Compassionate Ministries

Is your church wondering what to do with your VBS offering this year? Here are several ideas! What about doing something locally such as donating to Honor Flight or The Wounded Warrior project. Some churches have given to special people who are at work serving God.

Nazarene Compassionate Ministries has many projects you can choose from such as sponsoring a child, purchasing a pig or chicken to a family in Venezuela or help a family with farming. Go to the NCM website for more ideas. NCM.org

In our communities there are compassionate ministry organizations that would appreciate your support. Pray ask God to help your church make a choice. He will bless your offering and it will be used for His glory no matter the amount!

NWIL District

Nazarene Compassionate Ministry Centers

South Side Community Center - Peoria, IL

Click here to support Leadership Academy 2022

Living Alternatives Pregnancy Resource Center

Peoria, IL & Pekin, IL

Tabitha's Hands - Bureau County, IL

Crisis Care Kits

Your help is needed to provide Crisis Care Kits for Ukrainians. As millions of Ukrainians seek safe places to live as refugees in surrounding countries, receiving simple items like toothpaste, a comb, or band-aids become very helpful for their journey. Crisis Care Kits (CCKs) are designed to provide people with some of the essentials they were forced to leave as they fled.

Nazarene Compassionate Ministries is partnering with Convoy of Hope to ship, store, and distribute CCKs to people who are displaced in Ukraine and surrounding countries. Most of the current stock of CCKs stored in our warehouses is already committed, and we need your help to provide more.

Below is a link where you can find specific instructions on packing and shipping CCKs to one of our warehouses. Please do not ship CCKs directly to Convoy of Hope. They will arrange pickups at our warehouses around the country.

If you are unable to package CCKs, please consider making a donation here to help cover storage and shipping costs of the kits during the distribution process. The cost is $12 per box, which includes six CCKs each.

Thank you for ensuring that Ukrainians receive the essentials they need while living in transition.

NCM UKRAINE CRISIS

TEEN CAMP

JULY 14-17, 2022

Thursday-Sunday

Click for registration link & details: TC2022

Denis Rutledge, Teen Camp Director

NYC 2023

Click below for registration & information

REGISTRATION

Click for full details: NYC2023

MAIL PAYMENTS TO:

NWIL District

Attn: NYC 2023

4224 N. Brandywine Dr.

Peoria, IL 61614

Checks payable to: NWIL-NYI

Who-What-When-Why of the Half-Million Mobilization

Who: Short answer is Everyone! The entire Nazarene Church, 500,000 people in the United States and Canada will rally together in prayer for our churches hope and our future (Jeremiah 29:11)

What: A Call to Pray and a Call to Speak for the future of our denomination and our local churches in Canada and the United States. Pray for the protection, direction, and revelation of the Spirit on our ministries together. Our prayer is to see renewal and a resurgence of the Nazarene Church and holiness message in our people. The Call to Speak is a prayer response/survey to gather feedback on what the Spirit says to the church during this time of prayer.

When: There is a designated day of prayer each month beginning in January and continuing through Sunday, May 1st where the entire church will pray together in our morning services.

January 11th is our 50 senior most regional leaders

February 1st was our 500 leaders across every District

March 1st will be 5,000 local church lead pastors

April Board Meetings will be 50,000 local church boards and ministry leaders, and Sunday

May 1st will be the entire Church of the Nazarene, 500,000 people praying together in USA/Canada.

From May 1st through Pentecost (June 5th) there will be a daily time of prayer using a Praying Our Way to Pentecost prayer journal. The prayer journal is available online and in print. Plan to follow along and anticipate a great out pouring of the Spirit during this season.

Why: We need God’s plan, God’s purpose to be fulfilled in our lives and in our churches. The disunity in our culture and the decline in our Nazarene ministries must be abated. We must turn to God for His leading, we must seek His will in prayer together. This time of prayer will be unifying for us as a region. God says when we seek after Him with all our hearts, He will be found. (Jeremiah 29:13)

The dream with Half-Million Mobilization is that we will experience unity as a region, we will hear from the Spirit in our times of prayer, we will share with each other what the Spirit is saying, and that we will discover His plans for our hope and future.

Prayer Response / Survey

The Call to Speak is a prayer response / survey meant to be taken one or more times after you hear from the Spirit in your time of prayer. This can be from a designated day of prayer or anytime the Lord calls you to prayer and speaks to you about the future of the church.

The prayer response is short and can be completed in 5 minutes. There is one open-ended question where you can respond with what the Spirit is saying to you. There are two closed-ended questions where you can rank and prioritize our ministry focus areas.

“God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it.” - John Wesley

Half-Million Mobilization 

VIDEO

July 7-10, 2022

Thursday-Sunday

Olivet Nazarene University



KIDS CAMP is for children that have completed 1st-6th grade.



Early bird cost:

$210 if registered

before June 20th.

After June 20th: $260

Registration ends: July 1st

Click for registration link & details: KC2022

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, curriculum ideas, VBS, online meetings, bouncing ideas off one another and encouraging each other as we all seek to point kids toward Christ. 

The Church of the Nazarene provides us with many resources to help our Children's Ministry be the best that it can be. Click below to find resources. USA/CANADA CHILDREN'S MINISTRY      

GLOBAL CHILDREN'S MINISTRY

North Pekin

Awesome Resurrection Sunday!! Three baptisms!

2022 DISTRICT EVENTS

MARK YOUR CALENDARS

Kids Camp – July 7-10 - Olivet

Teen Camp – July 14-17 – Eagle Crest

Team Day – August 6 – Pekin First

Minsters & Spouses Retreat – September 18-21 – Cedar Lakes

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To thank our extended  Olivet family, the university has worked hard to make this as affordable as possible with special tuition pricing — about 1/2 the cost of the 2-year MBA or MOL programs!

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Give a GIFT that doesn't stop Giving!

Would you give $1.00 a month if it never stopped giving, never wore out, never changed its usefulness or purpose and transformed lives?

The Church Multiplication Endowment Fund is designed to reach unreached people living on the NWIL District for Christ. Every dollar given will continue to give in perpetuity. An endowment fund uses the interest from the principle to do kingdom work.  Will you help fund this goal? 

Currently, our district property funds have been invested in planting 22 new churches these past three years and the district is in need of capital to continue to plant more! We need your help. Presently, there are 36 more potential church plants in various stages of planning which will require additional funding support.

Would you consider a GIFT of $1.00 a month?  We are not trying to take money from your local ministry where you give your tithes and offerings. We are asking for many to give a little.  Our initial goal is 5,000 giving at least $1.00 a month. Would you be one of those 5,000 making a commitment to create a movement to plant churches that change lives?  Here are ways to give:

• You can give to your local church by marking your check or cash gift "NWIL CM Endowment" and your church treasurer will take it from there.
• You can also choose to give online if you want to set up one time or reoccurring payments using debit/credit/Electronic Check on the district website at nwilnaz.org/GIVE/ On District Church Planting or direct  CM Endowment Giving LINK. Or scan this QR code at the bottom of this article.
• You can send a check or cash to NWIL District, 3520 Broadway St., Pekin, IL 61554 (please indicate CM Endowment on check memo)

We are also looking for those who might like to make greater kingdom investments!

You can give cash, stocks, bonds, real estate, livestock, grain, or other personal property.  Basically, any asset of marketable value can be used to help fund this endowment. There are also charitable gift annuity options that allow you to specify the endowment fund or another ministry of your choice while allowing you to receive income for your lifetime and when you pass, your gift goes to the endowment fund or specified ministry. CLICK HERE  to see other ways to model generosity. Gifts can be given in memory or in honor of someone. 

Large or small: Why not leave a lasting legacy that lasts more than your lifetime. 

For more information or confidential consultation please contact NWIL District Administrator, Jim Book 309-678-2357; NWIL District Treasurer, Ray Barker 309-645-7716; or the Nazarene Foundation directly at 913-577-2983.