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June 27, 2011 By

 

A few things are still needed for our family of overseas workers who are coming to the Sacramento area for about 10 months beginning in August. Our church is helping to set up a rental home for them. They will need most household items including beds with mattresses, dishes, small appliances, etc. E-mail Pamela Finney pfflyer1005@yahoo.com or private message Christine Rovenstine on Facebook with items that you can contribute. You can see a complete list of items still needed on our website here. Thank you for helping us bless this family during their time with us.

 

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Hello, from Jordan!

June 27, 2011 By

As you read this, the Jordan Team is on the ground! Perhaps we are walking the dusty city streets or giving instructions during today’s language class. Are we visiting in a neighbor’s home and enjoying a cup of tea with him? Maybe we are taking in one of the Biblical sites that litters this area.

To find out what we’ve been up to on a given day, follow us online. We’d love to hear what your day has been like too! If you are not already connected with us, check with the church office. They’ll get you set up while protecting the natural communication concerns of our work. As you are thinking of us, please pray. You do have an impact on how smooth our day goes and the impact we have. Pray for:

  • Stamina – heat exhaustion, jet-lag, and long days are a bad combo.
  • Health – funny foods can do funny things to our bellies.
  • Understanding – when the people and everything else around you is unfamiliar, it can cause brain overload.
  • Sensitivity – each day we want to join with the Holy Spirit in what he has laid out for our team.

As your delegation, it is a privilege to be part of what is happening here. It’s an honor to connect with our long-term workers as we labor alongside and encourage them. Know that the impact of our presence is felt on the locals too. As the love of Christ is being shared, ripples are going out that can only be measured through the lens of eternity.

The Jordan Team,

Bryce and Bethany Cooley, Dean Snow, Jim Henderson & Pastor Jeff

 

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Ways to Support the Jordan Team

May 26, 2011 By

By Pastor Jeff Davies

  • Pray for the team as they prepare and work through details prior to the trip.
  • Financial Support – Several of the team members still need to raise support in order to go.
  • Pray for us daily during the trip (June 23-July 11).
  • Help us collect the ministry and care package items we will be taking with us. You can bring items June 5 or 12.
  • Pray for the students we will have and others we meet.
  • Encourage us by letting us know you are praying for us.
  • Have a Jordan Team Member over for dinner to learn more either before or after the trip.
  • Pray. We really will be relying on your prayers for our health, stamina, and effectiveness as a team. Start now by shooting off a one-sentence prayer for the team each day.

Thank you ahead of time for making Jordan 2011 possible!

 

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Spring Cleaning Anyone?

April 28, 2011 By

By Christy Rovenstine

If you are cleaning out, upgrading or down sizing in the next couple of months, there is a family of overseas workers who could use your usable household donations. They have been living overseas for the past four years and will be living in the Sacramento area for about 10 months beginning in August. Our church is helping to set up a rental home for them. They will need most household items including beds with mattresses, dishes, small appliances, etc. They are also willing to borrow and return larger items if you have something to spare for 10 months. Storage space for items is limited so if you are able to hold onto your donations until July, that would be appreciated but we can make arrangements for storage if needed. We are trying to cross things off the list of needs as soon as possible so please e-mail Pamela Finney pfflyer1005@yahoo.com or private message Christine Rovenstine on Facebook with items that you can contribute. You can see a complete list of items still needed on here. We will need volunteers to help pick up and move furniture in during the month of July and possibly sooner. Thank you for helping us bless this family during their time with us.

 

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Jordan Team Care Packages

April 28, 2011 By

By Pastor Jeff Davies

Our long-term overseas workers give up a lot to serve in foreign lands. One way we can encourage them is by helping meet their practical needs. Sometimes items we regularly find here are impossible to get or are outrageously priced.

Together with this year’s work team from CNC, we want to send items that would be particularly meaningful to our workers. So why not grab one, two or a few of the items below for our team to take with them? You can drop the gifts off the week of Sunday, June 5. It’s a simple, easy way to aid in world missions.

  • generic multivitamins for kids and adults (a high priority for the clinic)
  • antibacterial ointment
  • generic tums antacid
  • aspirin
  • generic tylenol and ibuprofin
  • chocolate chips (an excellent outreach tool at the English Centers)
  • starbucks coffee gift cards
  • postage stamps (to aid in sending items in the U.S.)
  • thank you cards
  • pecans
  • bacon bits
  • granola bars
  • fruit snacks (for the kids)

 

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Home Assignment

April 13, 2011 By

What is home assignment? Every four years our C&MA international workers return to the U.S. for a one year home assignment. This allows them to spend time visiting family, speak in churches, and reconnect with U.S. culture.

Beginning this August, a family will be living in the Sacramento Area for their home assignment. Our church is collecting donations of household items in good condition for their home. They need furniture, electronics, kitchen items, and toys for their school age children. Please e-mail Pamela Finney at pfflyer1005@yahoo.com if you can donate. You can also loan larger items and we will make every effort to return them to you.

Click here to see a list of their needs.

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How Can I Help With Jordan 2011?

March 24, 2011 By

By Pastor Jeff Davies

There are lots of ways! Pick one or more of the opportunities below.

  • Pray for the team as we prepare ourselves and work through details prior to the trip.
  • Financial Support – Several of the team members will need to raise support in order to go. If you are able to help in this specific way, contact me at Jeff@CNChurch.org.
  • Pray for us daily during the trip (June 23-July 9).
  • Help us collect the ministry and care package items we will be taking with us. More details to come in May.
  • Pray for the students we will have and others we meet.
  • Encourage us by letting us know you are praying for us.
  • Have a Jordan Team Member over for dinner to learn more either before or after the trip.
  • Pray. We really will be relying on your prayers for our health, stamina, and effectiveness as a team. Start now by shooting off a one-sentence prayer for the team each day.

Thank you ahead of time for making Jordan 2011 possible!

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Women’s Reception at World Focus Weekend Is Better Than Ever: It Has Five New “Things”

January 25, 2011 By

Saturday, February 13, 2 pm in Rudat Hall

This year’s world focus weekend for woman is different.

• There is not a formal tea this year.

• You do not need to bring anything except yourself and a friend.

• Come prepared to enjoy an hors d’ oeuvres spread.

• Rob and Mary-Jo Towns will lead us in musical worship.

• Rachel Greenfield is our speaker. She will share with us why she lives and works in Jordan.


Read on to get to know Rachel a little better.

7 Minutes by Rachel Greenfiled

My children are determined to make sure I don’t have more than about 7 minutes of personal time per day and I attempt to use those 7 personal minutes taking a shower and changing out of my pajamas (though honestly there are many days that one or both of those don’t happen!).

A few days ago, I took my 7 minutes a few days ago and read an awesome blog post and I LOVED it! It was on a day I had browsed through the aisles of Old Navy, had a Starbucks specialty drink that didn’t cost 1/4 of my paycheck and watched a mom in an SUV pull up to the entrance of Target and drop her three girls off to run in and get an icee. They came out giggling and jumped into their Swagger Waggon (complete with a soccer ball on the gas cap) and I just started feeling sorry for myself… and then started feeling sorry for my kids.

Since I felt like allowing myself to wallow, I began dwelling on all the things they are going to “miss out on” because of the life we have chosen. Superficially- icees, Target, Costco pizza (now one of Noah’s favorites) and soccer leagues. But they will also miss out on grandparents, cousins, church in English, Sunday School… and there are times this makes me really sad.

But then God sent a special reminder through that blog and I realize we wouldn’t have it any other way.


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January 25, 2011 By

2011 World Focus Weekend

February 10-13

With our overseas workers, the Greenfields!

 

P.E.P. Brunch Feb. 10 10am

Youth Group Feb. 10 7pm

Men’s Breakfast Feb. 12 8am

Women’s Reception Feb. 12 2pm

Sunday Services Feb. 13 9:30 & 11


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Begin planning now for Jordan 2011!

Impact lives. Expand your world. Honor God.

Coming in July.


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Chile Earthquake Update

June 24, 2010 By

The following report was sent to us from Bob Hepokoski, a C&MA missionary in Chile.

During my June visit to Talca, in Chile’s central valley, I was awakened by an aftershock at 4:15 a.m. It was one of three that gently shook that night. Three months after the 8.8 cataclysm, the ground has ceased to tremble with the same frequency or intensity; now the aftershocks that are most evident are the personal tremors of the millions who lived through the disaster.

To my eyes, Talca looked worse than it had in the first weeks after big quake, when the streets were congested with piles of rubble and partially collapsed buildings.

As I lay awake, I reflected on what I had seen driving into town that evening. Bulldozers and front end loaders had trucked away mountains of rubble and torn down the remains of hundreds of former homes and businesses. Several city blocks were almost barren, except for a few temporary wooden homes that had been placed there by the government. There were still hundreds of buildings with walls cracked and split and I wondered if how many, if any, could be saved. The images brought tears to my eyes, and I thought how Nehemiah had cried over the walls of his city so long ago.

Despite the devastation, the church in Talca was celebrating. For two Sundays they had not met, while they worked on an emergency structure where they could meet during the winter. With help of a Santiago men’s group they had taken the old rafters and placed them over the courtyard where they could make a temporary meeting hall for 120 people. It was filled on Sunday and there was great joy and more than a few tears. Tears for their old building, now a broken shell, and joy for being together once again.

The day before we had traveled from Arauco, a small logging town on the southern coast of Chile. They were spared from February’s tsunami, but they were struck by the power of seismic waves that moved the sandy soil almost as if it were liquid. Most of the streets were broken and the entire city water system was ruined. In the 50 member Alliance church, five families lost their homes and the church building will need to be rebuilt. Despite such widespread damage, Pastor David Cabezas says that local church giving has increased, because the people want to rebuild as soon as possible.

That night, as I waited for more tremors (none came), I meditated more on the story of Nehemiah. It is natural, I thought, to shed tears when one’s city is in ruins. It’s ok. But it is also natural to take steps to rebuild. Many of our churches here are doing major repairs and others are speaking to architects about new plans. But not one of them has the funds they need.

Just as in the days of Nehemiah, rebuilding the walls will take a concerted effort of all the people working together. Several of the churches have been helped by a special offering of all the Chilean Alliance and others are being assisted through a cooperative project set into motion by CAMA Services. Offerings were received from other Alliance national churches and from interdenominational agencies as well. We are currently trying to help establish partnerships for earthquake recovery.

I share the sense of loss and the sense of hope that is present in so many of our Chilean brothers and sisters. I know that many of you do as well. On behalf of the Chilean church, I want to personally thank the individuals and churches who have shown fellowship and compassion by giving for this reconstruction. We have felt your love and we praise God for you

Grace and peace, 
Bob Hepokoski

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