to the June-July 2015 Issue
NORTHEAST BEACON June/July 2015 NE Michigan Board President Couple Bill & Anne Essmaker 989-344-7440, (Bill) [email protected] (Anne) [email protected] Vice President Couple Dave & Karen Jarvi - 989-344-2633 (Dave) [email protected] (Karen) [email protected] Past-President Couple Bob & Alice Sturm -989-745-8081 (Bob)[email protected] 989-348-1554 (Alice)[email protected] Secretary Sarah Forman [email protected] Treasurer Storm Miller 989-390-1048 [email protected] National Board Representatives Dennis & Nancy Goff 231-229-4564 Dennis:dgoff@centurytell.net Nancy:ngoff@centurytel.net Spiritual Advisor Pastor John Bifoss - 989-370-3032 [email protected] Registration Shirley Schmoock - 989-889-5019 [email protected] Inventory - Temporary Alice Sturm- (C) 989-348-1554 [email protected] Historian Gayle Smith - 989-390-4436 Ultreya Hosts Michelson - Bill & Anne Essmaker Resurrection Life Center Aaron & Melinda Lovell 231-394-1150 Website Coordinator Bob Sturm - 989-745-8081 [email protected] Website: nemdecolores.com Newsletter Pat Kangas - 989-348-5634 [email protected] www.nemdecolores.com Greetings from the President Couple Welcome to our new Crucista’s! We give thanks and praise to our mighty God! As we turn the page and begin a new chapter in our journey to serve the Lord, we report that Men’s Weekends #13 (at Bear Lake Christian Church) and Women’s Weekend #14 (at Vanderbilt Community Church) are now a documented part of our onward trek of faithful service as disciples of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We give Him all the praise and glory for the successes of these weekends and realize that without the power of the Holy Spirit, our human efforts would not have been fruitful. God is good! After discussions at the May 9th board meeting, the board members voted to postpone the fall Men’s #15 Weekend due to three issues: lack of funds to properly support the weekend; lack of time to give the six-month prayer devotion required for the weekend; and lack of funds to support a women’s weekend within a few weeks after the men’s weekend. Although we regret having to postpone the weekends, we all agreed that prayer is absolutely necessary to properly hear God’s voice and direction for the weekends. As a faithful and obedient people, we know that the funds will make their way to us through our prayers, the generosity of our DeColores community, and our faith in our Great Provider. At the next month’s board meeting we will be selecting the Rectoress for the Women’s Weekend #16. Nominations for Rectoress remain open until the June 13th board meeting to be held at the Grayling E-Free Church, from 9:00 a.m. to Noon. The next Men’s and Women’s Weekends will be held after the first of the year, details of which will be discussed at upcoming board meetings. As a reminder and encourage- ment, board meetings are open to the DeColores community. The board welcomes you to come and share your ideas, opinions, and support. We are still looking for volunteers to help with coordinating the inventory, which will be much more manageable now with the new trailer. Please pray about how you can offer your talents and service. As we also turn the page from spring to summer, we again give thanks and praise for all the blessings we have received and for answered prayers: our new trailer (what a blessing it was for the past weekends); renewed vigor among our board members and their faithful service; all the new Crucista’s whose spiritual lives have been changed; the love we are able to share openly at our Ultreyas; and for the hope of God’s continued blessings on our Northeast Michigan DeColores secretariat. We thank you for the opportunity to give our service to the Northeast Michigan DeColores Secretariat. Peace and Love, Bill & Anne Essmaker “Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.” Philippians 4:6 (HCSB) YOUR 4th DAY This segment is intended to be an ongoing/continual reminder to stimulate each of you concerning your 4th Day. Hopefully this will stir your mind and thoughts, motivating and inspiring each of you to look inwardly at your own 4th Day and realize exactly what your 4th Day should be. Sit back. Think. Remember YOUR Weekend. Remember how excited and pumped up for God you were at it’s conclusion. You just couldn’t get enough of continued N.E.M. Men’s Weekend # 13 2015 AWESOME: The Men’s Weekend went on just the way GOD intended. With a few bumps and hiccups in the road - CHANGES - that occurred, God’s weekend succeeded. The lives of six candidates (now Crusista’s) were dramatically changed in the most positive ways. And THAT IS the reason for each of these weekends. Craig Collen, Cory Malknecht, Ashley Nyland, Ryan Price, Dan Sanderson, and Kevin Sirrais, this weekend was for you. Each of you are now part of a new family of God. So step out into your 4th Day, come join and grow with the rest of us. I felt truly blessed and honored to be the Rector of DC #13. I would like to express my deepest thank you to each and every person who participated in this weekend - Inside Team - Outside Team Prayers - Palanca. No one is either more or less important to the success of the weekend (this also includes members from the Northern Michigan DeColores community). All make for a STRONG Community. Again I would like to express my Thank You to the Northeast Michigan DeColores Community for allowing me to be the Rector for DC#13. God Bless & DeColores! - David Jarvi aren’t just fancy words and sayings designed to impress all your friends, Christian as well as non-Christian. Your 4th Day is what God expects from each one of you in this De Colores Community/family. Do you have an Accountability Partner? Do you participate in a small YOUR 4th DAY continued Grouping with a few fellow CrusisHim. Everyone shared their feelings ta’s. Do you carry your little Reunion and emotions at Closing. Your first Guidelines Card? Do you use it on Ultreya after the Weekend. We’ve all a regular basis? Deep down in your been there. We’ve all experienced the heart, are you committed to support“high” for our Lord. ing NEM De Colores as a family comBut what has happened since? How munity of fellow Christians or are you is your Piety? What about your Study? just sitting back waiting and expecting How has your Action been going? the De Colores community to do someThink back to the Rollo’s. What each thing for you? Rollista presented during their talk. A community cannot be a commuReally think about it. Try to remember nity without each and every individual how it touched you. Don’t just day- committed to its betterment and being dream about it. It was important and willing to do their part. As Paul says in serious to you on the weekend. Now 1 Corinthians 12: 12-27, no part of the that you know their meanings, they body is able to function without every should be that much more important to other part. No one is greater or lesser. the rest of your life. Their not just idle All are equal. This is YOUR community words that anyone can say. You must and this is YOUR 4th Day. take ownership for them and impleDe Colores David & Karen Jarvi ment them into your daily life. They Vice President Couple N.E.Michigan DeColores P.O.Box 445 Grayling, MI 49738 address
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