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Dear
NEO Family,
We
just finished the 2011-12 Church Year and we have much to be thankful for. At
our Assembly on June 4 we will take time to hear words of thanksgiving from
each pastor and church and from the District Leadership for God’s guidance
and provision. Homecoming is going to be great. Don’t miss it!
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NEO
Homecoming, June 2-4 & 9, 2012
Tulsa
Central
June
2 — School of Stewardship
9:00am-4:00pm —
Dr. Mark Lail, Director of Stewardship Ministries, will teach pastors, church
treasurers, finance committee and board members to build more and better
givers by developing a culture of holy generosity. The session will be
practical, motivational, and fun.
June
3 & 4 — 61st Annual District Assembly
Sunday 5:00pm
— Registration. Delegates pick up packets.
6:00pm
— A Celebration of Mission and Ministry. Dr. Stan Toler preaching. Ordination
of three ministers, recognition of those getting District license for first
time, honoring retiree, and more.
Monday
8:30am-5:00pm — NEO family business with Dr. Stan Toler, General
Superintendent, presiding and preaching; District Superintendent Dr. Dave
McKellips’ Annual Report; Sixty-one 61-second reports to the Assembly–Lead
pastors, District Leaders; SNU luncheon for Lead Pastors, SNU Trustees and
DAB; SNU report by Dr. Loren Gresham; Zone prayer; leadership teaching by Dr.
Toler; Q&A time with Dr. Toler.
June
9 — Youth and Missions Conventions
8:30am – Registration
9:30am
– Service for all ages. Worship led by youth worship band; Message by Dr.
Daniel Ketchum, Global President, Nazarene Missions International.
11:00am – NMI and NYI Business Meetings
12:30pm
– Lunch. NMI Delegates and friends will have box lunch, $7 each. NYI will
have lunch for all of their delegation.
1:30pm — NMI Workshops/Inspiration
& NYI Service Projects
Please
bring peanut butter or jelly for Manna House.
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Our
churches do a great job every year in giving generously to others. Most have
already met their giving goals for 2011-12. Some are making the last payments
to meet all goals. Thanks for your commitment to the global team!
In
case you missed the word, the formulas for our giving goals have been changed
for the new church year: " By decision of the USA National
Board, the percentages for P&B and EDU have been adjusted to 2.25% each,
effective for the 2012-2013 assembly year. Churches will be in full
support if their WEF is 5.5%, P&B is 2.25% and EDU is 2.25% of
their adjusted income (below line 30) less amounts given to WEF (line 31) and
Mission Specials (line 32). For complete information regarding the
funding plan, approved unanimously by the 2010 General Board and USA National
Board, visit www.fundingthemission.org. District
users should have access to the general website, to the application
containing a church contributions summary, and, as long as churches report
their income, their progress towards allocations."
PASTOR
and Treasurers: If you have not begun to use the fundingthemission.org site to
report income at least monthly, PLEASE DO SO now. This will assist greatly
the ministry of the District to you and will make your accounting of giving
goals much easier!!
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April
NEO Statistical Leaders
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I
Want to Celebrate. . .
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David
Stevens, Vinita. . . Another great month to
close out the year. Thank God for great people. He is blessing us and helping
us.
Joel
Heid, Dewey. . . Answer to prayer. One of our
members was admitted to the hospital. He had pneumonia and high fever.
We were in a board meeting on Thursday night when we got a call that his
family had been asked to come, for they did not expect him to live through
the night. We stopped our board meeting and all went to the
hospital. It was past visiting hours so we used the service elevator
and ten of us got around his bed and prayed and sang hymns. My dad died
last year and this man looked just like him physically - laboring
to breath; involuntary movements; and they said his organs were being poisoned
(sepsis?). After we prayed and sang over him he came out of an almost
comatose state and said, “Hi, what is going on?” Ten minutes after we
left, his fever broke -- the fever they tried breaking all day. We
rejoice that God has spared him and answered our concerted prayer! The
whole hospital wing has been talking about it! He is home now and taking it
easy. God is glorified when we seek Him together!
Don
Engie, Grove Lakewood. . . God is working
here! We have started a prayer service on Sunday nights – focused on praying
for the church, God’s direction here, the lost around us, and that God would
help us reach them for the Glory of God. We have also been spending a lot of
time praying for workers for the harvest. After posting some needs on the
Nazarene Job Board, we have received resumes from people praying about coming
to help in some areas we really need workers.
We
are also starting ministries focused on outreach – including collecting
clothes for a transitional living facility in the area. We are also starting
a free clothes and food closet focused on helping the grandparents in the
area who are taking care of their grandkids.
Casey
Hollingsworth, Miami New Life. . . We finished the
10-week 10/10/10 Challenge. For the past 10 weeks 65 people committed
to spending 10 minutes a day in prayer, 10 minutes a day in the Word, and
increasing their giving(with an 10% increase of their current giving being
the benchmark). Several people have reported how this challenge has
blessed them and their family and has caused them to become more dependent
upon God. One family reported that they had never tithed before.
They had only put in "a ten or twenty" at times when the plate was
passed. They began to tithe and during the course of their 10/10/10
commitment the husband and wife experienced a 47% pay increase. Now
they are giving more! That's what it's all about! We truly can't
out give God!
Carl
Brown, Hominy. . . The love of God that is alive in
our Church and we have come together to help others with hope, finances, and
support in difficult times. We are making plans to do more community
outreach. We have had a great end year with a Great Easter Attendance of 112
and a Singspiration and Pastor Celebration on the 22nd with 105 in
attendance. God is moving and we are holding on for at great events that are
to come.
Larry
Allen, Bristow. . . Received three new members in
April.
Brad
Farnsworth, Connection. . . Third largest
attendance on Easter Sunday of 205; Kid City (children’s ministry) continues
to grow; held a very successful block party on April 1 with over 300 present.
Steve
Davis, Sapulpa. . . 4 out of 5 Sundays in
April were over 200 in attendance. Increase in first-time guests. God’s
provision is being seen. Greater unity in the body. Moving of God’s Holy
Spirit in our services.
Scott
Behm, Chelsea. . .
Our
church has amazing unity; we had 100 % affirmation in member voting for all
positions in our annual meeting. We elected a new NYI President with our new
emphasis to train our teens to participate actively in leading
themselves. Together we are setting up a new teen leadership council
under the new President. Our Easter attendance was the highest AM worship
attendance for the year. We had an Easter egg hunt for the children and
Linda Heriford led a wonderful music filled emphasis in our morning worship
service. We had a wonderful father/daughter duet provided by Larry
Couch and Stacie Shrier. Our teens have been studying Hebrews and 1st and 2nd
Peter, on Wednesday nights we have been enjoying a fun "teens versus the
church” quizzing type challenge. New families are starting to participate
actively in the life of the church. We have high expectations for the coming
church year and for what the Lord will do in our church.
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Already
over 700 people have registered for Extravaganza, the regional gathering of
youth on the campus of SNU for fun sports, talent, and quizzing competition
on May 25 – 28. Extravaganza will also include some awesome times of worship
and opportunities for students to experience God through services designed to
reach and teach them with special guests One Time Blind and Bailey!
Whether
you go to Extravaganza or not, the entire NEO family is invited to join the
Extravaganza folks for Nazarene Night at Frontier City (theme park) on May
26. You can find details and registration info at www.snuextravaganza.com .
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Pawhuska
Seeking a Youth Band
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Pawhuska
is hosting a Father's Day Outreach event on Saturday June 16th from 11am to
4pm with Food, Fun for the whole family, Live Music, and all for free. They
are looking for a youth band that could play for a love offering and who
would appeal to a younger crowd. They already have a country/western/gospel
group playing a couple of sets, and maybe a contemporary group, but want a
group of young people to "spice it up." If anybody can help, call
Pastor Jim at 918-287-3906.
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Grace
and peace,
Dave
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