National Youth Day
The Assemblies of God National Youth Day is Sunday, April 15, 2012. This year celebrates the 65th anniversary of what started as National Christ Ambassador’s Day on March 9, 1947. In 1947, it was suggested that pastors bring messages in keeping with the day, have a youth rally during the evening service and take up an offering to support student ministries in your church, district and national offices. Since that day, those requests haven’t changed too much.
South Dakota Youth Ministries encourages you to use this day as a day to emphasize your students IN ministry while also focusing on at least one of the following connections that catalyze students toward becoming lifelong followers of Jesus Christ:
· Connecting with God – the key to an authentic faith
· Connecting with Family – the key to a “lived-out” faith
· Connecting with the Church – the key to perpetuating faith
· Connecting with Purpose – the key to a meaningful faith
Check out this website for more ideas, http://youth.ag.org/nym/youthday/.
Fine Arts/Winter Escape
NEW for 2012: STL Dodgeball Tournament on Friday night: $20 per team with $1 re-entry (all proceeds benefit STL) You won’t want to miss it.
Dates: February 17-18, 2012
Location: Rapid City, Bethel Assembly of God
Theme: RELENTLESS: After the One
Cost: Convention Registration: $25 (add $5 for optional Saturday lunch)
Fine Arts Participants add $10
Deadline: Add $10/person after February 3rd, 2012
Guest Speaker: Joe Donnell
2012 Official Rulebook
Promo Media
Complete information at www.sdyce.com/faf
What's New With Faith Case?
Are you using Faith Case in your children's ministry? Exciting things are happing with this exceptional tool! It is high quality, effective, and easily adaptable for any church size.
In this video, Rod Loy, executive presbyter and pastor leads a discussion about Faith Case and children's ministries with the AG national office children’s ministries leadership team. Learn more at http://www.faithcase.com.
Calibrate/OneDay Children's Ministry Training
Keynote Speaker: Scott Berkey, CMA National Director
Conference Focus: Children’s Ministry Workers
The One Day Trainings are designed to reach every leader who serves in children's ministries in your church with practical, hands-on children’s ministry training for the whole team. This includes leaders that serve in Girls Ministries, Royal Rangers, Sunday School, large-group or small-group ministries, Early Childhood, Outreach, etc. We have also intentionally priced this training so that every church can afford to send their whole team.
It is our goal to provide your leaders with relevant children's ministries training, expose them to great new resources, connect them with other leaders from their area and provide an individualized approach to help them solve the challenges they are facing at their churches. The One Day Training experience will also provide leaders a time to be spiritually refreshed with great worship and prayer times.
Location: First AG, Rapid City (map)
Lodging: Howard Johnson ($57.00 + tax) specify one king or two queen
Please mention "calibrate conference" when making your reservation by October 8th
(605)-737-4656 (map)
Download the event poster
Schedule:
Saturday
8:30 AM Registration Begins
9:00 AM Welcome & Worship
9:20 AM Segment 1: Evaluating Your Children’s Ministry
10:40 AM Morning Break / Giveaways
10:55 AM Segment 2: Teaching Kids What They Believe
12:15 PM Lunch
1:00 PM Product Spotlight
1:25 PM Segment 3: Effective Strategies for Reaching Kids
2:45 PM Afternoon Break / Giveaways
3:00 PM Q & A Time
3:30 PM Closing Segment
4:00 PM Close
Registration Information
Individual/Group Registration: Includes conference workbook, Saturday lunch, and all sessions. Click here to register online.- Register by 10/15/11: $30
- Register 5 or more and get your registration for $20 each until 10/15.
- After 10/15 all registrations are $40
Mobile CM Sign Up and Reporting
Campus Missionary sign-up and reporting has gone mobile! Now students can sign-up and report on their web-enabled mobile phones by entering www.campusmissions.com into a cell phone’s web browser (or use the QR code below). From there they can sign up as a new Campus Missionary or complete a monthly report. But this is more than just a mobile site – just add www.campusmissions.com to the phone’s Home screen (on IOS or Android) to make it a web app.
Final AIM update
We are sitting at the gate in the El Salvador airport waiting to board for Dallas. The team enjoyed a relaxing day at Atami beach yesterday and a memorable farewell service with missionaries Don and Terri Triplett and our national team. We are sad to leave but excited to return home. The trip does not end here as we are ready to put into action what we've learned and build on what God has done in our lives.
Please pray for nearly 5,000 all of the kids and youth and adults that we saw during our week of ministry, 500 of them made decisions to follow Christ. And thank you for praying for our long travel day home.
Your SD El Salvador team
Tuesday AM El Salvador Update
We have enjoyed two more great days of ministry! One grandmother's sight improved after the team prayed for her on Sunday night. An eleven year old boy with no father has a new pair of shoes because some guys on the team pooled their money and showed compassion. Numerous children and youth have come to Christ at schools and on the streets at various ministry programs. We are extremely blessed to be part of what God is doing here!
We're about to hop on the bus this morning for our final day of ministry. God has been so good to this team. We have been stretched, grown together, and our hearts are full of great victories and testimonies.The team is in good health and good spirits. We are ready to finish strong!
Please pray for our final day of ministry, our free day tomorrow, and our travel day on Thursday.
Thank you.
Your SD El Salvador team
El Salvador Weekend Update
A few pictures of El Salvador's beautiful children. This is why we are here...and why you have been praying at home.
Please continue to lift up the team. We are more than half way done and looking forward to finishing well. Sunday was a tremendous day at the central Castle church and at an evening campaign on the street. We've had a few upset stomachs but this morning everyone is feeling better and ready to serve. Please pray for strength and rest for the last few days.
Thank you,
Your SD AIM Team
AIM El Salvador: Friday Pictures
Ministry Day One
Today we started our six days of ministry. We are working on the cities of Apopa and Wasapa near San Salvador. We ministered in a school in the morning with the primary grades and the afternoon with the secondary grades and finished with a neighborhood program. The kids were excited to see "Americanos" and get out of class for some basketball and a little fun. Many lives were touched; it is great to see how God uses a sport to break down barriers and cause children to be receptive to the gospel. The teacher who helped us get in the school is a believer from a local church who disciples children from the school who commit their lives to Christ.
We have started well and look forward to many more opportunities to love kids in the next five days. Thank you for praying. We sense His hand upon us and we're powerless without Him.
Your SD AIM Team
