56	Vallejo First	65.76	33.26	33.03	33.82	33.81
57	Vallejo Korean	0	0	72.83	100	100
58	Vallejo New Life Filipino	0	0	0	0	0
59	Watsonville	49.87	74.57	82.74	83.3	0
60	Willits	40	63.8	45.58	23.22	100
61	Willow Creek	100	100	100	100	100

The District has only received 69% of our assigned budgets of the first 10 months.

At this rate, we will have a shortfall of over $110,000 at the year end. This is close to double our deficit from last year.

Rev. Gordon William Dawes (1917 – 2008) went to be with out Lord on December 18^th. He will be missed by many. He was a long time Elder on this district and served the Lord with enthusiasm and gusto for the last 60+ years.

He was married to the “love of his life, Frances”, for 73 years! What a beautiful life they shared together.

Dr. Steve Redmond, Pastor of the Castro Valley Church of the Nazarene, officiated over the celebration of Gordon’s life. He shared many interesting stories of Gordon and his life. It truly was a celebration for a wonderful man that served our Lord every day.

If you would like to communicate with Frances, you can contact the Castro Valley Church (510) 581-8377, and they will be able to give you her address and phone number.

Rev. Richard J. Nikkel, a retired elder in the Church of the Nazarene, slipped away to be with Jesus on Sunday morning, December 28^th at the age of 88.

Rev. Nikkel pastored the Clear Lake Church from July 1973 to April, 1976, and of course, attended there for many years during his retirement.

A memorial service will be held Saturday, January 10, 1:00 pm, at the Redding First Church of the Nazarene, 2225 Bechelli Lane, Redding, CA 96002. Dr. Stephen Campbell will officiate.

We are not going to have an open microphone at the service, but if you have an anecdote, funny story, or just want to say something about Richard's ministry or character, please send your comments to Carol Nikkel by Wednesday, January 7, and they will be read during the service. Email: carolnik@comcast.net.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be sent in his name to Nazarene Compassionate Ministries, Un-sponsored Children's Project. The Un-sponsored Children Project provides the opportunity for children to begin the program while they wait for a sponsor.

General Treasurer, Church of the Nazarene, 17001 Prairie Star Parkway,

Lenexa, KS 66220

Thank you,

Carol Nikkel

Spanish Pastors Teacher Seminar

Last January 4^th at Sunnyvale Church of the Nazarene, ten ordained pastors were trained to be teachers for the new extensions of the Nazarene Center of Ministerial Studies. This training was taught by Dr. Roberto Hodgson, who serves as the denominational Hispanic Mission Director for the United States and Canada. This training certified those ordained pastors to teach the Modules that the office of Clergy Development is providing to train new pastors in United State and Canada.

Actually the Nazarene Center of Ministerial Studies in San Jose has thirty students enrolled; they are preparing their lives to open new churches on our District.

Also in February 2009, a new extension will open in Livermore. There already have twenty new students waiting for this program. Praise the Lord!

By Rev. Wilmer Guido

Pastor of Sunnyvale Church

January 2, 2009

Hello friends,

This is the end of the 2008 and we are looking at the beginning of a new year. During 2008 Lori and I responded to a call from God to start a new church. As many of you know, we were sent to an assessment through the Church of the Nazarene at Nazarene Bible Collage in Colorado Springs to learn some of the things that we would need to start a new church. I have also taken two classes through the college that will help us launch a healthy and motivated new church. Taking these extra classes has been in addition to the classes I am taking for ordainment, with the emphasis on evangelism.

The new church, now called LAKE CHURCH, has had a sending service from Clearlake Church of the Nazarene in October of 2008. Below is an excerpt from the Norcal District Bridge Newsletter.

Pastor David and Lori Kincaid

New Start - Lake Church of the Nazarene - On October 5, 2008 the Clearlake Church of the Nazarene announced the start of a new work in the greater Clearlake area. This new work will be named Lake Church, of the Nazarene. David and Lori Kincaid have gone through an assessment in Colorado Spring this last summer and are excited to begin the new church. David is taking classes at Nazarene Bible College to assist him in beginning this new work. He and Lori will also be going to New Church University in January 2009 to further their knowledge on starting a new church.

The first meeting of Lake Church will be Saturday October 11, 2008 at Redbud Park in Clearlake. “There is a lot of desire in the group of professional people in this area to have a church that is designed around their needs” says David. “We have eleven families that have come to us with an interest to go to a church like that, and we haven’t started public worship yet”.

This church will target the people in the South Lake County area that do not have a church home. As this church is still in the first stages of coming together, the place where they will meet is still to be determined, but one of the families has offered their place of business to start. “We will meet in an upscale hair salon owned by a gracious lady. This woman has been on my prayer list for a very long time, she is not involved with a church, and has never been a member of one”, David continues, “this is the people that God has called Lori and I to minister to, good people with little time that have never had a church home”. As this is written the worship times will be Saturday evenings for group service and another time throughout the week for in-depth study.

As any new work, they ask that you keep them in prayer. Thank you for joining us in this exciting and new work. The Bible is full of verses that give us a glimpse of how mighty God is and to the lengths that God goes to reach us, His children. Again and again God tells us that He has begun a new work. One of my favorites is found in Isaiah 43:18 & 19. Here is God reminding people that He had delivered them from slavery in Egypt, and telling them, and us, what we can expect in the future.

“But forget all that—it is nothing compared to what I am going to do. For I am about to do a brand-new thing. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness for my people to come home. I will create rivers for them in the desert!”

Thank you for helping us to become a pathway in the wilderness.

David and Lori Kincaid

Santa Rosa Church on Work & Witness Trip to Belize

"The day after Christmas, 40 people from three Nazarene churches, Santa Rosa, Bakersfield Olive Knolls, and Glendora linked arms to Minister Christ's grace, truth and love to some of the people of Belize. For five days, some group members ministered at an orphanage by holding and listening to and playing with the children there as others cleaned and repaired showers, toilets, lights, swings, and teeter-totters. They also installed two new dryers while others joined in the kitchen in preparing meals for 42 needy children.

The rest of the group spent five days building a foundation and walls for Pastor Keith Joseph's parsonage in a little village called Cottontree. Come rain or sunshine (and the rain did come) these folks slugged through mud and water to erect a home that would at least provide Pastor Joseph and his wife Judy running water, which they didn't have.

"Beyond the physical labor, group members had opportunities to pray with a 3-year old girl to receive Jesus, lead a young man named Marvin back to Christ, share truths about God's Kingdom with our Mayan cave tour guide (Marcos), who revealed by some of his comments that God had "set eternity in his heart".

"And to think: This was all envisioned and planned by a father and daughter (lay people), Mike Downard and Becky Downard, who developed a burden for Belize while on a cruise. It was a privilege to be a part of three churches serving together, and to watch God at work in our lives and in the lives of the people of Belize."

Joel Tippitt, Youth Pastor Santa Rosa Church

Rick Bassett, Senior Pastor Santa Rosa Church

Pictured are the 40 folks that gave of their time and love for others to work in Belize.

Friday May 8, SDMI Celebration with the Blackwood Gospel Quartet (Formerly Blackwood Brothers) and Dinner on the lawn. Mark it on your calendar and prepare not only for some great music and good BBQ, but also an incredible celebration of what our local churches and ministries are doing. More information is yet to come.

“Happy New Year” and welcome to 2009. This does truly promise to be an interesting year, if not exhilarating! Many new things will be coming soon from Sunday School and Discipleship Ministries. Keep up to date on the latest and greatest from your district SDMI Council. Featured in this article:

B.A.S.S. Convention

SDMI Celebration

Children's Camp

Budget Payments and Reporting

Bay Area Sunday School Convention coming soon.

Send your teachers, children's workers, youth workers, Pastor's etc. to this 3 day training event. There are dozens of workshops covering every area of ministry.

March 5 - 7 at Redwood Chapel in Castro Valley, CA.

Keynote Speakers:

Thursday, March 5^th Dr. Henry Cloud, Dr. Cloud, clinical psychologist and marriage and family therapist, is an engaging and informative speaker. He has helped countless people in many arenas of life.

Friday, March 6^th Sherwood Carthen, Bishop Carthen is the senior pastor of Bayside of South Sacramento.

Saturday, March 7^th Jack Hayford, Dr. Hayford is the Senior Pastor at The Church On The Way in Van Nuys, CA.

For more information visit: http://www.bassconvention.org/index.cfm

Summer Camps!

2009 Children's Summer Camp

July 27-31, Diamond Arrow Christian Camp and Conference Center

Put it on your calendar, in your plans, and in your prayers today. Every child in your church should go to camp this summer. Please make it a congregational priority to see that they do.

Sunday School Discipleship Ministries Budget Payments and Reporting Detail

We are coming down to the end of the church year. Check to see if your church has paid its budget allotment for district ministries. Continue to report your attendance often.

WORLD EVANGELISM FUND - BECAUSE YOU GAVE…

Read the following statistics and be proud to be a Nazarene, supporting the Lord’s work around the world. The end of the church year will soon be here, make an effort in your church to pay the World Evangelism Fund in full.

· World Mission (WM) transformation in 151 world areas

· Global missionaries deployed from 34 world areas

· 774 missionaries and their kids (equipping, salary, housing, medical, travel to field)

· Mission Corps, tentmakers, Youth in Mission, 676 Work & Witness teams in 2007

· Infrastructure for regional, field, and district ministries, including national leadership development

· 10,500 churches (+11%), more than 1 million members in WM (+12%)

· 428 districts with 8,850 credentialed ministers

· 40 Bible colleges, seminaries; 11 universities, 9,600 resident students

· Education extension centers in every nation, 12,000 extension students

· 64 medical clinics and hospitals; thousands of compassionate ministry centers

· 320 retired missionaries receiving pension income

· Worship in 212 languages; Bibles/literature translated into 67 languages

· JESUS Film, World Mission DVD, Alabaster buildings

BEYOND GIVING TO WORLD EVANGELISM FUND

· Churches gave US $22,556,444 for Approved Mission Specials during fiscal year 2007.

· Missionary Health Care provided US $480,687 in medical assistance for Nazarene missionaries.

· NMI partnered with World Mission Broadcast, giving US $583,688 to reach the un-reached in 75 countries, 30 languages, 85 programs, and 1,397 broadcasts.

· NMI generated US $282,705 through LINKS, a vital connection between churches and missionaries around the world.

· International Student Scholarship Fund provided 150 scholarships for ministerial students to attend campus-based Nazarene theological institutions globally.

· NMI partnered with NCM to give US $4,923,774 to send 38,750 Crisis Care Kits for disaster response, to support 10,205 children through Child Development (an increase of 2,676 children), and to provide much more compassion globally.

· NMI assisted Work & Witness in raising US $4,944,800 to deploy 646 teams. During fiscal year 2007, an average of 13 teams per week and a total of 10,620 participants donated the equivalent of more than 335 years of labor.

Information obtained www.nazarene.org

ALABASTER: THE HISTORY AND STATISTICS

Following World War II, the critical need for buildings and land in the world mission areas of the Church of the Nazarene was presented to the General NMI Council. The Council asked Rev. Elizabeth Roby Vennum, a member of the group, to submit a plan that would generate giving for this need.

Rev. Vennum knew if God wanted those buildings, He would provide the plan. On the return trip from Kansas City, God gave her His plan of giving "love" gifts. It was modeled after the sacrifice of the woman who anointed Jesus' head with expensive perfume poured from an alabaster jar (Matthew 26:6-13).

The General NMI Council unanimously adopted the plan, and the first offering was received in 1949. Now, more than 50 years later, more than 7,300 projects have been purchased or built with more than $79 million.

In 2007, Nazarenes gave US $3,123,834 for Alabaster to fund 236 construction projects on mission fields, averaging 4.5 projects per week (churches, parsonages, colleges).

Continue to save those dollars, quarters, nickels, and pennies for what you give does matter as you give that love offering to the Lord for Him to multiply.

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 General Church can keep in contact with this young person that may be one of our future missionaries. The future spreading of the gospel will depend on our young people hearing God’s call, preparing for God’s call and then carrying out God’s call on their lives.

MEN'S ADVANCE

February 20-22, 2009

Central California District invites Northern Calif. District men to join them at Mt. Cross Ministries Christian Camp for a weekend of fellowship and worship. The guest speaker is Rev. Doug Pittam, senior pastor of the Church of the Nazarene at San Luis Obispo. Don't miss this special time together!

Mt. Cross Ministries, 7795 Highway 9, Ben Lemond, CA 95005,

US +1 8313365179 Call, www.mtcross.org

Housing information and costs include 2 night’s room and the following meals:

Friday – Dinner, Saturday - Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, Sunday - Breakfast & lunch

Cost:

Outside Cabin $115 each person

Dorms $120 each person

Lodge $130 each person

House $185 each person

RV'ers (dry camp) $ 77 each person

You must provide your own bedding

Outside Bathrooms/Showers (Bring towels/soap)

Registration $75 deposit (non-refundable) must be postmarked by Feb. 1, 2009 with Master card or Visa accepted ($5 handling fee).

After Feb. 1st there is a $5 late registration fee.

Mail registration to:

Lucky Crane, 2755 N. Walnut Rd., #105, Turlock, CA 95382, 209-668-3649

E-mail: cruzinbetty@sbcglobal.net

SCHEDULE

Friday Evening

1:00 p.m. Registration begins

6:30 p.m. Dinner in the Dining Hall

8:00 p.m. Chapel

Saturday Morning

4:00 a.m.-8:00 a.m. "Early Bird" coffee in the Dining room-Prayer

in the Chapel with Lucky

8:00 a.m. Breakfast in the Dining Hall

9:30 a.m. Chapel

10:45 a.m. Breakout

Noon Lunch in the Dining Hall

Saturday Evening

5:30 p.m. Dinner

7:00 p.m. Chapel Worship and Message

Sunday Morning

4:00 a.m.-8:00 a.m. “Early Bird” coffee in the dining room w/prayer

8:00 a.m. Breakfast in the Dining Hall

9:15 a.m. Chapel Worship, Communion, Message

Noon Lunch in the Dining Hall and Closing

Calendar of Events

Jan. 25 Nazarene Theological Seminary Offering

Feb. Alabaster Offering

Feb. 20-22 Men’s Advance Retreat

Feb. 28- Mar. 6 Nazarene World Week of Prayer

April 10 Good Friday

April 12 Easter Sunday

April 12 Easter Offering

May 6 Beginning of Norcal Dist. Assembly - evening service

May 7-9 Dist. Assembly, Nazarene Missions International

Nazarene Youth International at Santa Rosa, CA

June 21- July 3 One Heart-Many Hands, and General Assembly

Orlando, FL. office@oneheartmanyhands.com