Great Commission Women Northeastern District

NED GCW OFFICERS
DIRECTOR
Daisy B. Wallace
451 Hornbrook Rd.
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-279-7118
[email protected]
ASST. DIRECTOR
Terri Groh
PO Box 224
New Haven, NY 13121
315-963-2044
TREASURER
Barbara Moleski
4487 Wilderness Way
Syracuse, NY 13215
315-488-7691
SECRETARY
Penny McNamara
1366 State Route 38
Owego, NY 13827
607-223-4153
[email protected]
2013-14 National
Project Wrap Up!
GOD IS GOOD through
His faithful people!
INSIDE THIS
ISSUE:
2014-15 Intro
Prayer
Welcome Barb
Linn!
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Fall Refocus Flyer
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Fall Refocus details
& bios
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Web sites
Welcome Buffalo/
Niagara Regional
Coach
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2014-15 GCW Calendar
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Fund Explanations
Goal Challenge
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Summer Renew &
August Training
Retreat Picture
Overview
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Great Commission Women
Northeastern District
SUMMER 2014
A GREAT Year with Let’s Have Coffee!
The Great Commission
Women (GCW) Executive
Leadership Team set a goal
last year of $18,000 for our
2013-2014 National Project,
Global Grounds/Russia. It
was a big step of faith for
some of us since the most
we have given is $15,300, but
we took that leap of faith. It’s
exciting that we not only met
our goal, but have surpassed
it by a several hundred. The
National goal has not been
met yet so there is still time
to give more as long as it is in
our NED GCW Treasurer’s
hands by mid-week (Aug. 26).
We thank SO many women’s
groups, individuals and
churches for promoting the
coffee project and raising
funds in a big way this past
year. Blessings to all of you.
Our GCW and International
Workers (IWs) appreciate
your sacrificial giving and generosity.
$18,964.84
We are taking a bigger step of
faith for our 2014-15 National
Project that starts on September
1. The new project is “Tell Me a
Story” and it is promoted on the
inside of this newsletter. We had
an e-meeting just last week and
voted to raise our goal to
$20,000 for the coming year of
raising money for this project.
Let’s get it done during the period September 2014 through mid
-August 2015! We can do it and
all for the glory of God to help
our IWs and their story telling
training and teaching others
about Jesus. (see page 2).
Designed by Terri Groh
Will you be the one—kids for adoption?
This past year has been an
exciting and unusual one for
our District with several new
International Workers which
means more Third Culture
Kids (TCKs) needing churches to adopt them. The NED
GCW also finds churches to
adopt our Church Planter Kids
(CPKs) and we had a new
baby CPK for adoption as
well. We also had a new TCK
baby to be adopted too. The
total needing churches to
adopt them this past year is
15 — 1 CPK and 14 TCKs,
including 4 “associate” TCKs.
The wonderful news is that we
have 12 of the 15 adopted by
our churches, BUT the not-sogood news is that we need
churches willing to adopt these
3 remaining Associate TCKs.
They are a boy, age 17; girl,
age 14; boy, age 12. Perhaps
you already have a CPK or
TCK and could adopt a second
one. OR maybe your church
has been thinking about adopting a TCK and loving and encouraging them throughout the
year. Now is the time. Contact
our TCK Chair Karen Spurling
ASAP at:
[email protected]
OR
315-297-4182
Karen will have guidelines for
you. We keep our TCKs until
they graduate from college or
get married (whichever comes
first).
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2014-15 GCW Theme and Emphasis
Pray that when I open my
mouth the right words will be
given to me that I can be bold
as I tell the mystery of the
good news.
YOUR
beautifully
messy
complicated
story
MATTERS
national web site—
www.greatcomissionwomen.
org.
There are 4 billion oral
learners in the world, makEphesians 6:19 (NIRV)
ing up more than 60% of the
Theme: Tell Me a Story
world’s population, and
Colors: Cinnamon brown,
many of our International
sage green, paprika red,
Workers are working in this
mustard yellow — all shades “oral world”.
of these great colors!
Project: To reach oral
Spiritual Emphasis: Making learners worldwide with the
Known the mystery of Christ. gospel through:
Bible Study: “Jesus...Name >Storytelling development:
Above All Names” A series of training/coaching workers in
12 lessons on the names of
oral strategy
Jesus. Can be easily used as >Story production: storya personal Bible study, group crafting internships/
study or in mentoring one-on- workshops
one! This study is in the En>Storytelling technology:
gage magazine or on our
audio/video equipment,
apps/broadcasting
>Storytelling leadership in
Africa: fund lead couple for
up to two years.
Goal: $333,000
This is an amazing opportunity for each of us to help
make a huge difference in
the world and in the Kingdom. Join with us to make it
possible for oral learners
worldwide to hear the
“Greatest Story Ever Told”
Thank YOU for participating
in the 2014-15 GCW National Project, Tell Me a Story.
Our desire is to assist the
Alliance global team in
reaching more than 4 billion
oral learners worldwide.
— tell it!
GCW Core Value—Effective Fervent Prayer. Alliance Core
Value—Prayer is the Primary Work of God’s People!
Our International Workers
depend on us living stateside to uphold them in prayer. We need to be praying
people as we pray over
their marriages, family, ministry, team health, daily
strength and good health
and safety, and that God
will use them to further the
Kingdom.
The GCW loves to send out
prayer and newsletters
from our NED IWs to anyone
who wants to be on the email
mailing list. If you are not receiving these important requests and update on their
lives and ministries, contact
our Prayer Chair Cindy Prahst
at [email protected]. She
will gladly add you to her mailing list. We realize some of
you get individual IW’s letters
and Cindy sends all she receives out so you might get
them twice. Better twice and
just delete one than not at all.
Uplift them as God brings
them to mind. If you wake up
in the night, pray. If you have
some down time, pray. Pray
for our IWs who might be going through difficult and trying
times just as we are praying
here at home. Let us be
known as praying people of
God. Thank you!
WELCOME!
The GCW of the
Northeastern District welcomes our
District Superintendent’s wife Barb Linn!
We look forward to
having you on our
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Team as Ex Officio
and joining us. It’s
great to have you
back in the Northeastern District. We
pray God’s blessings
on you and Dave as
you lead and we work
together for God’s
glory. We have been
and will continue to
pray for you both and
for the adjustments
and details in your
move to the NED.
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>Check out our web site where you will find all the details you need for GCW
www.nedcma.org
Click on “ministries” and then “Great Commission Women” - On this page you
will find a Refocus registration form, in case you have not received one, annual
report forms for the NED, leadership team contact info, calendar of events, and
more.
>Also check us out on Facebook—www.facebook.com and search for Great
Commission Women of the Northeastern District.
Welcome to the NED GCW Leadership Team!
We are pleased to introduce to you our
new Buffalo/Niagara Regional Coach
from Lockport Alliance — Judy Button.
Judy is a graduate of Nyack College
and was a former MK (now TCK). She is
not new to missions. Her parents , Ed
and Ruth Thompson, were martyred in
Vietnam during the Tet Offensive.
We ask you to pray for Judy as she learns the ropes of
being a regional coach and for us as we mentor her in
this position.
2014-15 DATES TO REMEMBER AND PUT ON YOUR PERSONAL AND CHURCH CALENDARS
September 26-27: Fall Refocus on Missions, Delta Lake Bible Conference Center (details on
NED website and page 3&4 of this newsletter)
April 24-25: Spring Refresh Women’s Conference, Auburn Holiday Inn—details coming soon
July 5, 3:00 p.m.: Summer Renew Celebration, Delta Lake Bible Conference Center
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GCW NED—2014-2015 Calendar (a guide to help with budgeting, but monies can be sent at other times)
SEPTEMBER
2014
2014-2015 Materials should be
Fall Refocus - Delta Lake - IW
International Worker (IW) Outout to all your regional churches Speakers, breakouts, teen activity fit–Suggest $3 per GCW woman
by now
OR take a love offering)
Sept. 26-27
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OCTOBER
IW Outfit
2014
NOVEMBER
National Expense Contribution $10
DECEMBER
Christmas offering for Ouagadougou Guest Home, Burkina
Faso (or up through May)
JANUARY
IW Outfit
2015
National Expense Contribution
- $10
FEBRUARY
2015
IW Outfit
2015
APRIL
2015
MAY
2015
District Expense $25
JUNE
2015
JULY
2015
AUGUST
2015
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Send cards and gifts to your
adopted CPK
National Project-2nd call
Help with The Development of
Storytellers and
Leadership for Storytelling in
Africa
IW Outfit
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Send your adopted CPK a
Valentine’s Day card
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Spring Refresh Women’s Conf.,
April 24-25
Anita Morrison
Keynote Speaker
Holiday Inn, Auburn
National GCW Leadership
Team meetings – Prior to
C&MA General Council
2015-16 National Project to be announced in Engage Magazine coming in the mail soon!
3rd National Project Call help
with The Production of Stories
and Technologies for Telling the
Story
Local Church’s Annual Reports
due by July 15.
Make plans to distribute nation- Regional Coach’s Annual Real project theme 2015-2016 materials to churches in your re- ports due to District Director by
July 25th
gion
FINAL 2014-15 National Project call – send by August 20th
 Send your adopted TCK a
Valentine’s Day card
Spring Refresh registration
deadline
coming up
Get $$ in for National project
JESUS Name Above All Names
“Tell Me a Story”- District Direc- 12-lesson Bible Study – 12 names
tor will report amount given so far of Jesus, the Master Storyteller
By Amy Nehlsen
at National Team meetings. Give
until mid-August.
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Make Spring Refresh Auburn
National Expense Contribution Holiday Inn reservations now
Spring Refresh early bird regis$30
tration deadline coming up in
March
MARCH
Send Christmas packages or
cards to TCKs
Send Christmas cards to District
International Workers
IW Outfit
2014
2014
2014-15 National Project 1st call–
Tell Me a Story-- goal of
$333,000 to reach oral learners
worldwide
Coaches: materials should be
distributed for 2015-2016 National project theme by now
July 5 Summer Renew
with International Worker speakers at Delta Lake - 3:00pm
Pray & plan for
2015– 2016!
SUMMER
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EXPLANATION OF EXPENSES
PLEASE NOTE: ALL MONIES FOR THE FOLLOWING SHOULD BE SENT DIRECTLY TO OUR DISTRICT GCW
TREASURER, PLEASE DO NOT SEND TO C&MA NATIONAL OFFICE IN COLORADO SPRINGS FOR EXPENSES LISTED BELOW (the NE District nor your church get credit if you send directly to the National Office)
International Worker (IW) Outfit Gift – The outfit fund is paid to all our IWs to provide them monies covering
their personal outfit needs, including clothing and other personal items. Breakdown is: $187.50/year/adult and/
or child age 12 and above; $125/child (age 11 and under)/year. We can meet this responsibility for our NE District IWs if each church gives towards this by a guideline of $3/woman in women’s ministries, a special love offering, or fundraiser.
District Expense Fund (DEF) - $25/church/year due in May or any time throughout the year. This covers the
cost of the expenses for our entire leadership team attending the annual leadership training retreat at Delta.
This also covers expenses incurred by coaches up to $25 for materials and district operational supplies and expenses. In addition, expenses for materials, copying, and other administrative costs are covered under this fund.
National Expense Fund (NEF) - $50/church/year due throughout the year that can be divided up to make it
easier to budget. This expense covers the cost of all the national project materials, i.e., DVD, project cards; the
Engage magazine and supplements received throughout the year and mailing cost, web site cost, National Director expenses for travel, etc.
Ouagadougou Guest Home (OGH) – Overseas responsibility given to the Northeastern District GCW by national.
Each district gets an overseas responsibility. It is suggested a Christmas offering be taken up for this, but it
can be at other times from fall through June. We help with supplies for the home; i.e., linens, appliances, repairs,
etc. This year we are giving towards more much-needed appliances — a washer and stove.
National Project (NP): There are several times throughout the year to send in monies received towards the
2014-15 national project or you can send to the District GCW Treasurer at any time. These monies go the Great
Commission Women (GCW) National Project: Tell Me a Story. Our desire is to assist the Alliance global team in
reaching more than four billion oral learners worldwide through the four projects listed on the GCW project
cards -- The Development of Storytellers, The Production of Stories, Technologies for Telling the Story, Lead-
CHALLENGE TO ALL LOCAL CHURCHES
As you will note, the NED GCW has set a goal to meet for the 2014-15 Tell Me a Story National Project. We would like to challenge you to set a local goal. We know some
of you do set goals and have been for a while, but set one that is up and above what
you’ve set in the past. Take faith-filled risks and trust for an astounding amount that
can only be given for God’s honor and glory and not because of us.
Looking forward to hearing from many of you about goals set and fund-raising ideas —
send pictures of some of your meetings and/or ideas so we can feature them in our
newsletters. It’s always good to share ideas. Praying for a great year in women’s ministries.
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2014 Summer Renew Celebration, Delta Lake Bible Conference Center
Family Camp, Sunday, July 6
 Asst. Director
Terri Groh welcome and
opening prayer
Leading Worship—Penny McNamara and Karen
Spurling—NED GCW Leadership Team
 Director Daisy
Wallace announcements and intros
D.S. Wife Elaine Miller presenting Renew
Offering — paying expenses for Rachel and
Amanda Eggleton to attend Winter Camp for
TCKs during their winter break from Roberts
Wesleyan.
Dr. Reneé Valach
Bongolo Hospital
Lebamba, Gabon,
W. Africa
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Karen sharing about
their family and conclusion of their work in
Asia. 
Prayer Chair Cindy Prahst praying over CAC IWs and
Karen, Renee Valach, Heather Wallace, and TCKs
Rachel & Amanda Eggleton. 
2015 Summer Renew Celebration, July 5, 3:00 p.m. —
Mark Your Calendars and see you there!
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2014 NED GCW Leadership Training Retreat — August 1-2—Delta Lake Center
Friday evening dinner, worship, greetings and challenge from District Superintendent
Dave Linn, PowerPoint overview of National GCW meetings, Telling My Story devotional by Asst. Director Terri Groh, snacks, “pass the cup” icebreaker. Saturday
breakfast & lunch, morning sessions with Director Daisy Wallace explaining 2014-15
theme, spiritual emphasis, Tell Me a Story National Project and challenging our leaders. Fun skits written by Terri Groh, Q&A panel with Director, Treasurer Barb Moleski, Outfit Chair Judy Ramsay, Project Chair Lorraine Regnier, TCK Chair Karen
Spurling and moderated by Terri Groh. Annual Reporting and new forms with Barb
Moleski. Concluded with communion led by Rev. Dave Linn, D.S.
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