Home Announcements Meet the D.S. The Trailblazer Family News Youth Happenings Clergy Directory Online Library Reaching Out Photo Gallery Links Maps and Directions FAQ's		200 Mile Mission Walk Click Here to download the Pledge Sheet. 200 Mile Mission Walk Map Click Here. One of the themes for past Mission Walks was "We walk because they walk." The reference was made to the thousands of folks who walk everywhere but in particular the miles walked in order to find clean drinking water. This is where the idea originated for my upcoming mission walk. The concept of walking to raise funds for a particular cause is not new yet it is a means through which one can bring an awareness of a particular cause. On August 23, T-54 days and counting for the walk to begin from Oakmont UMC. The distance is about 200 miles. The purpose is to raise funds: Bethany House Academy an agency located in two public housing projects-one in St. Clair Village and the other in Northview Heights. These are two communities which face tremendous challenges in the area of employment, economics, education and crime. (Executive Director Keith Murphy) Project Happy Feet has been a Greensburg sponsored mission for many years. It is a partnership with Payless Shoes in which vouchers are provided to school nurses/guidance counselors so that families in need can purchase shoes for their children. Three years ago, when I began as a superintendent we had over $10,000 and currently we are less than $4,000. The economic crisis which has led to unemployment continues to mean that more families find themselves in need of this project. Eighth Avenue Place--- Least we forget we are the church and we are to call folks into relationship with Christ. Towards this end Eighth Avenue is a new church start in Homestead. Rev Keith Kaufold was our keynote speaker at District Conference. He has a story to tell and is committed to reaching new people in order that they might come to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, embodying the biblical mandate to love God and to love thy neighbor as ourselves. Beyond this goal of raising dollars for these projects the Greensburg Mission Team hopes that through this effort, awareness will be heightened to the need for each local church to be engaged in mission work beyond their local church-connecting to the communities in a way that is indicative as to how we are to model the love of God has for the people God has created. It is also hoped that through conversation and perhaps joint ventures congregations will develop sister relationships. One outcome is that congregations are strengthened through the interchange of best practices in ministry and sharing people resources in order to bare witness to God connecting people to people in order that we can see that preferred future which God has in store for us. In Philippians we find these words... Content Whatever the Circumstances I'm glad in God, far happier than you would ever guess-happy that you're again showing such strong concern for me. Not that you ever quit praying and thinking about me. You just had no chance to show it. Actually, I don't have a sense of needing anything personally. I've learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances. I'm just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I've found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty. Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am. I don't mean that your help didn't mean a lot to me-it did. It was a beautiful thing that you came alongside me in my troubles. You Philippians well know, and you can be sure I'll never forget it, that when I first left Macedonia province, venturing out with the Message, not one church helped out in the give-and-take of this work except you. You were the only one. Even while I was in Thessalonica, you helped out-and not only once, but twice. Not that I'm looking for handouts, but I do want you to experience the blessing that issues from generosity. And now I have it all-and keep getting more! The gifts you sent with Epaphroditus were more than enough, like a sweet-smelling sacrifice roasting on the altar, filling the air with fragrance, pleasing God no end. You can be sure that God will take care of everything you need, his generosity exceeding even yours in the glory that pours from Jesus. Our God and Father abounds in glory that just pours out into eternity. Yes. (The Message vs.10-20) The projects above have not asked directly to raise these funds but we continually see the need. Now is our time to share in this our mutual ministry. My prayer is that you will continue to find a way and a means through which we have full participation of each congregation on the district by having some activity or partnering with another congregation to raise funds for this Greensburg District project. Continued blessings as serve the One who has called us into mission and ministry, and Hotep! (peace or in peace)
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