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For more than 30 years the Clifton Strengths Finder has been used world-wide in many different settings. Gallup is bringing the StrengthsFinder to our Nebraska Leadership Conference on September 12.
By identifying your Signature Themes (most predominant 5 themes out of a possible 34), you can learn to build them into strengths to apply to the task at hand ... whatever that might be in your life.
What are my Signature Themes? I love to think and to learn. I am fascinated by ideas. I enjoy and am pulled toward people and I am adaptable. Unexpected requests and multi-tasking don't bother me. Having identified these talents, it's now up to me to build them into strengths I can use in life.
Take advantage of an opportunity to learn more about finding your strengths by joining us at the Nebraska Leadership Summit with Gallup, Bill Hybels and Tom Osborne on September 12.
Purchase your reserved tickets online at:
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Lord, hear our prayers for premature baby Isabella, her parents and her grandparents, Tom and Wendy Barber.
Lord, hear our prayers for those afflicted with the illness that is "going around" our family shelter.
Lord, hear our prayers for Club E.D.E.F.Y. as we search for a new director. |
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May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart.
May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace.
May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain into joy.
And may God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done. |
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| Monday at the Mission
Monday, August 18, 2008 |
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A Word of Farewell
Today's column is a very difficult one for me to write. It will be my last column for the People's City Mission. My husband and I are moving to Madison, Wisconsin and difficult as it is for us to leave Lincoln after over 20 years here, it is even more difficult for me to leave my work as the Director of Donor Development at the Mission.
I have thoroughly enjoyed sharing my observations of life at the Mission with you each Monday Morning and have especially appreciated your e-mail responses. What started as a means of communicating with the Foundation Board of Directors has grown into a network of over 400 recipients of Monday at the Mission, a newsletter centering on our daily life here at the Mission.
In looking back over our primary mission to feed and to shelter the homeless and poor, I feel that my life has been enriched by sharing in the ministry of PCM. Providing 42,233 meals a month and 8,802 nights of shelter is a challenging task and writing about it every week has been an awesome, yet often daunting opportunity.
In closing, let me reiterate the parting words of Jesus to Simon Peter:
"Feed my lambs ... Tend my sheep ... Feed my Sheep." John 21:15ff
I leave with my Thanks to all of you for sharing and participating in the work of PCM and with the assurance that you will continue to carry forth this ministry of PCM well into this new century. As Peter was challenged, so let us continue to feed Christ's hungry lambs and to tend His homeless sheep with tender, loving and ever merciful care.
In Christ's Love,
Barbara B. McCall, J.D.
Director of Donor Development |
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Sponsored by: NE Family Council, Mad Dads, City Impact, Mission Nebraska and
Lincoln Crisis Pregnancy Center
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Harris Overpass Update
I drove "down under" the Harris Overpass to take this photo for you. I wanted to mark the progress toward completion of this project.
As I walked in the dirt and the weeds, I remembered that we still have people living under bridges and overpasses in Lincoln.
Because of your care and concern, the homeless have a better option ... the option of coming to People's City Mission. Thank you, again, for your generosity.
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September Point-In-Time Count
Every year, across our nation, an attempt is made to quantify the number of homeless living in our midst. This is called the "Point In Time" count. The human service agencies in Lincoln, including PCM, participate in this effort through The Homeless Coalition - Lincoln's Continuum of Care.
This year, during the first week in September, The Homeless Coalition will conduct a second Point In Time count to test revisions to the questionnaire used in the data gathering process.
The State of Nebraska has been divided into 8 regions - or 8 continuums of care. Each continuum in Nebraska collects statistics using a program called Service Point. HUD is interested in demographics for every type of shelter - from emergency shelter through home ownership - the whole continuum of housing.
Since Service Point was introduced 2 years ago, the statistics collected in Lincoln have become increasingly accurate. All agencies receiving money from HUD, either directly or indirectly, are required to report. This data assists agencies in determining the needs of our community and focusing resources where they are most needed.
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 "We are most like God when we are welcoming. Our God is welcoming."
Dr. Desmond Tutu |
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Thank you, again, for sharing Monday at the Mission each week with me. I feel that we have become friends and colleagues in Christ.
Ever Sincerely,
Barbara McCall, J.D.
People's City Mission
110 Q Street
Lincoln, Nebraska 68508 |
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