Vol.055.March.2009
Dr.
John H. Calhoun, District Superintendent, E-mail: jcalhoun@norcal.org
Northern
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, “A
Proclamation Letter”
Page 2 MediaLibrary; 104th District
Assembly and Conventions
Pages 3-4 Updates on Churches and Pastors
Pages 4-8 Sunday School /Discipleship Ministries +
Summer Camps
Pages 8-9 Nazarene Youth International (NYI)
Page 10 Nazarene Missions International (NMI)
Pages 11-12 Letter From Board of General Superintendents;
Dr. John
H. Calhoun, D.S.
A Proclamation Letter
“Each Pastor has been sent a letter and a proclamation from the
Board of General Superintendents. Please
take note of it here and join our Norcal
Prayer Force.”
I will send it to you under a separate e-mail.
JHC
For your information…this is a very helpful link:
The
MediaLibrary is a powerful application that
puts all sorts of digital media at your fingertips.
Greetings from the Global
We are sending you and the pastors on your district links to the
NazareneMediaLibrary for a number of promotional resources to be used in every
possible venue on your district, asking our people to take part in the 27th
General Assembly and Conventions.
Bulletin Insert
What is General Assembly? video
Change Your World video
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Please contact medialibrary@nazarene.org
with any questions.
Additional downloads and resources are available at www.gacorlando.org under Spread the Word.
104th Northern California District Assembly/Conventions
Hosted by the
S C H E D U L E OF E
V E N T S
Wed., May 6 at 7:30 p.m. “Concert of Prayer” Service
Thurs., May 7 at 8:30 a.m. Nazarene Missions International
Convention
Guest Speaker Rev. Howie Shute, from
May 7 at 1:30 p.m. Opening Session of District Assembly, Dr. Jerry Porter,
General Superintendent presiding
May 7 at 7:30 p.m. Ordination Service, Following service a Reception
for Ordinands and Retirees
Friday, May 8 at 8:30 a.m. District Assembly continues
Begins after assembly Entertainment by the Blackwood Gospel Quartet (times may vary)
4:30 – 5:30 p.m. BBQ after entertainment (times may vary)
5:30 – 6:00 p.m. Youth and Missions Service (times may vary)
Sat., May 9 at 9:00 a.m. Nazarene
Missions Convention and Service Project
We want to say a
special “thank you” in advance to our Sunday
School/Discipleship Ministries International Team, under the direction of Dr.
Marin Hamilton Community from Pastor Patti Branscome
"This has been an
exciting month! One person in one of our
Bible Studies committed her life to Christ.
One person in our congregation has received her Local License for the
first time, and two others are ready to join the church."
Highlighting Ruby Fong /
Ruby
Fong taught the “middler” class in our Children's Department for at least 25
years. She is still remembered by kids
(now adults) and parents alike as someone who loved unconditionally and always
had fun creative crafts, or ways to present the lesson.
Even today, when she is
no longer able to teach in the Children's Department, she is still very active
in her senior adult SS class: she picks
up people, visits the sick, does special care ministries for many, visits those
who cannot come, etc. Ruby is truly a SS
teacher/worker in the best of the tradition.
Pastor Brad and Sonya Edgbert –
They were surprised by
their son Kyle for a visit from
The church hosted a crab
feed on Saturday, Feb. 7th. Here
are a couple of pictures from the evening.
The first one is of Dr. John Calhoun (D.S.) and his wife, Jan, enjoying
the buttery garlic marinade and all the messy fingers that go along with eating
the yummy crab! The second picture is a
couple that attends the
“Thanks”
to Larry Fitch, and Pastor Marvin Pounds for getting the crabs and to those
that helped make it a successful fund raiser!
It takes a lot of folks to make these dinners work, and all of those
volunteers are appreciated!
Northern
Sunday
School / Discipleship
Ministries International
(510) 581-8377
To: Norcal Pastors, Sunday School and
Discipleship Ministries Leaders and
From: Dr.
RE: Upcoming Events and Announcements, Norcal
District SDMI
Date: February 25, 2009
Friends,
Norcal Sunday School and Discipleship
Ministries is attempting to infuse some energy into the SDMI programs of the
district and the local church. In this
effort, there are some key announcements that need to be made. I know that you have received some email
announcements. But I want to continually
put this in front of you so that you will adopt it as your own. Let me take a moment to encourage you not
only to read this letter, but also put into motion some proactive plans to make
each of the following a huge success on our district.
District SDMI Website
We are currently developing a resource site
for every local church. In this site
will be announcements, discipleship resources, children’s ministry resources,
http://sites.google.com/a/norcal.org/sundayschool/Home
At some point in the near future you will
be able to obtain some of the following from this site:
Children’s Ministry Resources
·
Information
of Children’s Ministry Events
·
Quick
Click Lessons
·
Coloring
Pages
·
Story’s
·
Puzzles
and Games
·
Songs
· Links to the best resources on the Web.
Youth Ministry Resources
Discipleship Ministry Resources
·
Modular
Discipleship System for use in any discipleship vehicle.
·
Links to
Discipleship Resources.
General Assembly Information and Resources
Link
to the latest news and events.
Sunday School Reporting
You may have read that the reporting
procedure of Sunday School has changed.
We want to thank Moon Louie for his years of service in this area. Starting today, you will be reporting your
Sunday School and Worship attendance
on the district web site. Visit www.norcal.org and then click on the Sunday School link to the left. There will be announcements on the main page,
but simply scroll down to the last box on the page and select the link CLICK HERE TO
ENTER SUNDAY SCHOOL AND WORSHP ATTENDANCE.
Enter in the information required, AND
please take the time to share with us some exciting things that are happening
in your ministry, AND nominate a teacher or worker for special recognition at
the SDMI Convention on May 8th.
Every church is strongly encouraged to report. My office will be calling you to collect the
information if you do not use this site for reporting.
SDMI Celebration
The Norcal District SDMI Council is sponsoring the Celebration on the Lawn with the Blackwood Gospel Quartet (Formerly Blackwood Brothers) in Concert. This quartet is famous for their southern gospel style with songs like Have a Little Talk with Jesus, Jesus is Coming Soon, and many of your favorite gospel quartet classics.
There will be giving special awards to Sunday School teachers and workers you nominate, door prizes, special drama presentations, and a Barbecue Dinner. This event will take place just following the dismissal of the afternoon session on May 8th.
We’ve already been announcing this
in our local church and will be renting vans to rendezvous in
Summer Camp
There is no argument that
the Summer Camping program transforms lives.
If I were to ask you, “Would you be willing to pay $250 for a child to
get saved?” you wouldn’t hesitate to write the check. Summer camp is that investment. Last summer 14 children and teens from our
church went to camp; some of them new to our church. Every one of them made a first time
commitment or recommitment to Jesus. Our
Summer Camping program is, without a doubt, a crucial part of our children and
youth evangelism goals and should be a very high priority for every church. We should be finding children in our
neighborhoods that would like to go and do everything we can to raise the money
to see that they attend. No child should
stay home if they cannot afford it. It’s
just too important.
I would like to ask every church to adopt a goal to send children and teenagers to camp. Ask your board to adopt a vision and put steps in place to get them there.
Here are the Summer Camping opportunities for 2009. Calendar them today and begin promoting them tomorrow. Car Washes, Bake Sales, Yard Sales, Worker Auctions or Student Adoptions all can help you reach your goal.
Children's Camp
- Blue Slide Camp (
- Norcal Camp - July 27 - 31 Diamond Arrow Camp - (Registration information will be available on this Web page)
- 2nd Graders, Explorer Camp, July 27 -29
- 3rd - 5th Graders, Discovery Camp, July 27-31,
Middle School / Junior High Camp
- Norcal Camp - Rock N Water, June 17 - 19 (Registration information will be available on this Web page) - April 1
Blue Slide Teen Camp
- Blue Slide - July 6 - 10,
$110 Grades 5 through 9 (Call
High School Camp
- Norcal Camp - District Mexico Missions Trip, July 15 - 27 (Registration information will be available on this Web page and from NYI soon) - April 1
District Family Camp
- Blue Slide - July 2-5,
$110 (Call
- District Family Camp - August 3 - 9, 2009 (Registration information will be available on this Web page) - April 1
- Speakers:
- Dr. Dan Copp
- Director of Clergy Development
- Church of the Nazarene/Kansas City, MO
- Dr Vicki Copp
§ Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology
§ Director of Supervised Ministries
§ Nazarene Theological Seminary/Kansas City, MO.
- Worship and Activities for all ages.
Ending the Year Strong
Finally, I want to encourage you to finish your financial year strong. Please ask your treasure to make sure Sunday School, NMI and NYI are a part of your year end financial plans.
Thank you for taking the time to adopt the vision and mission of Norcal SDMI. If you have any questions, please feel free to call me at the numbers below.
God bless,
Interim Norcal SDMI Chair
Office: (510) 581-8377
Cell: (510) 331-9019
Elevate
Date: May 22-25
Location:
Cost of
Registration: $100.00
Information for
Elevate is always received through the region.
I hope that they will be sending that information to all of us
soon. What I know so far are only the
dates and location. If you have a
complete sports team from your local church that would like to compete please
let me know and we can talk about the team registration. If you have students from your church that
would like to join a team let me know also so that w can connect them to the
right teams. If you would like to coach
a team let me know too so that we can let the district know that we are trying
to put such a team together. Please
contact me ASAP if you have any interest in any of these things.
Sr. High Camp - THERE IS NO
HOUSEBOAT CAMP THIS YEAR!!!
Sr. High Camp/Mission
Trip
Date: July 15-27
Location: Los Cabos (Southern
Baja), Mexico
Cost $400-$450 (I am
currently partnering with different groups to help subsidize this cost. In the information site it says that the
price is $550, but I am hoping that we will be able to cut down the cost to
$400-$450 per participant. I know that
this seems a bit higher that what summer camp has looked like but do remember
that we the trip is longer and further.
If you know of groups that are able to help subsidize this cost please
let me know and may be we can work with them, it would be tax deductible.)
Contact People:
We are partnering with
PLNU’s Youth Works department. There is
more information on http://www.pointloma.edu/youthworks,
please check out the site and apply today.
If you have any questions do not hesitate to call me, Josh or
Curtis. Also Melissa Tucker is the
contact person from Point Loma and she would love to hear from you and answer
any questions you might have. One more
thing… there have been questions floating around about safety in
In the
works: Sr. High Weekend
We are working to see
if it is feasible to do a Sr. High Weekend.
The purpose of this weekend would be to work with our students that were
not able to make the
I hope that this
answers some of your questions and please do not hesitate to call or e-mail us
with any question. Thank you so much
with your partnership in ministry.
Dist.
NYI President
Tylenol for
This year once again
our District is collecting Tylenol/Acetaminophen for our
Million
Hours of Prayer… Have you Started
A million hours of
prayer is not a new idea for General Assembly, it has been done in the past,
and has made a difference. All Nazarenes
have been asked to pray forty two seconds a day for a total of two hours before
June. Are you wondering about how you
can specifically pray? Here are three
suggestions for one pray about.
- Pray that the travel plans will
go smoothly for the 5, 000 delegates that will be involved with the
General Assembly as well as the Conventions for Sunday School, and
Missions.
- There will be delegates that
will travel from around the world, travel visas are mandatory and
sometimes challenging to get. Pray
for the paperwork and those that give the permission for our delegates to
be able to come, and pray that it will be done in God’s timing.
- Pray for the General
Superintendents and the General Secretary as they prepare for the services
and the changes that will be voted upon by the delegates.
News
Received Last Week from Headquarters
There were 24 new
missionaries appointed with global missionary contracts. The General Board of the Church of the Nazarene
approved our denomination to enter four new countries:
The Board of General
Superintendents has also requested that all of us pray and fast for:
- Compassion for every nation
- Resources to carry out our
global mission
- Our local churches.
CHURCH OF THE
NAZARENE
I n t e r n a t I o n
a l H e a d q u a r t e r s
Board of General Superintendents
James H. Diehl, Paul
Cunningham, Jerry D. Porter, Jesse C. Middendorf, Nina G. Gunter, J. K. Warrick
Dear District
Superintendent:
I think you know my
heart when I say that I believe our forthcoming General Assembly will be on of
the most significant events in our denomination’s 100-year history. Clearly, our global village is in the very throes
of enormous, far-reaching change. Now,
more than ever, we need God’s anointing to be the change agents for our times.
For the first time in
our church’s history, the majority of the General Assembly’s body will likely
be made up of representatives from outside the
However, for our world
area delegates to take part in such an event requires great sacrifice, making
it unfeasible for many to even come. The
General Assembly International Delegate Expense Aid (IDEA) Fund was created to
provide financial assistance for our world area delegates who will incur great
expenses to be a part of the global celebration.
We invite you and your
district to participate in a special offering for the IDEA. Donations will be accepted through June 1,
2009, and can be mailed directly to the Church of the
IDEA Bulletin Insert
IDEA Presentation
IDEA “Offering Today”
Presentation
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Please consider
joining us in sharing our resources with our brothers and sister in Christ
around the globe! Feel free to contact
General Assembly Arrangements Office at ga2009@nazarene.org
for more information.
Donations
may be sent to:
Church of the Nazarene, Global
Treasury Services
Make checks payable
to: General
Treasurer
Include in Memo: IDEA Fund #AMS1084
In the recent ASB elections, the
students elected the following Board of Directors for the 2009 - 2010 school
year:
President: Taylor Johnson
Vice President: Allison Waters
Executive
Secretary: Emily Vaughn
Director of
Finance: Matthew Karahadian
Director of Spritual
Life: Todd
Clayton
Director of Student
Relations: Kendall Richardson
Director of
Activities: Carlynn Katrina Brown
Director of
Communications: Ally Beardsley
The Pt. Loma
Speech and Debate Team –
The Pt Loma Speech and
Debate team won First Place in the Four Year Sweepstakes Division at the PSCFA
Swing Championship tournament this past weekend by Cal State University of Los
Angeles, against many top colleges and universities like Cal State Long Beach,
Northern Arizona University and UCLA.
Over 40 Colleges and Universities competed at this large regional event,
including top 2 and 4 year programs from throughout
Our Novices also won
The PLNU Men’s Ensemble “Pointless”
This is a male A
Cappella group that placed second in the International Competition of
Collegiate at Cappella’s West Regional
Quarterfinals on Valentine’s Day.
They will now move to the semi-finals in