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IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING
What if "church" were a verb instead of a noun?
What if church was not a location to come to and stay within, but a base of operation for expressing your faith by moving out into communities and around the globe to become part of God's plan for world transformation?
If you found such a "place," would you come?
You are invited to explore the Advent UMC website to see for yourself how the people of Advent are rethinking and renewing what the church is and should be in the 21st century.
We are an active and engaged faith community. We hope you will find a doorway at Advent that you will be comfortable walking through in order to connect with God, with the world around you, and with a community of people that will love and care for you and help you along the journey of your life.
For more information about rethinking church, go to 10thousanddoors.org..
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To cooperate with the Holy Spirit,
by inviting all people into relationship with Jesus Christ
through engaging worship, service and spiritual growth.
What if "church" was thought of not as a building, but as thousands of doors, each of them opening to a different concept or experience of church, so that whoever knocks might find a journey to call their own?
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Feed My Starving Children
is a non-profit Christian organization committed to feeding God’s starving children hungry in body and spirit through a simple, but effective approach: children and adults hand-pack meals formulated specially for starving children, and help finance shipment of the meals to more than 60 countries around the world.
Over 1,000,000 meals packed by Advent UMC . . .
Advent has a standing commitment to bring a team of 20-40 volunteers to the Eagan FMSC Packing Site (990 Lone Oak Road) the third Saturday of every month from from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Volunteers may sign up for a service date by contacting the church office at 651.454.3944 or e-mail admin@advent-umc.com.
For more information, go to www.fmsc.org.
Advent-Haiti Partnership
Advent has sponsored volunteer in mission teams to Haiti annually since 2001, helping with construction on various building projects coordinated through the Methodist Church of Haiti. In 2008 Advent started work to rebuild a church in Ile Adam, Haiti (in the north of the country). The floor of the church was too low and whenever it rained, the church would flood. Each year the Advent volunteer team would help start a phase in the reconstruction; work that would continue after the team left with local laborers paid through funds provided by Advent UMC.
In 2008 the foundation was completed and walls were started; in 2009 the walls and roof were completed. In early November, 2010, a team from Advent helped finish the floor, windows and doors, completing the church reconstruction. The church was dedicated to the Glory of God on November 14, 2010 with Advent's team in attendance. It was a wonderful celebration! Thanks to everyone who gave so generously of time and money to see this project through to completion. And may God bless the people of Haiti who call this their church home.
Below are photos of the construction process that took place . . .
2011 Haiti Partnership Update
On Saturday, October 29, a team of volunteers from Advent departed Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport bound for Port-au-Prince, the capital of the small island nation of Haiti. When the team arrived in Haiti, they did something a little different than in the past by partnering with International Child Care to help rebuild homes destroyed in the January, 2010 earthquake.
Many of the employees of Grace Children’s Hospital, the flagship ministry of ICC in Haiti, were profoundly impacted by the January, 2010 earthquake, losing family and friends in the tragedy, along with their homes and all their personal belongings. In spite of the suffering they faced, these employees reported to work at Grace Hospital everyday following the earthquake to provide care to the children and families who were patients at the hospital at the time of the quake. They even took on the task of providing water, food and other support to the community at large in the days following the quake. More than 1-1/2 years later, many of the employees are still living in tent cities or in extended family situations because they do not have the resources needed to rebuild their homes.
That’s where Advent and our volunteer team came in: removing debris, hauling supplies, assisting local laborers, and much more, on the rebuilding of a GCH employee home. For details and photos of the trip, check out the link below, an article from the Eagan Sun Current newspaper:
These are just two of the ways the people of Advent serve others around the world. If you would like more information about either of these outreach opportunities, or other ways to get involved through Advent, contact Carol Whisnant, Outreach Team Leader,outreachchair@advent-umc.com.
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