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To NMC Students - Let's Build a CHURCH!

At the NMC Student Ministries' "Kids In Need" Celebration this Wednesday night, we'll be taking an offering to help build a church in the Pygmy tribe of Rwanda. Last school year, as a result of Rwanda Night and the Silent Auction, our students helped make possible a Rwandan Exodus Conference that resulted in the planting of over 20 churches in remote and unchurched areas of Rwanda.

One of the churches that was planted as a result of this Exodus, was in the Pygmy tribe. This "church" doesn't yet have a church building. For only $1,400, we have the opportunity to once again come alongside side this group of people that is considered "the least of these" and help provide a church building for them.

The stakes are high because unless the Pygmies have a formal meeting place (meaning a building), they will not be allowed to continue meeting as a church body. If I understand it correctly, there is a law in Rwanda that was put into place shortly after the Rwandan Genocide that said people were not allowed to have formal outdoor gatherings in one location for an undetermined amount of time.

Time is ticking! The Pygmies now have less than 6 months to get a church building built or run the risk of no longer being able to meet.

Wouldn't it be awesome if we were able to leave the K.I.N. Celebration Wednesday night with enough money to build the Pygmies a church building? The man talking in the above video believes it will take a "miracle" of God for this to happen.

Wouldn't it be cool for you to be apart of someone else's "miracle"?

Stay Connected with the Kenya IMPACT Team

Just moments ago, the first ever NMC Student Ministries IMPACT Team to do ministry in Africa, began it's journey. You can stay connected with them in 3 ways...

(1) Team Leader, Derry Prenkert's Blog

(2) AGC Baby Center Blog, NMC's Ministry Partner in Kenya

(3) Twitter


Also, here are several ways you can be praying for this team.

1. Join the Facebook Prayer Group

2. Ways to Pray for Travel to Kenya

K.I.N. Shoe Drive

This year, as part of the Spring Break "IMPACT Kenya" Team’s responses to the needs of the people of Kenya, a collection of shoes will be offered to help stem the tide of elephantitus in the area. This painful disease can be prevented simply by wearing shoes.

The team will be collecting shoes up until the time of the trip, which takes place over Spring Break (beginning of April). There will be collection areas all around NMC (Preteen Room, Fieldhouse, Grand Hall and in Connection Gym-Wednesdays Only.

All members of the community are encouraged to participate! All sizes of shoes and states of shoes are welcome! The team will decide if shoes need to remain in the United States depending on the state of the shoes and the sizes needed in Kenya. Join the cause!

"Kids In Need" - It's Overwhelming!

One of the challenges we face as an NMC Student Ministries Staff as we dive into a year of empowering students to seriously address the issues of kids in need around the world, is in determining what causes we come beyond and which ones we don't. The opportunities are endless. The need is massive.

I was overwhelmed by the needs that exist in our world as I read this email from one of NMC's global partners, Verdon Brewer, President of WorldHelp. The title of the email was "State of Emergency in Guatemala."

Verdon received the following letter from a friend and ministry partner who is on the ground in Guatemala. According to Verdon, he has saved thousands of children through his Child Rescue Center in Guatemala.

Vernon,

I have been working for the past 2 weeks in the mountains of Guatemala rescuing the less fortunate. I have been in the areas with the highest rate of malnutrition at this moment, 5 states in Guatemala have been declared in a state of emergency due to the lack of rain. There will be no corn or beans for the poor people who live in these regions they have lost the little livelihood they relied to survive and slowly they are dying.

During this time there will be hundreds of thousands of children going to bed with empty stomachs. Thanks to people like you who labor to help us battle this problem we continue to work strongly. Please pray for Hope of Life and for the people of Guatemala while we face this difficult time.

Now more than ever I ask for your prayers, dozens of children are dying due to malnutrition and surely without your prayers and support many more lives will be lost. This past weekend the battled ended for 2 of our children, the 1st an 8 year old girl weighing 23 lbs and the 2nd a 14 year old girl weighing only 40 lbs.

The next 4 months are crucial and we will see more and more children suffering from severe malnutrition and heartbreaking many will die. We will do our best to save as many lives as we can. Please pray that our Lord keeps us strong and full of faith to continue forward.

Your friend and brother,
Carlos

"What If..."

Here are a few more of the prayers written by students at the station at Junior High Camp that asked the question, "WHAT IF NMC Student Ministries took an entire year to seriously address the issues of KIDS IN NEED?"

These responses are incredibly moving and get me very excited for what God is going to do through our students in the next year!

This morning students are going through 5 different stations that are asking the question "What If?" This is a prayer written by a student at the station that asked the question, "WHAT IF NMC Student Ministries took an entire year to seriously address the issues of KIDS IN NEED?"

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Rwanda Exodus Results

Want to see the results of the Rwanda Exodus that NMC students came behind this past school year? These amazing results are largely because a group of teenagers from NMC decided that they wanted to make a difference in the world and God decided to bless their efforts. God used them as catalysts to spark an amazing movement of His Spirit in remote areas of Rwanda! Check out the results here on Caleb Bislow's blog. Amazing stuff!