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MISSION & SOCIAL CONCERNS
The Missions & Social Concerns Committee is planning a campaign called "Six for Ten"
whereby we will be supporting one cause for the final six months of 2010. The month of
July will celebrate our partnership with Deb Heefner. Stay tuned for more information in
the coming months! Next meeting: Sept. 7 @ 5:00 pm
MISSION TRIP
Continue to pray for mission team members as they travel to Minneapolis June 26-July 3.
Youth: Kirsten Jacobsen, Katie McCracken, Alison Seedorf, Rachel Seedorf, James
Seedorf. Sponsors: Jesse Feather, Saralynn Brown, Lori Kucharski. The mission team
will share their experiences and testimony during the worship service on July 18.
QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) GATEKEEPER TRAINING
Yuma Life Care Advisory Council is sponsoring CPR GATEKEEPER TRAINING on
Tuesday, July 6 10:00-11:00am in the Life Care dining room. A Gatekeeper is anyone
trained to recognize a suicide crisis and know how and where to find help.
The founders of OPR believe that most people contemplating suicide will turn to a friend,
family, clergy or physical health care provider instead of seeking the help of a mental health
professional. So those who are in routine contact with a distressed individual stand the best
chance of intervening. This easy to understand training includes an OPR booklet and a list of
community resources. Training is led by Maranda Miller, the LifeSource Program Coordinator
at Rural Solutions and is completely free.
Every year our congregation joins Christians around the world in celebrating World
Communion Sunday. Born in a time of international unrest as nations were about to
enter another world war, World Communion Sunday’s central focus is the Lord’s
Supper instituted by Christ and its unifying message for all who partake of it. We are
one in Christ Jesus, and not to be separated by the nations, ethnic groups, or
denominations we belong to, or for any other reason.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) also marks the day by a call to peacemaking, urging
us to be followers of the Prince of Peace. One concrete way that we do that is by
receiving the Peacemaking Offering. Through this special offering, we work together
with others in our presbytery, our synod, and nationally through the General Assembly’s
Peacemaking Program to learn and live out the ways of peace.
During the month of September members of the Mission and Social Concerns committee
will be sharing minutes for mission and our opportunity to join in ministry for peace around
the world. On October 5 we will celebrate World Communion Sunday and commit
ourselves to working for the unity of the church and the peace of Christ and dedicate our
Peacemaking Offering. Let us give generously to the Peacemaking offering.
