Adventist Community Services will train volunteers Oct 7-9 in the Cleveland area. 

In 2009 FEMA recognized ACS-DR as one of the top volunteer organizations responding to disaster in the country and we pledged to be there any time major disasters strike. We offer expertise in donation management.  Currently we have donation warehouses operating in Joplin, MO and Patterson, NJ.  In the past year here in Ohio, we have operated warehouses after the Toledo and Athens tornadoes and the Mansfield flooding. But we need more trained volunteers to help carry the load.

More Details and Registration:http://www.ohioadventist.org/article.php?id=143

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Introduction to Disaster Preparedness

As we consider Christ’s ministry, we realize that it must also be our mission to care for those around us. A part of caring for others is preparedness. Introduction to Disaster Preparedness will teach you how to prepare to survive a disaster whether large or small. You will also learn how you, your family, and your church can help community following a disaster.

This class is intended for everyone, not just those wishing to serve in Adventist Community Services Disaster Response (ACS DR). It is important to prepare to survive a disaster before the evacuation order is given.

Donations Operations

This course is designed to provide the volunteer with a basic understanding of the work of ACS DR. It will familiarize you with the operations of a community collection center, a multi-agency warehouse, and emergency distribution operations including collecting, sorting, storing, transporting, inventory management, and distribution. Following successful completion of this course, all volunteers are eligible to volunteer in any ACS DR donation management operation, under the direction of ACS DR leadership who coordinate staffing at each site

Its 2,000 years since the Biblical book of Acts was written; its 100 years since Acts of the Apostles by Ellen White was published.  Millennia later, a century later, the Holy Spirit is still opening doors, breaking down walls, and transforming lives.  Revisit the story. Be inspired and challenged by its current implications.  Attend ACTS 2011, a gathering to recognize the movement of the Spirit of God in advancing His kingdom.

 Be inspired by presentations focusing on the “acts” of the Holy Spirit expanding the mission of the church around the world.  Hear guest presentations by Elder Ted N. C. Wilson, President, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists; Rebekah Liu, Ph.D. (ABD), pastor in 400-church district, Sichuan Province, Southwest China; and Dr. Ganoune Diopp, Director, Global Mission Study Centers of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.  Enjoy a special musical concert by the guest: Kettering Praise Orchestra under the direction of Donald Huff.  Children and youth will be blessed by age-appropriate programs with guest presenters, musicians and other features.   

The Ohio Conference invites you to this national gathering of Adventists at the Roberts Centre in Wilmington, Ohio on October 22, 2011 from 9:30am to 5:00pm.  Celebrate the acts of the Holy Spirit in Ohio – past, present, and future.  2011 also marks 150 years since the Ohio Conference was organized. 

Please register no later than Friday, October 14 for a complimentary lunch. Families or individuals may register here or call 740-397-4665, ext 111.  

For more information, or to register your group, please call Heidi Shoemaker at 740-397-4665  ext 165.

As you see the enormity of sin, as you see yourself as you really are, do not give up to despair. It was sinners that Christ came to save. We have not to reconcile God to us, but–O wondrous love!–God in Christ is "reconciling the world unto Himself." 2 Corinthians 5:19. He is wooing by His tender love the hearts of His erring children. No earthly parent could be as patient with the faults and mistakes of his children, as is God with those He seeks to save. No one could plead more tenderly with the transgressor. No human lips ever poured out more tender entreaties to the wanderer than does He. All His promises, His warnings, are but the breathing of unutterable love.

When Satan comes to tell you that you are a great sinner, look up to your Redeemer and talk of His merits. That which will help you is to look to His light. Acknowledge your sin, but tell the enemy that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners" and that you may be saved by His matchless love. 1 Timothy 1:15.

                                                                          Steps to Christ, page 35

September 16-18, 2011
Deer Creek Lodge & Conference Center

Special Guest Speaker:  Rebekah Wang-Cheng, MD, FACP, CPHQ

See Ohio Conference brochure for additional details. I am helping “Grandma” Carolyn Tomlin with the planning for our local ladies group. The best way to contact me for further details is to email me at:  brunstc@sbcglobal.net.

I have also set up a facebook page for our local Women's group.  You can find it here.

In a special sense Seventh-day Adventists have been set in the world as watchmen and light bearers. To them has been entrusted the last warning for a perishing world. On them is shining wonderful light from the word of God. They have been given a work of the most solemn import—the proclamation of the first, second, and third angels’ messages. There is no other work of so great importance. They are to allow nothing else to absorb their attention.

The most solemn truths ever entrusted to mortals have been given us to proclaim to the world. The proclamation of these truths is to be our work. The world is to be warned, and God’s people are to be true to the trust committed to them. They are not to engage in speculation, neither are they to enter into business enterprises with unbelievers; for this would hinder them in their God-given work.

                                                                                                                                                                                       Testimonies for the Church Volume 9 Page 19