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“This (PMA) course has changed my witnessing life completely.”

“If you want to build a flock and you never have before, you don’t know how, you feel nervous, left behind from the other brethren who are and all the word coming out about needing to; the PMA is for you!”

“My life change(d) completely from being a witnesser, to being a professional Christian psychologist and spiritual counselor, and seeing how easy it is to transition into follow up when approaching people in that role.”

“I am thankful that I have learned all that I have, because now I feel more confident in teaching my daughters how they too as little missionaries can make a difference through their lives and interactions with others.”

“I believe that this PMA course has somehow ‘lit my fuse’ to be an instant witness and let my light shine before others, that they may come to know HIM in a personal way.”

Those are only a few of the reactions from the 30-plus students who completed the PMA in North America this past year. If this sparks your interest, then read on! YOU can also have your chance to be a part of the PMA in 2009. The semester will begin approximately April 2nd 2009 and end July 31st, with the Graduation Event taking place at the end of August.

Since tuition is required for the PMA, we wanted to let you know about it in case you want to start sending funds aside for it now. More information will be given regarding the PMA in January. We’re praying that you all have a power-packed, and witness-filled Christmas season!

With much love,
Your NA CGO Board

P.S. Stay tuned for the “North America PMA Video”, coming at ya’ll shortly!

Here are the links to the two new children’s Christmas tracts available on the Mo Site!

The Gift that Never Wears Out:

What Would You Like for Christmas?

Also if you haven’t already seen them Snack Packs 9-12 are incredible & they’re all about Christmas; Christmas witnessing prayers, stories, activities etc. Enjoy!

Hi everyone!

WOW, only 5 weeks till Christmas! We know that you & your home are undoubtedly already making preparations for your Christmas witnessing push or are already well on your way. How exciting to have another chance to share His love with others at this special time of year.

Last year you’ll remember that the kids in our region participated in a Christmas soul winning contest which was very successful! Over 1500 souls were won to Jesus — by our kids! It’s thrilling to see our children bring the true gift of Christmas to others and bear fruit that will last forever, isn’t it?
We (your CP Board) prayed about what to focus on this Christmas and the Lord gave some ideas which we wanted to share with you. We do pray they are a blessing and help to you as you work with your children this year and help them to have a Christmas they’ll never forget.

1. Activity Log!
We created a special Christmas Activity Log (download at the bottom of this post) that you can use with each child in your home to help keep track of all the different ways that they participate in your home’s witnessing this Christmas. Events you can include on their Christmas Log are:
Helping with your home’s mail ministry
Making Christmas cards or goodies for your friends or contacts
Performances
Puppet Shows
Skits or Plays
Personal witnessing & follow up visits
Christmas Caroling
Other Christmas Activities that you do such as visiting your neighbors, Old Folk’s Homes, CTP’s, etc.
Each time the children participate in witnessing in one of these ways they receive a “Christmas Star” on their chart. Whether they participated alone or with a group they would receive a star.

This log begins on December 1st and ends on Christmas Eve, December 24th.

2. Appreciation Celebration!
After December 24th, we would like to encourage each home to host an appreciation celebration from Jesus for the kids. We’ll be sending out an “Christmas Appreciation Celebration Party Pack” with ideas to help make the planning of this party easier for you. There will be a certificate to give to each child recognizing their Christmas witnessing which you can fill in with their stats. There will also be a special message from Jesus to read to the kids and some games and activities planned. The idea is that the whole home will be acknowledging the kids’ efforts and appreciating them for a job well done. If there are several homes in a city you might want to organize this celebration all together to combine efforts and make it even more fun for the kids.

You’ll want to plan your Appreciation Celebrations as close to Christmas as you can, making it part of your Christmas fun. For those who might have trips planned at that time, we would suggest that you try to have this party by January 15th at the latest.

3. Junior BOB Reporters!
We would like to invite kids to sign up as reporters for the BOB (bobreport.org, our NACRO blog). Reporters can send in witnessing testimonies, along with pictures, as they happen and we will post them on the BOB as they come in. We know the kids will be excited to see their testimony in lights, the reporter and photographer, performers, etc., all given credit. We’ll even post audio and video reports if they are concise and clear. Help the kids make Christmas exciting by helping them get their reports in and watch the fun happen!
You can also post other Christmas ideas that you’ve come up with or that your home or family are doing this Christmas.

We look forward to hearing from you and our children as we share the Joy of Christmas with a very lost and desperate world this year. Merry Christmas and we’ll see you soon!

Lots of Love,
Your CP Board

Download Christmas chart here
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TO ALL NA HOMES FROM NA REGIONAL JT BOARD

Dear NA Family,

In the summer of 2009 the NA Regional JT Board will be hosting the FDTP (Family Discipleship Training Program) once again. Lord willing, the FDTP will be a yearly program for all 17 year olds in the region. Last year our region held the FDTP in Mexico, together with the Mexico/Central America region, with 56 teens attending. This year we will hold the FDTP in the US or Canada with only 17 year olds from the NA Region. We estimate that there are approximately 25 potential FDTP candidates in our region.

Although the event is nearly 10 months away, we thought you’d want to know that it’s in the planning stages. The NA JT Regional Board will be communicating with all potential candidates (those who will be 17 years old at the time of the event) some time at the beginning of next year. As you can imagine there is quite a bit of planning that will need to go into this 25-day event. It will take a lot of prayer, planning and preparation. Your pro-active prayers would be greatly appreciated and definitely needed.

One of the first prayer requests would be for the Lord to supply the location of the event. At this point it could be held almost anywhere in the US or Canada, but the facilities would need to be appropriate for the number of attendees and that length of time. Later, we’ll send out more specific details regarding what kind of facilities are needed. If you know of any possibilities please let us know.

Also we could use your pro-active prayers for the preparation of the class material that will be used for the FDTP. This will also include material for the teens to read and study before they attend and the follow up material for each one after the event.

As the FDTP begins to take shape we’ll send you specific prayer requests.

Here are a few basic details about the program for those who are or will be 17 in the summer of 2009.

1. Hopefully attending the FDTP can count towards their High School credits. Last year there were more than 100 hours of classes and workshops at the FDTP.

2. There will be preparatory material for each FDTP candidate to read several months before attending the actually event in the summer.

3. The cost of last year’s FDTP was $400/person, and though the cost isn’t set yet for the summer 2009 event, we’d suggest that those interested in attending start setting aside funds to attend and/or find sponsors to help.

4. The event will last approximately 25 days.

Here are the FDTP Goals as listed in FSM 423.

- To prepare our 17-year-olds for the responsibilities of adult Family discipleship; to train and raise professional disciples.

- To show them how Family discipleship life should be lived; to give them a clear understanding of what it means for them to be FD, so that they will be prepared to make the decision to sign the FD contract when they turn 18.

- To challenge them to have a deep relationship with Jesus, as well as in their connection and interaction with the spirit world.

- To help them partake of and contribute to the Family’s future.

- To teach them to go to the Word and absorb and apply it to their lives.

- To give focused, personal shepherding to the attendees and offer help in their weak areas.

- For those on the JT board to develop a closer link with the young people and get to know them better.

- To provide a place for them to have a time that they can look back on and know they made a conscious decision to serve the Lord in the Family (if they haven’t already).

- To provide training they can take back home with them so that they can become a strength to their Home and the overall work.

- To give them quality vocational training in key ministries on a Home level.

- To challenge and motivate them to be the best they can be; to remind them that their Home will be what they as individuals help to make it.

- To learn the importance of personal and collective accountability at the Home level.

- To train them in how to choose their ministries and grow in them.

WORDSTOCK was a tremendously exciting musical and leadership event held here for 4 years (2004 - 2007) and was attended by nearly 80% of the teens in the region. It strengthened our region in many ways. It fulfilled a need for our teens, both with fellowship and with personal challenges and commitments. As most of you know WORDSTOCK required a great deal of time and energy to organize. It also pulled heavily on the resources of nearly every Family Home in the region, not to mention those that attended from outside of the NA Region.

WORDSTOCK was not held in 2008, at the launch of the Offensive, to avoid pulling resources from the Homes as they prepared their Offensive Strategy Plans. In 2009 the NA JT Regional Board will be investing it’s time and focus in preparing the FDTP which, though attended by a fewer number of teens and lasting for nearly a month, will require a great deal more planning of classes and material. Therefore, WORDSTOCK will not be held in 2009.

During the Christmas witnessing season, although some prep work for the FDTP will be happening, we won’t be communicating directly with potential FDTP candidates or parents. That communication will start at the beginning of next year, so our answers to any questions might be limited. However, if you would like to write us, please feel free to do so and we’ll do our best to answer you.

Much love and a lot of prayers for a fruitful Christmas witnessing season,

Ado
NA JT RBC - (na.jt@famboard.com)

With updates on:

Announcing BOBlight
Evaluating your Home’s Strategy Plan
List of Brainstorm Ideas

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Hey All!
Have you ever wished there was a simple way to explain about the 12 Foundation Stones course to someone that you meet out witnessing? Have you ever avoided telling someone about the course because your explanation might come out sounding like this:

“Well it’s this really cool course, kinda’ like a Bible Study. It has to do with stones. Umm, there are 12 of ‘em.”

Well, did you know there’s a flyer which explains the 12 FS classes in an excellent way? You can download it from the MO site by clicking here.

Hey, why not try printing out a bunch to bring with you each time you go out!

A very smart person said:

“To make the course more attractive and especially to, as much as possible, break out of the churchy twist that a “Bible course” could put in a person’s mind, when first presenting this course it is important to explain it as a means to, for example, “improve your quality of life,” or share how the course includes “keys for happier living,” or is “something you need to help you in your personal, professional and social life,” or something similar.

To find out who said that, and other really smart things, check out the CGO Board Handbook (section: Teaching the 12 Foundation Stones)

Stay tune for more CGO tidbits…

The latest and greatest from the Prophet Bus team. Download it here.

Index for Gen Up 1-60 available here!

1. Hosts: East Education board– Jenny, Anne, Sarah and Paloma, with East workshop attendees.

2. Host: Laurie (Education board high school guidance counselor), with San Antonio workshop attendees.

3. Host: Laurie, with Houston workshop attendees.

By John Dillin, The Christian Science Monitor, August 19, 2008

When I go on my daily four-mile walk and see a penny lying on the ground, I pick it up. Scottish habits die hard, even when your family has been in America for over 300 years.

Recently here in Arlington, Va., the lowly penny became symbolic. For the first time, it now costs one cent to draw a gallon of water out of the tap in your home. Yes, even water prices are going up fast. Enjoy a long shower? That’ll now be 40 cents. Wash your car? Fifty cents. Water the lawn for an hour? Two dollars.

Gasoline, airplane tickets, cooking oil, bread, and now, water–sometimes it seems that the price of everything is headed for the moon.

But you can do something about it.

Click hre to read more

It’s an exciting time in Family education …

It’s been over a year since the big changes to the high school requirements were announced in FSM #425…

We’re very happy to now announce one of these tools —the High School Support website (HS3). The address is http://hs3.familymembers.com/, and you can use your MO site information to enter.

Parents, teachers—and students—we invite you to come and visit HS3.—It’s open for business and there to help you! We hope and pray that you’ll find it an informative, helpful, and useful traveling companion on your high school journey.

Read the rest of the announcement from the International Education Board here.

You’ve probably heard about the exciting Educators Seminar (Teacher Training) that is now only 7 weeks away. The Educators Seminar is a 6 day event, plus 2 days of travel in an arrival day and departure day on either end. (October 12-19th. Arrive on the 12th, Depart on the 19th). The Seminar is being organized for FD and MM Family members.

Attendees need to RSVP by Monday, August 25th, in order for us to be able to book your ticket to the seminar and get the right price.

You might be wondering if you should attend it, who exactly it’s for and what exactly this seminar is about. We’re all busy people, especially our teachers and parents, so to pull out of our demanding lives for a full 8 days is an important decision that you will want to be sure is worth your time and effort.

We’ve received a few questions from friends and Family along these lines, as well as requests for more specifics on what material will be covered and who the seminar will benefit. Some have asked; “Is it for new teachers?” “Should experienced teachers attend? Will they learn anything new there?” So we wanted to write and try to help you decide on attending by answering these questions for all of you, and giving you a fuller picture purpose of this Seminar, Outline of what will be covered (please see the outline at the end of this memo), and how the Educators Seminar could benefit you and your Home.

Read this and more details on how to RSVP here.

Dear Ones,God bless you!  We hope all is well with you and you are having a great summer.We would like to confirm our invitation to you for the previously announced 1 day High School Workshop and we hope that you, dear parents and teachers, are able to come. We booked the Conference Room at a library on Saturday, August the 9^th, and we will get started at 10am and meet until @5pm.There is a small coffee bar, with drinks and sandwiches right at the library, or you could also bring your own bagged lunch.Please bring your own computers if you can and any school papers you may want to discuss or need help with.

We are looking forward to seeing you all there!

Please do let us know if you will be coming, by responding to this e mail.

Lots of love,

Ina and Laurie(For the West ED board) Contact Laurie for directions etc.   619 468 9055

The Educators Seminar (Teacher’s Training) in October is happening! And teachers from Puerto Rico to Texas to Canada are signing up. It’s job-training, fellowship, a teaching vacation, and spiritual renewal for teachers all rolled in to one sure-to-be amazing week.

When? Sunday, October 12th - Sunday, October 19th.

This is going to be an awesome Seminar that can take your teaching abilities and perspectives to a new level and/or keep you on the cutting edge. Teachers, you won’t want to miss this milestone opportunity. Homes, you will want your teachers to come. The benefits for your children are very much worth the investment of your time and finances.

RSVP today!

(Check back for some exciting news about this seminar and more details coming soon!)