Mid-summer already! Pray especially for those taking much-needed breaks and who will soon be gearing up for new ministry steps in the fall. Please prayerfully consider a financial gift for the advancement of God's work through MNA
.
Please prayerfully consider a contribution toward the work of MNA, as we serve those who labor at the front lines of ministry.
Thank you for your prayers and gifts to Mission to North American as we share the love of God in the gospel of Jesus Christ through church planting, church renewal, and missional partnerships across the United States and Canada. Your generosity has been used by Jesus to further our many avenues of ministry.
MNA deducts no service fees from gifts designated to specific projects or designated to MNA staff members. The administrative cost of this service is supported by undesignated gifts to MNA, or gifts to the
MNA General Fund)
. Please consider
giving to the General Fund
, so that MNA may continue to make 100% of designated gifts available to their intended recipients.
Mission to North America
PO Box 890233
Charlotte NC 28289-0233
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MNA Engaging Disability Training for Pastors
This month we will host our online training for pastors. We will resume our series of
online trainings
for churches and families in September.
To stay informed of all disability ministry trainings and events, please visit the
Events
section of our website anytime.
The Role of the Pastor in Disability Ministry
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
3 pm ET | 2 pm CT | 1 pm MT | 12 pm PT
Teacher: Ashley Belknap, Director of Engaging Disability With The Gospel
As a pastor, you have a unique opportunity to set the tone and cast the vision in your congregation for organic disability ministry that strengthens all the existing ministries of your church. In this online training, we will explore the four main areas of disability ministry that are most influenced by the pastor. For complete details, please
click here.
This online training is designed for PCA Pastors. Have questions? Email us at
[email protected]
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MNA Engaging Disability Offers Teacher Training Video Series
Available for purchase from August 1 – Sept 13
You asked and we listened to your request for an online teacher training series for enfolding children with special needs into your mixed-ability classrooms. Available for six weeks, you will be able to purchase our online video series designed to equip you for teaching people with varying learning styles.
This license is available for individual use. Unlike our traditional live video trainings, this series will be recorded. You can watch the series anywhere, at your convenience, using a computer or tablet. You will receive a viewing link on August 1, 2019, or at the time of checkout between August 1 – September 13. After September 13, 2019, the teacher training series sales will end, but those who have purchased a license can continue to access the series for viewing. To get a full list of classes,
click here:
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LDR Weekend
August 30-September 1, Chattanooga TN.
Being an African American member of a majority culture church comes with a unique set of challenges. It’s hard to be the only one and be the representative voice for diversity. It’s challenging to desire authentic relationships, yet feel isolated and misunderstood. We need to be honest about our reality and seek solutions that help us bear fruit where God has placed us. Yet God’s solutions tend to be radically different from our own.
Come join us for a time of sound teaching, vibrant worship and rich fellowship. Return home overflowing with hope and confidence rooted in Jesus Christ.
Click here
for details - registration is open!
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Bent Tree Gathering
October 7-11, Allenspark CO.
Early bird pricing of $325 ends August 7!
After that the price goes up to $375. Come out to the mountains and spend a few days with Richard Pratt and your fellow ministers as we seek to be reminded of our callings and pursue them afresh
Click here
for more information and
here
to register. Bent Tree's goal is to remind church leaders of their callings through avenues of rest, wisdom, and fellowship
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World Street Experience
November 4-8, Vancouver CANADA. A training bootcamp to empower missional leaders to make disciples through kingdom prayer.
- Gather The World To Pray For The World
- Learn To Lead Prayer For Kingdom Advance
- Train Leaders & Grow Your Ministry
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God is at work through the PCA in seeing an average of a church planter going to the field every week. And God is calling his people to new commitments in advancing the gospel in communities where a PCA church is already established. Take a look at this picture of two local church settings, and contact MNA to explore further resources in developing ministry through your church.
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Metanoia Prison Ministries Is Looking for Someone Like You
Metanoia is always on the lookout for men and women who have a heart for helping others grow in Christ. We are always available and ready to come to speak to you and your church about the realities of prison ministry and the ways that you and your church can get involved.
We look forward to hearing from you soon.
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MNA Chaplain Ministries Announces Its New Associate Endorser for Civilian Chaplains
Michael Stewart has accepted the position of Associate Endorser of Civilian Chaplaincy for the Presbyterian and Reformed Commission on Chaplains and Military Personnel (PRCC). Jim Carter is thankful that Mike and Jeri will soon be joining our staff and is encouraged to have a spiritual leader of Mike’s caliber and experience serving our growing civilian ministry. Mike brings over two decades of Chaplaincy and Hospital Chaplaincy experience as well as supervisory leadership as an ordained PCA Minister. I would ask you to be in prayer for Mike as he begins his new ministry with the PRCC on September 1, 2019. He will have a busy month as he transitions from his Director of Pastoral Care for Piedmont Columbus Regional Hospital where he has served for twenty years and helped transform a ministry culture. God has richly blessed our Civilian Chaplain ministry and we are excited to see how it will continue to develop under Mike’s pastoral care. Learn more about Chaplain Ministries
here.
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Parakaleo Helps Women Press On In Ministry
What helps you press on in ministry? How about training, support—and a small visual reminder of the gospel?
Visitors to Parakaleo’s booth at this year’s General Assembly in Dallas crafted “Press On” cards to tuck in their wallets or prop above their sinks. They decorated small cards with favorite Bible verses, Parakaleo phrases such as “the verdict is in!,” markers and dried flowers. After laminating them, even non-crafty visitors were pleased with the results! Parakaleo also hosted two booth talks and a drawing for a $600 discount toward our October Basic Training retreat.
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Update on MNA Native American/First Nations Ministry
MNA Native American/First Nations Ministries Coordinator Jeb Bland has a brief report on developments in the ministry:
- In June of this year a Native American. Joshua Tsavatewa (Hopi), was ordained as a Teaching Elder at Hope Fellowship Church, a ministry of Sacred Roads Ministry. He will also continue his work at Sacred Road Ministries.
- At this past meeting of the Tennessee Valley Presbytery an affirmative vote was taken to approve the recommendation for a church plant in Soddy Daisy TN. This church plant will target Native Americans living in that area. Greg Baney (Cherokee/Choctaw), currently a TE at Hixson PCA, along with his wife Trisha were approved to church plant.
- Jonas Patterson (Native Hawaiian) received his Master of Divinity from Westminster in Pennsylvania. He and his family have relocated to Billings MNA to serve an Internship at Great Plains Gathering, where Josh Charette (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) serves as the founding Pastor.
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The PCA Unity Fund
Out of 4,882 Teaching Elders in the PCA, only 1% are African American, .8% Hispanic American, and 10% Korean/Korean American.
The PCA Unity Fund aims to increase these numbers through training, mentoring and developing minority leadership in the PCA, primarily through providing tuition subsidies to support training at reformed institutions.
Because of the PCA’s Unity Fund, 41 seminary tuition subsidy recipients are currently getting financial and mentoring help to become Teaching Elders.
Click here
to learn more about The PCA Unity Fund and how you can help.
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Orlando, FL
Pastor Pablo Torres, wife Maria and family arrived in Orlando FL in August of 2017 to start a Hispanic PCA church, under the care of
University Presbyterian Church Orlando.
La Vina just celebrated their first anniversary of Sunday services in Spanish and are welcoming visitors weekly. They currently have two life groups and an ESL outreach to Hispanics. They hope to host a Vacation Bible School in a neighborhood where they shared the gospel with the community. Please click
here to read their latest newsletter and see how you can support and pray for this church plant.
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Jefferson Hills, PA
Peter and Jamye Doerfler are in the midst of several summer events at
Redemption Hill Church but have two big prayer needs. 1. They recently learned that the township may try to seize the fire hall in which they currently worship via eminent domain; 2. Through serving one of the men in their church who is recovering from a cochlear implant and who will be deaf for the next few months, their church is actively exploring ministry to the deaf and hard of hearing. They are asking for prayer as they seek resources and knowledge on how to serve the Deaf community. Click
here to read their latest newsletter and click
Redemption Hill Church to learn about this church plant that seeks to offer "real help for real people."
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Convertible: Transforming Community by Sharing Space
March 6-7, 2020, Indianapolis IN. Preconference March 5.
What if sharing your church building with your neighborhood transformed your community? What if creative partnerships with non-profits meant your church could do more? Our conference teaches leaders to consider creative uses for their worship buildings and strategically embrace beneficial partnerships with outside organizations.
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Disaster Response Volunteers Needed at Wilmington NC Through 8/15/19
Volunteers are needed in Wilmington NC to help with disaster response work now through the end of the summer of 2019. Both skilled and unskilled volunteers are needed; teams are asked to have at least one skilled person. For more information or to schedule a team, please contact Sherry Lanier,
[email protected]
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MNA SecondCareer Seeks Volunteer Retired Physician
All around the country, MNA SecondCareer Ministry has volunteer and paid service opportunities for adults of all ages. For example,
Grace Presbyterian Church in Grenada, MS, as an outreach to the community, is
seeking a retired physician to open low income medical clinics in the Mississippi Delta region. Many RNs, LPNs, and various technicians have volunteered to help. Needs are everywhere. Learn more about this and other opportunities at
www.pcamna.org/second-career or contact Barbara Campbell, MNA SecondCareer Facilitator, at
[email protected] (phone 804-339-5005).
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Considering Church Planting?
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“I’m leaving feeling that this is one of the best things I’ve seen going on in the PCA.”…
Fantastic week of learning, growing, stretching, and fellowship…Appreciate all the encouragement. ”
Considering Church Planting?
Then the MNA Assessment Center is for you.
The cost of assessment is less than half of one month’s salary and operating expenses for a typical church plant, and a very wise investment that individuals, churches and presbyteries can make in starting a new church
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The next open Assessment date is November 19-22 with an application deadline of September 23.
Please plan ahead! An absolute three week lead time minimum is required prior to each application deadline in order to apply, and we often run at capacity. Not convinced? Here are a few more kudos for MNA Assessment:
“The assessors were the most valuable component of the AC… Loved the process, conversations, insight and the people. This is a life-long memory that I will certainly cherish…Getting the opportunity to learn from others in church planting and peers interested in serving the Lord in a similar way. It doesn’t happen often in the “real world” context and I felt supported and encouraged and challenged…. So much grace and love for those attending…I loved assessment, was encouraged and I’m leaving feeling that this is one of the best things I’ve seen going on in the PCA.”
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Know someone who's moving? Be sure to suggest they
check this list
of new church plants around North America as they look for a new church home. Don't see a new plant in a possible destination on the list? Contact us (678-825-1235) and we'll try to find out more information for you! You may also want to visit the
PCA Church Directory
for a list of established churches.
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Check Out Our Other Publications
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Pray for Our PCA Church Planters
The Intercessor is a quarterly letter with prayer requests from PCA church planters and MNA Ministry Leaders. The requests are organized by week, making it easy to follow along in individual or group devotions. They have expressed many times how grateful they are for prayer support.
Click here
to read online, where you will also see subscription options.
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Subscribe to Multiply and Learn More about MNA
Multiply, available as both a print or email newsletter, goes out three times a year and brings you news from the church planting field as well a special features on MNA ministries. Our Summer issue focuses on crosscultural gospel renewal and growth.
Click here
to read. Want to subscribe?
Click here
- it's free!
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