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The National American Baptist Youth Gathering - Immerse 2012 in Washington D.C. July 24 - 28 - can be a life-changing event for youth and those sponsors who go with them.
To help youth and their sponsors, the GRR will be chartering a bus. The 55 seats on the bus will be offered at $100 / person, first come - first served.
Register for bus by church group. Registrations for the bus will be through filling out and signing the bus registration form / agreement / waiver. Questions? Dwight@abcgrr.org
College and seminary students who are members in Great Rivers Region American Baptist Churches can apply for scholarships. Ministerial students attending ABC-related schools and seminaries in preparation for ministry can also apply.
All applications must be received in the GRR office by April 1, 2012. To receive an application, write to: Scholarship Committee, Attention: Debbie Naugle, PO Box 13457, Springfield, IL 62791,
phone: 217-726-7366; fax: 888-922-2477, email: debbie@abcgrr.org. Download the Scholarship Opportunities Brochure for more information.
In the clip above (clip in mp4 | mp3 audio), Dr. Craig Van Gelder, consultant to the process of "Transformed by the Spirit", reflects on the current status of this initiative. Dr. Van Gelder me with the GRR Ministerial Staff on January 10.
It has been six months since the initiative was announced during the 2011 ABCUSA Biennial in Puerto Rico. Since then a "critical mass" of organizational partners - including the Great Rivers Region - have taken steps to join together in this process of discovery and action learning.
Briefly stated: Transformed by the Spirit is the process by which we will prayerfully identify and address challenges facing our churches. Two types of challenges exist: Technical challenges for which existing tools, programs, and training can be identified and employed; and adaptive challenges for which these have not yet been identified nor tools and training developed.
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