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Newsletter, November 3, 2022

November 1, 2022NewsletterETNMI

ANSWERS TO RECENT QUESTIONS FROM GREAT NMI PRESIDENTS

QUESTION: Where can I find a short video about our Links Missionaries, Russell & Karla Frazier

ANSWER: Go to etnmi.org/Care and Connection There are several videos, made by the Fraziers on their FB page. However, none of these videos are about the Fraziers, but ones taken BY them.

Facebook:

Fraziers2Africa
Website:

https://frazierministry.com

Subscribe to their newsletter, published every two months

https://frazierministry.com/newsletter

Q: How can I send monetary gift to Fraziers for Christmas WITH 10% CHURCH CREDIT?

A: If you choose to send in a check from your local church, do not make checks payable to your missionary. Such gifts run contrary to IRS guidelines. Instead, make it payable to Global Treasury Services with “[Missionary Name(s)] Links” in the memo line. Mail it to P.O. Box 843116 Kansas City, MO 64184-3116.

Give online using Funding the Mission – Use the Funding the Mission page at<https://fundingthemission.org/. Note “[Missionary Name]’s Links” in the memo for the gift.

QUESTION:Where can I find good lesson resources for November/ Thanksgiving offering?

ANSWER: Go to

https://www.nazarene.org/generosity

1. You’ll find two excellent videos, as well as links to other resources at the bottom of that page:

“Global Missions” 2:48 minutes-great for Sunday morning “mission moment”

“Blessing” 4:47 minutes, a little longer, but WELL worth the time!

To preview “Blessing”

click here

2. If you have an NMI service, with time available for a lesson, you may want to consider:

NMI Central Lesson: Germany at etnmi.org/resources; serve many types of bread

This lesson features Dr. Carla Sunberg, outstanding General Superintendent

3. Thank your church for giving, using attached table tents, placed around your church following the offering.

Attachment:

Table tent

Q: Where can I find good missionary stories?

A: Subscribe to NMI Central and receive a new story every week. Visit www.nazarene.org/nmi-central to subscribe. Then, go to http://etnmi.org/resources/ to check for ppt. presentations created using NMI Central

BE SURE TO READ THE LATEST “SERVING IN SOFIA” BLOG, AVAILABLE TODAY!

IT’S A DRAMATIC BLESSING!

Newsletter, October 26, 2022

October 27, 2022NewsletterETNMI

READ THIS FROM OUR E TN MISSIONARY, JOSHUA HAUN, QUOTING HIS SON, JUDE…YOU WILL BE BLESSED!

We really have been so blessed and amazed at the generosity and care we continue to receive from people who are excited with us about our ministry and our personal blessing of welcoming another little boy into our family. It has been incredible! We are so thankful for the people of ET. Last night after our Bible story Jude prayed and said, “Lord, please give all of our family in East Tennessee a great day tomorrow.” We speak daily about the love of our ET family.

The Hauns have been communicating their deputation commitments with me, and I will have the commitments already made posted on our district NMI calendar by next Wednesday. We should also have a new video, that Joshua & Katie are working on, at that same time.

WHAT’S UP? I apologize for the lack of a newsletter last week. I’m thankful for those who have asked “What’s Up?”

I was a presenter at the USA/Canada District Presidents’ meeting in Cincinnati last week…coming home last Wednesday, with plans to send out a newsletter as soon as I got home. However, the trip from Cincinnati that should have been about 6 hours was plagued with construction, so it took 10 hours!

WHY WAS THE E TN DISTRICT NMI PRESIDENT ASKED TO SPEAK AT SUCH AN EVENT?

It was not because of me, but because TN has a GREAT district council! They work together seamlessly, without concern over who gets the credit.

When Mission Education coordinator, Anita Adkins was asked to create a Ppt. lesson using NMI Central, she created not one, but five great lessons, presented to NMI presidents at our workshop at district assembly. More lessons will come online soon!

Then District VP/webmaster, Debbie Blair posted all those lessons under the Resources tab at

http://etnmi.org/resources/

When Global NMI learned about our resources, I was asked to present about mission education at the USA/Canada NMI Presidents’ meeting. Praise the Lord for our great district NMI council.

PRAISE FOR ANOTHER COUNCIL MEMBER, JOHN BUTLER & HIS GREAT HELPERS AT DISTRICT NMI CONVENTION

The deputation offerings, for Rob North, $4,065 & Joshua Haun, $6,276, received at District NMI Convention were awesome!

When I recently learned that no deputation credit for any church had been given, I knew I could depend on John Butler’s records to get this corrected at Global Treasury services.

John ALWAYS sends ALL offerings to GTS within hours, but he first takes photos of the checks & the accurate lists of churches & their offering. So, after a long phone call to GTS, & resending John’s great documentation, we were told that it could take several weeks, but that ALL churches would receive the appropriate credit, and THAT IT WOULD APPEAR UNDER POINT TO POINT GIVING.

The last of the credit postings appeared on Funding the Mission the week after I returned from USA/Canada NMI Meeting.

I’ve carefully checked EVERY offering from EVERY church, and can assure you that credit has been granted for EVERY offering.

I can also assure you that this giving will make your apportionments for this year go down, not up.

Newsletter, October 12, 2022

October 12, 2022NewsletterETNMI

PRAYER SUPPORTS ALL OTHER AREAS OF MISSIONS

WORLD EVANGELISM FUND

ALABASTER OFFERING

ENGAGE CHILDREN AND YOUTH

CARE AND CONNECTION

Many Christians suffer for their faith. Our brothers and sisters count on the faithful prayers of God’s people to support them in times of testing, trials, and tragedies. Thank you for praying; your faithfulness in prayer makes a difference.

APPRECIATING PASTORS – EURASIA NORTH FIELD

PLEASE READ & SHARE ATTACHED REPORT FROM PASTORS IN UKRAINE

The attached report is from Missionary Trino Jaro, Superintendent of the Eurasia North Field. His field includes both Russian and Ukraine, as well as Armania, Belorussioa, Georgia, Latvia, and Moldova, and two Creative Access Countries in Central Asia. This report, with stories of God’s amazing movement and grace, in the midst of extreme loss, is one that needs to be shared with our US churches. Please share these stories and pictures with your people, but DO NOT POST THEM ON FACE BOOK….and please continue to pray for all in the Eurasia North Field.

He begins his amazing report with this dedication: “We want to dedicate this report to the journey of the Church of the Nazarene in Ukraine. Through pictures we would like to share with you how the church is coping with the tragedy this nation is facing. Lord continues blessing His precious church with resilience and we continue to hope that this situation will pass and His precious name will be glorified. Five months ago, Kiev and other cities were bombed killing thousands and our churches became refugee centers for hundreds of people or humanitarian AID storages. ...

HE THEN INCLUDES DRAMATIC PHOTOS TOO NUMEROUS TO INCLUDE IN THIS TEXT…. DON’T MISS THE ATTACHED REPORT FOR PICTURES FROM INDIVIDUAL CHURCHES IN UKRAINE AND SURROUNDING COUNTRIES!
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ENGAGING KIDS IN MISSION USING NMI CENTRAL LESSON: MEXICO

NMI President shared photos of NMI Central: Mexico Lesson and Fiesta Dinner at Chapman’s Chapel.

Pic #1: He’s proud of the maracas he made!

Pic #2: Mexican Feast was delicicioso!

Pictures #3 & #4: Easting Paletas (YUMMY Mexican Popsicles)!

Newsletter, September 21, 2022

September 22, 2022NewsletterETNMI

Visit

www.nazarene.org/nmi-central

to subscribe to NMI Central

It’s SO important that we’re all praying together for missionary needs around the world. That can happen if all age people, in all our churches, subscribe to and READ NMI Central! Share the prayer needs from the country of the week at any service, in any mailing, and/ or on your church’s social media page. Prayer is vitally important to NMI.

Thanksgiving Offering Resources

Materials are available for order or download for the Offering of Thanks by clicking

here

Personal Gifts for Missionaries

NMI leaders have been asking, “With Haun’s baby due first weeks of December, Welcome gift for Fraziers, and Christmas gifts for all our missionaries…and no Links accounts available, how can my church send a PERSONAL gift to our Care & Connection Missionaries?

Please note that personal gifts, while of great value to our missionaries and to you as giver, are NOT eligible for 10% church giving.

TO SEND PERSONAL FUNDS TO LINKS MISSIONARIES RUSS & CARLA FRAZIER

Send personal money to Fraziers, send a check, made out to Russ & Carla Frazier

MAIL TO: Russ and Carla Frazier

c/o Oren Frazier (Russ’s dad)
5005 Danby Drive
Nashville, TN, 37211

If you send funds this way, email notification to Carla Frazier by email at cfrazier@africanazarene.org

TO SEND PERSONAL FUNDS TO JOSHUA & KATIE HAUN
If anyone wants to give to Hauns personally they can send a check, made out to Joshua or Katie Haun. Mail to either address below and it’ll be deposited into their account. Then, send an email or PM to Katie Haun, khaun@eurasiaregion.org
Marsha Rolman C/O Joshua & Katherine Haun 3125 Riley Creek Road Normandy, TN 37360
Or Jace Haun C/O Joshua & Katherine Haun 1400 Riley Drive Lenoir City, TN 37771

IF YOU PREFER TO USE VENMO TO SEND FUNDS TO THE HAUNS

As noted in earlier Newsletter, I’ve corresponded with Katie Haun, regarding best way to send funds to them. Below is the information you need to send funds from your Venmo account to theirs.

Newsletter, August 31, 2022

September 1, 2022NewsletterETNMI

Care & Connection/Links

Recently, a mission-passionate friend asked me if we would no longer have the Haun’s as “Links” missionaries since we have received our assignment of the Fraziers as “Links”. I was pleased to be able to bless him with the assurance that the Hauns will always be “E TN SENT MISSIONARIES”, even though our assigned “Links” missionaries will change yearly.

A “Little Brother” is to Arrive in the Haun Missionary
Family in December!

We are among the districts who are privileged to have sent missionaries from our district, and OUR missionaries are loving the fact that their SENDING district will always love and support them. If you haven’t watched the beautiful THANK YOU video on the Haun’s August newsletter, here it is! THANK YOU It also tells us that the Hauns will have another precious little boy!

I’ve had inquires about sending gifts for the new baby, so I messaged Katie Haun on your behalf. Here’s her response: “We are able to purchase furniture items for the baby through deputation (only a crib, changing table, and dresser). Everything else will be paid for personally. We will have to purchase a stroller, car seat, high chair, baby bedding, clothes, swing, etc., personally.

PLEASE SEE ATTACHMENT FOR POSTAL MAILING
ADDRESS & INFORMATION ABOUT MAILING

Attachment

With the cost of sending packages to Bulgaria, more could be given financially without calculating in postage, but I also know many like to pick out items & know what they are buying. Either option is great for us and would be so welcomed…Generally, anything would be nice. Clothes, baby toiletries, diapers, wipes, swaddles, bibs, burb cloths, etc. The baby won’t be born until December so 0-3 months should get us through winter months. If they send packages…the sooner the better is best because it will be a month or two process to get the package released. The biggest thing is that we will need tracking numbers for anything that’s sent so we can actually receive the package. “

Sending monetary gift: DO NOT SEND TO JOHN BUTLER, BUT FOLLOW GUIDELINES BELOW:

Deputation Account: donate through your church’s FTM account, or

send check, written to Global Treasurer, Church of the Nazarene; write Joshua Haun Deputation Account on memo; write your church’s name, district, and church # under signature.

Personal Gift: the best way to send personal funds is through Venmo account – if you need information, private message me.

Do not send cash or personal check through mail to Bulgaria.

SINCERE APOLOGY

This caption “Turn up the volume has been added to the FB video recording of our 8/27/22 NMI Workshop. It should help listeners hear. I apparently spoke too softly (& too quickly). Thanks so much to anyone who patiently tried to hear! I appreciate your kindness.

QUESTION FROM WORKSHOP GUEST: How can churches receive NCM magazine by mail? Go to

https://ncm.org/stories/magazine/subscribe

and follow prompts to “Bulk Church Subscription”. You’ll be directed through process for ordering free quarterly NCM periodicals by mail at your church.