Missions Hotline from Free Methodist World Missions

Please click here to see this week’s issue of “Current Hotline” from Free Methodist World Missions.  On that page, you will also see the ability to “Sign up for the Hotline Email.” This will ensure that the weekly “Missions Hotline” is emailed to you directly to keep you aware of the latest news and information.

Prayer Retreat Report

                      

 Approximately 137 people attended the Prayer Retreat on January 22-24 at Warm Beach Camp. The event was life-changing for many. Here are some more comments from those who attended:    

“Good balance of teaching and times of rest and reflection. Ruth did an excellent job of showing how to “do” silence and solitude, and then we were given adequate time to spend in silence and solitude.” 

“Reconfirmed my need for personal prayer retreats on a regular basis.” 

“It was both refreshing, inspiring and informative. I’m leaving with a renewed sense of desire for regular solitude.” 

“Worship was engaging and thankful for young talent/gifts.” 

“I have grown in my understanding of what it means to respond to the “sound of silence.” 

Last Call for Northwest Holiness Pastor’s Day

Event:           Northwest Holiness Pastors’ Day
Date:            Thursday, February 2, 2012
Location:    Northwest University Chapel
Address:      111th Way NE & NE 53rd Street, Kirkland Washington
Time:             9:00 AM to 3:30 PM 

Program Theme: “Pathways to Holy Living” 

Guest Presenters: George Barna, founder of the Barna Group, and author of Maximum Faith, and Dr. Kevin Mannoia, Chair of the Wesleyan Holiness Consortium, and a former FMC Bishop. 

Purpose: To assist pastors and leaders in understanding the message of holiness and its power in engaging and transforming communities. 

Cost: $25 per person, and includes lunch. You may register at the door. 

Register at: http://pastorsday2012.eventbrite.com. To view the flyer: Holiness Day

 

You Are Invited to an Afternoon Social!

INTERNATIONAL CHILDCARE MINISTRIES
Jill Parsons, VISA volunteer to Kenya

 Jill Parsons will share her “big adventure” and how she ended up in Kenya, serving with our Free Methodist Missions as a VISA volunteer and helping with ICCM.    Jill has been in Kenya since Jan. 2011 and has had the opportunity to work with 6 of our 7 schools there. She would like to express appreciation to anyone who sponsors a child through ICCM anywhere in the world, as well as answer any questions you may have about sponsoring a child. She will have packets of children that need to be sponsored and tell about our schools in Kenya, in particular.

Where:  New Day Christian Fellowship  (formerly, Auburn Free Methodist Church)
1312 Second Street, S.E.,  Auburn, WA.
When:  Saturday, February 4, 2012
Time:  2:00-3:30 p.m.
Please bring a dessert or light snack to share. Drinks will be provided!

 

VISA Team Adventure!

A VISA team of four from Hillcrest Christian Fellowship in Mount Vernon WA, left on Tuesday, January 31, to Casa Grande church in Santiago Chile. The team will help with VBS, outreach at a children’s cancer hospital, provide support for a church retreat, and assist at a community Sweetheart Dinner for Valentine’s Day. The team will be there for two weeks, working under the direction of Ricardo and Beth Gomez, Free Methodist missionaries based in Chile.