November 19 - We will learn together - play together and be challenged together.
Your children will be capably and lovingly cared for at the Main Campus Promiseland and we will trek over to the West Campus and meet in the foyer and main sanctuary area.
Please enter upstairs from the parking lot or through the front doors facing Center Street so as not to disturb The School of Hope who are in the lower area.
Give the gift that gives twice. Jewelry and crafts made by rescued women will be available for purchase. Giving these lovely handcrafted items will ripple back to the women who made them and be a blessing to those who receive them as well.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Spending God's Money - Lent Project 2009 (10 of 10)
Project De Clutter – directed the funds to a Calgary mom and her 3 children whose husband/father walked out on them earlier this year.
I just spoke with Zena and she will graciously receive this gift. Her info is below to finish filling out the cheque. She is working two 4-hour shifts and 3 6-hour shifts per week being a caregiver for seniors. her two little ones are in daycare but her grade 2 daughter is in need of care on days when she is off school.
She has been able to get into a milk program which is really helpful. But I'm certain that the energy to find and apply for the various services that are available to her is in short supply. We have a lot to offer because of our gifts and talents when pooled are so much more than we could do individually. I am so grateful that we have had the opportunity to include this in our projects this term. Let us pray for Zena and for each other. (Verna)
I met with Zena today to deliver the gift. I was somewhat grudging (being busy) and scared (what kind of encouragement could I offer). But I knocked on the door with my two daughters and we left two hours later thoroughly blessed. Zena is a lovely lady with an encouraging trust in Christ. Her testimony is amazing and I was honored to hear it. she immigrated to Italy and then Canada as a refugee in 1996, knowing no English. She had been supporting her extended family up until now as they are scattered throughout the world as refugees. She gave her life to the Lord in 1995 in a country where Christians are persecuted and jailed for their faith. Her husband hs walked away from the Lord and left her on New Year's Eve of this year. Her kids are 7, 4, and 2 and were gracious and fun hosts to my 3 and 4 year old's. She now is relying on her brother for support (whom she used to support), has to work full time and put her kids in day care (which is not her desire), and still does not make ends meet. She has a good church in her neighborhood who has been supporting her in prayer and paying her utility bills. And yet, her faith seemed unwaivering. She told me she relies on prayer. She was grateful for this gift, confident that it was God's provision and that it would go a long way. Not once did she complain about her situation, or refer to life as unfair, instead she shared her commitment to serving Christ and that His way is the only way. Wow. I left humbled and convicted of my own selfish life and reminded of God's constant provision and care for us even when it's not what we imagined. Remembering that God is sovereign, let's allow him to be. Let's remember and believe His PROMISE in Romans 8:28 " And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to whose who are called according to His purpose." (Lindsay)
I just spoke with Zena and she will graciously receive this gift. Her info is below to finish filling out the cheque. She is working two 4-hour shifts and 3 6-hour shifts per week being a caregiver for seniors. her two little ones are in daycare but her grade 2 daughter is in need of care on days when she is off school.
She has been able to get into a milk program which is really helpful. But I'm certain that the energy to find and apply for the various services that are available to her is in short supply. We have a lot to offer because of our gifts and talents when pooled are so much more than we could do individually. I am so grateful that we have had the opportunity to include this in our projects this term. Let us pray for Zena and for each other. (Verna)
I met with Zena today to deliver the gift. I was somewhat grudging (being busy) and scared (what kind of encouragement could I offer). But I knocked on the door with my two daughters and we left two hours later thoroughly blessed. Zena is a lovely lady with an encouraging trust in Christ. Her testimony is amazing and I was honored to hear it. she immigrated to Italy and then Canada as a refugee in 1996, knowing no English. She had been supporting her extended family up until now as they are scattered throughout the world as refugees. She gave her life to the Lord in 1995 in a country where Christians are persecuted and jailed for their faith. Her husband hs walked away from the Lord and left her on New Year's Eve of this year. Her kids are 7, 4, and 2 and were gracious and fun hosts to my 3 and 4 year old's. She now is relying on her brother for support (whom she used to support), has to work full time and put her kids in day care (which is not her desire), and still does not make ends meet. She has a good church in her neighborhood who has been supporting her in prayer and paying her utility bills. And yet, her faith seemed unwaivering. She told me she relies on prayer. She was grateful for this gift, confident that it was God's provision and that it would go a long way. Not once did she complain about her situation, or refer to life as unfair, instead she shared her commitment to serving Christ and that His way is the only way. Wow. I left humbled and convicted of my own selfish life and reminded of God's constant provision and care for us even when it's not what we imagined. Remembering that God is sovereign, let's allow him to be. Let's remember and believe His PROMISE in Romans 8:28 " And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to whose who are called according to His purpose." (Lindsay)
Spending God's Money - Lent Project 2009 (9 of 10)
Too Busy Not to Pray –
Just want to let you know that the money is to go to the Single Mom's Ministry at Centre St. Church (with a note that it is re the WOH Too Busy Not to Pray class so Deb will remember our conversation).
They are going to use it in 2 ways: to set it up as seed money for a microfinance arrangement with single moms (how cool is that????) and also for a fund to respond to crises needs among our single mom population.
Just want to let you know that the money is to go to the Single Mom's Ministry at Centre St. Church (with a note that it is re the WOH Too Busy Not to Pray class so Deb will remember our conversation).
They are going to use it in 2 ways: to set it up as seed money for a microfinance arrangement with single moms (how cool is that????) and also for a fund to respond to crises needs among our single mom population.
Spending God's Money - Lent Project 2009 (8 of 10)
Church History – directed funds for refugees in Darfur and for the suffering church in…
Spending God's Money - Lent Project 2009 (7 of 10)
Faith Begins at Home – Apostolic Youth Ministries International
Please find enclosed a cheque for $500 on behalf of the Faith Begins @ Home class at Women of Heart. Women of Heart is a community that is a part of Centre Street Church. Someone in the class knows you.
Each class was given an assignment to pray over a gift of $1000 during the lent period this year that each class received and come to consensus on what they wished to do with that money. They also had to demonstrate how the use of the money reflected some of the community’s core values.
This class decided that they would use $500 to send a Calgary Single Mom family to family camp and that they would use the other $500 to send missionary children to your MK camp in India.
This is what they wrote in their letter of explanation: “ We as a group are passionate about our children, and families in general, and know that keeping Christ at the center of the family unit is the most solid foundation that any of us can hope for. We can turn to Him for guidance at every turn and he values our families and our marriages. We believe that our donations reflect all of Women of Heart’s values: Faith, Family, Growth, Stewardship, Fun, Rest and Integrity.”
May your camp be a time of impacting youth for eternity.
For the Faith Begins @ Home class,
Please find enclosed a cheque for $500 on behalf of the Faith Begins @ Home class at Women of Heart. Women of Heart is a community that is a part of Centre Street Church. Someone in the class knows you.
Each class was given an assignment to pray over a gift of $1000 during the lent period this year that each class received and come to consensus on what they wished to do with that money. They also had to demonstrate how the use of the money reflected some of the community’s core values.
This class decided that they would use $500 to send a Calgary Single Mom family to family camp and that they would use the other $500 to send missionary children to your MK camp in India.
This is what they wrote in their letter of explanation: “ We as a group are passionate about our children, and families in general, and know that keeping Christ at the center of the family unit is the most solid foundation that any of us can hope for. We can turn to Him for guidance at every turn and he values our families and our marriages. We believe that our donations reflect all of Women of Heart’s values: Faith, Family, Growth, Stewardship, Fun, Rest and Integrity.”
May your camp be a time of impacting youth for eternity.
For the Faith Begins @ Home class,
Spending God's Money - Lent Project 2009 (6 of 10)
Total Money Makeover
After working through Dave Ramsey’s Total Money Makeover and watching some of his videos from Financial Peace University, our class wanted to pass on the benefits of living a debt free life pleasing to God.
As our finances are delegated properly, debt is eliminated. When your savings for emergencies, retirement, children’s education, sound investments and adequate insurance are all in place, you have extra money and a peaceful spirit to help others as God directs!
In a very entertaining and inspirational presentation Dave shows through 13 DVD’s how to deal with everyday choices such as obtaining a car with no payments, to live your life without a mortgage, how to know what you need for insurance, and the true joy of sharing your life with others!
We are offering the Financial Peace University class at Centre Street Church starting Saturday, May 30, from 6:30 to 8:30, and running for 13 weeks. We have used some of our $1000 to purchase a facilitator’s kit, and we have subsidized six single moms so they can take the $125 class at a price each one can afford. By word of mouth, and Financial Peace University posting the class on their website, we have 15 family registrations so we could have 25-30 people attend the class. These are lifetime registrations which means they can do a refresher and take the course again at any time for free. They receive a set of 13 CD’s that match the DVD’s we will be showing, the Financial Peace University Revisited text book and workbook along with a number of other helps. When registering as a family teenage children are welcome to attend with their parents at no extra charge. What an awesome opportunity for young people just starting out in life and we have a number that will be attending!
We still have money left in the account and hopefully God will cause this to grow so we can continue reaching out to single moms and families in financial crisis to help them get out of debt. We would love to see God raise up people that would get together and offer short term small loans at low interest rates to help people that want to change their financial situation. These loans would only become available after completion of the Financial Peace University class and with an accountability system in place. We serve a big God! What a privilege to be in His service and be a part of changing lives for Him!
This project has taken many people to make it happen. A special thanks goes to Terry Bush for all his help in coaching us, and to Karen Weir for her unwavering assistance in helping facilitate the class at Centre Street. Debora Carndoff invited us to
present this class to the Single Mom’s group and helped with the guidelines for financial assistance. Pam Wolfe and her team from Promiseland have opened their doors to small children that need care while the class is running. Another opportunity to reach children that otherwise may never experience God! Doris Degagne is assisting me with the class and ladies from the Total Money Makeover class have offered their help. And of course none of this would have happened the donors had not blessed us with a challenge for ministry. Thank you and God’s richest blessings to you all.
After working through Dave Ramsey’s Total Money Makeover and watching some of his videos from Financial Peace University, our class wanted to pass on the benefits of living a debt free life pleasing to God.
As our finances are delegated properly, debt is eliminated. When your savings for emergencies, retirement, children’s education, sound investments and adequate insurance are all in place, you have extra money and a peaceful spirit to help others as God directs!
In a very entertaining and inspirational presentation Dave shows through 13 DVD’s how to deal with everyday choices such as obtaining a car with no payments, to live your life without a mortgage, how to know what you need for insurance, and the true joy of sharing your life with others!
We are offering the Financial Peace University class at Centre Street Church starting Saturday, May 30, from 6:30 to 8:30, and running for 13 weeks. We have used some of our $1000 to purchase a facilitator’s kit, and we have subsidized six single moms so they can take the $125 class at a price each one can afford. By word of mouth, and Financial Peace University posting the class on their website, we have 15 family registrations so we could have 25-30 people attend the class. These are lifetime registrations which means they can do a refresher and take the course again at any time for free. They receive a set of 13 CD’s that match the DVD’s we will be showing, the Financial Peace University Revisited text book and workbook along with a number of other helps. When registering as a family teenage children are welcome to attend with their parents at no extra charge. What an awesome opportunity for young people just starting out in life and we have a number that will be attending!
We still have money left in the account and hopefully God will cause this to grow so we can continue reaching out to single moms and families in financial crisis to help them get out of debt. We would love to see God raise up people that would get together and offer short term small loans at low interest rates to help people that want to change their financial situation. These loans would only become available after completion of the Financial Peace University class and with an accountability system in place. We serve a big God! What a privilege to be in His service and be a part of changing lives for Him!
This project has taken many people to make it happen. A special thanks goes to Terry Bush for all his help in coaching us, and to Karen Weir for her unwavering assistance in helping facilitate the class at Centre Street. Debora Carndoff invited us to
present this class to the Single Mom’s group and helped with the guidelines for financial assistance. Pam Wolfe and her team from Promiseland have opened their doors to small children that need care while the class is running. Another opportunity to reach children that otherwise may never experience God! Doris Degagne is assisting me with the class and ladies from the Total Money Makeover class have offered their help. And of course none of this would have happened the donors had not blessed us with a challenge for ministry. Thank you and God’s richest blessings to you all.
Spending God's Money - Lent Project 2009 (5 of 10)
12 Steps of a Recovering Pharisee – directed their funds to the Ukraine MTO trip – Fimiam Ministry: Oct 20 - Nov 4. Specifically to encourage families with special needs members. One of our families is participating by going with their two special needs children to minister in this community.
Spending God's Money - Lent Project 2009 (4 of 10)
Why Believe $1000
Our class was deeply impacted by the Pregnancy Care Centre presentation. Most of us have much easier lives than the single moms described. We wanted to do something in keeping with the Women of Heart value of fun, and so we decided to purchase 5 adult and 5 child zoo passes, along with return bus tickets. When I ran this idea past Wendy Lowe, she said that she had recently talked to a young mom who had grown up with a welfare mom in Calgary - and had never been to Banff. We hope this gift will bring help bring joy into lives that are otherwise focused on bare survival.
We decided to make a 200$ contribution to Opportunity International in keeping with Women of Heart's values of growth and family, as the micro-credit loans of Opportunity International enable families to support themselves, create jobs for the community and then are repaid to assist more entrepreneurs. We know this is also a ministry close to the donor's heart, and wanted to honour her.
We contributed the balance to CSC at work so that they can assist families in crisis during this difficult economic time. We would like to thank the donors for this opportunity to collaborate in extending generosity!
Our class was deeply impacted by the Pregnancy Care Centre presentation. Most of us have much easier lives than the single moms described. We wanted to do something in keeping with the Women of Heart value of fun, and so we decided to purchase 5 adult and 5 child zoo passes, along with return bus tickets. When I ran this idea past Wendy Lowe, she said that she had recently talked to a young mom who had grown up with a welfare mom in Calgary - and had never been to Banff. We hope this gift will bring help bring joy into lives that are otherwise focused on bare survival.
We decided to make a 200$ contribution to Opportunity International in keeping with Women of Heart's values of growth and family, as the micro-credit loans of Opportunity International enable families to support themselves, create jobs for the community and then are repaid to assist more entrepreneurs. We know this is also a ministry close to the donor's heart, and wanted to honour her.
We contributed the balance to CSC at work so that they can assist families in crisis during this difficult economic time. We would like to thank the donors for this opportunity to collaborate in extending generosity!
Spending God's Money - Lent Project 2009 (3 of 10)
Elves Anonymous $1000
Our class is donating the $1,000 to Servant's Anonymous Society and in the process of trying to match, for a total donation of $2,000 - keep praying! The monies will be sponsorship for two tables at the Calgary luncheon Sept 15th. Naomi asked me if we would like "signage" on the table for sponsorship. We may put Elves Anonymous on one table,
Our class is donating the $1,000 to Servant's Anonymous Society and in the process of trying to match, for a total donation of $2,000 - keep praying! The monies will be sponsorship for two tables at the Calgary luncheon Sept 15th. Naomi asked me if we would like "signage" on the table for sponsorship. We may put Elves Anonymous on one table,
Spending God's Money - Lent Project 2009 (2 of 10)
Dangerous Surrender $1000
Hi there! Happy Easter! He is Risen Indeed!
Here is a record of what we discerned together on Thursday about how God is calling us to spend our money:
- $300 to Oak Hill project, details to be discussed at our last class in a week and a half.
- $150 to Opportunity International, which will provide loans to at least 2 women to allow them to put their ideas into action to support their families. Each loan includes insurance, which protects people from crop failure and destitution due to funeral costs for AIDS, etc. And each loan recipient is put in a small group of other loan recipients, who support each other, are trained in sound business practices, and cover for each other's loan repayments when necessary. When the loans are repaid, the money is redistributed, so this money will keep giving and giving...
- $100 to World Vision's emergency relief project for refugees in Darfur, Sudan. This money is being quadrupled by the Can. govt right now, so it will really become $400 in aid money.
- $450 to the Global Christian Centre Ministry in Albania. This goes to Aferdita's brother-in-law, a pastor in Albania whose church runs many different ministries to the desparately poor. Go to lovealbania.com for more information. Our money could go to a widow Aferdita knows who uses stepping stones inside her house when it rains because her house floods so badly and she can't afford repairs. Or it could go to wherever the centre needs it most right now. Anyway, we know all this money will actually get to those who need it. The consensus was that hardly anyone in the Christian world knows about this need, so we wanted to rally around it.
Our time together on Thursday was powerful, listening to God together and sharing His stirrings in us. Thank you so much for being a part of our 'church', moving forward, arms linked...
Some people have told me that, as a part of their Dangerous Surrender follow-through, God is calling them to add of their own money to one or more of these projects. There is ABSOLUTELY NO OBLIGATION on this account. This was intended as a class project only. They just asked me to let people know how to do this if this is the case for them. Two options, I think. 1). Write a cheque to your preferred organization (listed above) and bring it in a marked envelope on Thursday to add to our class proposal. If you want to give to the Oak Hill project, those cheques would be made out to Centre Street Church, as it is a CSC ministry. 2).Talk to me for more information and proceed as led.
This is very exciting!!
Hi there! Happy Easter! He is Risen Indeed!
Here is a record of what we discerned together on Thursday about how God is calling us to spend our money:
- $300 to Oak Hill project, details to be discussed at our last class in a week and a half.
- $150 to Opportunity International, which will provide loans to at least 2 women to allow them to put their ideas into action to support their families. Each loan includes insurance, which protects people from crop failure and destitution due to funeral costs for AIDS, etc. And each loan recipient is put in a small group of other loan recipients, who support each other, are trained in sound business practices, and cover for each other's loan repayments when necessary. When the loans are repaid, the money is redistributed, so this money will keep giving and giving...
- $100 to World Vision's emergency relief project for refugees in Darfur, Sudan. This money is being quadrupled by the Can. govt right now, so it will really become $400 in aid money.
- $450 to the Global Christian Centre Ministry in Albania. This goes to Aferdita's brother-in-law, a pastor in Albania whose church runs many different ministries to the desparately poor. Go to lovealbania.com for more information. Our money could go to a widow Aferdita knows who uses stepping stones inside her house when it rains because her house floods so badly and she can't afford repairs. Or it could go to wherever the centre needs it most right now. Anyway, we know all this money will actually get to those who need it. The consensus was that hardly anyone in the Christian world knows about this need, so we wanted to rally around it.
Our time together on Thursday was powerful, listening to God together and sharing His stirrings in us. Thank you so much for being a part of our 'church', moving forward, arms linked...
Some people have told me that, as a part of their Dangerous Surrender follow-through, God is calling them to add of their own money to one or more of these projects. There is ABSOLUTELY NO OBLIGATION on this account. This was intended as a class project only. They just asked me to let people know how to do this if this is the case for them. Two options, I think. 1). Write a cheque to your preferred organization (listed above) and bring it in a marked envelope on Thursday to add to our class proposal. If you want to give to the Oak Hill project, those cheques would be made out to Centre Street Church, as it is a CSC ministry. 2).Talk to me for more information and proceed as led.
This is very exciting!!
Spending God's Money - Lent Project 2009 (1 of 10)
Compassionate Care group
Proposal for $1000.00
This semester, we have been learning all about what the Pregnancy Care Centre(PCC) does to bless the community of Calgary, through various courses & counseling that they run. After praying together, it was a unanimous decision that we wanted to bless the PCC in some fantastic way. We asked Wendy (the director of PCC) who gave us a few options….but one of the ladies from our group asked if there was a way that we could multiply your gift to bless the PCC even more; Wendy's eyes lit up…..
Every year the PCC has a Mother’s Day Baby Bottle campaign which, where they distribute baby bottles and they get returned full of change. This campaign raised $95,000 for the centre last year, of which $25,000 came from Centre Street Church (CSC). This year, there is some concern that they will not be as successful at CSC, since Wendy is not announcing the campaign on stage, as she has in previous years (there will only be a brief slide up on the screen). We recommend putting the $1000 donation towards a marketing campaign for the Mother's Day Baby Bottle Campaign, and our goal is to multiply your generous gift tenfold - for a total goal of raising $35,000. After praying and brainstorming, here is the plan we have come up with:
We are going to distribute as many bottles as possible during all 4 services on Mother's Day weekend (May 9th & 10th). We will be wearing matching pink aprons (with the “Formula for Hope” slogan printed on), and pushing strollers filled with baby bottles. We will also be decorating the strollers with pink and blue helium-filled balloons. We will also have a booth set up with volunteers & a baby crib & information on the pregnancy care centre. Lastly, we will keep the display up & have volunteers in between services in order to collect bottles back until Father’s Day weekend (June 20th & 21st).
Our goal is to recruit at least 10 volunteers per service, and 5 for decorating by signing up women from the compassion care class, women of heart & personal contacts.
Here is a breakdown of the budget:
Aprons (40 from Needaprons.com, which volunteers will get to keep): $450
Screenprinting on the Aprons (based on calgary screenprinting pricelist): $250
Balloons, Ribbons & Printing (from Pandamonia): $100
Helium Tank Rental (from Pandamonia): $135
Strollers and Crib will be provided by mothers in the group
Any unused funds will be donated directly to the PCC.
For the management of funds and this event we have set up a committee consisting of Carrie Foreman, Carrie Hofer, Carolyn Polyakh, and Andrea Grubbe. Please make cheque payable to Andrea Grubbe, who will be acting as treasurer.
From the CSC baby bottle fundraising committee (Note from editor: over $30,000 was collected through this endeavor).
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Integrity Slides
in·teg·ri·ty n
1. the quality of possessing and steadfastly adhering to high moral principles or professional standards
2. the state of being complete or undivided (formal)
3. the state of being sound or undamaged (formal)
Truthfulness
Honesty
Truth
Honor
Veracity
Reliability
Uprightness
in·te·ger n
1. any positive or negative whole number or zero
2. a whole unit or entity (technical)
in·te·gral adj
1. being an essential part of something or any of the parts that make up a whole
2. composed of parts that together make a whole
3. without missing parts or elements
4. relating to an integer
5. relating to mathematical integrals or integration
n
1. See definite integral
2. See indefinite integral
in·te·gral cal·cu·lus n
a branch of mathematics dealing with integrals and differential equations, used to determine areas, volumes, and lengths, and in many areas of applied mathematics
Encarta® World English Dictionary © 1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
in·te·grand n
a mathematical function or equation to be integrated
in·te·grant adj
part of a whole (formal)
n
an integral part of something (formal)
in·te·grate v
1. vti to become an accepted member of a group and its activities, or to help somebody do this
2. vti to join two or more objects or make something part of a larger whole, or to become joined or combined in this way
3. vt to make a group, community, place, or organization and its opportunities available to all, regardless of race, ethnic group, religion, gender, or social class
4. vt to find the definite or indefinite integral of a function or equation
Encarta® World English Dictionary © 1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
in·te·grat·ed adj
1. made up of elements or parts that work well together
2. bringing together processes or functions that are normally separate
3. open to everyone, without restrictions based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, or social class
in·te·grat·ed cir·cuit n
an extremely small complex of electronic components contained on a thin chip or wafer of semiconducting material such as silicon.
Also called microcircuit
in·te·gra·tion n
1. the process of opening a group, community, place, or organization to all, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, or social class
2. becoming an accepted member of a group or community
3. a combination of parts or objects that work together well
4. the mathematical process of finding the solution of a differential equation or a function whose differential equation is known
5. the process of coordinating separate personality elements into a balanced whole or producing behavior compatible with somebody’s environment
in·te·gra·tor n
1. a computer component that performs numerical integration to solve differential equations
2. somebody or something that brings about integration
Encarta® World English Dictionary © 1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
1. the quality of possessing and steadfastly adhering to high moral principles or professional standards
2. the state of being complete or undivided (formal)
3. the state of being sound or undamaged (formal)
Truthfulness
Honesty
Truth
Honor
Veracity
Reliability
Uprightness
in·te·ger n
1. any positive or negative whole number or zero
2. a whole unit or entity (technical)
in·te·gral adj
1. being an essential part of something or any of the parts that make up a whole
2. composed of parts that together make a whole
3. without missing parts or elements
4. relating to an integer
5. relating to mathematical integrals or integration
n
1. See definite integral
2. See indefinite integral
in·te·gral cal·cu·lus n
a branch of mathematics dealing with integrals and differential equations, used to determine areas, volumes, and lengths, and in many areas of applied mathematics
Encarta® World English Dictionary © 1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
in·te·grand n
a mathematical function or equation to be integrated
in·te·grant adj
part of a whole (formal)
n
an integral part of something (formal)
in·te·grate v
1. vti to become an accepted member of a group and its activities, or to help somebody do this
2. vti to join two or more objects or make something part of a larger whole, or to become joined or combined in this way
3. vt to make a group, community, place, or organization and its opportunities available to all, regardless of race, ethnic group, religion, gender, or social class
4. vt to find the definite or indefinite integral of a function or equation
Encarta® World English Dictionary © 1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
in·te·grat·ed adj
1. made up of elements or parts that work well together
2. bringing together processes or functions that are normally separate
3. open to everyone, without restrictions based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, or social class
in·te·grat·ed cir·cuit n
an extremely small complex of electronic components contained on a thin chip or wafer of semiconducting material such as silicon.
Also called microcircuit
in·te·gra·tion n
1. the process of opening a group, community, place, or organization to all, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, or social class
2. becoming an accepted member of a group or community
3. a combination of parts or objects that work together well
4. the mathematical process of finding the solution of a differential equation or a function whose differential equation is known
5. the process of coordinating separate personality elements into a balanced whole or producing behavior compatible with somebody’s environment
in·te·gra·tor n
1. a computer component that performs numerical integration to solve differential equations
2. somebody or something that brings about integration
Encarta® World English Dictionary © 1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Lent - thoughts from Beth's search
Lent: The Season of repentance and discipline, the 40 days before Resurrection Sunday
We don't know much about how the first-century Christians treated the forty days before Resurrection Sunday. The Bible itself mentions nothing about it. But by the second century, the church was starting to use that season as a time for training new believers about how to rightly think, live, and believe as Christians. (The churchly word for this training is 'the catechumenate'.) This was done, in part, by reliving the Scriptural accounts of Christ's final time before He was killed. It was done with the whole church community as they, too, relived it, and fasted together. The end of the training period was Holy Week, and Easter would be the day that the new believers would be baptized into the Church. As the Roman world became mostly Christian and more people had already been baptized as children, the season (known in Latin as Quadragesima) began to shift meaning in a way which would be of great value for new and long-time Christians alike. It would become a time for looking at the depth of one's own sin, and turning away from them. A time for learning what it means to follow Christ, and to listen to the Spirit. A time for actually going about changing one's ways to be more as Christ would have them be.
Lent is a time when many people turn their gaze toward Good Friday and ask themselves, 'How dare I force someone who loves me this much to go through something this awful?' Perhaps they see the Cross and ask, 'Lord, what can I do to stop doing this to You? How can I love you better?' Many times in the Gospels, Jesus called on people to repent, to turn away from doing evil. So the first impulse of love is to try to do things that Jesus would want of you.
But then, we get stuck and gummed up. We fail, as we always do. One of the things we learn in Lent is how inescapable our sin is, how far we are from being complete, how fell is the nature of our divide from God. When we struggle like mad to give some tiny aspect of our lives over to God, we discover how maddeningly out of reach a whole life of godliness is. We can't do anything to fix our relationship with God. We're too far gone. No matter how passionately we might want not to be the cause of Jesus' suffering, we end up driving another nail into Jesus, making Him carry an even bigger burden. (Now, picture us at our less passionate moments....). Even when I'm at my best, I'm still enough by myself to execute the God who loves me.
But then, that's why He did what He did, something only He could do. All we can do is collapse at Jesus' feet. And trust Him. We can't get there from here, but He can. He will take us, and the Holy Spirit will lead us along that road. Through the Spirit, we can love God better. The Bible tells us much of what we need to know, and other believers (also led by the Spirit) can also help. Christ gives us His body and His blood (Holy Communion), His presence among us and with us and in us. Knowing that, we can stand ready for Holy Week.
Lent is the season for the experience of giving your life over -- in each moment, bodily, deliberately, to Christ and to what the Spirit is showing you. God wants you to surrender yourself, and let the Spirit work in you. In Lent, we take responsibility for our acts and thoughts, and treat certain of those as the killers they are. Lent is self-discovery of the parts of ourselves we don't want to discover, through prayer, fasting, and other disciplines. It is the opening up, the turning over to God, the repenting of our sins, the turning away from that which does not please God. Yet there is just a glimpse of Easter through the heavy clouds of Good Friday -- that Christ has taken the burden, and you don't have to carry it anymore. Don't you want to follow that kind of a God?
How Do We Live Lent?
Most of what is done and learned in Lent is true for the rest of the year, too, but with a different feel. Most people couldn't even dream of keeping their intense focus all year on what Jesus did and what we're to do with that. Forty days is long enough not to be short-term, but too short to be thought of as a substitute for year-round Christian living. A short burst, such as the forty days of Lent, can go a long way. But only for those who make some hard decisions.
Giving Something Up For Lent
In Lent, it's traditional to give up (or 'fast from') something(s) that we do a lot of and that we find pleasure in. This giving up or fasting is done:
as a discipline for learning self-control, to free our minds from the chase after material things, to tell ourselves 'no' and make it stick;
to identify with Christ's sufferings, and remember what the true pleasures are for followers of Christ;
as an act of sorrow over our wrongdoings and our state of sin.
It may at times be about forensic guilt (as in TV's CSI or Law and Order, the 'I did it' kind of guilt), but it's not about the psychological kind of guilt (where God is pictured like a nagging mother, saying just the right word to make you feel sorry for yourself). In fact, it prepares you for Easter, in which a risen Christ leaves you no cause (or even room) for psychological guilt.
Sometimes we don't notice how certain things we do have gained power over us and dictate our actions. In Lent fasts, we discover these things and give them up so that God can be in charge. Franciscans use the term 'detachment': the less that 'stuff' preoccupies your life, the more room there is for God, as well as for yourself and for other people.
Christian parents sometimes use the season to teach their children more about taking responsibility in God's presence for their actions.
Food Fasts The most common thing is to fast from food for Lent. To Catholics, this means giving up meats on Fridays for the season, or to fast entirely for one day a week. For me, fasting is tough, because I enjoy eating. For diabetics, it can be dangerous if not designed with blood sugar levels in mind. You might try giving up pizza or fast food or alcohol or snacks (betcha you can't do it...). Food fasts are not just the most traditional way of living Lent, they're also the simplest to do, since we all eat routinely every day.
Non-Food Fasts If giving up food isn't much of a task for you, choose something else that you have to make a serious effort to give up. For many people, that may mean 40 days without:
television
gambling
impulse shopping
catalog shopping
leaving flaming comments on blogs and forums
dance clubbing
living off your credit card
--- anything which most relates to behaviors that are especially sticky for you, as well as the activities that provide you the opportunity to do them. Whatever that is, it is where your Lenten discipline must be centered. For instance, this year my detachment discipline will be about trying to cram too much into a day. I will aim not to feel like I have to do everything right now. I will give space for silence, rest, people, and surprises, and I will more often treat the unexpected as a friend instead of an intruder.
Many people use Lent for taking the complexity out of parts of their lives. They take a Lenten fast from lifestyle clutter. They pare down their schedules, and concentrate on activities that matter most. If you work overtime, what are you working overtime for? For a real human need, or in order to buy more stuff? Others look for one area of their life in which they use power or authority over others, and then try to find ways to use less power to do it. A fast is a reflection of your awareness of sin, and your sorrow over it. It's best to choose one thing at a time. Then as that takes hold, give up another different thing, as the Spirit leads you. Or, maybe, give of your time and money to charitable activities that help those who suffer. (Need funds for that? Use the money you would have spent on the food or activities you're giving up.) Hopefully, much of the change will keep going after Lent is done.
Jesus is not looking for self-torture, self-hatred, woe-is-me thinking, 40-day starvation and oceans of tears. (Many great saints and plain fools have thought that's what He wanted.) Lent is for soberly looking into yourself and getting down to what's real. Self-hatred is not being real. How could it be right to despise someone whom God loves and treasures? The Sundays aren't counted in the 40 days of Lent, because every Sunday carries with it a part of the glow of Easter Sunday. So it's not all gloom and doom. But even on the Sundays, the theme of repentance (turning from our ungodly ways) holds true. When you repent, you please God whether you fast or not, and that is what most counts for Lent.
Lent's strictness and sternness doesn't mean you can't cozy up to the one you love, or discover new love. It doesn't mean you can't dance a St. Patrick's Day jig, or enjoy a good college basketball game, or get a belly laugh from a funny moment, or have a flash of ecstasy during worship or prayer. Rather, in Lent you put a stop to the fevered pursuit of pleasure, especially pleasure from the entertainment field's realm of fantasy, and instead let joy seek you in the real world. Then, when the moments of joy come, they're recognized as a gift from a loving God. Just as life itself is. float to top
Adding Something For Lent
Lent is not all about giving things up. It's also about adding good things to our lives or to others' lives -- the kind of good things that follow on what Jesus asks of us, especially that which relates to what we're giving up. Try these:
Reconcile yourself to someone you don't like, or even hate or did something bad to, or just intentionally stayed away from.
Do acts of kindness for people, just because the opportunity's there; give them little tastes of God's love.
If you haven't taken the time lately to be in a refreshing, natural spot, do so. I live on Long Island, which has wonderful beaches and bayside spots to enjoy some peace and rest. You have places where you live, too. Even if it's a brief stay, even a half-hour or so, try it.
Take some time to study about what causes poverty. Follow the threads as far as you can. Not only does it better help you serve Christ, but you also add into yourself a useful education in economics, sociology, and biology.
Study, meditate, and pray over one or two Scripture passages for each day, through a daily lectionary (assigned Bible readings for each day), the Daily Office (Scripture-based devotions for set times of day), or devotional booklets or email lists.
Think upon something ordinary that you do every day, and think about God while doing it, in a way that ties into what you're doing. Or think of a place you come to regularly, and each time think where Christ might be in this place, what Christ might do there, or what you might be led to do for Christ.
Check out your ethnic heritage. How do Christians in it mark the season? There are, for example, Irish carghas and Italian quaresima traditions that may be helpful to you.
Attend special worship services. Perhaps it's a liturgical church's daily morning or evening prayer service (Matins and Vespers). Perhaps it's a Wednesday Lenten service. Or maybe it's time you started going to a Sunday morning services every Sunday, at least for the season.
Try to find a new way every day to bring to mind Jesus' death on the cross, and why it happened.
www.spirithome.com
We don't know much about how the first-century Christians treated the forty days before Resurrection Sunday. The Bible itself mentions nothing about it. But by the second century, the church was starting to use that season as a time for training new believers about how to rightly think, live, and believe as Christians. (The churchly word for this training is 'the catechumenate'.) This was done, in part, by reliving the Scriptural accounts of Christ's final time before He was killed. It was done with the whole church community as they, too, relived it, and fasted together. The end of the training period was Holy Week, and Easter would be the day that the new believers would be baptized into the Church. As the Roman world became mostly Christian and more people had already been baptized as children, the season (known in Latin as Quadragesima) began to shift meaning in a way which would be of great value for new and long-time Christians alike. It would become a time for looking at the depth of one's own sin, and turning away from them. A time for learning what it means to follow Christ, and to listen to the Spirit. A time for actually going about changing one's ways to be more as Christ would have them be.
Lent is a time when many people turn their gaze toward Good Friday and ask themselves, 'How dare I force someone who loves me this much to go through something this awful?' Perhaps they see the Cross and ask, 'Lord, what can I do to stop doing this to You? How can I love you better?' Many times in the Gospels, Jesus called on people to repent, to turn away from doing evil. So the first impulse of love is to try to do things that Jesus would want of you.
But then, we get stuck and gummed up. We fail, as we always do. One of the things we learn in Lent is how inescapable our sin is, how far we are from being complete, how fell is the nature of our divide from God. When we struggle like mad to give some tiny aspect of our lives over to God, we discover how maddeningly out of reach a whole life of godliness is. We can't do anything to fix our relationship with God. We're too far gone. No matter how passionately we might want not to be the cause of Jesus' suffering, we end up driving another nail into Jesus, making Him carry an even bigger burden. (Now, picture us at our less passionate moments....). Even when I'm at my best, I'm still enough by myself to execute the God who loves me.
But then, that's why He did what He did, something only He could do. All we can do is collapse at Jesus' feet. And trust Him. We can't get there from here, but He can. He will take us, and the Holy Spirit will lead us along that road. Through the Spirit, we can love God better. The Bible tells us much of what we need to know, and other believers (also led by the Spirit) can also help. Christ gives us His body and His blood (Holy Communion), His presence among us and with us and in us. Knowing that, we can stand ready for Holy Week.
Lent is the season for the experience of giving your life over -- in each moment, bodily, deliberately, to Christ and to what the Spirit is showing you. God wants you to surrender yourself, and let the Spirit work in you. In Lent, we take responsibility for our acts and thoughts, and treat certain of those as the killers they are. Lent is self-discovery of the parts of ourselves we don't want to discover, through prayer, fasting, and other disciplines. It is the opening up, the turning over to God, the repenting of our sins, the turning away from that which does not please God. Yet there is just a glimpse of Easter through the heavy clouds of Good Friday -- that Christ has taken the burden, and you don't have to carry it anymore. Don't you want to follow that kind of a God?
How Do We Live Lent?
Most of what is done and learned in Lent is true for the rest of the year, too, but with a different feel. Most people couldn't even dream of keeping their intense focus all year on what Jesus did and what we're to do with that. Forty days is long enough not to be short-term, but too short to be thought of as a substitute for year-round Christian living. A short burst, such as the forty days of Lent, can go a long way. But only for those who make some hard decisions.
Giving Something Up For Lent
In Lent, it's traditional to give up (or 'fast from') something(s) that we do a lot of and that we find pleasure in. This giving up or fasting is done:
as a discipline for learning self-control, to free our minds from the chase after material things, to tell ourselves 'no' and make it stick;
to identify with Christ's sufferings, and remember what the true pleasures are for followers of Christ;
as an act of sorrow over our wrongdoings and our state of sin.
It may at times be about forensic guilt (as in TV's CSI or Law and Order, the 'I did it' kind of guilt), but it's not about the psychological kind of guilt (where God is pictured like a nagging mother, saying just the right word to make you feel sorry for yourself). In fact, it prepares you for Easter, in which a risen Christ leaves you no cause (or even room) for psychological guilt.
Sometimes we don't notice how certain things we do have gained power over us and dictate our actions. In Lent fasts, we discover these things and give them up so that God can be in charge. Franciscans use the term 'detachment': the less that 'stuff' preoccupies your life, the more room there is for God, as well as for yourself and for other people.
Christian parents sometimes use the season to teach their children more about taking responsibility in God's presence for their actions.
Food Fasts The most common thing is to fast from food for Lent. To Catholics, this means giving up meats on Fridays for the season, or to fast entirely for one day a week. For me, fasting is tough, because I enjoy eating. For diabetics, it can be dangerous if not designed with blood sugar levels in mind. You might try giving up pizza or fast food or alcohol or snacks (betcha you can't do it...). Food fasts are not just the most traditional way of living Lent, they're also the simplest to do, since we all eat routinely every day.
Non-Food Fasts If giving up food isn't much of a task for you, choose something else that you have to make a serious effort to give up. For many people, that may mean 40 days without:
television
gambling
impulse shopping
catalog shopping
leaving flaming comments on blogs and forums
dance clubbing
living off your credit card
--- anything which most relates to behaviors that are especially sticky for you, as well as the activities that provide you the opportunity to do them. Whatever that is, it is where your Lenten discipline must be centered. For instance, this year my detachment discipline will be about trying to cram too much into a day. I will aim not to feel like I have to do everything right now. I will give space for silence, rest, people, and surprises, and I will more often treat the unexpected as a friend instead of an intruder.
Many people use Lent for taking the complexity out of parts of their lives. They take a Lenten fast from lifestyle clutter. They pare down their schedules, and concentrate on activities that matter most. If you work overtime, what are you working overtime for? For a real human need, or in order to buy more stuff? Others look for one area of their life in which they use power or authority over others, and then try to find ways to use less power to do it. A fast is a reflection of your awareness of sin, and your sorrow over it. It's best to choose one thing at a time. Then as that takes hold, give up another different thing, as the Spirit leads you. Or, maybe, give of your time and money to charitable activities that help those who suffer. (Need funds for that? Use the money you would have spent on the food or activities you're giving up.) Hopefully, much of the change will keep going after Lent is done.
Jesus is not looking for self-torture, self-hatred, woe-is-me thinking, 40-day starvation and oceans of tears. (Many great saints and plain fools have thought that's what He wanted.) Lent is for soberly looking into yourself and getting down to what's real. Self-hatred is not being real. How could it be right to despise someone whom God loves and treasures? The Sundays aren't counted in the 40 days of Lent, because every Sunday carries with it a part of the glow of Easter Sunday. So it's not all gloom and doom. But even on the Sundays, the theme of repentance (turning from our ungodly ways) holds true. When you repent, you please God whether you fast or not, and that is what most counts for Lent.
Lent's strictness and sternness doesn't mean you can't cozy up to the one you love, or discover new love. It doesn't mean you can't dance a St. Patrick's Day jig, or enjoy a good college basketball game, or get a belly laugh from a funny moment, or have a flash of ecstasy during worship or prayer. Rather, in Lent you put a stop to the fevered pursuit of pleasure, especially pleasure from the entertainment field's realm of fantasy, and instead let joy seek you in the real world. Then, when the moments of joy come, they're recognized as a gift from a loving God. Just as life itself is. float to top
Adding Something For Lent
Lent is not all about giving things up. It's also about adding good things to our lives or to others' lives -- the kind of good things that follow on what Jesus asks of us, especially that which relates to what we're giving up. Try these:
Reconcile yourself to someone you don't like, or even hate or did something bad to, or just intentionally stayed away from.
Do acts of kindness for people, just because the opportunity's there; give them little tastes of God's love.
If you haven't taken the time lately to be in a refreshing, natural spot, do so. I live on Long Island, which has wonderful beaches and bayside spots to enjoy some peace and rest. You have places where you live, too. Even if it's a brief stay, even a half-hour or so, try it.
Take some time to study about what causes poverty. Follow the threads as far as you can. Not only does it better help you serve Christ, but you also add into yourself a useful education in economics, sociology, and biology.
Study, meditate, and pray over one or two Scripture passages for each day, through a daily lectionary (assigned Bible readings for each day), the Daily Office (Scripture-based devotions for set times of day), or devotional booklets or email lists.
Think upon something ordinary that you do every day, and think about God while doing it, in a way that ties into what you're doing. Or think of a place you come to regularly, and each time think where Christ might be in this place, what Christ might do there, or what you might be led to do for Christ.
Check out your ethnic heritage. How do Christians in it mark the season? There are, for example, Irish carghas and Italian quaresima traditions that may be helpful to you.
Attend special worship services. Perhaps it's a liturgical church's daily morning or evening prayer service (Matins and Vespers). Perhaps it's a Wednesday Lenten service. Or maybe it's time you started going to a Sunday morning services every Sunday, at least for the season.
Try to find a new way every day to bring to mind Jesus' death on the cross, and why it happened.
www.spirithome.com
Stewardship - by Beth
In case you were not in chapel this past Thursday, a brief synopsis of the devotion and its direct impact on you:
It seems to me that there are two very key parts to the Lent season: our ability to surrender and our need to receive. As we enter the Lent season, we focus deliberately on Jesus, his sacrifice and the gift of his resurrection. For the next 40 days, I would like to challenge our community to be intentional in living out our faith... Do we live what we say we believe? Can we make sacrifices? Can we look beyond ourselves? (see the attachment for great thoughts on Lent)
I was blessed to grow up in a home where my parents were diligent to model, teach and expect stewardship as a Christian value. My parents were very intentional in helping us explore need versus want, sharing, money education, the value of people versus the value of things etc. I see that there is a direction connection between our ability to be generous and our faith journey.
Reid and I were blessed to receive a gift from our parents (my parents, his in-laws) this year and we want to share that gift with others. We are giving each class $1000 to use to bless others. We ask only that as a class you pray for awhile over how that money is to be spent and then that you put in writing how this decision reflects one or more of our Women of Heart values. We believe strongly in Matthew 10:8 "...Freely you have received, freely give."
Our Women of Heart values are: Faith, Family, Growth, Stewardship, Fun, Rest and Integrity. (Not coincidentally, these are also our family's core values except that for our list the wording is a little different: Christ-centeredness, Community/Family, Growth, Stewardship, Balance, Creativity, Integrity!)
Please encourage your class to dream. Remember, Ephesians 3:20-21 is a key verse in this community: "Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen."
In my life giving / receiving and acceptance of Christ have definitely been connected. Hence the deliberate tie-in to Lent: at Lent we recognize both the sacrifice of God sending us His son, Jesus' being fully God yet fully human and his 40 days in the desert, and the celebration of His resurrection, the ultimate gift. (Note: the 40 days don't include Sundays as we are meant to continue to celebrate His resurrection! Don't you love that?!). Matthew 6: 24 helps me to persevere and journey into that discomfort "No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money." There may be some in your group who will also find it a challenge to receive or to give for the same reason as I did (do) or for other reasons. I am available for helping anyone process her struggles as I have spent much of my life struggling through these issues and continue to- I'm sure it is lifelong for all of us. And what is so wonderful about our Women of Heart community is that I know from first hand experience that you are available to help me as I continue in my Joy in the Journey!
It seems to me that there are two very key parts to the Lent season: our ability to surrender and our need to receive. As we enter the Lent season, we focus deliberately on Jesus, his sacrifice and the gift of his resurrection. For the next 40 days, I would like to challenge our community to be intentional in living out our faith... Do we live what we say we believe? Can we make sacrifices? Can we look beyond ourselves? (see the attachment for great thoughts on Lent)
I was blessed to grow up in a home where my parents were diligent to model, teach and expect stewardship as a Christian value. My parents were very intentional in helping us explore need versus want, sharing, money education, the value of people versus the value of things etc. I see that there is a direction connection between our ability to be generous and our faith journey.
Reid and I were blessed to receive a gift from our parents (my parents, his in-laws) this year and we want to share that gift with others. We are giving each class $1000 to use to bless others. We ask only that as a class you pray for awhile over how that money is to be spent and then that you put in writing how this decision reflects one or more of our Women of Heart values. We believe strongly in Matthew 10:8 "...Freely you have received, freely give."
Our Women of Heart values are: Faith, Family, Growth, Stewardship, Fun, Rest and Integrity. (Not coincidentally, these are also our family's core values except that for our list the wording is a little different: Christ-centeredness, Community/Family, Growth, Stewardship, Balance, Creativity, Integrity!)
Please encourage your class to dream. Remember, Ephesians 3:20-21 is a key verse in this community: "Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen."
In my life giving / receiving and acceptance of Christ have definitely been connected. Hence the deliberate tie-in to Lent: at Lent we recognize both the sacrifice of God sending us His son, Jesus' being fully God yet fully human and his 40 days in the desert, and the celebration of His resurrection, the ultimate gift. (Note: the 40 days don't include Sundays as we are meant to continue to celebrate His resurrection! Don't you love that?!). Matthew 6: 24 helps me to persevere and journey into that discomfort "No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money." There may be some in your group who will also find it a challenge to receive or to give for the same reason as I did (do) or for other reasons. I am available for helping anyone process her struggles as I have spent much of my life struggling through these issues and continue to- I'm sure it is lifelong for all of us. And what is so wonderful about our Women of Heart community is that I know from first hand experience that you are available to help me as I continue in my Joy in the Journey!
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
2009 Leadership Team
W.O.H. Leadership Team
Beth McLean Wiest- Coach, (403)202-0919, beth4WOH@shaw.ca
Cheryl Yingst Bartel, Teacher Team, (403)289-3125, cyblegal@telus.net
Dina Kidd- Childcare team Development, (403)289-8737, dina.kidd@nucleus.com
Jayme Gray – Childcare Operations Coach, jaymegray@shaw.ca
Chris Reid- Administration team, (403)275-7085, mamareid@telus.net
Sarah Grunau, Prayer Chain team, (403)731-1275, grunaufamily@telus.net
Tannis Melvill-Oberten- Hospitality team, (403)276-6710, tannis_jaydt@hotmail.com
Donna Black, Freezer Ministry Team, (403)287-7724, dblack10@telus.net
Verna Ratzlaff, Communications Team (403)201-7873, bvratzlaff@telus.net,
Carolyn Fritzler- Women Mentoring Women, (403)-9881, ncfritz@xplornet.com
Michelle Johnson- TBD, (403)698-6828, waymic@shaw.ca
Beth McLean Wiest- Coach, (403)202-0919, beth4WOH@shaw.ca
Cheryl Yingst Bartel, Teacher Team, (403)289-3125, cyblegal@telus.net
Dina Kidd- Childcare team Development, (403)289-8737, dina.kidd@nucleus.com
Jayme Gray – Childcare Operations Coach, jaymegray@shaw.ca
Chris Reid- Administration team, (403)275-7085, mamareid@telus.net
Sarah Grunau, Prayer Chain team, (403)731-1275, grunaufamily@telus.net
Tannis Melvill-Oberten- Hospitality team, (403)276-6710, tannis_jaydt@hotmail.com
Donna Black, Freezer Ministry Team, (403)287-7724, dblack10@telus.net
Verna Ratzlaff, Communications Team (403)201-7873, bvratzlaff@telus.net,
Carolyn Fritzler- Women Mentoring Women, (403)-9881, ncfritz@xplornet.com
Michelle Johnson- TBD, (403)698-6828, waymic@shaw.ca
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