157 attended Celebrate Life this year! We were led in worship by the youth bands from Pekin First & Point of Change. Todd Keller, District NYI President brought us the morning message. Our district is blessed with incredibly talented young people both in the arts and athletics.
NWIL Allies will represent our distirct at Field Celebrate Life in the following categories. SPORTS: Boys & Girls Basketball, Hot Shot, Free Throw, Dodgeball, 5K Run, Home Run Derby, Boys & Girls Volleyball, co-ed Soccer, Bowling, Chess, Table Tennis and Tennis. THE ARTS: Drama, Puppetry, Dance. Vocal, Praise Band, Keyboard, Instrumental, Still Photography, Art-Drawing, Art-Painting, Sculpture/Craft. Bible Quizzing and Science Trivia Quizzing. THE ARTS results are as follows: Superior: 28 Excellent: 18 Good: 8.
Be looking for Field Celebrate Life information.
May 10-12, 2018 at Olivet Nazarene University.
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DISTRICT ASSEMBLY - April 6-7, 2018 - Pekin First
CONVENTION - April 28, 2018 - Pekin First
TEAM DAY - August 4, 2018 - Pekin First
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Nazarene Missions International
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Renee Kindle
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WORK & WITNESS TRIP
Two Rivers, Alaska
Deadline to apply: January 31, 2018
Please mail all forms to:
Renee Kindle
PO Box 138
Tiskilwa, IL 61368
MEDICAL RELEASE FORM
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Steiger Missionary Network Training
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Special Training March 2018
Friday, March 9th 6:30pm-9:00pm
Saturday, March 10th 8:30am-noonish
continuance training...attend both Friday and Saturday
Cost: $10
(collected at the door)
This training event is open to the public.
Bridgeway Community Church
3216 Veterans Drive
Pekin Illinois 61554
Aaron and Ben Pierce are leaders within the Steiger Missionary Network, one of Bridgeway's Global Partners. Steiger seeks to share the Good News of Jesus Christ to the Global Youth Culture through creative means of evangelism, music, dance, drama, and art.
Jesus in a Secular Culture:
Having traveled extensively throughout the world, Aaron and Ben have a unique perspective on Global Christianity and the powerful influences of secularism on the Glob
al Spiritual Climate. They will spend the weekend of March 9th-11th at Bridgeway Community Church sharing what they've learned.
As a special treat for the Bridgeway Community across both campuses, Ben and Aaron will be sharing with us throughout all our weekend services.
-Rev. Jeff Stark
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Nazarene Youth International
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Mark your calendars
July 23-27, 2018
July 22-26, 2019
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 J. Todd Keller
District NYI President
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Bible Quizzing Information
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2018
01/20 - Smithfield
02/17 - Sterling Invitational
03/17 - Galesburg
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 -Ministry Call-
NMI with the collaboration of NYI and SDMI has been trying to compile a list of children and youth who have expressed a call into ministry. The goal of NMI's Ministry Call is to educate, inform and guide those children and youth called into ministry get as much help in following through with those calls. Being able to pray for them by name and introducing them to opportunities to develop in their particular area of ministry.
If you know of a student who feels called into ministry please contact
Ronda Hollars
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Plan now to attend NYC, July 10-14, 2019!
The event will be held in
Phoenix, Arizona.
For more information & Promo Video...click
NYC2019
More details will be posted here as they become available.
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Sunday School Discipleship International
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"Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Matthew 28:19-20
As you are going,
THINK BIG:
Every relationship, every interaction, all inclusive.
And make disciples,
START SMALL:
You. Be one. Be a Christ-like disciple. Re-present Jesus.
Baptizing them, immersing them in Jesus,
GO DEEP:
Pray. Empty yourself. Sacrifice.
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Ellyn Book
District SDMI Director
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Lisa Abbott
District Children's Director
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If you haven't already, please join the newly created Facebook group
NWIL Children's Bible Quizzing
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Information will be posted regarding upcoming meets and events.
Schedule 2018
02/03/18 - Pekin First
04/21/18 - Peoria First
Rosie Furston
Children's Quizzing Director
Children's Ministry Workers
If you're on Facebook, check out
NWIL Children's Ministry and request to join! We will be sharing children's ministry ideas, borrowing curriculum, bouncing ideas off one another and encouraging each other as we all seek to point kids toward Christ.
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Mark your
calendars
June 25-28, 2018
June 24-27, 2019
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Does your church need new hymnals? C
rossbridge has 59 hymnals that they would like to donate to a church.
If you are interested please contact
Kristi Senica.
Hymnals retail for $12.99 each. Lillenas Publishing
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~2018~
02/17 - NYI Quiz - Sterling Invitational - Sterling
02/22 - MST/ZF Meeting 9:30am-2pm - Peoria First
03/07 - Executive Finance Meeting - Princeton
03/08 - POPS - Rock Island
03/10 - Finance Meting - New Hope
03/17 - NYI Quiz - Galesburg
03/20 - DAB - 6:30pm - Peoria
03/22 - MST-ZF online meeting 9:30am-11:30am
04/6-7 - District Assembly - Pekin First
04/21 - Children's Quiz - Peoria First
04/28 - Convention - Pekin First
05/3-4 - Board of Trustees - Olivet
05/05 - Olivet Graduation
05/10-12 - Celebrate Life - Olivet
05/17 - POPS - Peoria First
05/24 - MST/ZF Meeting 9:30am-2:00pm - Peoria First
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News from the NWIL District Office
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We are pleased to announce that our District Administrator,
Rev. Jim Book, has been certified with the Myers & Briggs Foundation as a Certified Practitioner of the MBTI step I & step II instruments. We look forward to using this training in our ministerial preparation program and other applicable ways. You can contact
Rev. Book if you would have interest in using these instruments and training in the ministry of your local church.
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For generations, Nazarenes have supported the World Evangelism Fund. Working together, we accomplish so much as the Body of Christ. Become a part of missions work and partner with the Church of the Nazarene to make Christlike disciples in the nations. In the Funding the Mission plan, the World Evangelism Fund is the vehicle through which we deliver the message of hope - and your church drives that mission.
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Theological Leadership Conference
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Olivet Nazarene University's School of Theology and Christian Ministry presents:
2018 Theological Leadership Conference
Where Theology and Practice Intersect
With Guest Speaker, Dr. William Willimon February 16-17, 2018
Olivet Nazarene University's School of Theology and Christian Ministry welcomes Dr. William Willimon to this year's Theological Leadership Conference. Dr. Willimon is Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry at the Divinity School, Duke University. He is the author of 60 books and served for 8 years as Bishop of the North Alabama Conference of The United Methodist Church where he led 157,000 Methodists and 792 pastors. For 20 years prior to the episcopacy, he was Dean of the Chapel and Professor of Christian Ministry at Duke University.
After each of the three presentations by Dr. Willimon on Friday, participants will move to smaller discussion groups: Lead/Executive Pastors, Children's Pastors, Youth Pastors, Worship Pastors, and Hispanic Pastors. These breakout groups will drill down on the presentations in lively and open discussions connecting what we believe to what we do as the church and as pastors. On Saturday morning. Dr. Willimon will speak a powerful concluding word about the place of theology in our practice of ministry.
Spanish translation equipment is available for all sessions.
The conference will be held at College Church of the Nazarene University Avenue, 200 University Ave., Bourbonnais, IL 60914.
Cost is $79 per person and a special early registration rate of $59 per person is available to all who register prior to January 15th. College students qualify for a student rate of $29 per person.
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February 26 - March 1
"If you are called to plant a church, Exponential provides the most comprehensive help for church planters in one place..."
Attention Pastors & Lay Leaders with a heart for church planting.
You can read the details about Exponential at
https://exponential.org/2018/, but please be sure to use the link above to register in order to get the reduced registration price.
If you attend, please plan to be part of the Church of the Nazarene's pre-conference gathering beginning at
1:00 pm
Monday February 26.
Move From Hero To Hero Maker
Every year, thousands of the world's church planting leaders come to Orlando to learn what's new and what's actually working RIGHT NOW in church planting. This year you can expect to learn the 5 essential practices of moving from hero (standing on the platform) to hero making (building a platform for others)...
Are you thinking that you can effectively build God's ministry by yourself? Well stop. And think again. Stop investing your time and resources on a method that's limited to addition. Maximize God's ministry by placing an emphasis on multiplying and developing other leaders.
Are you having a hard time discovering how you can maximize your discipleship efforts? Well here's the secret. The focus shouldn't be on your leadership. The focus should be on developing the leadership that God has put around you!
Are you committed to just creating disciples? Or are you committed to creating disciple multipliers? Commit to creating disciple multipliers. Your impact will reach far beyond your church or city.
Are you only asking God to use your gifts? Or are you also asking God to equip those that you're discipling? Your ministry will only thrive when you stop trying to fill slots. Instead use your time and resources to develop people's gifts and commission leaders to be sent out for ministry.
We're all guilty of it. We get more caught up with "Who shows up to my thing?" instead of "Who have I sent out to do God's thing?". If we're serious about building God's ministry, then we have to change our definition of success. We need to stop measuring attendance and start measuring how many of our disciples are advancing the kingdom.
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SuperStart for 5th & 6th Grade, March 9-10, 2018, Normal, IL
Please encourage the young people in your church to be a part of SuperStart. This event will help our young people grow spiritually and form new friendships across the district.
All forms needed are included in this e-mail.
All NWIL registration will be done through the NWIL SuperStart Director. Please do not register your church individually.
Mail all required forms and money to:
Point of Change
Attn:Lydia Alvis
2407 Beich Road
Bloomington, IL 61705
Registration- postmarked by February 1, 2018
$60 - per 5th & 6th Grader
$35 - per Adult Sponsor
*Make check payable to NWIL-SDMI*
*Registration includes: fee for SuperStart, housing, meals, Plug'N'Play activities, t-shirt
Housing and Meals at Bloomington First Nazarene
SuperStart! at Eastview Christian Church, Normal, IL
Each church needs to provide the following ratio of adult sponsors to preteens:
1-5 preteens/1 sponsor
6-10 preteens/2 sponsors
11-15 preteens/3 sponsors
16-20 preteens/4 sponsors
SuperStart! Is a weekend event where preteens experience three main sessions
that are packed with high-energy worship, interactive teaching, and small-group study.
We will be spending the night and eating our meals at Bloomington First Nazarene.
Northwestern Illinois preteens will enjoy Plug'N'Play on Saturday afternoon - food and
FUN! All participants will have matching t-shirts to wear at SuperStart!
For all questions, please contact Lydia Alvis: 309-846-1128 or lydia@poc.church
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BGS declares effective date for new Manual
The Board of General Superintendents declared December 1, 2017 as the effective date for the 2017-2021 Manual of the Church of the Nazarene.
In June 2017, the General Assembly commissioned the Manual Editing Committee to work on all resolutions that were adopted (or amended and adopted) by the Assembly. According to Manual par. 909, specific legislative language and updates (new or revised) are not deemed "official" until this committee's assignment has been completed, which was November 2017. Legislation affecting the Manual is now applicable.
A section of the General Assembly website,
ga2017.com/resolutions
, provided access to resolutions for General Assembly delegates and the general public prior to and during the 2017 General Assembly. This section is still available to anyone who wishes to access it, and no log-in is required.
The page contains folders for each of the original resolutions submitted to the General Assembly (available in English, French, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish). A Calendar of Resolutions was posted to this site in August 2017, which identifies the specific action (adopted, amended and adopted, rejected, or referred) taken for each resolution by the 2017 General Assembly. The resolutions are organized into separate folders by committees according to each resolution code.
--The Office of David P. Wilson, General Secretary
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NWIL District Office
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NWIL District Advisory Board
MINISTERIAL LAYMAN
Rev. Scott Sherwood Ken Roat
Rev. Bill Clark Carole Eatock
Rev. Jim Book Keith Peachey
Rev. Lloyd Brock Kevin Singletary
Rev. Kevin Donoho
ONU Board of Trustees
Rev. Scott Sherwood Rev. William Clark
Rev. Lloyd Brock Cheryl Sherwood
Ken Roat
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Zone Facilitators
ZONE FACILITATORS & E-MAIL
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District Superintendent
Rev. Scott Sherwood
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District Secretary
District Administrator
Rev. James Book
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District Treasurer
District DCPI Coordinator
Rev. Ray Barker
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NWIL Office Manager
Pamela Smith
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Board Of Ministry
Rev. Bob Hasselbring
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Course of Study
Rev. Karin Orwig
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