New Wilmington Mission Conference

Westminster has been kind enough to grant us 250 guest accounts to connect to their network and the internet this year (both wired and wireless). 

If you would like one of the accounts, please download this form, fill it out and mail it in to the office if you would like one.

Sue Ann has informed me we have the following recordings available.  Contact the office for details.

 

Audio Tapes and CD's (most donated by Bob Skinner and Diana Tinker)

 

1971-1978            Various unmarked tapes of speakers and programs

 

1979                       Keynote Address:  Ed Fairman

                                Institute Hour:  Juan Carlos Ortiz

                                A series by Dr. Jerry Kirk

                                Drama Night:  "The Beginnings"

 

1980                      Keynote Address:  Ed Fairman

                                Institute Hour:  Rev. Ray Nott

                                Evening Programs:  Saturday - Dr. Ken Bailey

                                                             Monday - Tom and Janene Scovel

                                                             Wednesday - Birthday Celebration

                                                             Thursday - Drama Night "The Week That Shook the World"

                                                             Friday - Summer Service Program

 

1981                     Keynote Address:  Ed Fairman

                                Evening Programs:  Rocky Bleier

                                                              Dr. Sam Calian

                                                              Marion Fairman

                                                              Summer Service Program

                                NWMC Music

 

1982                       Keynote Address:  Ed Fairman

                                Institute Hour:  Rev. Bill Jackson

                                Evening Programs:       International Night

                                                                          Tim Fairman

                                                                          Drama Night "Martin's Miracle"

                                                                          Summer Service Program

 

1983                     Keynote Address:  Ed Fairman

                                 Institute Hour:  Rev. Keith Brown

                                 Sunday Worship:  Rev. Tim Fairman

                                 NWMC Music

 

1984                       Keynote Address:  Rev. Don Patchel

                                 Institute Hour:  Ed Fairman

                                 Adult Bible Hour:  Dr. Ken Bailey

                                 Drama "A Stranger No More"

                                 NWMC Music

 

1986                       Keynote Address:  Rev. Don Patchel

                                 Institute Hour:  Dr. James Glasse

                                 Adult Bible Hour:  Rev. Harold Kurtz

                                 Adult Mission Hour:  Benjamin Weir

                                 Evening Programs:     Saturday - Ben Weir

                                                                         Sunday - Michael Wenning

                                                                         Monday - Harold Kurtz

                                                                         Tuesday - Carol Weir

                                                                         Wednesday - Summer Service 25^th Anniversary

                                                                         Thursday - Drama "Heavenly Court"

                                                                         Friday - Summer Service Program

                                 NWMC Music
 

 

1987                       Keynote Address:  Rev. Don Patchel

                                Institute Hour:  Juan Carlos Ortiz

                                Adult Bible Hour:  Dr. Michael Wenning

                                Adult Mission Hour:  Rev. Fuad Bahnan

                                Evening Programs:     Saturday - Nashaat Bhaly & Rev. Debele Biri

                                                                        Monday - Sam Rutigliano

                                                                        Tuesday - Drs. Forrest Eggleston & Norval Christy

                                                                        Wednesday - Birthday Celebration

                                                                        Thursday - Drama "Prayerables"

                                                                        Friday - Summer Service Program

                                NWMC Music

 

1988                      Keynote Address:  Rev. Don Patchel

                               Institute Hour:  Rev. Thomas Tewell

                               Adult Bible Hour:  Dr. Robert Kelley

                               Adult Mission Hour:  Dr. Ken Bailey

                               Evening Programs:     Saturday - Edwin Salas & So Young Sohn

                                                                        Monday - Dr. Donald Evans (VIM)

                                                                        Tuesday - Jacquline Townsend (former Miss America)

                                                                        Wednesday - Dr. Kenneth Hall, Moderator, General Assembly

                                                                        Thursday - Drama "It Is a Wonder"

                                                                        Friday - Summer Service Program

 

1989                     Keynote Address:  Rev. Don Patchel

                                Institute Hour:  Dr. Gary Demarest

                                Adult Bible Hour:  Dr. Jack Rogers

                                Adult Mission Hour:  Dr. Paul Musser

                                Evening Programs:     Saturday - Rev. Clifton Kirkpatrick

                                                                         Monday - The Overseas Church

                                                                         Tuesday - Rocky Bleier

                                                                         Wednesday - Drs. Norval Christy & Bert Saunders

                                                                         Thursday - Drama "The Case of the Missing Body"

                                                                         Friday - Summer Service Program

                               NWMC Music

 

1990                      Keynote Address:  Rev. Don Patchel

                               Institute Hour:  Rev. Joanna Adams

                               Adult Bible Hour:  Dr. James Davison

                               Adult Mission Hour:  Dr. G.T. Brown

                               Evening Programs:     Saturday - Mr. Noriel Sicad & Dr. Sunday Ochoche

                                                                       Monday - Marj Carpenter

                                                                       Tuesday - Tim Fairman

                                                                       Wednesday - Rev. Clint Marsh

                                                                       Thursday - Drama

                                                                       Friday - Summer Service Program

                               NWMC Music

 

1992                      Institute Hour:  Rodger Nishioka

 

 

1994                    Keynote Address:  Rev. Don Patchel

                            Institute Hour:  Rev. Stephen McConnell

 

1996                    Institute Hour:  Dr. Renny Domske

 

1997                    Keynote Address:  Rev. Don Patchel

                            Institute Hour:  Dr. William Carl

                            Adult Bible Hour:  Dr. Andrew Purves

                              Wednesday Evening Program:  Dr. Bill Lowrey and Tribute to Ed Fairman by Tim Fairman

 

1998                    Keynote Address:  Rev. Don Patchel

                            Institute Hour:  Dr. Michael Wenning

                            Sunday Worship:  Lowry McCown

                            Wednesday Evening Program:  PC(USA) Moderator Douglas Oldenburg

 

2002                      Institute Hour:  Rev. Hananiah Zoe

Sunday Worship:  Dr. Ken Bailey, Rev. Christine Callison

Monday Evening Program:  Dr. Bill Bryant

Wednesday Evening Program:  Dr. Fahed Abu-Akel

 

2003                      Institute Hour:  Rev. Dr. Scott Sunquist

Adult Bible Hour:  Jerry Andrews

Adult Mission Hour:  Tom Theriault

                            Evening Programs:      Saturday:  Rev. Don Dawson

                                                                    Sunday:  Dr. Scott Sunquist

                                                                 Monday:  Rev. Dan Force

                                                                 Tuesday:  Mahin Banu & Barbara Busse

                                                                   Wednesday:  Rev. Dr. Marian McClure

                                                                 Thursday:  Drama Night

                                                                      Friday:  Summer Service Program

 

2004                      Assorted Music and Evening Programs, The Best of 2004 CD

2005                      Institute Hour:  Various speakers each day

Adult Bible Hour:  Dr. Ken Bailey

 

2006                      Saturday Evening meeting: Dr. Tony Campolo

 

2007                      Morning Meeting:  Rev. Jim Walker

                            Adult Bible Hour:  Rev. Glenn McDonald

                               Adult Mission Hour:  Dr. Alan Seaman

                               Adult Vespers:  various Mission Staff

                               Career Mission Hour:  Shane Bennett

                               Evening Meetings:  Saturday:  Steve Saint

                                                               Sunday:  Mrs. Veeda Javaid

                                                               Monday:  Rev. Andrew Adair

                                                            Tuesday:  Rev. Joan Gray

                                                               Wednesday:  Rev. Koku Atakro

                                                               Thursday:  PW Gopal Concert

                                                               Friday:  Summer Service Team, Guatemala

--Additional non-NWMC tape series by Dr. Bruce Thielemann

I'm pleased to announce online registration is now available for the 2008 NWMC.  It hasn't changed much for those who used it last year.  Please let us know if you have any questions, concerns or suggestions about this process.

As always, you can still download the registration form and mail it in to the office.

You can view a summary of the costs for the 2008 NWMC here.
 

This is just to let everyone know the 2007 NWMC address lists have been emailed to the address everyone registered with unless you updated it at conference.  If you haven't received it, please check your junk email filters.  A number of people have had problems with spam filtering software identifying the mail as spam.  If you have further questions, please contact the office at office@nwmcmission.org.

I'm sorry to announce it doesn't look like we'll have any more podcasts for a couple days, but here is how they will be posted.  I hope to start posting the remainder of the morning and evening meetings (in Anderson) Friday afternoon and to have them all posted by the end of the day Saturday.

The podcasts for Bible Hours, Mission Studies and Vespers will then be posted over the next couple weeks as I have time to touch up the ones we recorded ourselves and Rising Sun has the opportunity to finish working on their recordings and get them to me.

Please feel free to contact me or post comments if you have any questions.

P R E S S   R E L E A S E

For Immediate Release

 

This week people from all over the world will gather in New Wilmington to make a difference.  Sleepy New Wilmington is home to the New Wilmington Mission Conference, a 102 year traditional gathering of Presbyterians who care about missions. The week-long event is marked by speakers and singing, prayer meetings, and small groups, all intent on learning about what in the world the Church is doing in mission.

While there, the youth will do some mission service themselves.

Junior and senior highs will visit the local nursing homes, playing bingo, talking and making friendships with older adults three and four generations older – usually five and six times their age. They will make a small gift for each person they visit as a way to “break the ice” and as a reminder of the visit.

Elementary children will make handmade crafts for mission workers in Ethiopia and Taiwan. In addition, they will make health care kits for a rural hospital in Mombin Crochu, Haiti. A simple zip lock plastic bag will hold basic items for hygiene – a washcloth, soap, tooth brush and tooth paste, three Band Aids and safety pins, a pen and small notebook.  Paul and Joan McClain, who worked at the Covenant Hospital say even these simple items are more than most Haitians can afford.  The children will assemble about 125 kits, which will be shipped to Haiti, courtesy of the Sixth Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh.

They will even have a car wash to raise money for a specific mission project.

 But the main service project this year is to gather and assemble the items needed to make 700 AIDS Care Kits, promoted through World Vision, an international Christian relief organization. 

40 million people worldwide are living with HIV.  Local caregivers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are already helping families affected by HIV and AIDS.  But they lack simple items needed to prolong lives and comfort the sick. Caregivers are family members and local volunteers around the world who are providing compassionate support to people living with AIDS.  Hardworking community volunteers offer physical and emotional support to affected households, while family members—many of them children—sacrifice everything to care for sick mothers, fathers, and other relatives.  Many of these courageous caregivers lack the basic supplies they need to safely and effectively minister to the sick. 

Caregiver Kits are filled with basic supplies that improve and prolong the lives of those living with AIDS while protecting caregivers and preventing the spread of infection.  Each kit consists of a carrying case filled with:  Antibacterial soap, Petroleum jelly, Antifungal cream, Cotton balls, Latex gloves, Washcloths, Notebook and pens, Flashlight with batteries.  A handwritten note is included in each kit to encourage the caregiver who receives the supplies.  

First Lady Laura Bush was recently on ABC Good Morning America promoting the World Vision AIDS Care Kits. See the video at  http://worldvision.org/  or

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3321172&lid=gma&lpos=day:txt:first_lady

On Friday, the kits will be boxed and loaded into a semi-truck, where they will begin their long journey across the country, and across the world, carrying hope, love and care, in the form of soap and medicine, to a world which needs them all.

It’s been said that “God is in the details.”  The truth is, you can see God’s loving hand in each of the estimated 17,000 items that we will assemble this week.

·         20 items for AIDS kits per kit, times 700 kits, equals 14,000 items.

·         14 items for Haiti health care kits, times 125 kits, equals 1,750 items.

·         9 items for Nursing Home gifts, times 125 elderly, equals 1,125 items.

·         10 items for New Baby kits, times 50 kits, equals 500 items.

·         Handmade gifts for mission workers in Ethiopia and in Taiwan, approx. 500 items.

 

 

For more information please contact the New Wilmington Mission Conference office at (724) 946-7195.

 

Submitted by Rev. Barbara Price-Martin,

Service Project Staff

New Wilmington Mission Conference

229 S. Market Street

New Wilmington, PA 16142

724.946.7195

Here's a quick note from Jen Morris about some of the musical events going on this year:

Hello everyone.  I will once again be waving my arms around with Choir.  David Bailey is going to be leading the Careers singing - yahoo! I'll be singing out loud and strong with the rest of you! It's going to be an amazing week! 

I writing you all to let you know of a couple of musical notes to note. Choir rehearsal will be held in McKelvey in the Witherspoon room.  Yes - it is wonderfully air conditioned!!!  Hopefully this will inspire even more people to raise their voices in praise.  Choir members will be allowed to go to the front of the line in Browne Dining Hall.  Lunch is at 12:30 this year - and Conference Choir will be from 1:15-2:15pm. I'll also be directing a new Praise Choir.  This choir is open for the 21 and younger crowd.  Hopefully this will give a place for our HS and College kids - and even our musical Jr highers - to come and give their praise in song.  That choir will also meet in McKelvey from 2:30 - 3:30pm. (Just in case some of the kids want to sing in both groups- that's fine) Please let your delegates and kids know about this new and exciting choir.  They will be singing on Friday - probably 2 songs. I've been burning CDs of the music for both choirs.  They'll all be ready for you to pick up at registration.

Speaking of using your gifts - especially with music - please consider what gifts you may want to share with our conference family.  Do you play guitar, drums, flute, keyboards?  Do you like to sing and lead children or Jr Highs or....just sing? There are many places for gifts to be used at NWMC.  We just don't know who to ask - who plays what - or who wants to share. Maybe you'd like  to help one day or everyday. Ed Marquette and I will be at a "Musical Gifts" table at registration.  We'll have the choir music for both choirs, and also sign up sheets for you to let us know of your own gift - if you would like to add in to our music ministry.  This isn't meaning to put you in front of Anderson Auditorium for a solo if you say you play guitar.  Rather, could you give up 30 minutes one morning to play "Jesus Loves Me" with the 4-5 yr olds? Or sing "To Be Alive" and "Chicken Sandwich" with the Jr Highers?  It's going to be awesome to see where God leads us with our Music ministry.

OK - Time to Pack!  See ya there!

Blessings,

Jen Morris

2007 WALK OR RUN AROUND THE LAKE.  Tuesday and Wednesday after Morning Meeting or Wednesday 7:00-8:30 A.M. This is a great way to meet new people and benefit the NWMC Endowment Foundation. START NOW!  Get your pledge forms from your registration packets or from the webpage. Collect your pledges (and the $) from your church, your session, or your mission committee, and bring the $ to the “Walk.” JOIN THE OTHER KIDS AND ADULTS who meet at the back of Anderson  Auditorium to walk or run the scenic (under 1 mile) path around Britain Lake, and give back to this 100 year old conference.