NMI NEWSLETTER - SEPTEMBER, 2008

ALABASTER is one way Nazarenes are encouraged to help provide land and buildings around the world where people can live, learn, heal and worship.  ALABASTER funds are distributed in world mission areas including Canada and our United States.

We will be receiving our September ALABASTER offering on Sunday, September 21, 2008.  Remember to bring your ALABASTER box to empty into the offering bricks at the front of the sanctuary.  Checks, cash and coins are also very welcome!

Since the ALABASTER plan was begun in 1949, Nazarenes have contributed $86,152,650 for a total of 7,839 projects, which included 3,584 churches and chapels.

ALABASTER is not just building buildings, but building lives for Christ!

MEMORIAL SERVICE - On Sunday, September 28, 2008, at 6:30 p.m., we will be honoring four of our own who went to be with the Lord during this last church year as a part of our regular evening service.  They are Mabel Mahoney, Laurabelle DeCook, Gertrude Foster, and Esther Strong.  We will present each family with a memoriam certificate in honor of their loved one, and everyone is invited to attend.  

Meet the Sunbergs - our Nazarene missionaries to Bulgaria. They are Jay and Teanna Sunberg and their four busy daughters, Lexi (12), Sophia (9), Lydia (7), and Jenna (5).The Sunbergs are assigned to us as our LINKS family for the next two years--- to support with our prayers, gifts, personal remembrances, and love. Jay is the district superintendent and Teanna organizes the volunteers in Bulgaria, writes and does PR.  The girls are busy with their own schooling and helping with the Sunberg’s ministries to orphanages and schools as well as to the elderly and sick.  All tend to the spiritual needs of the wonderful people of Bulgaria.

  Marie Peterson is our local LINKS coordinator and with the help of Lynda Smith will be sending greeting cards and notes from our congregation to the Sunbergs on their birthdays, Christmas and other holidays.  We will be sending Christmas gifts to the Sunbergs this year - they have given us a list of their needs and wants.  If you would like to contribute, please write your check to this church with the notation “LINKS” in the memo portion, or see Marie or Norma.

Most of all, remember the Sunbergs in your prayers.  They need to know that our hearts are linked to them with our prayers and our love.  Check the bulletin board for their photographs, and for more information about the Sunbergs, go to The Sundbergs or www.sunbergfamily.blogspot.com

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