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I apologize because I haven't had time to code the Spring Scattered Chatter, but here it is for those who would like to view it online. You can view the attachment below and, as always, feel free to download, email and pass it around. I'll try to get this post updated with the content of the Spring Scattered Chatter as soon as possible. Andrew 
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103rd New Wilmington Mission ConferenceJuly 19-26, 2008
Summer Service Team Announced: CONGRATULATIONS to the 2008 SUMMER SERVICE TEAM!!! Destination: MALAWI See the website for their pictures and more information. Pray for the 2008 Team as they prepare to go.
- Meredith Myers - Concord, NC
- Jon Oegema - Lawton, MI
- Stephanie Smith - Pittsburgh, PA
- Hannah Teitt - Marysville, OH
- Naod Tekeste - Silver Spring, MD
- Christine Wright - Tullahoma, TN
- Beth Arnold - Pittsburgh, PA (Team Leader)
Chosen Generation Mission Conference: The first ever Malawi Mission Conference will be held from July 3-7, 2008 on the campus of the Natural Resources College in Lilongwe, Malawi. NWMC has made a commitment to partner with our brother Fletcher Matandika in this effort. Over 50 volunteers are working with Fletcher in Malawi to organize the conference; all have pledged to raise at least MK 20,000 ($143) for support of the conference. Committees in the areas of prayer, fundraising, publicity, organization, food and accommodation are already hard at work. 700 delegates are expected to come to the conference! The NWMC Summer Service Team will help with onsite organization and work for the conference..(More on web)
NWMC High School Delegates take Mission into their own hands: This past summer you may have noticed something different about the afternoons around campus. Did it look a little less crowded? Were there fewer students in line at Mugsies? That’s because each day groups of high school delegates were engaged in mission and service opportunities in and around New Wilmington. All of our 200+ delegates were asked to take one afternoon of their free time and dedicate it to serving God by serving others. Options included: spend time with residents at The Overlook, work with other conference volunteers assembling Aids kits, travel to New Castle for repair and remodeling work on area homes with His Hands Ministries, or travel to Youngstown to work with the Mahoning Valley Rescue Mission. Groups were led by counselors and other staff. While the type of work varied, everything from playing Bingo with the elderly to home repair, the common denominator was the great attitudes demonstrated by the students and their leaders, a witness to the grace and love of God and the excitement that comes from participating in His work. Almost 50% of the delegates voluntarily participated a second or third time. We are excited about this new component to the High School program that gives delegates a chance to actively engage in God’s mission in the world!
THANKSGIVING - a good time to review the past year and reflect on God’s goodness. If you have been blessed by NWMC, consider making a financial gift to Conference so that others might be blessed too. For more ways to give to Conference, check out the NWMC website.
2007 Summer Service Team back from Guatemala
Great weather and a good week! 977 registered delegates and staff came to the 102nd New Wilmington Mission Conference! Many more came as commuters during the week. Registrations in the youth delegate age groups were up by 21%!
FUNDS AND FUN At the 2007 NWMC all those who participated in the "Walk Around the Lake" and Golf Tournament had a great time and helped to raise $3,100 for the Development Funds. We also had the joy of seeing many new bricks laid in the "Memorial Brick Garden." Please continue to partner with us through these projects. For more information on ordering a brick, contact the NWMC office at 724-946-7195 OR Joan Dawson at 724-946-8828. PLEASE NOTE: the deadline for ordering a Memorial Brick is April 1, 2008. There will be NO EXCEPTIONS!! If you want your brick placed in the Garden for the 2008 Conference, place your order now!
A BIG THANK YOU to all who helped with the 2007 SERVICE PROJECT!! Delegates assembled 320 World Vision AIDS Caregiver Kits, 180 health care kits and 52 new baby kits for Covenant Hospital in Haiti, 78 nursing home kits, and several hundred foam craft gifts for missionaries to give in outreach. Children from Grade 2 through Senior High delegates were involved in the projects. The 2008 service project will be Operation Christmas Child.
2007 HIV AIDS Kits being sent to World Vision
VOICES FROM THE PAST - Have you ever wished you could once again hear that speaker from NWMC that impacted your life twenty years ago? Now you can! NWMC has a Lending Library of audio cassette tapes for most Institute Hour, Evening and Adult Bible and Mission Hours from 1971-1992. Remember names like Ray Nott, Juan Carlos Ortiz, Ed Fairman, Michael Wenning, Don Patchel, Thomas Tewell, Keith Brown?? Contact the NWMC office if you would like to borrow any of the tapes. Many thanks to the Bob Skinner family for donating the tapes!
2008 STAFF CHALLENGE
- Who: All 2007 NWMC staff
- What: meet with at least two groups or write two articles for a journal or newsletter
- When: between now and April
- Where: community, church, college . . .
- Why: to recruit delegates for NWMC 2008
- How: download the Power Point, contact us with date, address and number of brochures needed
Let’s fill the campus in 2008 "so that all may know".
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me . . ."
2008 Theme Verse Luke 4:18
SCHOLARSHIPS: In addition to scholarships, there are dining hall worker positions and a new lifeguard opportunity to help with Conference fees. NWMC also has several scholarship funds to assist in special types of mission work and seminary aid. Contact the NWMC office for details.
11 A.M. SPEAKER
Roger Nishioka
Edith Humphrey, Adult Bible Hour
Hunter Farrell, Director, PC(USA)
World Mission Program
Check the web site for updates to list.
Missionary Recognition Night
The NWMC Board of Managers had its Fall meeting October 12 and 13, 2007. The Chair of the Board is Ronee Christy. Members are: Alison Rhea, Ann McCord, Bill Crooks, Brian Stack, Brian Stahl, Caitlin Rohrer, Carl Templin, Carol Miller, Chip Stapleton, Cody Watson, Don Dawson, Ed Marquette, Frank Trotta, Ginny Teitt, Jan McClelland, Jim Mohr, Kelli Maravalli, Mark Juengel, Matt Boyle, Pam Pope Courtney, Sue Anne Fairman. See the website for contact information for each Board member.
The Nominating Committee of NWMC is charged with the responsibility of securing talented and representative members for the Board of Managers. Four members-atlarge are selected each year and delegates are encouraged to submit names at Conference. Since Board members serve a 3 year term, but are eligible for one reelection, there are often fewer than four slots available each year. This year a total of 18 delegates were suggested by NWMC attendees. Obviously, most of them cannot be nominated since there are, at most, only four openings. We ask for your patience and understanding as we seek new leaders for Conference. Keep submitting those names and we will do our best to follow the Lord’s leading in these matters.
New fax machine and copier needed for for your church! NWMC office. If you wish to assist with the cost, please send donations to the office.
Recent NWMC Board Meeting Highlights:
- Matt Boyle officially took over the position of Treasurer for NWMC. Welcome aboard, Matt! And THANK YOU to Tom Pratt for his years of service to Conference in that role.
- The Adult program of NWMC will have a "new look" in 2008. Instead of dividing adults by age groups into Careers and Adults, there will be two adult tracks or options for all adults, ages 25 and over. More details to come!
- Mission scholarship for Sarah Haddad
- After many years, the fees for NWMC were increased by $10.00 for all. The Family Cap remains the same.
Berlin Village, the newly constructed student apartments on Westminster’s campus near Anderson Auditorium, will be available to NWMC delegates in 2008. Each apartment has 4 single bedrooms and is airconditioned. Occupancy will be limited ONLY to part-time and full-time ADULT delegates (no children). There will be a $40 per night per person surcharge ($280) added to regular NWMC fees for these apartment spaces. Places will be granted on a first come, first serve basis.
The 2008 NWMC Brochure, Poster and Registration form will be sent to churches in November (ask your church to display the poster) and to delegates in early January. Check out the SUPER SAVER YOUTH GROUP DISCOUNT! Call the NWMC office at (724-946-7195) or send an email to office@NWMCmission.org if you need more brochures for your church!
Future NWMC Dates: July 18-25, 2009 and July 24-31, 2010
The 2008 NWMC Brochure, Poster and Registration form will be sent to churches in November (ask your church to display the poster) and to delegates in early January. Check out the SUPER SAVER YOUTH GROUP DISCOUNT PROGRAM! Call the NWMC office (724-946-7195) or email us at office@NWMCmission.org if you need more brochures or posters for your church!
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I'm glad to announce we've posted more podcasts from the 2007 NWMC. We apologize for the delays, but I've been posting the files almost as soon as the audio is received. That is an issue we're working to improve in the future.
Here are some of the meetings we've posted podcasts for:
Once again, I'd like to thank Matt Pagac and Rising Sun Productions for their enabling us to podcast these meetings. If you find these useful, please consider purchasing a higher quality CD from them.
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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. 
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Just to let everyone know, I probably won't have all of the media up from conference for a couple weeks, but I'll continue working and posting things as frequently as possible. Here's a rough outline of what you can expect and when. You can read this note on ways to stay up to date on what's new on the site.
Pictures
Thanks to Desta Courtney, I'm posting some of his best pictures. Some are already up and I should finish downloading them by some time tomorrow, so I'll try to post the rest tomorrow night. I've also posted a handful taken by myself and others. You can always upload your own pictures if you have an account (here's how to create an account if you don't have one). This post will show you how to post a picture to the site.
Podcasts
I've posted all of the morning meetings and all of the evening meetings except Thursday and Friday. I will post the rest of the ones Rising Sun recorded as I receive them, hopefully starting in a couple days and all of theirs up within a week or two. The high school recordings need edited and may be a little longer (we missed a few vespers and parts of some meetings won't be appropriate for podcasts so they won't be included). Unfortunately, I believe we only got a couple of the young adult meetings and they will take some editing as well, so they will be a couple weeks. I need to thank Justin Manon and Ali Rhea for their help in recording the high school meetings. Videos
I hope to post a new one of these every few days for the next few weeks. Unfortunately, they take over an hour for me to edit a video 1 minute of video, so it will take a lot of time and they won't be that fast (or professional). If you want a good video, I highly recommend getting one from Rising Sun. The ones I post are more to give people a "taste" of conference. The new videos will be topic based instead of for each day. Topics I'm considering include: Jr. High, high school, young adults, sports, prayer, and youth. I'm sure I'll have more ideas and that I won't have enough quality video for some of these, so please let me know if you have suggestions. If you have any questions, please feel free to add a comment or contact me. Andrew Dawson 
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I've attached The Chatter from Friday, July 27, 2007 as a PDF file . If you wish to print it,
please note the file is for legal sized paper.
Use the Friday.pdf link below to save or view the PDF file.
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I've attached The Chatter from Thursday, July 26, 2007 as a PDF file . If you wish to print it, please note the file is for legal sized paper.
Use the Thursday.pdf link below to save or view the PDF file. 
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I've attached The Chatter from Tuesday, July 24, 2007 as a PDF file . If you wish to print it, please note the file is for legal sized paper.
Use the Tuesday.pdf link below to save or view the PDF file. 
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I've attached The Chatter from Wednesday, July 25, 2007 as a PDF file . If you wish to print it, please note the file is for legal sized paper.
Use the Wednesday.pdf link below to save or view the PDF file. 
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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. 
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Yeah, I'm a little late on this one. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like I'm going to be able to keep pace, but I'll post what I can. I think I'm going to have to focus more on taking video while I'm here then edit and post fewer items now, but more over the long haul. I'll continue posting videos for the rest of the week, but they'll probably be shorter and more topic-oriented instead of daily summaries.
The good news is that some podcasts should be ready tonight. In the meantime, try to enjoy another taste of conference as best I can tell it through my video skills.
That all may know. 
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I've attached The Chatter from Monday, July 23, 2007 as a PDF file
. If you wish to print it, please note the file is for legal sized
paper.
Use the Saturday.pdf link below to save or view the PDF file. 
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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 
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I've attached The Chatter from Sunday, July 22, 2007 as a PDF file . If you wish to print it, please note the file is for legal sized paper.
Use the Saturday.pdf link below to save or view the PDF file. 
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This is just let people know the podcasts should be starting to show up in the next day or two. We've had some additional delays due to hardware and logistical issues, but will post them ASAP. 
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