Vital Print Shop

JR Rushik, pastor at Storehouse Church in Philadelphia PA , has started a new venture to serve the needs in the world. His new project is called Vital Print Shop. It's a print shop that invests 100% of its net profits in organizations that are serving the needs that are vital for life, including: poverty reduction, education, physical health, and spiritual wellbeing.

Vital Print Shop provides solution for all your printing needs from business cards to personalized T-shirts. So, next time you need printing services try http://www.vitalprintshop.com/ or visit their Facebook page www.facebook.com/vitalprintshop for weekly deals.

Vital Print Shop offers great prices and the opportunity for you to help to change the world one print at a time!

Schedule of Sesquicentennial Videos

Video 1, "Free" distributed in August


Video 2, "Inquire" Featuring Free Methodist Higher Education

Release date: Jan. 3, 2011 for Sunday, January 9.


Video 3, "Embrace the world" Features FM Missions

Release date: February 7, 2011 for Sunday, February 13.


Video 4, "Equal" Features the theme of justice

Release date: March 7, 2011 for Sunday, March 13.


Video 5, "Lift" The poor, development and compassion- enabling the recipients to live lives of meaning and joy as God intends and Jesus demonstrated.

Release date: April 4, 2011 for Sunday, April 10.


Video 6, "Room"-our space in the world, in the kingdom.

Release date: May 2, 2011 for Sunday, May 8.

From Free Methodist World Missions

If you have not already done so ... it's time to enter your church's 2011 commitments to Missionary Support Accounts (MSAs) and Country Support Accounts (CSAs) in Missions Connect, the online giving system.

Choose one of these three convenient ways to enter your commitments:

You may enter the commitments yourself in Missions Connect using your church's user name and password. Go to: www.fmwm.org/give to access your account. (If you need to be reminded of your log in information, contact Pam Sheads at 1.800.342.5531, ext. 236 or pams@fmcna.org.) Click here to view the Missions Connect Users' Guide for instructions, if needed.
Complete the online commitment form. We will then enter your commitment into Missions Connect for you.
Email your commitment/s to pams@fmcna.org. Be sure to include the following information:
· Your name and contact information

· Missionary Name (MSA) or Country Name (CSA)

· Total Annual Amount for each MSA or CSA

· Frequency of payment: Annual, Quarterly, Monthly

· For MSA - If Prayer Partner: Yes or No



Thank you for your faithful support!

Connection Conference Stories

Our annual conference meeting, which we call Connection Conference will take place June 12-14, 2011. We will be meeting Sunday evening, June 12th through Tuesday morning, June 14th. You will receive much more information in coming months.

We want to keep the focus of the Connection Conference on the work of God to take the Gospel to everyone everywhere. We believe that God "connects" people in our churches with new people - and oftentimes those new people have connections in relationship networks, neighborhoods, town, cities and nations that provide new opportunities for the Gospel of Jesus to advance.

At the Connection Conference we want to hear stories from your people who have relationships that take the Gospel of Jesus to new places. In other words, we want to hear the stories of relationships that have a global impact for the Kingdom of God.

Action Steps: Think about your people. Tell us about anybody in your church who has a great story of a relationship that has a global impact for the Kingdom of God. E-mail this information to marfmc@aol.com.

New Pastors Joining The Conference

Over the past months, we've had wonderful new pastors join the everyone everywhere work of the Acts 12:24 Churches team.

· Jarad Bivins is in Allentown, PA.

· Dick Devendorf is in Liberty, NY.

· Craig Hendrickson is in Brooklyn, NY.

· Paul Nilsen is in Grooville, NY

· Stephen Reyner is in Ironia, NJ.

· Rick Slingluff is in Rockville, MD.


Welcome!

Everyone, Everywhere

God is at work in the Acts 12:24 Churches. Our network is anchored in the Mid-Atlantic Region but we reach to the world! God is working through us to take the gospel to everyone everywhere.

Here is a sample of the everyone everywhere work of God:

· We've heard great reports from a world missions conference in Alexandria, VA. (Pastor Doug Cross)

· The recent Kingdom Ministries Network event in Forestville, MD had a national and international impact. (Overseer Kenny Martin)

· Faith Community Church in Harrisonburg, VA is getting ready to move to newly purchased facilities. This college community sends folks all around the world. (Pastor Keith Hulton)

· El Remanente Church is in the Bronx but has planted a new church in Paterson, NJ. (Pastors Joel Guzman/Estaban Lora)

· Our new pastor in Rockville, MD helps oversee church planting ministry in Nairobi, Kenya. (Pastor Rick Slingluff)

· Horton Brook, NY FMC is nurturing church planting work in Africa. (Pastor Allen Wachter)

Multiplication Training Event

Each Spring we bring a guest speaker into the Acts 12:24 Churches for a Multiplication Training Event (which we call MTE). We look for a guest speaker whose ministry God has blessed with abundant multiplication of disciples, groups and churches.

This year, our guest speaker is Dr. David Earley. He is a very down-to-earth pastor who led a team of 12 people to plant a church that grew to 2000 and planted five other churches. David Earley is one of God's servants with an everyone everywhere anointing. Click here to download the flyer and registration form that provide complete information about MTE on March 24, 2011 in Rising Sun, MD. A limited number of scholarships are available upon request.

Action Steps: Register to come to MTE. Also register some of the key leaders in your church to come with you.

Scholarship for FM Pastors Children Entering Ministry

The Free Methodist Foundation administers an endowment fund that provides some scholarship money for pastors' children entering ministry. The fund is the Dale D. and Evelyn R. Heath Pastors' Children Education Endowment. The stated criteria are: "Scholarship recipients must be children of a Free Methodist pastor and must be attending a Christian college or seminary for the purpose of becoming a pastor, missionary, teacher or professor in a Christian seminary, college or university. Recipients will be chosen based on need."

Since the FMF Board meets in November, anyone interested in applying for this scholarship should immediately e-mail Judy Strange at the Free Methodist World Ministries Center at judys@fmcna.org . The e-mail should contain paragraphs that include the following:

(1) School attending, degree program and their current year;
(2) Describe their ministry while attending school;
(3) Tell about their call and family history ; and
(4) Plans after graduation