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2015 Calendar of Events February 09-11 M15 Conference 14 KNYI Quiz 22-Mar 1 District Missionary Tour (Gavin & Jill Fothergill) 27-Mar. 1 Western Holiness Crusade 28 Children’s Quiz
March 01 Cont. of Holiness Crusade 3-5 Dynamic Church Planting Int. Event 14 Children’s Quiz 15 KNYI Quiz 21 District NMI Council Meeting 27-28 KS XTREME Quiz@XTREME
April 07–09 Ministers’ & Mates’ Retreat 10 MNU President’s Honors 24-25 Prime Time Banquet
May
02 MNU Graduation
June 5-8 Senior High Camp Tablerock
July 05 KNYI Convention 5-13 NYC-Louisville, Kentucky 12 District Assembly Opening Worship 13 NMI Convention 14 District Assembly 20-23 Junior Camp 23-25 Primary Camp 27-30 Middle School Camp
August 22-24 MNU New Student Orientation
September 08-11 District Superintendent’s LDP
October 09-10 Ladies’ Retreat
NYN
April 07-09, 2015, Radisson Hotel, Branson, Missouri
Nazarene Youth Conference 15, July 5-13, 2015
For more information go to KNYI.ORG
Samy’s Steakhouse, Clarion Hotel, 1911 E. Kansas Ave., Garden City, Kansas
You are invited
to join Donna Bond
for a Pastors’ Wives’ Luncheon
for fellowship and fun,
at Samy’s Steakhouse,
Saturday, February 28, 2015,
12:00 pm-2:00 pm.
RSVP to Donna Bond at [email protected]
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Lost people matter to God. “For God so loved the world that he gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in him, would not perish, but have eter-nal life.” Jn. 3:16. Jesus said in Luke 19:10, “The son of man came to seek and save that which was lost.” If we are going to follow Him, we need to be fishing! We need to fish like we did in the first fifty years of our existence as a denomination.
The Church of the Nazarene doubled every ten years for the first 40 years with an approxi-mate total of 5000 churches in USA/Canada by the mid 1960’s. We currently have approximate-ly 4800 churches. For fifty years we have not shown much of an increase in churches planted and consequently, our growth has only been 1 to 2 percent per year. In Kansas, we have planted close to 180 churches since we
began in 1908. We now have 67 organized. We recognize that the best way to reach lost people is to start a new church. It’s time to renew our church planting ef-forts.
I believe God has given us a vision to plant 70 new churches that will in turn plant churches in the next ten years across Kansas. Our dream is to plant churches in storefronts, in shopping malls, in barns, in living rooms, in coffee shops, etc…, all across Kansas.
Dr. Jerry Porter said a few years back in our assembly, “All you need to plant a church is a living room and a willing servant eager
to invite and evangelize lost peo-ple for Jesus.”
To help equip us, and spark our vision, we have planned a church planting conference on our district coming soon. **Continued on next page
Pastor Jim Bond
Dist. Superintendent
Kansas District, 7701 E. Kellogg Dr., Wichita, KS, 67207 · Tel: 316.686.2332 ·
The Harvest, Special Spring Edition
March 3-5, 2015, Hutchinson First Church
Special Spring Edition
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**Cont. from page 1
March 3-5, we will be host-ing a DCPI (Dynamic Church Planting International) train-ing event. We will be offering CPC(Churches Planting Churches), and CPE (Church Planting Essentials). There will also be CT (Certified Training) offered as well, on Monday afternoon, March 2, and Friday morning, March 6. You can learn valuable in-formation about DCPI, Dy-namic Church Planting Inter-national, on their website, DCPI.org.
I encourage all pastors to attend the CPC event and en-courage any potential church planters to attend the CPE event.
We will meet for this event at Hutchinson First Church of the Nazarene at no cost to our district team, with lunch included. I en-courage you to attend if at all possible. You can sign up for this event by going to the Nazarene website at www.nazarene.org and click-ing on the USA/Canada but-ton. Then click on the events button and scroll down to the Kansas DCPI event. I am making the registration free to any of our Kansas pastors or leaders that would like to
attend. When you get to the payment portion of the event, click on pay with a check, which will allow us to waive that registration fee when you arrive in Hutchinson for the conference.
Church planter C. B. Jerni-gan, and early district superin-tendent on the Kansas/Oklahoma District said this, “Oh, brother, let us return to pioneers days and ways, and go to places where they do not want us, and stay until they think they cannot get along without us, and plant things for God. There is plenty of room ‘out under the stars’. Do not wait for a call, God gave you that.” Sounds like good marching orders for us today!!
In His Grip,
Pastor Jim
Dist. Superintendent Jim & Donna Bond
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SDMI News Sunday School Discipleship Ministries International Tom Boese, Chairman 620.855.3619 Email: [email protected]
what the authors of the research said about that: The authors cite "lack of interest" as the predominating factor in the high attrition rate, a finding con-sistent with earlier studies. What does this have to do with SDMI?
Well, think about the most famous per-
son you know. Someone known in al-
most every nation. Someone
who is a hero, who gave his life
to save many lives. Who do you
know that is a King? (Hint: Re-
member early Sunday School
lessons where “Jesus” was al-
most always the right answer.)
Well, if you personally know
Jesus, the King of Kings, and Lord of
Lords, you are a winner. But, if you don’t
know him, you are only just a few people
away from asking the right questions to
get to know him. On the other side of
the equation, you know somebody that
needs to know Jesus. Don’t let lack of
interest keep you from making disciples.
Let’s continue doing the job Jesus gave
us. That is to lead people to Jesus, bap-
tize them as new believers, then teach
them to be like Him in all ways of life.
“Everybody ought to know who Jesus is.”
Tom L. Boese
Send SS Stats to: Andy Heer
Do you personally know anyone that is famous? Right now Chris Kyle is well known, Tom Brady is talked about a lot, and we’re hearing names like Huckabee, Rand Paul, Rubio, Romney, Bush … quite a few people whose names we know. But do you really know, first person, anyone that is famous? Do you know someone whose names and lives are likely to be found in future history books?
The idea called Six Degrees of Separation came about in a play by John Guare, who used the theory of Milgran’s Small World Experiment, to demon-strate that each of us knows someone that knows someone who is famous, or someone specifically at some point on this planet. The theory was doubted because someone said, “Well what about the Koruboand Tribe, or other “lost tribes” in Brazil?“ Well, I guess that just goes to show we need more missionaries!
Nevertheless, in continued research, it has been shown that given internet con-nectivity, we know an awful lot of peo-ple. I am, for example, only three people away from personally knowing Benjamin Netanyahu, and I’d love to visit with him!
An interesting study came out of Colum-bia University in 2003, in which 100,000 people volunteered for this kind of a connectivity study, but only 384 (3%) of them reached 18 of their targets spread across 13 different countries. The rest of the volunteers appear to have failed and/or quit the experiment and read
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WE ARE FAMILY!! Join us for a great time of fellowship, fun and
food as we enjoy a relaxing time of renewal at the Ministers’ &
Mates’ Retreat. Dr. David Graves will be our special guest speaker.
Information will be sent out to all the active pastors on the Kansas
District so you can make plans to reserve your place for this great
time with your mates and colleagues!!
April 07-09, 2015, Radisson Hotel, Branson, Missouri
Prime Time Banquets
This year’s banquets will be held at the following locations:
Wichita First Garden City Friday, April 24 Saturday, April 25
6:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m.
Entertainment: Burchfield Bros. (Ben & Jon) from Nashville, Tenn.
This Dove Award duo was nominated for the best Instrumental CD.
Their music, storytelling, and comedy, play off each other.
Very highly recruited, their music reaches all ages.
www.burchfieldbrothers.com
For more information contact: David Lane [email protected] 316.691.9479
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Western Kansas Holiness Cru-
sade will be held February 27, 28
and March 1st. This year’s
speaker will be Dr. Stan
Toler. Dr. Toler will speak Fri-
day and Saturday evening at
7:00pm and Sunday afternoon at
5:00pm. Dr. Toler will be lead-
ing a discussion group for all
pastors on Saturday afternoon
from 1:00pm -3:00pm. The pas-
tor's discussion group and all
services will be held at the Gar-
den City Church of the Nazarene,
2720 N. Campus Drive in Gar-
den City, KS.
Dr. Stan Toler has served as a
general superintendent in the
Church of the Nazarene as well
as a pastor in Ohio, Florida, Ten-
nessee, and Oklahoma for more
than 40 years. He was elected
general superintendent emeritus
at the 2013 General Assembly in
Indianapolis, Indiana. Most re-
cently, Toler was named found-
ing executive director of the
Southern Nazarene University
Resource Center for Pastoral
Leadership.
Dr. Toler has
written more
than 100
books, in-
cluding his
best-sellers,
God Has
Never Failed
Me, But He’s
Sure Scared
Me to Death a
Few Times; The Buzzards Are
Circling, But God’s Not Finished
With Me Yet; God’s Never Late,
He’s Seldom Early, He’s Always
Right on Time; The Secret Blend;
The Relational Leader; Practical
Guide to Pastoral Ministry; The
Inspirational Speaker’s Re-
source; ReThink Your Life; his
popular Minute Motivator series,
If Only I Could Relate To the
People I’m Related To; and his
newest book, God Can Do Any-
thing but Fail: So Try Parasail-
ing in a Windstorm.
For more information you may
contact Keith Davis:
or Telephone: 620.697.4832
Western Kansas Holiness Crusade
Friday, February 27, 7:00 p.m., Saturday, February 28, 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 1, 5:00 p.m.
Garden City Church of the Nazarene
Dr. Stan Toler
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approach and feed fish. Those who taught had doctorates in fishology, but the teachers did not fish. They only taught fishing. Year after year, after tedious training, many were graduated and were given fishing licenses. They were sent to do full-time fishing, some to distant waters, which were filled with fish. Many who felt the call to be fishermen responded. They were commis-sioned and sent to fish. But like the fishermen back home, they never fished.
They engaged in all kinds of other occupations. … Some felt their job was to relate to the fish in a good way so the fish would know the difference between good and bad fishermen. Others felt that simply letting the fish know they were nice, land-loving neighbors and how loving and kind they were was enough. Now it’s true that many of the fishermen sacrificed and put up with all kinds of difficul-ties. Some lived near the water and bore the smell of dead fish every day. They received the ridicule of some who made fun of their fisher-men’s clubs and the fact that they claimed to be fishermen yet never fished.
Imagine how hurt some were when one day a person suggested that those who don’t fish were real-ly not fishermen, no matter how much they claimed to be. Yet it did sound correct. Is a person a fisher-man if, year after year, he never fishes?”
Jesus said, “Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.” Matthew 4:19. Which begs the question, If you’re not fishing are you truly following?
Grace and Peace,
Pastor Jim
I ran across this modern day parable in Church Leader magazine. I thought I would pass it along: “Now it came to pass that a group existed who called them-selves fishermen. And lo, there were many fish in the waters all around. In fact, the whole area was sur-rounded by streams and lakes filled with fish. And the fish were hungry.
Week after week, month after month, and year after year, these who called themselves fishermen met in meetings and talked about their call to fish, the abundance of fish, and how they might go about fishing. Year after year they care-fully defined what fishing means, defended fishing as an occupation, and declared that fishing is always to be a primary task of fishermen.
Continually, they searched for new and better methods of fishing and for new and better definitions of fishing. They created witty slo-gans and displayed them on big beautiful banners. These fishermen built large, beautiful buildings called “Fishing Headquarters.” The plea was that everyone should be a fisherman and every fisherman should fish. One thing they didn’t do, however: They did not fish. In addition to meeting regularly, they organized a board to send out fishermen to other places where there were many fish. The board hired staffs and appointed commit-tees and held many meetings to define fishing, to defend fishing, and to decide what new streams should be thought about. But the staff and committee members did not fish.
Large, elaborate, and expensive training centers were built whose original and primary purpose was to teach fishermen how to fish. Over the years courses were offered on the needs of fish, the nature of fish, where to find fish, the psycho-logical reactions of fish, and how to
“When Fishermen Don’t Fish” Parable
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NMI News Nazarene Missions International Sara Willard, President, Telephone: 620.482.0242 Email: [email protected]
District Tour with Gavin and Jill Fothergill Democratic Republic Of The Congo
February 22–March 1, 2015
Schedule
Sun. Feb. 22, 10:45 am Smith Center
Sun. Feb. 22, 6:30 pm Great Bend
Mon…off
Tues. Feb 24, 7:00 pm Bethel
Wed. Feb 25, 7:00 pm Cimarron
Thur. Feb. 26, 7:00 pm Liberal
Fri. Feb. 27, 7:00 pm Clearwater
Sat. Feb. 28, 6:00 pm Derby
Sun. Mar. 1, 10:45 am Meade
(Faith Promise)
The Fothergills have been assigned to
Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of
the Congo, where they serve as DRC
country coordinators, field Work &
Witness coordinators, church devel-
opment, pastoral and lay education,
and administration. Prior to this as-
signment, Gavin and Jill ministered
through mission trips, church plant-
ing, compassionate ministries, preach-
ing, youth ministry, and children’s
ministry at a number of churches and
through various other avenues. The
Fothergills also worked with Youth In
Mission from the Global Ministry
Center and during their assignment
with the Border Initiative. They were
married on June 19, 2004, and have
two children: Macy Paige, born on
September 6, 2007, and Connor Ray,
born on August 14, 2009.
You will not want to miss their inspir-
ing presentation. See you there!!
February is
Alabaster Month
Everyone can help
build a building on a
Mission Field!
Give in the Alabaster
Offering!
Nazarene World Week of Prayer
March 1 through March 7, 2015.
Friday, March 6, 2015, is the Interde-
nominational World Day of Prayer.
Specific Prayer requests for each
region will be featured on the Prayer
Mobilization Line during the
Week of Prayer.