Nazarene
Missions International
Special
Compassionate Ministries Emphasis - Maternity Packs
The maternity pack is sent to 3rd
world countries for mothers to have the bare necessities for
delivery and after care for their babies. We
will collect them and then send them off to be packed into
containers going around the world.
MATERNITY PACKS
Baby:
hat, blanket, diaper and pin, disposable pad, onesie, wash
cloth, string or gauze
Mom:
gown, disposable pad, sanitary napkin, face cloth,towel,
scanti pants or underwear, soap, lotion shampoo, hard candy in
baggy
All placed in a pillow case and
wrapped in a garbage bag
Projects (Click to open an adobe.pdf file):
Maternity
menstrual washable pads
Pauline's
maternity pad pattern
Pauline's maternity menstrual washable pad 2
Dell
Marie Wergeland
President
Compassionate
Resource Warehouse
Warehouse
phone: (250) 381-4483
Fax:
(250) 479-9312
Web:
http://crwarehouse.ca
or
you can contact
Barb Taggart
Nazarene Missions International
President for Penticton
250-492-4028
At the Penticton Church of the
Nazarene the Nazarene Missions International (NMI) ministry is
responsible to bring awareness about the exciting way God is
working around the world in Nazarene Missions. A different
emphasis each month as described below is used to highlight the
numerous and varied world areas that the Church is involved in
through missions. Click on the underlined links to get more
information about each month's emphasis from the Nazarene Missions
International website.
“Prayer begins where human capacity ends.”
- Marian Anderson
Prayer and fasting are vital to missions. For this reason, the
prayer and fasting emphasis is not restricted to a particular month.
Nazarene Missions International (NMI) provides special prayer and
fasting opportunities in a variety of settings throughout the year.
NMI knows that such spiritual disciplines take place in individual,
small group, and corporate settings.
Ongoing Prayer Requests:
- Pray for missionaries and their families—for their ministry
and safety.
- Pray for missionaries and Christians in creative access areas,
where government officials may not welcome missionaries and
those who share their faith are in danger on a daily basis.
- Pray for World Mission Broadcast programs and personnel who
minister globally via radio, television, Internet, podcasts, and
cell phone texting. For more information about World Mission
Broadcast, visit broadcast.nazarene.org.
- Pray for Nazarene Compassionate Ministries teams that share
the love of Jesus to a needy world.
- Pray for the JESUS film ministry. For more information about
JESUS film, visit the JESUS
Film Harvest Partners Web site.
April — Easter Offering (World Evangelism Fund,
Faith Promise)
Overview
The cost of providing insurance for Nazarene
missionaries is quite high. In fact, the cost for health insurance
alone for a year is approximately $1.9 million, and the costs
continue to rise. Yet the Church of the Nazarene wants its
missionaries to be able to serve and not worry about where they
will scrape up the cost of the next premium.
Nazarene Missions International has helped subsidize some of these
funds since as early as 1919. Through your giving to the Memorial
Roll, Distinguished Service Award, Gifts from the Heart, and
Missionary Health Care plate offerings, you helped offset
approximately 23 percent of those insurance costs. Thank you!
The remaining 77 percent of the insurance costs is provided by the
World Evangelism Fund. So two important facts to remember are…
1) The more money that comes in for Missionary Health Care, the more
money from World Evangelism Fund can be used specifically for
evangelism.
2) Giving to World Evangelism Fund affects many aspects of missions
in the Church of the Nazarene.
What is Missionary Health Care, and why should I give to
it?
Missionary Health Care (MHC) is an opportunity to help with the
health care costs of Nazarene missionaries. MHC allows
missionaries to focus on their work without raising funds to pay
for medical care. The money comes from Distinguished Service
Awards (DSAs), Memorial Rolls (MRs), Gifts from the Heart, or
plate offerings.
What are the Distinguished Service Award and the Memorial
Roll?
The Distinguished Service Award recognizes someone (living) who
has served or is serving the church. It may be presented by the
church or a group within the church (not individuals). The
Memorial Roll is a record of people who have been memorialized by
gifts to the Medical Plan. It is kept in the General NMI Office
and is a significant way to honor the deceased (members of the
local church or not) and may be presented by groups or
individuals. Both of these honors are accompanied by attractive
certificates stating the recipient and—in the case of a DSA—the
reason for presentation.
Where can I access a history of individuals on the Memorial Roll
or individuals who received DSAs?
The Memorial
Roll/DSA history is available online. This allows you to:
Search for (and/or print) a list of individuals from your
church/district who received a DSA.
Search for (and/or print) a list of individuals who were placed on
the Memorial Roll.
To access the MR/DSA History,
click
here.
Where can I get order forms for Distinguished Service Awards
and Memorial Rolls?
DSA and MR order forms are included in the annual District NMI
Convention packets or may be ordered free of charge from Nazarene
Publishing House (1-800-877-0700). They are also available on the
Missionary Health Care
Promotional
Ideas page.
What is Gifts From the Heart?
Gifts From the Heart is a facet of Medical Plan that allows
individuals to give to Missionary Health Care. People may be honored
or memorialized with an attractive card noting the monetary gift to
Missionary Health CAre (the donor chooses the amount). Look for the
display in your church. Take a card from the rack and follow the
instructions. If you do not see a Gifts From the Heart display at
your church, ask your local or district NMI president.
Global Day of Prayer
May 27 2012
“If My people, who are called by My
name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and
turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and
will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
(2 Chronicles 7: 14)
Values:
The Bible and the Apostle’s Creed
Worship and Prayer
Respect
Humility and Repentance
Servant Leadership
Quality
Relationship
Integrity
Inclusiveness
Sacrificial Giving
For more information see the Global Day of Prayer Web site.
Mission
To call Christians from all Nations to:
- Unite in repentance and prayer, and
- Work together as God’s servants for the blessing and healing
of the Nations
Strategy
Following the example of the first believers who "joined together
constantly" in prayer (Acts 1:14) until the outpouring of the Holy
Spirit, the Global Day of Prayer is calling Christians from all
nations to unite in prayer.
A simple strategy will be implemented each year:
1 – 10 – 90
- A Global Day of Prayer (Moving from large events
to more smaller locations, including as many people as possible)
- 10 Days of day-and-night prayer preceding and leading up
to the Global Day of Prayer
- 90 Days of Blessing and continuing prayer, following the
Global Day of Prayer
PLUS
Bi-weekly newsletters with prayer challenges from the nations,
information, tools and teaching to mobilize prayer from our many
partners in the global prayer movement (Sign up for Newlsetter
HERE)
Promotional materials:
Poster
Logos
Videos
For more information and resources, visit the
Global
Day of Prayer Web site.
October — Thanksgiving
Offering (World Evangelism Fund, Faith Promise)
Special Prayer Emphasis — 10/40
Window
Work &
Witness
Over
150,000 people have been mobilized through Work &
Witness since its beginning in 1974. Resulting in
more than 5000 years of donated labor worldwide, Work
& Witness teams go to every region of the world
and partner with local churches in construction
projects, technical needs, evangelism and
compassionate ministries. Come be a part of something
significant!
"Let
us not become weary in doing good, for at the
proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not
give up." Galatians 6:9
Work
and Witness is an important ministry opportunity
that is generously and enthusiastically
supported by the Penticton Church of the
Nazarene. We have sent teams to South America,
Cuba, the Ukraine and most recently to Ethiopia
in January/February of 2009. Click on the image
below to go to the Work and Witness site to see
how you can become involved.
What
is NMI?
- "NMI
is the organizational representative of missions for
the Church of the Nazarene on the regional,
district, and local levels."
- "NMI
is the promotional, educational, program, and
fund-raising arm of missions."
- NMI
is the organization that "provides the structure and
spiritual dynamic for mobilizing the church in
mission."
What
is the purpose of NMI?
NMI
Mission Statement: To mobilize the church in
mission through praying, discipling, giving, and
educating.
NMI Objectives:
- To
encourage people to pray for all efforts of world
evangelization
- To
inform people of the world's needs and what the
church is doing to meet those needs
- To
challenge children and youth to learn about and
participate in the mission of the church
- To
raise funds for mission outreach
For
more information click on the image below to go to
the Church of the Nazarene Missions International
website.

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