Northern Hills Congregational Care Ministry Training……Training laity in the care of the church congregation.

Spearfish United Methodist Church invites you to Congregational Care Ministry training on                  February 20, 2016.

What is Congregational Care Ministry?
Why is it important?
What has Spearfish UMC learned?

Topics to be covered include:

Prayer*Wesleyan Care*Visitation &Listening*Boundaries*Ministry to Frail & Dying

Registration is $30 and includes:

• Handouts
• CCM  resource book by  Rev. Karen Lampe
• Lunch

Safe & Sacred Spaces training will be offered on Friday, February 19.  This basic training ensures the safety of all people in our churches; physically, emotionally, sexually, and spiritually.    

Please let us know that you plan to attend.   This will help us plan for correct number of supplies.

• Safe & Sacred Spaces on Friday, February 19, 2016                                           FREE

• Congregational Care Ministry Training on Saturday, February 20, 2016       Cost is $30

• Safe & Sacred Spaces AND Congregational Care Ministry Training            Cost is $30

Registration and payment are available on-line at www.spearfishumc.org. Download a printable copy to mail with your check.

UMVIM Team Leader Training (TLT) – Huron First UMC, Jan 30, 2016.  Events Starts: 8:30am – 1:30pm. Cost: $27.00, includes manual and light lunch.  Trainer: Lorna Jost, UMVIM Coordinator, North Central Jurisdiction. (Feb 13 will be alternate date, if weather interferes.)

This approximate 5 hour training equips individuals to lead national and international teams to approved United Methodist project sites.  It touches on what constitutes an UMVIM team, team duties and dynamics, cultural understanding, team spiritual formation, tips for travel and fundraising, timeline for organizing a team, forms and insurance options.   

The main reasons to become a trained team leader are:

To Do NO Harm while serving with others

To Do Good while serving with others

To Stay in Love with God while serving with others

Leading a mission journey is not a game to be taken lightly but a covenant to enter into with God and the Host community as we practice sharing and mutuality in mission.  There are so many facets to the experience and people do not need to go into it blindly nor do they have to reinvent the wheel!  We do not desire to “control” as much as to help facilitate the process of volunteering when training team leaders.

Team members or those considering leading their own team in the future would also benefit greatly from this course!

To register contact Judy Thompson, Mission and Outreach Chair, 1123 Illinois Ave., Huron, SD 57350, C: 605-354-0777, jurothompson@hur.midco.net.  Register at least one week before the training.

Mission journey to UMCOR Sagar Brown Depot

Dakotas Conference announces mission journey to UMCOR Sager Brown Depot, Baldwin, LA, June 4-12, 2016. Travel (motor coach), lodging and meals $875 + $50 project fee per person.  30 max. Work may include sorting and shipping relief materials and assembling cleaning kits, maintenance of the facility, gardening and landscape work or community outreach.  Side trips to see alligators, hot peppers, life on the bayou and maybe a sunset on the gulf. Contact Beth Niemeyer, Brookings FUMC, leader, 605-697-9111, bopn@brookings.net.  $150 non-refundable deposit due by Jan 11, 2015 to reserve a place on this team.  Will leave Brookings, SD early June 4 and return home late June 12.