Two important dates in August

August 14 - Rethink Church - to be held at the Northeast Region Center

Two persons from United Methodist Communications (UMCom) will be presenting a workshop on Rethink Church. Although this was scheduled as a CEU opportunity for clergy, the workshop is available and suitable for the entire church. The purpose of this workshop is to help our churches develop practical short-term action steps as well as long-term plans toward implementing Rethink Church into the overall mission and ministry of our churches realizing that church is beyond those four walls on Sunday. Please contact the conference office and let Linda know how many from your congregation will be attending in order to have a good number for the meal count as well as program material. 405-632-2006

August 28 - Volunteer in Mission (VIM) training - Conference office

Richard Norman, Oklahoma Conference Coordinator of Disaster Response and Jeremy Bassett, Director of Volunteers in Mission for the Oklahoma Conference will be presenting a training for those that would like to participate in a VIM project. After taking several teams on a VIM project from our conference, it has become evident that we could use some specialized training on how to be a better VIM team. We encourage anyone that has an interest on going on a VIM project to attend this very worthwhile workshop/training. All Council on Local Church Ministries members, United Methodist Women, United Methodist Men and youth who are interested in Volunteers in Mission are encouraged to attend this training. Please contact the conference office by the 15^th of August if you or persons from your church or organization are planning on attending. 405-632-2006

The next VIM project will be to Dulac, Louisiana September 22-26, 2010. We need no more than nine persons. Cost will be $125; $70 will need to be paid by September 1^st in order for us to prepay for our stay. Please contact me if you or someone from your church/organization is interested in participating. Those participating will need to attend the VIM training on the 28^th.

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Items for Sale

If you were a repeat delegate to annual conference you may have noticed that the Native hymn books were no longer in your packets. Due to the cost of production those songbooks are now a for sale item here in the conference office. They are being sold for $3 each and there is a limited supply. These songbooks would be great for those churches that do not have tribal hymn books available for their congregations.

Also we have 20 children's t-shirts left from annual conference, ten small and ten medium. These t-shirts are $10 each and make a good collector's item.

We still have calendars available at $20 each. This calendar is a good collector item as all churches except three are featured somewhere in the calendar; all conference dates are included as well as pastor birthdays. This is one of a kind item and will not be repeated.

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3020 S. Harvey
Oklahoma City, OK 73109
Office: 405-632-2006
FAX: 405-632-0209

Resident Bishop: Robert Hayes, Jr.
Conference Superintendent: Rev. Dr. David M. Wilson
Interpretation and Programs: Josephine Deere

Disaster Coordinator: John Underwood
Administrative Assistant: Linda Draper

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