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Name:: Acts 1:8 Challenge, Queens University
Category:: Common Interest - Religion & Spirituality
Description:: Acts 1:8 challenge

“But you shall receive power (ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth”

This year Koinonia Fellowship is offering several opportunities to serve on a mission field. Whether it be local, regional, or international we want you to be prepared and well equipped to serve Christ. In order to do so, K.F. is daring you to take the Acts 1:8 challenge. Will you commit to fulfull Jesus' words by taking the gospel to their Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the ends of the earth.

Your Jerusalem: Queens Campus, Spring Semester 2008
Your Judea: Charlotte regional community, Spring Semester 2008
Your Samaria: Spring Break Mission opportunity, March 9-15, 2008
Ends of the Earth: Montreal Canada, May 2008

The Acts 1:8 challenge is to complete 3 hours of mission training service in “Your Jerusalem” and 8 hours of mission training service in “Your Judea” so that when opportunities to hear and respond to God’s call to the ends of the earth are available you will be prepared to take on the task with full force! It is vital that the 11 hours of mission training service be completed before trips to “Your Samaria” and the “Ends of the Earth.” Are you up to the challenge?

What you can do?
v Complete 8 hours of mission training service in our Judea
v Encourage others to take on the challenge as well
v Tell Helms (iamhelmsie@hotmail.com) if you are interested in a Spring Break mission opportunity!
v Pray and ask God for kingdom perspective and a worldwide vision.

God has a ministry opportunity available for you has called us, the Body of Christ, to SERVE AND NOT SIT!

Your Jerusalem: Queens Campus, Spring Semester 2008
I dare you to get out on campus and make a difference! Do you have the guts to be a Christian servant to your peers, classmates, dorm mates, and roomies? Brainstorm some ways that you can show the love of God to other students on campus. Once you’ve come up with some good ideas, put those ideas to action! Record your experience (blog or journal style) and share your findings with Helms and other Koinonia Fellowship friends. Once you’ve spent 3 hours serving others on campus and reflecting about the service you have carried out, you have completed the Jerusalem challenge!
Your Judea: Charlotte regional community, Spring Semester 2008: Hyaets ministry
There are so many people who need attention and care within the Charlotte region. Get out of that campus bubble and be the hands and feet of Christ for others! Spend 8 hours with the Hyaets ministry serving the poor, making friends with the lonely, preparing shelter for the homeless, and caring for the needy. Record your experience and share it with Helms, K.F. friends, and your campus chaplain. Once you’ve spent 8 hours in mission training service at Hyaets, you’ve completed the Judea challenge! (see info sheet below for details!)
Your Samaria: Spring Break Mission opportunity, March 9-15, 2008: Various opportunities
Use your time during Spring break to get away. Don’t just get away and veg out, though. Get away and serve! There are all sorts of opportunities for mission service during spring break. If you are interested in a spring break mission opportunity, please contact Helms Jarrell at iamhelmsie@hotmail.com or 704.763.3571. Some of the possibilities: Inner city ministry in East St. Louis, Il, Philadelphia, or NYC; Farming ministry in Georgia
The Ends of the Earth: Montreal Canada, May 2008
Join students from UNCC on a mission trip to Montreal, Canada in mid-late May. Participants will be working with refugees and church planters. More details to come. For questions or to sign up, contact Dan McClintock at danmccli@uncc.edu

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Acts 1:8 challenge

“But you shall receive power (ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth”

This year Koinonia Fellowship is offering several opportunities to serve on a mission field. Whether it be local, regional, or international we want you to be prepared and well equipped to serve Christ. In order to do so, K.F. is daring you to take... (read more)
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Our Judea: Hyaets

Hyaets is a faith based nonprofit organization convenanting to inspire, enrich, and embody community. The co founders of Hyaets are Jason and Joanie Williams, Michael and Christine Kellett, and Greg and Helms Jarrell. Hyaets is located in the at-risk neighborhood called Enderly Park in West Charlotte.

In an effort to obey God’s command to “Love the Lord your God, with all your heart, mind, spirit and strength and to love our neighbors as we love ourselves,” the founders of Hyaets are eager to minister to, with, and among people in our community. They are passionate about serving the community in which they live, specifically the inner-city community of Charlotte, NC. Like those among the early church, the community called Hyaets shares time, space, belongings, and their lives with one another. Individuals within Hyaets commit to living their lives guided by traditional practices of Christian faith such as hospitality, prayer, discernment, worship, fellowship, forgiveness, and simple living.

Jesus said “Blessed are the poor, for theirs is the kingdom of God”. Hyaets takes seriously the command to be among the poor. Hyaets members strive to form relationships and partnerships with the impoverished community, learning with neighbors about the kingdom of God and how to best serve God and others.

Hyaets members do so by offering their home as a safe space for hanging out, grabbing a meal, temporary shelter, and more.

This year, Hyaets is expanding its ministry from one home to two. This second home will allow the Hyaets ministry to offer more space for shelter, care, meals, hanging out, mentorships, residential community members’ housing, and relationship building. In order for Hyaets to move into a second home, volunteers are needed for home repair. There are all sorts of jobs to do: roofing, flooring, carpentry, cleaning, painting, food providing, hanging out with neighborhood kids, and more. If you are interested in helping Hyaets get the new house ready, please contact Hyaets co-founder, Helms Jarrell.

Hyaets: new house address 29109 Parkway Ave; Charlotte, NC 28208

Phone number: 704.763.3571

Email: Hyaets@bellsouth.net or iamhelmsie@hotmail.com

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Acts 1:8 Challenge

Your Judea: Hyaets Ministry

Dates for service:

Jan 18th-19th- Roofing, build closet, build bath doorways, repair windows, put new locks in doors/repair doors, paint, clean, install bath subfloors.

Jan 25-27- repair ceiling and wall plaster/drywall, start sanding wood floors, lay tile in baths, clean up outside, clean inside, put molding up where removed, repair windows, build attic doorway.

Feb 1-3-repair drywall/plaster, finish roof, sand drywall, begin painting, clean up, finish wood floors, lay kitchen tile.

Feb 8-10- paint, floors finish, wood floors finish, clean up, install fixtures, insulation.

Feb 15-17-Move boxes and furniture, scrape& paint exterior, fix porch, install insulation, odds and ends, clean 2904 Tuck.

Feb 18th- Kids’ Activity, noon-4pm

Feb 19th- Kids’ Activity, noon-4pm

Feb 22-24- Clear out shed, yard work, paint exterior, work in yard, help with mosaic/mural, fix front porch, 2904 Duct work?

Feb 29-March 2nd- set up art studio in shed, yard work, paint exterior, mosaic/mural, fix front porch, odds and ends.

Other opportunities: You are welcome to come at any time to help out! If these dates and times do not suit your schedule, find a time that does and come on over! There are plenty of jobs to do. Some ideas: prepare part of or all of the community meal for the neighbors (1st and 3rd Fridays), make food for volunteers, visit with neighbors, write and distribute community newsletter, mentor a child, play basketball with kids, and more!

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