Newsletter, September 27 , 2023

Newsletter

PLEASE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE GOD’S LOVE
Velma Louise Mangrum, E TN NMI Mission Area Representative, injured vertebrae in a fall while on the recent W&W trip to Africa Nazarene University.  She was prepped for surgery today, but the surgery had to be stopped before it was begun.  According to her daughter, Melody,  “Mom is moving to a rehab center soon, but she has a long road of recovery ahead, and we want to decorate her room with notes of encouragement.  Cards of encouragement may be sent to:
Velma Mangrum, PO Box 1405, Smyrna, TN 37167

“DEPUTATION DINNER” 
Creative Access Missionaries, the Wheatleys 
HOSTED BY TULLAHOMA/DECHERD REGION
But Our Entire District is Welcome!
Wednesday, Nov. 1, Tullahoma First Fellowship Hall 6:PM, CST
 
I wish this great missionary couple could tour the district, but they are only available for this ONE service before returning to their assignment.  We’ve heard from at least one church, not on this region, who plan on coming!   Tullahoma/Decherd area churches will provide the Soup/Chili Dinner
If someone from another Mission Area plans to come, you will be the GUEST of Tullahoma/Decherd Mission Area, but they need to know you are coming, to plan food

If someone from your church plans on coming
 Contact  Tullahoma/Decherd Zone Chairperson, Sandra Butler * 
butler_sandra@hotmail.com  or  931-308-1847

Creative Access Guidelines for Communications
 
This deputation service reminds us that we all need to review guidelines for communications for Creative Access missionaries.  Below are guidelines provided by these particular missionaries, which need to be considered according to the field where a creative access missionary serves. 

When it comes to workers serving in Creative Access Areas around the world, there are many different considerations and each situation is unique. For this reason, there are a few things we would ask you to take into account as we come and visit your church in the near future.  We ask these things for our personal security, but more so for the security of the people with whom we work.  

In Print or Online

For printed bulletins or announcements and online (whether on your website, newsletters, or social media), if you are going to say anything about our visit to your church, please only say “The Wheatleys” or “the Wheatley Family,” and we ask that our first names never be posted online. When talking about where we serve, please only say that we serve in a Creative Access Area on the Africa Region. Please do not post or print the country name where we serve. Additionally, we ask you to not include our photo in any online publication. 

For example, the following would be appropriate: “The Wheatley family, who serve in a Creative Access country in Africa, will be visiting us on….” 

If photos of us are taken during our visit, we ask that you please make sure that these are not posted online.  

Live streaming or Recording

We would ask to not have our message live streamed or recorded. If this is a problem, please reach out to us and we can see if we can work something out. 
As far as the offering,  you may bring check, written to General Treasurer, with “Wheatley -deputation” on the memo line. To receive church credit, be sure your church name is on the check. 
To give through FTM website, here is the link to our missionaries; page:

https://give.nazarene.org/category/region/africa/mcwheatley

Tullahoma/Decherd Zone Chairpersons:  John and Sandra Butler
We’re blessed to have serve as our Tullahoma/Decherd Zone Chairperson Team.
John served as District NMI treasurer for nine years,
           Sandra served as District NMI secretary for six years. 
Contact John at  jbutler552@gmail.com, or 931-308-1847
Contact Sandra at butler_sandra@hotmail.com  or 931-607-5355