October 2, 2019
Evangelical Friends Mission 2019 Fall Offering
The EFM 2019 Fall Offering, “Pressing Towards the Goal,” information is available here . This year’s offering features seven missionaries, fields, and ministries that are currently underfunded. The  goal is to increase monthly or regular ongoing commitments of giving for these ministries.  You can be part of this effort by making a commitment to support as many of these ministries as the Lord leads you to support through your prayers, financial gifts, and encouraging words.
1) Does your church have a well-defined discipleship model in place? If so, would you be willing to share it with the Church Health Team? We want to make a few of these available to our other churches who are in the process of developing their own models and your help would be greatly appreciated! Please email your discipleship models to   [email protected] .

2) Indiana Yearly Meeting has created an Adult Sunday School curriculum that is designed to be used December 2019 through February 2020. The theme is “Honoring God,” and includes lessons based on passages from Matthew, Luke, 1 Kings, and Esther. Orders may be placed by completing this form and returning it to Indiana Yearly Meeting by October 30.
Pastors, elders, ministry staff members, and church leaders are invited to a one-day equipping workshop designed to help our churches, ministries, and individuals to begin to think and live missionally. The schedule and registration form are available here .

Break Out Sessions:
  • Missional Engagement: Powerful Partnerships, led by Rusty Savage
  • Missional Engagement: Making It Personal, led by Pete Fowler
  • Generosity & Stewardship, led by Ed Walsh
  • Recruiting for Christian Education, led by Brenda Walsh
  • Friendship with Jesus: Transformational Discipleship, led by Randy Heckert
India Flooding - Late monsoon flooding across India has effected churches and members where Babir and Arun serve. Please pray and support our people in this difficult situation. Special gifts may be sent to Evangelical Friends Headquarters marked “India Flood” or given online (Matthew 25:34-36).
 
Samuel and Sharon - Please pray for our EFC-ER pastor and his wife as they travel abroad to disciple and develop leaders in their home country. May the church exhibit a “work that is produced by faith, a labor prompted by love, and an endurance inspired by the hope in our Lord Jesus Christ" (I Thessalonians 1:2-3).
Visit the events calendar on our website at www.efcer.org/events .

* October 11-13 - Northern WMF Women's Retreat in Sugarcreek, OH. More info here .
* October 19 - One Day Equipping Workshop in Portsmouth, VA. Details available here .
* November 4-9 - EFC-NA/EFM Fall Meetings hosted by Northwest Yearly Meeting.
* November 28-29 - Evangelical Friends Headquarters Closed
* December 23-27 - Evangelical Friends Headquarters Closed
* March 2-5 - Pastors Conference at Exponential 2020 in Orlando, Florida. Details at www.efcer.org/pastorsconference .
Quote for the Week

"Put on, then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another, and if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful." - Colossians 3:12-15 (ESV)