Do Christmas Different this Year!

ANCCM ANNUAL MEETING

Equipping Christ's Servants

November 17, 2008

9-3pm

Montgomery Baptist Association Office

20 Interstate Park Drive

Montgomery, AL

Speakers include:

Nick Foster, former director of Alabama Poverty Project and current director of Morgan County, Indiana Habitat for Humanity

Nick will give overview of poverty in Alabama and resources for churches, ministries in AL

Jean White, Ministry Evangelism Associate, North American Mission Board

Jean will be going over how to do a Community Needs Assesment in your neighborhoods

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$15 per person conference fee which includes lunch and resources

Register by sending checks to:

Lisa Rose

c/o Montgomery Baptist Association

20 Interstate Park Drive

Montgomery, AL 36109

Make checks payable to ANCCM

DEADLINE: October 31 to send in your reservations. We will need a head count to plan lunch.

FOR INFORMATION ON JOINING ANCCM see the sidebar of this site.

Registration for November Meeting

Hey all...soon it will be time to register for the November Meeting of ANCCM. It will be in Montgomery and coincide with the Alabama State Baptist Convention. Registration will open August 15th and we will take registrations through September 30th.

If you would like a resource list on Alabama Poverty, email Lisa Rose at lrose@mgmbaptist.org for an electronic list.

MAY is National Foster Care Awareness Month

Please join those who are foster parents and advocates in participating in a Prayer Vigil Week for children in foster care.

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Check out the prayer guide materials for your church or an individual at:
www.icareaboutorphans.org
and for more generic information:
www.fostercaremonth.org

As Christians,we are called to care for widows and orphans. There are about 140 millions orphans in the world with 513,000 children in foster care in the United States.
"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress.........." James 1:27

Goodbye to Gena!!! We will miss you!

Dear Friends,

I want to let you know that I have resigned my position with the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions to take another job. I have worked in ministry with you and have appreciated your friendship, love and support over the years. God called me to Literacy Missions Ministries in about 1990 and I will not be leaving my volunteer ministry work because that calling will go with me, however, I will not be working at the Baptist building anymore. I have loved every day here and will miss everyone deeply.

I covet your prayers as I transition and I hope to keep up with each of you. My personal email is: genaalabama@yahoo.com. I hope to hear from each of you as you have time. It is a joy to know each of you and to have spent time

His child,
Gena
Gena Heatherly

2008 Poverty Guidelines

2008 HHS Poverty Guidelines Persons in Family or Household
48 ContiguousStates and D.C.
Family of 1 $10,400
Family of 2 $14,000

Family of 3 $17,600
Family of 4 $21,200

Family of 5 $24,800
Family of 6 $28,400
Family of 7 $32,000
Family of 8 $35,600
For each additional person, add 3,600

The poverty guidelines apply to both aged and non-aged units. The guidelines have never had an aged/non-aged distinction; only the Census Bureau (statistical) poverty thresholds have separate figures for aged and non-aged one-person and two-person units.

SOURCE: Federal Register, Vol. 73, No. 15, January 23, 2008, pp. 3971–3972

Attention: CURRENT MEMBERSHIP

It is time to pay those dues. Please note changes on the sidebar to annual dues for 2008. Please mail dues and current contact information FOR EACH MEMBER to Lisa Rose as soon as possible . Thanks!