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The American voter beyond red and blue, and how you fit it. Click the image to visit the site. Salvation workout Good sermon, Reverend DiscipleU Course Registration is OPEN and will close on April 11, 2008. Courses begin on April 14. 2008 Summer Camp Information Posted to Web The outdoor sanctuaries, Camp Kum-Ba-Ya and Camp Wakon' Da-Ho will be ready to welcome campers this summer. But you don't have to wait until June to register for a summer camp experience. Actually, if you wait until June, or even as last as mid-April, odds are the camp you want to attend will be sold out. The outdoor ministry program is very active and several weeks do sell out at WKDH and KBY. Last summer, Sailing, CYF @ KBY, CYF 2, Chi Rho 2, and Camp 101 were all sell-outs. This summer is expected to be the same! Visit the Outdoor Ministry webpage to learn more and download registration information. Week of Compassion Violent Weather Again Strikes Nation's Midsection - April10, 2008 First "Weekend of Compassion" promises empowerment for outreach Week of Compassion's first "Weekend of Compassion" will take place at Scarritt-Bennett Center, a 10-acre retreat complex and former college and graduate school near Vanderbilt University. The schedule includes workshops, small-group Bible studies, worship, and musical performances. Work Trip Grants Available for Hurricane & Tornado Recovery Disciples of Christ Coffee Project
Heading into Election 2008, the Monitor profiles the candidates through the lens of their core convictions - through their values, worldviews, and, when applicable, religious faiths. "While Christian beliefs help gird his(John Edwards) antipoverty campaign, he believes that politicians who identify closely with one religion cannot be inclusive." "The former Arkansas governor (Mike Huckabee) and ordained Baptist minister speaks the language of Christian Evangelicals on social issues, but his concern for the poor means he's willing to spend more than fiscal conservatives would like."
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CCK Summer Camp Registration Numbers Growing Registrations contine to arrive for summer camp experiences. It is exciting to see so many interested. As of Friday afternoon, May 2, the Region has processed 616 registrations and have more on waiting lists. Why waiting lists? Some camps are simply out of bed space. Kum-Ba-Ya can sleep 55 campers plus adult counselors. Wakon' Da-Ho can sleep 96 campers plus adult counselors. And some camps are on waiting lists because of the need for more age appropriate counselors. Camps at maximum capacity and have waiting lists are: Camps on waiting lists until more counselors can be secured are: Cyclone plunges Myanmar into primitive existence YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Residents of Myanmar's largest city were plunged into a primitive existence Monday, using candles instead of electricity, lining up to buy shrinking supplies of water and hacking their way through streets blocked by trees felled in a cyclone that killed more than 350. Neighboring Thailand announced it would fly in the first planeload of emergency assistance Tuesday requested by the Myanmar government, easing fears that the ruling junta would reject international aid. Older citizens said they had never seen Yangon, a city of some 6.5 million, so devastated in their lifetimes. College grads face tougher job market Chestnut Hill, Mass. - Unlike most of the underclassmen who've come to Science Career Night at Boston College dressed in jeans, some even in backward baseball caps, Timothy Harrington arrived better dressed than some of the recruiters. As a graduating senior, Mr. Harrington is only months away from the real world. Now all he needs is a full-time job to match his snappy suit. Unfortunately, finding one has proven more difficult than expected. All of his friends who graduated last year found work and "none of them have had to go through the same amount of grief that I have," says Harrington, a biology major who hopes to go into sales. "The closest I can get to [employers] is usually through their website, and then all you do is plug your résumé into a database and I don't even know how they look at those." Mother's Day money advice American families celebrating Mother's Day next Sunday might take some time to reflect on the changing financial role that mothers play. The days when mothers remained home to raise children are rapidly disappearing. Today, most mothers hold jobs outside the home, assume the burden of caregiving for older family members, care for adult children and grandchildren, and increasingly support themselves in retirement. According to the US Department of Labor Statistics, over 75 percent of mothers with children between the ages of 6 and 17 are in the workforce. In 1975, little more than half of mothers with school-age children worked outside the home. Church-closing rate only one percent With a dozen regulars or fewer attending services, the 150-year-old Kinderhook United Methodist Church in rural Illinois near the Mississippi River shut its doors this Easter. That Sunday was also the last for St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in Cincinnati, where only 16 households were putting something in the collection plate. "The service was as solemn as the funeral of a child," a deacon told the city's newspaper. Last August, Rogers Heights Christian Church in Tulsa, which peaked at 600 members about 50 years ago, was disbanded. Church leaders decided to donate the building and cash reserves to the Oklahoma Disciples Foundation. Seminary distress Jesus taught his disciples in the outdoors, without a prescribed curriculum. His lessons were passed on by way of oral tradition before being written down. The way things are going, mainline seminaries may be returning to such informal models of theological training. At the very least, this is a time of great uncertainty in theological education, a time when students are more diverse, religious identities are in flux, financial support from denominations is down and education expenses continue to go up. As was reported in these pages April 8, a number of seminaries have taken dramatic steps to keep their programs alive, often by making alliances with other institutions. Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, an Episcopal school in Evanston, Illinois, discontinued its M.Div. program and is considering how to offer the degree "in another format."
Clergy and laity invited to experience life on U.S./Mexico border this summer TUCSON, Ariz. (4/26/08) — Kenneth Kennon, a retired Disciples of Christ minister in Tucson, Ariz., is helping to organize a week-long delegation to experience border life and explore immigration issues this summer. BorderLinks, an organization that offers educational experiences on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border, will host the “Faith and Justice on the Border” delegation July 28 to Aug. 2, inviting people to experience, reflect and worship together. “We will reflect together on how our faith calls us to act, as individuals and communities, on issues of immigration,” said Delle McCormick, executive director of BorderLinks. McCormick is an ordained United Church of Christ minister and former Global Ministries missionary who served in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. Food fight - How international aid fails the poor n 2006, the United States provided 6 million tons of food aid to agencies such as CARE, Catholic Relief Services, World Vision and Save the Children, which distributed the bags of wheat, rice or corn and containers of vegetable oil. Some of the aid went to places wracked by war or natural disaster, where it directly alleviated human suffering. In other places, children suffering from acute malnutrition were brought back to full health with the help of specially fortified food. Sometimes entire families were able to survive a lean season. Given these and other positive results, why would any agency reject U.S. food aid? Being church in Sudan RUMBEK, Sudan — It is mid-morning on a Sunday in March. The hot, equatorial sun is already warming up the day and still, an hour before the church service begins, the songs of praise are already rising above the enormous tree that provides shade to the hundreds of worshippers gathered below. Seating is limited to wooden benches and plastic chairs — a boy of about five years of age even brings his own to guarantee a good seat. Generally, the women sit together in one section with many of them dressed in white dresses and headscarves (the uniform of the Mothers’ Union), shaking bells and other handheld instruments along to the lively hymns in the local Dinka language. The children gather in another section, the smaller ones occasionally wandering around hand-in-hand looking for family members. The men, the smallest group at this service, are on the margins of the gathering of about 1,400. Many of the adults hold long, wooden crosses through the service. General Board approves principles for re-aligning church’s structure with mission INDIANAPOLIS — The General Board of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) took steps this week toward realigning denominational structures and resources to better support congregations and the church’s wider mission, during its April 12-15 meeting in Indianapolis. The Board amended and approved a set of “Principles for a Plan for Mission Alignment” first proposed by General Minister and President Sharon E. Watkins. The principles identify a set of outcomes: empowering the General Board’s role in church governance, better resourcing of congregations for mission, and embracing the growing diversity among Disciples. The principles are a step toward a plan to build on the changes enacted in the past two years including amendments to The Design — the denomination’s governing document — and the merger of the Church Finance Council into other general ministries. They acknowledge the need for the denomination to put more resources into areas where growth and mission are already happening, such as the rapid growth of Hispanic and Pacific-Asian congregations and the discussions between the Disciples’ Council on Christian Unity, Week of Compassion, Reconciliation Mission, and the Office of General Minister and President about how to embody Christian unity in the twenty-first century. Regarding governance, Watkins told the General Board that the time has come to “take The Design out for a test drive.” Watkins contends that the church has neglected, to a certain extent, the theology in the Design and its potential as a foundation for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) to move through a time of self-evaluation and change. Disciples leaders will meet pope this Friday INDIANAPOLIS (4/16/08) — Three Disciples will be among a group of Christian leaders attending an ecumenical prayer service with Pope Benedict XVI on Friday evening in New York City. General Minister and President Sharon E. Watkins, along with Michael Kinnamon, general secretary of the National Council of Churches, and Suzanne Webb, president of Churches Uniting in Christ and pastor of Union Avenue Christian Church in St. Louis, Mo., will attend the prayer service on April 18 at St. Joseph’s Church in Manhattan. Pope Benedict XVI arrived Tuesday for his first visit to the United States. He was greeted by President Bush and the First Lady, who are hosting a reception today on the south lawn of the White House for the pontiff, according to the official website for the pope's U.S. visit. Later on he will attend a meeting and private prayer service with U.S. Catholic bishops at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Today is also the pope’s 81st birthday.
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