News and Updates!

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ADVENT: Disciples Faith at Home (and Church) for Families

$25.00: Includes Advent Guide, Character Cards, Templates, Worship Guides, and stories for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany.  (Order Here)

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1st Monday ZOOM! 2:30 EST

Join us for the most informative 1 hour of your month as we engage with amazing people, share resources, and continue innovatively doing the work God has called us to do for God's people! We meet mostly the 1st Monday of the month (unless there are holidays, like Labor Day in September). 

Monday, November 1st: Just Say Know Ministries:

Provides faith-based comprehensive human sexuality and relationship education through curriculum, workshops, seminars, camps, and training programs. Guest Speaker: Michael Ratliff

Monday, December 6th: Week of Compassion & Wonder Awaits 
Guest Speaker & Author: Rev. Caroline Hamilton-Arnold
(New book) Wonder Awaits invites kids and their families to notice the wonder in this world God made. Week of Compassion is a ministry of the whole Church, reaching those in need "around the world, around the year.” 
 

Applications for General Youth Council

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Worktime in the CW&W Center
October 15, 2021, Fri. 6-9pm CST
Cost $25
Trainer: Julia Jordan-Gillett

Good-Byes and Hellos...

Ministries Across Generations is sad to announce the passing of our Ministry Associate, Wilma Shuffitt.  She worked with DHM for nearly 12 years and served as support for several ministries. We are grateful for her servant heart, commitment to helping others and love for her family and friends. Over the past year she had helped update the website, virtually assist all the various needs of CW&W, the social media needs of MAG, and this newsletter. 

Ministries Across Generations is excited to announce a new member of our team!
Rev. Monique Crain Spells has been called as the new Director of Christian Education/Faith Formation -Merger Staff for Disciples Home Missions and the National Convocation. (Full article.) Monique also comes with a little person who will also be invited to share his voice! 

Christmas Mission Project (More details)
Looking for an easy, yet very meaningful hands-on mission project for your children, youth or family to do during this pandemic time of all-too-much time at home or in “virtual reality”?
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This project is simple but very meaningful because it will provide some 5000 asylum seekers (many of whom are children) in detainment at Eloy Detention Center in Eloy, Arizona with the only Christmas present they are going to receive.

MORE - Advent Resources

Light a Candle with Children 2021 - Daily Reflections
Light a Candle WITH Children is a daily devotion that invites congregations to join in prayer and devotions with our children. The vigil begins four weeks before the National Observance of Children’s Sabbath sponsored by the Children’s Defense Fund, Washington, DC. Thousands of congregations from multiple faith groups unite during Children’s Sabbath weekend to simultaneously witness for children through prayer, education, and worship. 

You can find the daily devotion:
Website: http://lightacandle.blogspot.com/ (Also check out previous years!) 

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Opening CW&W Centers in a Pandemic (PDF)​

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​Coronavirus, Anxiety, Children and the Church (Building Faith)
 

How Your Children’s Ministry Can Emerge Stronger and Better After COVID-19 (Faith Formation Ministries) ​
 

CDC Guidelines

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Last updated by OU 10/21