Mission Committee

From Amy & Ryan McIntire:

Matthew 6:1-4

Be careful not to do your acts of righteousness before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Hi fellow class members!
Here is what we have lined up for mission work for the rest of the year; of course this is just an outline and if anyone hears of an opportunity to help others please jump in! Since it is pretty much already July, we have lined up our first project to be at the end of August/beginning of September. This will be to take dinners to the Studio 222. Julie Robinson has decided that when the children are there she wants to feed them as much as possible as many of these kids don't eat at all unless at the studio. She also shared with us that the kids LOVE it when the people that donate come to visit, so we offered to help with both for one week (a week for them is Monday-Thursday.) And of course if anyone is ever available to drive the busses to pick up or drop off, they desperately need drivers. Ryan has driven one of the busses and says they are very nice and very easy to drive. In October/November we will begin to focus on helping folks for Christmas time. One thing we can do is help the homebound with ingredients for soup and gifts of yarn to the SLUMC knitting group. And of course we can always adopt a family again as well if we want to.
The Studio 222 golf tournament is August 18th and for those interested in playing and want to do a class team contact Ryan. $150/golfer and $600/team
Please give us feedback on what you would like and don't like about our plan.

Feedback/Thank You's

I wanted to mention a few things class-wide, because we've had such a successful two months:

Laetitia, Amy and Marci: Thank you for making The Screwtape Letters a big success for the Sunday school class. The series offered a great ending to our quarter on the devil. The curriculum was a fun marketing concept and brought in several visitors. I'm excited to see our class getting into some dynamic lessons and discussions!!! We couldn't have pulled it off without you!

Laetitia and Jayne: Philip and I were delighted to have received an anniversary card from the Agape class...Compassion Ministry is an important part of our class in keeping members and fostering relationships! Thanks for the attention to detail!

Marci, Amy and Rachel: I appreciate your coordination of Agape's recent outings...Everyone enjoyed the bowling outing and is looking forward to some fun things being planned for the summer.

Philip: Thanks for letting me boss you around on the website stuff...it's an important marketing detail for prospects and current members!

Amy: The blog is great! Hopefully it can become a sounding board for all our classmembers to utilize! Thanks for taking the initiative to set it up!

Last, I wanted to get feedback on how well you think things are moving. We have some great leaders and great support members, but I'd like to know where you see room for improvement. If you don't feel comfortable telling the whole group, feel free to email me privately and we'll discuss. It's important for the class to be candid with one another in order to fulfill our spiritual development and have fun at the same time. The only way to make positive changes is through communication...so let us know how we're doing in the following categories, and/or if you have ideas! Feel free to critique me as well...I really want to know how to best lead the class. Another note, some of these committees haven't quite gotten off the ground, so it is okay if you would like to refrain from discussing...once curriculum gets going strong, we'll start working on the other areas!

Thanks for your participation! :)

Mission Committee:
How are we doing?
Ideas?

Prospect Committee:
How are we doing?
Ideas?

Class Leader:
How are we doing?
Ideas?

Social Committee:
How are we doing?
Ideas?

Compassion Committee:
How are we doing?
Ideas?

Curriculum Planning:
How are we doing?
Ideas?

Other thoughts to share?






Thanks again for being part in the success of Agape!
Heather :)