LAITY CONVOCATION

Show Me The Way: Focus on Ministry with the Poor and Improving Global Health

When: January 16, 2010

Where: Sycamore UMC, 160 Johnson Ave., Sycamore, IL

Time: Registration 8:00 a.m. Program: 8:45 a.m. - 2:45 p.m.

Keynote Speaker: Bishop Felton E. May

Cost: $12.00 (including breakfast & lunch) if pre-registered, or $15.00 at door

The council of Bishops of the UMC has led the church in concentrating upon four area of focus for the church's mission. Two of them will be addressed at this event:

1) Engaging in ministry with the poor

2) Stamping out killer diseases of poverty by improving global health

You will learn how to:

• Start new health and poverty ministries to reach out to your community
• Develop the internal framework needed to support health and poverty ministries
• Engage and mobilize community leaders to promote and support your ministry
• Identify resources in your community to support your health and poverty ministry

By Merrie Bunt, NIC Apportionments Administrator 

With just one week remaining before we must close the books on 2009, an additional 31 churches have paid 100% of their Apportionments.  That brings the total to 188 (or 50%) of all churches in the Northern Illinois Conference.  The final date the conference will be accepting money for 2009 is January 20th, 2010. 

[1/12/10 list] 

Aurora District
LOCKPORT: CHRIST, OSWEGO:  GOOD SHEPHERD, SANDWICH:  UNITED, WHEATON:  GARY MEMORIAL, WILMINGTON 

Chicago Northwestern District
CHICAGO: BERRY MEMORIAL, CHICAGO: HUMBOLDT PARK, ELMWOOD PARK, OAK PARK:  FIRST, RIVER FOREST 

Chicago Southern District
CHICAGO: GORHAM, PARK FOREST:  GRACE UNITED 

DeKalb District
BROOKVILLE, CRESTON, DEKALB: FIRST, ERIE, HERBERT: DAVIS UMC, NORWAY, POLO:  FIRST, REYNOLDS, SYCAMORE 

Elgin District
ADDISON: GOOD SAMARITAN, ALGONQUIN:  CHRIST, HAMPSHIRE:  ZION, MOUNT PROSPECT:  TRINITY, SCHAUMBURG:  OUR SAVIOURS 

Rockford District
ROCKFORD:  BROOKE ROAD, SCALES MOUND, STOCKTON:  WESLEY, WARREN, CHEMUNG

By Rev. Lynn Pries, Chaplain, North Central College
 
North Central College Martin Luther King events are this weekend. Tickets are still available for Dr. Cornell West, Jan. 15 7 p.m.  More information at: http://finearts.northcentralcollege.edu/x50182.xml

Panel discussion of alumni and friends remembering Dr. King.  Panelists include former NCC Chaplain Rev. George St. Angelo, Rev. Robert Harman, and Rev. Dr. Kwame John Porter, Jan. 16, 5 p.m.

A limited number of free tickets are available to the Chicago Symphonietta's tribute to Dr. King in Wentz Concert Hall 8 p.m., Jan. 16.  (Free tickets are for NCC alumni and guests, so if you don't know a North Central graduate, you can say that you are a guest of Chaplain Lynn Pries.)
 
Information on Martin Luther King events at North Central College is found at: http://northcentralcollege.edu/x34723.xml