Church Renewal Journey Newsletter

August 2010 Newsletter


Lawrence Family We wish the Lawrence family the very best as they begin their new ministry in Brooklyn, NY, as managers of the mission house, The David Dean House. The Lawrences have been a part of CRJ for many years and we have been so blessed knowing them, working with them and listening to their music. Their new e-mail address is daviddeanhouse@gmail.com.

Proverbs 22:6a tells us to train up a child in the way he should go. Many focus on the word "train" and miss the emphasis of the word "way".

Sometimes we want to train children in a direction that is not their way. Have you seen a loving parent so sure that their son or daughter will be what they think he or she should be?

We want to help children know their Heavenly Father and find the steps that He has ordered for them according to their individuality. What a blessing it is to have the God given privilege of working with His/our children.

Please make plans to attend the National Conference in October. I will see that you leave with a bundle of material and will even give you a "sack" to carry it in. I look forward to seeing you there.

May our Father richly bless you as you bless His/our children.

MSC National Children's Coordinator

jenny_4@charter.net

Preschool Information from Beth Anderson

For the past several months we have been working on materials for teaching preschoolers during our Church Renewal weekends.

Among the clipped and saved pages and "stuff" from various resources is an article written by Joye Smith in Startmagazine (August 2009, page 63). It reminds us that we who serve in the CRJ ministry are called to love as Jesus loves with unconditional love.

We who teach children love them where they are and point them toward God. We use the time during our Church Renewal weekends to let the children know that we love them because Jesus loves us.

We are looking forward to sharing experiences and materials at the national meeting with you who are interested in working with preschoolers. Let us know how we can help you.

Beth and Gary Anderson MSC National Preschool Coordinators bethanderson926@comcast.net

423-257-6881 or 423-360-1378 (cell)

	Mission Service Corps Missionary News There will be a lunch and separate meeting for all of our MSCMs at the Annual Conference on Friday the 29th. If you can attend, let Bob Foy at bob@foy.com or Ginger Chappell at chappellg@carolina.rr.com know that you can attend. See you there!

	God's Yellow Pages
Sorrowful Psalm 51 Matthew 5:4 John 14 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Tempted Psalm 1 Psalm 139:23-24 Matthew 26:41 1 Corinthians 10:12-14 Philippians 4:8 James 4:7 2 Peter 2:9; 3:17 Thankful Psalm 100 1 Thessaionians 5:18 Hebrews 13:15

We need you to make your reservation today!!

CRJ Annual Conference
Ridgecrest, NC
October 29-31, 2010

We have reserved the new building on campus, the Mountain Laurel Inn that has a 250 seat auditorium and breakout rooms plus lodging. So once you are checked in, you do not have to leave this building unless you desire to do so. Rocking chairs at the front of the conference center are pretty tempting though!

We will not be able to hold rooms much longer and need you to make your reservations right now!

Room rates per night:

Single - $85

Double - $85

Triple - $95

Quad - $105
Meals per person:
Five meals - $51.50
Reservations:

Ridgecrest is taking reservations at 800-588-7222. Let them know you are with National Church Renewal Conference.

Don't miss this opportunity for training as team members, coordinators, music leaders and MSC leadership.

	Tip of the Month
E-mails are being hijacked and used for fraud, so if you get a request on the Internet for financial help supposedly from a team member, you cannot be sure that information is correct or who the person requesting this help actually is, so our caution to you is not to respond on the Internet but contact them by phone to be sure you are dealing with the actual person.

August Renewal Weekends

8-13-10 LRW Covenant Baptist Church, Mt. Vernon, MO - Coordinator, G. B. Hambrick-TX
8-13-10 LMW Gumpond Baptist Church, Lumberton, MS - Coordinator, Terry Richards-TX - Resource Leader, Chuck Gaines
8-20-10 PEW Arrow Heights Baptist Church, Broken Arrow, OK - Coordinator, Darrell Raney-OK - Resource Leader, Lowell Snow-AR
8-20-10 LRW Dixie Hills Baptist Church, Bolivar, TN - Coordinator, Gary Anderson-TN
8-20-10 LMW Smyrna Missionary Baptist Church, Smyrna, NC - Coordinator, Tom Boberg-NC - Resource Leader, Brenda Boberg-NC
8-27-10 LRW Faith Baptist Church, Broken Arrow, OK - Coordinator, Walter Pritchard-OK
8-27-10 PEW Crossroads Baptist Church, Zachary, LA - Coordinator, Stuart Eubanks - Resource Leader, Jerry Kirby-LA
8-27-10 LRW Marie Baptist Church, Dublin, GA - Coordinator, Delmar Murdock-GA

	July Summary Report
Team Members Participating - 29 Church Members Participating - 240 Updated/New Team Members - 2 Prayer/Praise Reports - 9 Renewal Registrations/Inquiries/Overviews - 15 Number of Activities Completed - 14

Coordinator Information

REPORTS
Don't forget this summer to continue to send in your reports of Overviews and PGTs and Renewals.

TRAINING AT ANNUAL CONFERENCE
There is a lot of new information to pass on to you at the Annual Conference in October. Be sure you are there and bring some of your team members with you. You could even have a mini-state meeting during the weekend.

We will be looking for you!

Team Members

TEAM MEMBER HANDBOOK
Did you know that we have a Team Member Handbook? If you do not have one, request one at crj@namb.net and one will be sent to you.

TEAM MEMBER TRAINING
There will be training for you at the Annual Conference in October so be sure to be there and bring someone with you that you think would be a good team member.

RESPONDING TO INVITATION FOR RENEWAL WEEKEND
If you are asked by a coordinator to serve on a weekend, please respond back within a day or two. They need to know quickly if you can help to make sure they have enough team members to handle the weekend. Answer whether the answer is yes or no or we want to but need to get back with you in a few days. This is your responsibility, don't let the coordinator wait for an answer.

A Word From the Foys

Hey Team,

We have a lot of great weekends coming up this fall and I hope you are planning to be involved and let our Lord work His purpose through you on some of them.

Ginger Chappell and Kay Keisler have been busy getting the details worked out for our National CRJ Conference at Ridgecrest, NC, on Oct 29-31, 2010, and we sure hope you will be able to join us.

There will be inspirational speakers, a special ladies and men's lunch. There will be all kinds of breakout training sessions for new and experienced team members, coordinators, assistant coordinators, youth workers, children's workers and this year we are adding a preschool breakout and a music leaders breakout.

You need to plan to come and let's get ready for what God wants to do through the Church Renewal Journey in the coming years.

If any of you would like to come as a team member and experience the new Growing Disciples Weekend at Aversboro Rd Baptist Church in Garner, NC, on Oct 22-24, 2010, please let me hear from you. Claude King, the Disciple Specialist from LifeWay will be the weekend teacher.

We also need a very large visiting team for a Prayer/Empowering Weekend at First Baptist in Roanoke, VA, on Oct 8-10, 2010. If you would like to be invited, email and let me know. We would hope that each team member would have the chance to experience this powerful weekend.

You can go to www.churchrenewal.netand view the National Schedule of Weekends we are working on for 2010 and 2011. We would challenge you to be intentional about serving on a weekend. Pick a renewal from the schedule and email the coordinator and let them know you are available to help. Don't wait to be asked, be pre-prayed about serving.

We hope you will encourage your pastor and church to be involved in the national GPS (God's Plan for Sharing) promotion of our convention. "Every believer sharing and every person hearing." You can go to www.GPS2020.net to see all the ways a church can be involved. The theme for 2010 is "Prayer" and the theme for 2011- 2012 is "Equipping". Church Renewal Journey is a great tool for churches to use to get involved.

There is a lot of spiritual warfare going on and you need to be preparing and involved in the battles. Let's not lose all that God has blessed us with before we realize that we should have been involved.

Serving with joy,

Bob & Phyllis Foy

980 722-4777 cell

Bob@Foy.com