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The Women's Desk
2013 brings new opportunities to build the World Convention and Global Women Connecting community. Harvest View Academy in Kenya and Hope Mission in Mozambique were described in the
October, 2012 ChristiaNet. Your prayers and participation are needed to aid the children who are fed, housed and educated by these programs. Read more about these projects on our website through the photo links. Monetary contributions may be sent through OGMP Treasury Services, Global Women Connecting, PO Box 1986, Indianapolis, IN 46206-1986 USA. The current brochure and remittance forms may be found
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KENYA - Agatha and her family
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MOZAMBIQUE - Hope Home
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January 18-25 is the week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Many churches will hold services to remember Christ's prayer and to seek ways to live wholly in their communities. To share your thoughts and experiences, visit Unity of the body of Christ and post your comments.
GWC President, Monica Fife sends her appreciation for the love and prayers offered for her and her family during her recent illness. Her health continues to improve.
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Opens January 24, 2013
"The Stormy Question": Christian Church and the Slavery Issue, will document the various positions taken by the Disciples of Christ on slavery, the Civil War, and Emancipation. In recognition of it's 150th anniversary, Historical Society's Vice-President & Chief Archivist, Sara Harwell and Associate Archivist, Elaine Philpott have coordinated the exhibit in the Oscar Haynes Exhibit Hall with a public viewing of an original of the Emancipation Proclamation at the Tennessee State Museum, February 12-18, 2013. An expanded version of the exhibit will be available on discipleshistory.org in the spring of 2013.
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YOUR GIFT GIVES MORE
Thank you to all who have given so generously through 2012. These gifts have been matchedfunding the ongoing ministry of connecting everywhere, every day.
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Employer Matching Donations
Increase your contribution value
Some employers will match their employees' charitable gifts made toward a non-profit organization under the provision that an original donor (their employee) first makes a gift toward that organization. Please consider asking your employer if they participate in matching gifts. World Convention will assist with any necessary procedures.
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Jeff Weston
Former WCCC Executive Director Relocates
Romaine Park Christian Centre at Burnie, on the North West Coast of Tasmania, have unanimously approved Jeff's appointment as Pastor. He and Rosemary will move to Burnie in February and begin the first Sunday in March. They thank you for your prayers for their future. |
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Dennis Helsabeck, Sr.
Friday, January 11, 2013
We sadly report the death of Dennis Helsabeck, Sr. Dennis taught at Milligan College from 1963 until his retirement in 1978. He was Emmanuel Christian Seminary's first Counseling professor when the seminary began operations in the fall of 1965. At 100 years old, Dennis was a walking encyclopedia of significant people in the Stone-Campbell Movement during the past century. More importantly, though, he was a beloved father, grandfather, sibling, professor, friend, and fellow Christian. His presence will be sorely missed. |
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Ruth Sanders
Ruth Sanders, wife of L. David Sanders and dearly loved missionary to Brazil has left this world and gone to be with our Lord! Her life is to be celebrated with a funeral service on January 17, 2013 at the Christian Church in Brasilia. Family and friends thank you for your prayers and thoughts!
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| ChristiaNet
January, 2013
Issue 115
Connecting Everywhere...Every Day
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SPIRITUAL ECUMENISM
-Gary Holloway
"Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace" (Ephesians 4:3).
Many times I have been asked, "So, what is your plan to unite all Christians?" I must confess that I have no easy "five-step" plan to make that happen.
But I do have a first step. It's the same step Jesus took. On the night he was betrayed, facing death on a cross, Jesus prayed for unity. "My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me" (John 17:20-21).
Do you pray for Christian unity?
Is it part of your daily prayer life? For 2013, I am resolved to be more dedicated to daily prayer for the unity of all who believe. I ask you to join me in that resolution. That will mean specific prayers for unity. It also means that we look at the prayers we already pray as unity prayers.
For example, the prayer Jesus taught his disciples to pray begins with "Our Father." By claiming that the Father is not mine alone but a Father common to us all, we pray a unity prayer. And in those words we join with believers in all countries in a myriad of languages in proclaiming that
we share a common Father and a common faith. We are one.
Does your church pray for Christian unity?
I have heard few public prayers for Christian unity. Should this not be part of our joint prayers whenever Christians gather? If you plan worship or know those that do, let us commit to prayer together in our churches for unity.
Do you pray for unity with other churches?
There is a power in praying together for Christian unity with those in other churches. This requires effort, planning, and hospitality on our part. Each year in January (18-25 this year), Christians all over the world in a variety of churches gather together for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Perhaps you can find that prayer service in your community and join in. But we should have other times in the year when we pray for unity with believers from other churches.
Do you pray that the world might know the love of God?
Why pray for Christian unity? Because, like Jesus, we believe God hears and answers. Because, like Jesus, we want the world to know God's love. "I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one- I in them and you in me-so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you
have loved me" (John 17:21-22).
This is what we mean by "spiritual ecumenism." Spiritual does not imply that our unity is not real and visible. On the contrary, it confesses that real visible unity only comes as a gift of God in prayer, through the intercession of the Son, by the power of the Spirit.
And when we pray for unity, God might just answer that prayer through us.
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Important Dates...
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Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
February 25-28, 2013
Webb Lectures, Milligan College
April 5-6, 2013
Stone-Campbell Journal Conference
April 29-May 3, 2013
Pepperdine Lectures
May 20-21, 2013
Eubanks Institute for Missions Conference
June 5-8, 2013
Christian Scholars Conference - Lipscomb
June 25-30, 2013
Oregon Christian Convention
July 3-6, 2013
Summer Celebration - Lipscomb
July 9-12, 2013
North American Christian Convention
July 13-17, 2013
Disciples General Assembly
October 30-November 8, 2013
10th Assembly - World Council of Churches
November 14-17, 2013
Eastern Christian Conference
November 17-22, 2013
Secretaries of World Christian Communions - Geneva
June 25 - 29, 2014
IDWM Quadrennial Assembly
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