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2011. Mission Priority One awards. This emphasis used to be called "Mission Award,” but was renamed in 2001. This program gives local churches guidance in fulfilling their part in the Great Commission. To be a Mission Priority One church we must be involved in: - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Mission Priority One awardsThis emphasis used to be called "Mission Award,” but was renamed in 2001. This program gives local churches guidance in fulfilling their part in the Great Commission.To be a Mission Priority One church we must be involved in:
Working with children and youth in missions Praying for missionaries Reading and learning about missions Giving to the World Evangelism Fund.
How is our church is meeting these goals?
Unscramble these words:
Keep the NMI goals unscrambled and stay on a straight course.
Ritipory Neo-Sominis
“Mission Priority One”
Use of the blue hand
—can symbolize water —can symbolize hope —can symbolize protection
Water is the key to life. It is fundamental to all human activities. Water grows the food we eat, generates the energy that supports our modern economies and maintains the ecological services on which we all depend. Yet billions of people worldwide still lack access to the most basic human right: safe, clean, adequate water.
Compassion as a lifestyle requires the agents of compassion to be completely immersed and identified with those who want to experience the fullness of life. Jesus had compassion for the lost, the ill, the destitute and the needy. That is why He went into the cities to preach the Gospel of salvation; healing and teaching. Better yet, He lived with those in need. Yet, even when He lived with them and was a part of them, He did not act like them. With His example He taught a new and real lifestyle.
Giving a cup of water in In Christ’s name will bring its reward even it never results directly in conversions . It will, however, demonstrate what it means to be Christlike. And give opportunity to share Jesus’ forgiveness with those who are recipients of Christian compassion Practical Questions for Discussion: 1. At what level are you as an individual? 2. At what level is your local church as a body? 3. At what level is the group you represent now?
It is required that those who have been given a trust be found faithful. - 1 Corinthians 4:2 (NIV)
Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as
ye have done it unto one of the
least of these my brethren, ye have
done it unto me.Matthew 25:40
(KJV)
Facing the Challenges of Being Christlike in the Twenty-first Century
Water Deficit: Not enough drops in the buckets:Each person needs 20 to 50 liters (5 to 12.5 gallons) of safe fresh water per day to meet basic needs of for drinking, cooking and cleaning. More than 1 in 8 people world wide—894 million—do not have access to that minimum amount.
Simply washing hands with soap can reduce the risk of diarrheal disease by up to 47 percent.
2.5 billion people—almost a billion of them children—live without basic sanitation. Every 20
seconds, a child dies as a result of poor sanitation that’s 1.5 million preventable deaths
per year.
First fact: The world is running out of fresh water. The global water crisis affects more than a billion people and claims the life of one child every 15 seconds, with water scarcity becoming a more prevalent crisis every year. (See world water distribution on the next slide.)
The following results/impact are expected at the end of pump installation program:
a) Target communities will be supplied with clean, safe, reliable water facilities within reasonable distances;b) The communities will have acquired the capacity (relevant skills) to manage, operate, maintain, sustain facilities and replicate them;c) The communities will have less incidence of water related diseases;d) The communities' income will improve;e) Water committees will be organized to maintain their collective facilities;f) Water resources in the respective areas of operation will be protected.
g) While sharing a “cup of water,” we can share the “water of life” as Jesus did with the Samaritan at the well.
In Haiti, a simple water well can change the way a whole community functions. Children, sometimes as young as four or five years old, no longer have to draw and carry water from distant—typically dirty—water sources. Instead, families can pump clean water from a centrally located well. Access to safe water has always been a matter of life and death in a country where 80 percent of disease is waterborne. However, the recent cholera outbreak in Haiti has created an even greater urgency for clean-water solutions.
Haiti Water Project Update
Since 2007, the Church of the Nazarene through the Haiti Water Project has been providing wells, cisterns, and filters for Haitian communities. Each water resource is located on church property and is open to anyone who would like to draw water. The church charges a nominal fee per bucket of water, and profits go into maintaining the well so that it can be a sustained source of life and health.
Donations for“Water for Haiti”
$1.00 can provide
clean water for one Haitian for
one year!
Steady Convergence: How the Local Church and a Water Well transformed a Rural Community in Zimbabwe
What do drought conditions have to do with the spread of HIV and AIDS? What does the lack of clean drinking water have to do with high rates of childhood illiteracy? In Monera, Zimbabwe, a rural town in the Mashonaland East province, the connection is clear. That is why the local church and Nazarene Compassionate Ministries are partnering to break the hold that drought and dirty water have had on this community.
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A simple well, established through the love and support of the local church, continues to bring new life to the Monera community. Lack of water no longer binds women to prostitution or children to illiteracy. Since people have a means to grow and sell food, fewer men leave the community, and fewer women participate in prostitution. They now spend their time working in their small gardens, and HIV rates have slowed. The community school also has higher student attendance as fewer children have to watch their siblings and are less likely to stay home due to waterborne illnesses.
Pure Grace: A Simple Well Helps a Bangladeshi Congregation Break Down
Barriers and Pour Out HopeIn the village of Ballan Chor, Bangladesh, a community well supplies clean drinking water in a country facing a water scarcity crisis. For Christians living here, however, accessing the well water is not so easy. Today, Christians in Ballan Chor do not have to walk far to find water that is safe for children to drink. They no longer drink polluted pond water, and as a result, waterborne illness has greatly decreased. Children miss less school since they are sick less often, and women are able to spend time on other valuable activities to care for their families.
There is now enough clean drinking water for all the families who are part of Pastor Baroi’s congregation. But beyond that, they share water with their neighbors. The Ballan Chor Church of the Nazarene made a decision not to discriminate. They are living out God’s words through the prophet Isaiah: “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters” (Isaiah 55:1, NIV).
Nazarene Compassionate Ministries provides another opportunity, that of giving over the next three months to provide one well. An investment of $8,000 USD will provide funds to build a hand-pump well, with all its plumbing fittings and a footpad in a village. This will make an impact in the surrounding communities, and uplift the standards and hope of an entire area.
Put “ACM1826” on the check memoGlobal Treasury Services, Church of the NazareneP.O. Box 843116Kansas City, MO 64184-3116
Africa Water Wells Project: Millions of African people are still deprived of the privilege of having access to water in their immediate environment. This lack forces millions of people, mostly women and children, to undertake a daily journey of several miles, sometimes twice a day, to the next river or ground water hole, only to find the water in many cases to be dirty, bearing the potential of disease, parasites and malaria, not to mention to make the two hour journey back home with a weight of 40 pounds on their heads and often exposing them to danger and abuse.
The AFRIDEV Pump was developed for Africa and is a conventional lever action handpump. The configuration includes an open top cylinder, i.e. the piston can be removed from the cylinder without dismantling the rising main. The footvalve is retractable with a fishing tool. The riser pipes are made of PVC. The pump rods are of stainless- or mild steel with hook and eye connectors, allowing removal without tools. Plastics like Nylon 66 are used for the pumping elements, plunger/footvalve and for the bearings. This pump is corrosion resistant in the stainless steel rod configuration.
Technical dataCylinder diameter (mm): 50 Maximum Stroke (mm): 225 Approx. discharge at about 75 watt input in cubic meters per hour:
at a depth of 10 meters (32 feet) from head: 1.4 (370 gallons)at a depth of 15 meters (48 feet) from head: 1.1 (290 gallons)at a depth of 20 meters (64 feet) from head: 0.9 (235 gallons)at a depth of 30 meters (96 feet) from head: 0.7 (185 gallons)
Pumping lift capability (m): 10 – 45 (32 to 144 feet)Population served (number served): 300Households (number served): 30Water consumption (liters per capita each day): 15 – 20Type of well: borehole
The Appropriate Technology Program is comprised of several one to two week training courses. Each course is designed to give the missionary valuable experience through classroom and practical instruction so they will be more successful on the mission field. These courses are offered at Equip’s main campus in Marion, North Carolina.
AT - Appropriate Technology Training Courses
If you would this as a Work and Witness opportunity, training is available from:Equip, IncP.O. Box 1126Marion, NC 28752 U.S.A
•Water Technologies: Filters (CAWST Certified) •May 1-6 North Carolina•October 2-7
$500.00
•Water Technologies: Pumping Water •May 15-20 North Carolina•October 16-21
$500.00
•Water Technologies: Well Drilling •May 8-13 North Carolina•October 9-14
$500.00
Located in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, students are accommodated in comfortable but basic cabins and meals are provided unless noted. In the ATI courses you “learn by doing” and our outside laboratory provides you with appropriate equipment and tools to learn with. There is a modern classroom on campus and internet is available.
Name/Group ________________________________________________Contact person (if different)_____________________________________Address ____________________________________________________City/State/Zip________________________________________________[ ]Telephone__________________________E-mail _____________________________Church to receive 10% giving credit ________________________________[ ] I want to sponsor a child for $25 monthly[ ] I want to sponsor a child for $75 quarterly[ ] I want to sponsor a child for $300 annually[ ] I want to give an additional $20 annually for my child’s Christmas and birthday gifts[ ] I would prefer to sponsor a: [ ] Boy [ ] Girl [ ] Greatest NeedI would like a child from: [ ] Africa [ ] Caribbean [ ] Latin America [ ] Asia [ ] Eastern Europe [ ] Middle East [ ] Greatest NeedI am paying by:[ ] Electronic Funds Transfer (see below)[ ] Personal Check/Money Order (Payable to Global Treasury Services.)[ ] Personal Cheque in Canada (Payable to Church of the Nazarene Canada)[ ] Credit Card: [ ] Visa [ ] MasterCardCard Number/Expiration DateSignatureOptional: Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT)I hereby authorize my bank to transfer from my bank account each month and pay to Global Treasury Services or to the Church of the Nazarene Canada (if in Canada) the amount as shown above. I have attached a voided check for immediate withdrawal. I understand that in the future my account will be withdrawn on the 10th of every month.___________________________________________________________Signature
Mail this commitment form to:Nazarene Compassionate MinistriesChild Sponsorship17001 Prairie Star PkwyLenexa, KS 66220OR, if in Canada:Nazarene Compassionate MinistriesChurch of the Nazarene CanadaUnit 9, 20 Regan RoadBrampton, ON L7A1C3CANADA
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