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MONDAYS @ DAKOTAS SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
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September
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9:30 AM - 3:00 PM CDT- Boundaries Training for Clergy DAVID Sites: Bismarck, Fargo, Mitchell, Rapid City, and Sioux Falls
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September
27
7:10 PM CDT- Boundaries Training for Laity DAVID Sites: Bismarck, Fargo, Mitchell, Rapid City and Sioux Falls.
Click here for details
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October
6
Sakakawea District Welcome and Installation Event at Bismark McCabe
Click here for more details
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Dakotas Annual Conference 2013 will be held in Bismarck
The Dakotas Annual Conference will be in session June 5-8, 2013
at the Ramkota Inn in Bismarck, N.D. Hotels in Bismarck fill up often so make your room reservations now. There have been several blocks of hotel rooms reserved at the Bismarck hotels.
Click here to
see hotels available...
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The 2012 Journal is now available online HERE
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APPLY FOR MERIT AWARDS(STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS) HERE
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Photo by Rocky Von Eye
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The Journey experience has high impact
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Senior high youth and adults who attended The Journey work on getting homes ready for winter at Tree of Life Ministry. Photo by John Britt.
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Mission, S.D. -- Senior high youth and adults journeyed many miles and hours in the car to get to Tree of Life Friday, September 16, 2012. For 43 youth and adults from the Dakotas Conference this was a journey on that highly impacted their spiritual and emotional life.
It was a journey to help the families and individuals that live on Rosebud Reservation. Homes were prepared to be warmer for winter. Homes now have plastic on the windows. Large cracks and holes are all caulked.
The journey to Tree of Life Ministry changed the perspective of those that experienced it and rocked their value system.
READ MORE HERE
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Dakotas Marketplace feeds the hungry
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One of the many beautiful quilts that were auctioned off at the Dakota Marketplace.
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Sioux Falls, S.D. - Many people throughout the Dakotas and the world will be fed thanks to the bidders and buyers at the Dakota Marketplace held Saturday, September 22, 2012 at Sioux Falls First UMC.
Over sixty quilts that were created and designed by churches throughout the Dakotas Conference were auctioned off. Many quilts sold for over $500 with one quilt receiving a bid of $1,800.
READ MORE HERE
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Dakotas UM Foundation Newsletter
The Dakotas United Methodist Foundation quarterly newsletter is now available. The 3rd Quarter bulletin insert is now available on the Foundation website. Go to www.DakotasUMF.org and click on Newsletters & Inserts tab. You can also check out the new look of the Foundation website!
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A note from the Conference Commission on Archives
 To church historians and secretaries and those tasked with keeping the records and history of our local churches: your Conference Commission on Archives and History is here to help you. If you need guidelines on what to keep and for how long, contact Archivist Laurie Langland at LaLangLa@dwu.edu or 605-995-2134.
Guidance also is available for compiling church histories and preserving different types of materials. Are you interested in networking with other church historians or the Commission on Archives and History? The CAH is chaired by the Rev. R. Duane Coates (Wagner, SD), and members include the Rev. John Anderson (Fargo, ND), Pat Breidenbach (Mitchell, SD), the Rev. Charles Finney (Mobridge, SD), Cheryl Finney (Sioux Falls, SD), the Rev. Darwin Kopfmann (Wall, SD), Laurie Langland (Fulton, SD), Betty Testerman (Huron, SD), Tom Thaden (Vermillion, SD), and the Rev. Steven Trefz (Brandon, SD).
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JOB OPENING: WESLEY ACRES CAMP DIRECTOR  The Dakotas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church seeks an individual with strong relational, communication and administrative skills to live on site as director at Wesley Acres Camp and Retreat Center, north of Valley City, ND. By September 26, 2012 please send letter of application, resume, contact info for two professional and two personal references and your proposed plans to grow the ministry to Becky Holten, Box 460, Mitchell, SD, 57301. |
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Dakotas Conference United Methodist Women's Annual Meeting
The Dakotas Conference United Methodist Women's Annual Meeting will be held October 5-6 at St. Paul's United Methodist in Jamestown, ND. A pre-registration form can be found in the August issue of "Dakota Links," and is due Sept. 26.
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Welcome and Installation Events
 Bishop Bruce R. Ough will serve as the leader for the new Dakotas Minnesota Episcopal Area. Plans are under way to welcome Bishop Bruce R. Ough to the Dakotas this fall. Each district of the Dakotas Annual Conference will host an event that will include worship and fellowship. Events will be held as follows:
Saturday, October 6, 2012, 1:00pm CDT: Bismarck McCabe, 1030 6th St. N., Bismarck, ND
Sunday, October 7, 2012, 3:30pm CDT: Fargo First, 906 1st Ave. S., Fargo, ND
Sunday, October 21, 2012, 3:00 MDT: Rapid City First; 629 Kansas City Street, Rapid City, SD
Click here to read more about Bishop Ough and watch a video interview
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Dakotas Conference Communications would love to tell the story of how God is inspiring, energizing, transforming and calling your church to ministry. If you have a story to share, email Dakotas Conference Communications by clicking here by Thursday. Please submit articles in Microsoft Word format. Articles should be no longer than 250 words. Be sure to include the author, any people involved and the time line for publication, up to two weeks.
Pictures always appreciated!
Mondays Contact Info Doreen Gosmire Associate Director of Communications 605-996-6552.
Calendar Contact Info Click here to see the entire Dakotas Conference Calendar. If you have
items you would like to add to the calendar contact Bonnie Carlson.
DAKOTAS ANNUAL CONFERENCE
of the UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
P.O. Box 460 | 1331 University Ave. | Mitchel, S.D. 57301-0460
Phone: 605-996-6552
Fax: 605-996-1766
E-mail us
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