“VALENTINES FOR JESUS”…
but We’ve Just Finished Celebrating Christmas!
Each January, we start getting inquiries about our new “Valentines for Jesus” project. This annual children’s project has become extremely effective on our district, involving children in our churches in raising funds for “their project.”
We’ve even adopted the policy that the new project is always announced at Children’s Camp! The 2023 project is for the Ukrainian Community Center, serving Ukrainian refugees in Poznan, Poland. Dec. 6 newsletter had a link to a great article in NCM magazine about the center. There are two videos from Missionary Hayley Tarrant at
There is also a poster, with instructions for mailing offering. Additional resources will be posted at that site. Weekly Newsletter will alert you to new resources as they are added.
READ HOW KNOXVILLE SOUTH CHURCH HAS BEEN INVOLVING THEIR CHILDREN ALL YEAR:
From Knoxville South NMI President, Marie Valentine:
“I wanted to let you know that Knoxville South has been planning for “Valentine’s for Jesus” since October 2022. We began a competition between the Men and the Women to help the Children also raise the funds. Currently, most of our children are female so the females have an advantage over the males currently.
Sister Ford is a great help to me! She decorated small coffee cups for the children to save their money at home for this project since the funds are for the Coffee House. They were each given a coffee cup back in October. We will see next month how they have done on their own!
To keep the competition going, we have a promotion in front of the Sanctuary with a large coffee canister for the Men and the Women. Sister Ford decorated the Women’s canister. Come to find out this morning, Pastor Kenny has been putting his money in the Women’s Canister! Ha! Ha! This morning when we told him, he took it out and put it in the Men’s Canister! Ha! Ha!”
SPEAKING OF VALENTINES…
To find mailing addresses to send Valentines to our missionaries, go to etnmi.org, and click “Care and Connections” tab. Even if they arrive after Valentine’s Day, cards will be enjoyed.
GREAT IDEA: Estill Springs Church of the Nazarene kids will make a VALENTINES Video & send to our missionaries! You’ll also find our missionaries’ web addresses on “Care and Connections” page.