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Hoosier United Methodist News Archives
| Hoosier United Methodist News |
April 2002 |
Prayer sweeps through the congregation
The Rev. Kent Millard, senior pastor of Indianapolis' St. Luke's UMC, Indianapolis West District, recently dedicated himself to pray for each family of his congregation. The events of 2001 led Millard to believe more and more in the power of prayer and the importance of prayer in the transforming of lives. Consequently, in March he began praying for each family in the congregation individually. Each day, Millard prays for 15 families. A letter is sent out to each individual family prior to their day of prayer asking if they have any specific prayer concerns. According to Millard, " I love the people of this congregation and I believe the most important thing I can do to help each person grow spiritually is to lift them up to God in prayer."
Offering leaves congregation seeing spots |
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As part of High Street UMC, Muncie District, Children's Sabbath, the children of the church raised money and awareness for the Heifer International Project. Their goal was to raise enough money to buy a cow, $500. The mission of Heifer Project International is to work with communities to end hunger and poverty by providing needy families with a cow. On the day of Children's Sabbath, the children wore shirts decorated to look like cows. As well, a friendly cow wandered the halls of the church distributing cow eraser, pins and information about the Heifer Project. The Be a Heifer Helper offering garnered $2,000, enough to purchase four cows. Karen Siefert |
Church beats away the winter blues with annual chili cook-off
About 90 people felt their hearts and stomachs "strangely warmed" during the seventh annual Chili Cook-off at Jackson Heights UMC, Lafayette District.
They dove into the 19 chilies -- 17 were judged -- in the mild, medium, hot, unusual and children's categories after judges Elaine Todd, Bob Lancaster, Dave Roebuck and Rep. Brian Kerns, R-7th District, picked the winners.
The Rev. John Niblick, pastor of Jackson Heights and West Point UMCs, said the event is for fun, but there's always a great turnout as the community celebrates together in the usually cool winter.
This isn't even a fundraiser, but the community wants to give something for a chance to chomp chili. This year's donations will go to Operation Classroom.
Makayla Keyes, 6, entered her chili in the children's category. Her mix of tomatoes, beans, tomato sauce and hamburger took about two hours to make. The reason she entered: "I wanted people to taste my chili," said Makayla. Matthew Oates
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MUSIC FOR THE MASSES -- As part of a mission outreach project, six UM youth groups (three pictured) from the SIC visited Indiana UM Children's Home in Lebanon. The youth distributed religious music CDs to the boys and girls at the Home. The outreach project was part of the Youth Annual Conference held Feb. 16-17 in Indianapolis. Eighty youth and adults visited the Children's Home throughout the afternoon. |
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