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Mission
Opportunities
from Hope
April 2012
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Reaching out to the world around us to share the everlasting love of Jesus Christ
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Making new friends on Mission Navajo's Spring Break trip
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Welcome to the monthly
missions e-newsletter!
If you have any questions about what you read in these monthly e-newsletters or other missions-related questions, you can e-mail missions@hopewdm.org.
Feel free to forward this to others who might be interested in knowing more about the mission opportunities. To get your name on this e-newsletter distribution list, email missions@hopewdm.org.
Mark Hoffschneider, Missions Director
Lela Griffin, Assistant Missions Director
Dina Remington, Missions Assistant
Wendy Liskey, Missions Assistant
Pastor Pat Quaid, Teaching Pastor
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| A note from the director: Putting Faith in Action
Recently Pastor Mike preached about his experience on the Mission Navajo Spring Break trip. In his sermon he challenged all of us to do something - to go into all nations and share the everlasting love of Jesus Christ. Our neighbor is everybody.
Summer is a great time to practice this! It is a time to intentionally reach out and put your faith into action.
God has blessed Hope with mission partners all over the world. And He has blessed Hope with many opportunities to make a difference here in Iowa.
Find a place to serve this summer in one or more of these ways:
- Serving locally at Freedom for Youth, Children and Families Urban Ministries or Hope Ministries throughout the summer
- Ruth Harbor Walk for Life in May
- Habitat for Humanity's Rock the Block in June
- Mission trips to Appalachia, South Dakota, New Mexico in June
- VBS at Hope in July
- Mission trips to South Africa and Jamaica in July
- Volunteering with Meals from the Heartland in August
- Mission trip to Ghana in August
Information about all of these opportunities can be found in this monthly e-newsletter or on the Hope website.
Step out in faith and see how God blesses you and those you serve. Praise God for the lives He is changing through Hope already and pray for God's guidance in how you can be a part of it all. Heaven will indeed be more crowded!
Blessings,
Missions Director |
 UPDATE: Praise God! As of March 31, 76 churches have been provided through your giving to the Lenten Outreach Project. Your response has been overwhelming, but there are still many villages and towns without a church! We are prayerfully continuing our discussions on how best to proceed with building God's Kingdom in these communities. Click here to see a video of this project. What can I do? 1. Pray for Hope's mission partner in Ghana, Pastor Sam Dunya and GlobeServe International. 2. Give as you feel called at weekend services or at myhopelink.org or hopewdm.org. |
AIDS Walk/Run 2012
Saturday, April 14. 10:00 am
The AIDS Project of Central Iowa'a annual walk/run helps raise awareness of HIV in Central Iowa and to honor friends and family who are living with, or have lived with HIV or AIDS. Register now to be a part of Hope's team. The one-mile walk and 5K run will start at Des Moines University, 3440 Grand Ave., Des Moines. Registration is $25 and includes a T-shirt. You can register online or at the event. |
2012 Mission Trip Calendar
Prayerfully consider how God might be calling you to serve on a 2012 mission trip. Maybe this is the year you serve as a family on a mission trip. Family trips are noted below.
ALL SUMMER TRIPS HAVE OPENINGS!
Mission Custer State Park
June 9-16 (family)
Mission Appalachia (ASP)
June 9-16
Mission Navajo
June 22-29 (family) or Sept. 14-21
Interest meeting for June trip: Sunday, April 15, 1:00 pm, Rm 214
Mission South Africa
July 6-18 (family)
Interest meeting for July trip: Sunday, April 1, 1:00 pm, Rm 214
Mission Robin's Nest
July 9-16
Mission Ghana
Aug. 1-12
Interest meeting for August trip: Sunday, April 29, 1:00 pm, Rm 212
Mission Uganda
Nov. 3-18
Contact the Missions Team at 222-1520 or missions@hopewdm.org for more information or click on the trip name above for details.
Online payment is now available for all 2012 mission trips, including payment via credit/debit card. Click here to access the main missions web page and visit each trip to access its online registration forms.
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Help meet the needs of Freedom for Youth  Volunteers are needed in the following areas:
- Help with Sonshine Kids programming (grades K-6) from June 4 - Aug. 15 (only on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays) from 11:00 am-1:00 pm. Adults and students in high school or above are welcome.
- Prepare and/or serve lunch to Sonshine Kids from June 4 - Aug. 15 (only on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays) from 11:00 am-1:00 pm. Families are welcome to serve together.
- Help with Discovery programming (grades 7-8) from June 5 - Aug. 16 (only Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays) from 2:00-5:00 pm. College aged and above welcome. Also need: a praise team leader (Wednesdays only), tutors and drivers.
- Fall volunteers for after school programming needs, mentoring, teaching, tutoring, providing/serving a meal, teach a skill (guitar, drama, dance, woodworking, painting, crafts, arts, pottery, ceramics, sports, computers, welding, etc). - Year-round kitchen helper. This person would help manage our kitchen's supplies, refrigerator, take trips to the food bank to pick up orders, maintenance. Approx 8 hours a week.
- Coffee shop volunteer needed to open our coffee shack for sales every Saturday for a few hours. This would be great for a small group to do and rotate the responsibilities among the group.
- Young Adult Mentors for youth ages 18-22, daytime and evening hours.
- Graphic and/or website designer.
- Groups to do odds and ends work are always welcome!
The following supplies are needed:
- Tension curtain rods for male house
- Plastic hangers for the Free Store
- Material for curtains, sheets, etc.
- Paint rollers, brushes and tape
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Help Hope Ministries at Easter
Hope Ministries will celebrate Christ's Resurrection on Easter Sunday, April 8, by serving a special on-site meal at our Hope Cafe and delivering meals throughout Greater Des Moines to the elderly, homebound and low-income individuals and families. Drivers are needed to deliver meals. To learn more about volunteering on Easter, call (515) 265-7272.
Volunteers are also needed to drop off donations of food for the Easter meal. Food donations may be dropped off at Hope Ministries' Bethel Mission facility from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm on Saturday, April 7. Specific food needs include brownies, dinner rolls, hams, milk and eggs. |
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Prayers for short-term missionaries leaving in April
Pray for God to change the lives of those who are serving and the ones being served.
Pray for God to provide shelter, protection and encouragement to Hope's missionaries.
Pray for the Hope family to walk humbly in spirit and to be full of joy for what God has done.
April 10-17
9 participants
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Mission Trips are on Facebook!
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DMARC Soup Supper and Pottery Sale
The 6th Annual DMARC Soup Supper and Pottery Sale is April 1, 4:30-7:00 pm.
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Ruth Harbor
Walk for Life
Mark your calendars for this year's
Ruth Harbor Walk for Life
Saturday, May 12
9:30 am at Ruth Harbor
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Furniture
Ministry
Hope's Furniture Ministry provides individuals and families coming out of local homeless shelters with basic household necessities for their new homes. Couches & chairs, beds (not king) & bedding, dressers, coffee & end tables, TVs (less than 32") & TV stands, smaller dinner tables and kitchen items are needed. Your donation will be picked up at your convenience and a donation letter will be provided for your tax purposes. The ministry would also be grateful for donation of time and labor for pick up and delivery. To donate, contact Carol Jensen at 222-1520 x126. |
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Ride RAGBRAI for ChildVoice International
If you're thinking about riding on RAGBRAI this summer, here's an opportunity to ride with our mission partner in Uganda, ChildVoice International! Check it out here.
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