News from the Northwest Conference
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| NWC seeking applications for Director of Children & Family Ministry position
The Northwest Conference is currently seeking applications from individuals interested in the newly created staff position of Director of Children & Family Ministry for the region. This position is to assist in advancing one of the highlighted strategic priorities of the NWC, as it relates to children and family ministries. It will serve to resource existing children's ministry staff, as well as volunteer children's workers in Conference churches.
Interested individuals should submit a pastoral profile/resume no later than June 15, 2012. Interviews will take place in July. The tentative start date for this new position will be Sept. 1.
Please send requested information to the attention of Jon Kramka at the Northwest Conference office or email Jon at jon@nwc-cov.org.
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NWC Ministry Priorities series
View, embed and share our new videos on Vimeo
Our 2012 Annual Meeting included the debut of three new videos highlighting the Ministry Priorities of the Northwest Conference. Each video features interview segments with church staff, lay leaders and pastors, intermixed with animations of statistics and key statements designed to help explain each priority.
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 | | NWC Ministry Priorities: Church Planting |
 | | NWC Ministry Priorities: Children, Youth & Family |
The videos are designed for use throughout the year in church new member classes, services and other adult education opportunities to help congregations better understand and engage the work of the NWC. The delegates from each church left with a DVD copy of the videos, and the series is available on the NWC web site's video page (www.nwc-cov.org/resources/videos) and Vimeo Channel (http://vimeo.com/channels/northwest).
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New denominational high school leadership initiative
The Covenant is developing a new leadership experience for high school students and the Northwest Conference is hosting the pilot! It will be Aug. 24-26 at Lake Beauty Bible Camp. Registration and cost to be announced soon. Here's a taste of what to expect:
Emerge: A high school leadership experience
Leadership at the beginning can be extremely hard because you don't know who you are, what you're good at, or even how God has gifted you-but you know you're supposed to lead. As leaders emerge, it can be a struggle. It takes work, practice, experimentation, failure and evaluation to realize your potential and start using it.
We're here to help you in this process of discovery-to explore how you are gifted and how you can bring those gifts to the forefront and begin to put them to use in a beautiful way. The gifts, passions and beauty of each individual leader have been there all along. We're just helping to clarify, uncover and help you use these newly discovered gifts.
This experience provides an effective, engaging student leadership development opportunity by combining practical teaching, hands-on, interactive learning experiences and time for individual reflection, peer-to-peer feedback and group worship.
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Minnehaha Academy Summer Programs Summer is almost here! Request a Minnehaha Academy Summer Programs Catalog today by calling 612-728-7745. Robotics, sailing, video game creation, languages, babysitting training, chess, cooking, wilderness adventures and more... choose from nearly 100 enrichment, athletic and academic courses for grades PreK-12.
Experience a low child to adult ratio, a supportive Christian environment and morning and afternoon scheduling. View the online catalog on MinnehahaAcademy.net.
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May 20-22, 2012 Youth Pastor's Retreat - Lake Beauty Bible Camp
June 16-23, 2012 Adventures in Leadership - Adventurous Christians, Grand Marais, MN June 21-23, 2012 ECC Annual Meeting - Irvine, CA July 15-20, 2012 CHIC - Knoxville, TN July 21, 2012 Covenant Softball Tournament August 9-11, 2012 MUUUCE September 30 - October 1, 2012 Town and Country Workshop - Ruttger's Sugar Lake Lodge, Grand Rapids, MN October 1-3, 2012 Ministerial Association Retreat - Ruttger's Sugar Lake Lodge, Grand Rapids, MN October 6, 2012
VIVE - First Covenant Church, St. Paul, MN
January 12, 2013
Recharge - St. Andrews Church, Mahtomedi, MN
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NWC Job Postings Page
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Pastors and ministry leaders, if you have people in your congregation who are exploring ministry, on a part- or full-time basis, please refer them to our job postings page.
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Superintendent Mark Stromberg Director of Church Planting Mike Brown Director of Congregational Vitality Jon Kramka
Director of Youth Ministry Ginny Olson
Office Administrator Cheryl Theilen Director of Communications Bryan Malley 612.721.4893 800.756.6692 |
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